How I changed my mind… about global warming

Byron Sharp
8 min readOct 7, 2019

Most, if not all, people would consider themselves to be open-minded. Yet, if you ask someone to name an important belief that they have changed their mind about, in response to evidence and/or logic, most struggle to give even one example.

This is the first in a series of blogs where I describe how and why I changed my mind about something. I hope to encourage myself to change my mind more often. And to encourage others.

Short summary: I now worry less about global warming than I did, the scientific evidence is that it’s not…

Byron Sharp

Professor of Marketing Science & Director Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia. Tweets marketing, science, sceptical thinking.