[AFPhys]

I simply can not for the life of me understand how the alarmists have managed to dupe the real world in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.

This article speaking about CO2 actuality instead of hypothetical, model-driven, estimates is seemingly impossible to refute. It is not the only basis for contrary opinion. Yet, the alarmists propaganda effort seems now to be a juggernaut that will require a 3-4F drop in temperatures over the next two decades in order to reverse public perceptions.

[SauronOfMordor]

I simply can not for the life of me understand how the alarmists have managed to dupe the real world in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.

It's a similar mechanism to how Socialists have managed to dupe populations into thinking the socialism is workable in the real world in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.

It hinges on the self interest of the parties involved

If "Global Warming" is real, then that translates into lots of research grants into its study, and lots of research grants into how to reduce it. It translates into vastly increased government power (in order to regulate it), thus increasing the power of government officials. It translates into vastly increased power of the UN, which is why UN bureaucrats are so much for it. It gives news reporters something to talk about on slow news days.

Lots of people benefit from the idea of it being a problem

[Balding_Eagle]

I simply can not for the life of me understand how the alarmists have managed to dupe the real world in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.

Public Schools.

[WOSG]

Not all evidence is to the contrary. Some evidence supports global warming, some does not. A massive fact-sifting is done to deselect inconvenient facts and present only the hyped up fears. How many people read in the papers about melting ice shelf in antarctica? Yet, when it comes to antarctic sea ice - NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. How many papers report that?