Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers

The Guardian by George Monbiot | Nov. 3, 2009 (Opinion)

My fiercest opponents on global warming tend to be in their 60s and 70s. This offers a fascinating, if chilling, insight into human psychology There is no point in denying it: we're losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere that cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is greeted with furious invective. This sphere is expanding with astonishing ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Nov 3, 2009 - 1:53 AM PST
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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 3, 2009

Monbiot looks at the firming opposition to the clear science of man-caused climate change, and develops an interesting hypothesis for the denial and the particular centering of the denial in older people. No mention is included of the oil industry funding of the disinformation campaign.

I guess that makes me a counter-example...

The debate about global warming that’s raging on the internet and in the rightwing press does not reflect any such debate in the scientific journals. More »

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