If the hypothesis is: "Normal people aren't convinced by climate intellectuals because the latter are visible hypocrites." Then it is wrong for two reasons: 1a

If the hypothesis is: "Normal people aren't convinced by climate intellectuals because the latter are visible hypocrites." Then it is wrong for two reasons: 1a. Normal Americans on the left, and many on the right, are convinced by climate intellectuals. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-views-on-climate-and-energy/ https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi... 1b. Normal Europeans of all stripes are likewise convinced. 2. (This is anecdata, but I'm pretty confident it'd appear in experimentation if anyone cared to debunk this dumb hypothesis.) Climate intellectuals that make significant efforts to avoid hypocrisy (like Greta, or her less-famous counterparts, or me to a lesser degree) do not experience a different reception from skeptics. Indeed, personal action is rarely a point of interest for anyone in the discussion. Probably because the focus of the climate intellectuals -- renewable electricity, decarbonizing heavy industry, land use practices -- is so obviously outside the scope of direct personal action.