The public may be inattentive but they are not stupid.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit is good at coining pertinent adages which, once heard, are long remembered. And used. One of his most enduring is "I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who tell me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."

This is one of the biggest hurdles for advocacy groups, celebrities and politicians. They can't help themselves. The disconnect between what they claim and how they behave is great and so obvious to everyone that no one believes them.

And yet they are unwilling to close the gap. One of the more recent examples were all the business titans, royals, movie celebrities, politicians and other self-regarding saints of the Mandarin Class flying in on private jets to, where? Malta?, for a global climate change conference in which everyone hobnobbed, had their pictures taken, spouted pieties and platitudes, decided nothing, sacrificed nothing, and then flew out again on their private jets. Middle income citizens can put two and two together and see that these people don't really believe in global warming because they are not acting as if it is the crisis they claim.

Reynolds points out someone else who has a similar observation.

If I genuinely believed in 12 years coastal areas would be under water, I wouldn’t by a $15 million mansion on...Martha’s Vineyard.

Call me crazy, but it doesn’t seem like Obama is taking climate change all that seriously. https://t.co/VPqaFsovqw

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) August 23, 2019

The AGW sham is manifest. The Mandarin Class want ordinary citizens to turn over power carte blanche to them to remake the economy in a totalitarian fashion. They use the "crisis" of AGW to warrant this action. And then they behave as if AGW were not a real thing.

The public may be inattentive but they are not stupid. They eventually pay attention to a con.