The survey results represent a notable shift from the last climate survey ranking, which was conducted in 2009 ahead of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Last year, the high-profile journal Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) published a paper co-authored by Richard Lindzen, a climate expert at MIT and possibly the world's last climate sceptic with serious credentials in the field.
The event is so empty that even President Lula, who has not forgone chances to say goodbye to international scene and was the star of the last climate summit in Copenhagen, withdrew at the last minute from attending.
Despite the efforts made during the last climate conferences (COPs), countries participating in the negotiation process are still far from reaching an agreement on the implementation of a new Post-Kyoto climate regime.
During the last climate talks in The Hague in November (Science, 1 December 2000, p. 1663), negotiations broke down after the U.S. refused to make drastic cuts in its carbon dioxide production.
After the last climate email scandal, six separate investigations found that there was no scandal, it was cooked up out of nothing, and the underlying data was solid.
Murdoch-owned Fox News was a major promoter of the last climate email scandal-that-wasn't, and a Fox executive actually ordered Fox News reporters to slant their coverage of climate change to favor deniers.
Under the last climate pact, the Kyoto Protocol, only the most developed countries were required to limit their emissions - one of the main reasons the United States refused to accept it, saying rapidly growing economies like China and India should also take part.
As the industrial age, at least for us in the west, puffs its last climate-punishing puff, we can throw off the yoke of the commuter and choose to work where live, or live where we work.
