Contradicting themselves

Climate Change Isn't Real. It Also Can't Be Stopped.

"Most conservative energy on climate change over the last quarter-century has gone into questioning the validity of climate science. Conservative intellectuals have invested enough of their reputations into this form of scientific kookery that it cannot be easily abandoned."

I've noted this several times, that there has been some two-facedness in some sectors of the climate denier camp. Meaning that at the same time they say nothing's happening, they also claim that there isn't anything that can be done about what's going to happen.

I find it interesting that the article employed the oxymoron "conservative intellectuals" in describing how the right-wing kind of climate denier has operated. I think that the term "intellectual" and the phrase "scientific kookery" have no real business being used in the same sentence together. Rather than "intellectual", in this case a better word might be "groupthinkers", because groupthink implies collaborative self-deception toward formulations of, or support for, erroneous conclusions. Something that it has been definitively psychologically shown the Republicans and conservatives do very frequently.