Some weak evidence that alarmism (which activist organizations adopt for fundraising reasons) has the opposite of its claimed effect: the movie The Day After Tomorrow had this result:
Surveys of public opinion conducted before and after the film was released found that it made people think climate change is less likely
Apparently its obvious lack of realism caused people to associate the more respectable claims about global warming with Hollywood escapism.
Some weak evidence that alarmism (which activist organizations adopt for fundraising reasons) has the opposite of its claimed effect: the movie The Day After Tomorrow had this result:
Apparently its obvious lack of realism caused people to associate the more respectable claims about global warming with Hollywood escapism.