Useful article from Salon about how climate deniers can't (or won't) see the basic reality all around us:
Climate buffoons’ real motives: 5 reasons they still spout debunked garbage
From greed to idiocy, here's the true agenda of deniers who still claim climate change isn't happening
Here's 1 of the 5:
"Theory 4: They’re unable to grasp the big pictureThe other four are:
Just as they can take one cold day and say it contradicts the decades-long, global pattern of climate change, climate deniers are constantly prioritizing the here-and-now over the future. How else to explain why Newt Gingrich found it so hard to understand why John Kerry would call climate change “the greatest challenge of our generation”? Kerry’s claim actually threw the former House speaker into the Twitter equivalent of a nervous breakdown:
We saw the same thing recently on Fox News, which used plenty of snowy footage to emphasize the ridiculousness of Obama spending money now to combat a problem that will only “maybe” affect us later:"
Theory 1: They don’t understand science
Theory 2: Big industry is pulling their strings
Theory 3: Deniers hate regulations, and they really hate the EPA
Theory 5: They just don’t want to believe it
Now, according to Chris Mooney and "The Republican Brain on Science", and a lot of supporting psychological research, it's not just that they don't want to believe it, it's that they can't believe it. For to do so would destabilize their entire cognitive framework and the groupthink by which they establish and sustain their own personal value within the value system of a larger group, in this case Republican Conservatives.
And that's the way it is.
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