This is not good. Reiner Grundmann at Die Klimazwiebel reports on the climategate damage to public opinion.
The Guardian has a comment today. It says:
[The] closing of intellectual ranks witnessed at UEA was serious and, in the end, self-defeating.
That point is made by the briefest glance at the sort of polemical denials which instantly found their way into the mainstream media after the emails first emerged, and was underlined yesterday by a new BBC poll which showed public scepticism has increased since November. What Copenhagen did for the chances of a meaningful climate deal, East Anglia has unwittingly done for the prospects of prevailing in the battle for hearts and minds.
The BBC poll referred to here shows an increase of climate skepticism among the British public. Here are the two graphs:
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