A comment from the Guardian article

28 Jul 2010, 7:16PM

Having lived in the United States for a few years (at least during the school year), I can attest to the fact that a majority of the American public are not swayed by scientific evidence of anything.

A majority of the citizens of the USA don’t ascribe to the theory of evolution, for example, and people who see visions of Jesus or Elvis manifested in peanut butter sandwiches (this is not an exaggeration) are not called kooks.

According to a 2009 survey, only 39% of Americans accept Darwinian evolution:

http://tiny.cc/noevolvingforusthanks

Even if President Obama could somehow summon the nerve to defy the very powerful oil multinational companies, he would be a professor lecturing to a scientifically ignorant public who are more worried about jobs and the present than the future. Besides, as more than one American has told me, “We are in the end times, anyway, so why worry about it?” Jesus is going to come during the Rapture and take the Elect to Heaven, you see.

Let’s sum up:

1. We have no chance of controlling global warming without the vigorous cooperation of the United States.
2. The United States is not going to cooperate.
3. The rest of the world would be better advised working out ways to adapt to the changed climate and investing its resources there, than wasting time lobbying the Americans and assailing them with facts and figures and studies. They’ve seen those facts and figures and scientific studies; they just don’t believe in them.

If you want to laugh while we wander down the merry dead-end path of species extinction, have a look at this:

http://tiny.cc/peanutbutterisJesus

It’s one of those ubiquitous American “preachers” or “ministers” arguing that his peanut butter disproves the fact of evolution. No, really. And the man is not committed to an asylum….