This is based on a recent Australian study which suggests climate deniers tend to refute the 'facts' because they don't like the logical consequences - namely that action would have to be taken to reduce emissions that would affect their quality of life, and that government would need to take the lead.
It's true of all of us to some extent of course, we often dismiss things as irrelevant because we emotionally don't like them . . . the problem is not so much that climate change skeptics ignore the evidence in forming their own views, it's that so many of them seem to have powerful and influential positions. It's vested interest in politics and the media that's the real problem.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9503044/Climate-change-deniers-are-either-extreme-free-marketeers-or-conspiracy-theorists.html
It's true of all of us to some extent of course, we often dismiss things as irrelevant because we emotionally don't like them . . . the problem is not so much that climate change skeptics ignore the evidence in forming their own views, it's that so many of them seem to have powerful and influential positions. It's vested interest in politics and the media that's the real problem.
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