The Dunning Kruger Effect
The Dunning Kruger effect is an established pattern whereby it has been confirmed that the less someone actually knows about a subject the more likely they are to believe that their invariably false view is infallible. It is the driving concept behind such strange beliefs as the Earth is flat, the Moon Landings were faked, Jet exhausts are actually chemtrails where government authorities are pumping deadly chemicals into the atmosphere to kill people. The most insidious and misguided of these pseudo-science beliefs is that we are facing a deadly climate crisis and unless we get to zero carbon life on Earth will become extinct. Even after forty years of false claims and failed predictions the belief still has hold of many, particularly the young who have seen so little they cannot judge for themselves. Education or more rightly indoctrination has led many to believe that an increase of one degree Celsius in the next one hundred years would be catastrophic. Despite claims that the po