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Originally posted by mjp2
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What is wrong with these folk? I know a lot of them. They live in a self reinforcing bubble. They actively subscribe to and receive lobbying via political channels, including denialist sources tailored for them. They have a, to be fair, not totally unreasonable belief as a generalisation that greenies are loonies. For many that comes from the 60's and 70's when green Malthusian beliefs were argued persuasively as science - by the likes of Paul Ehrlich - and got political support from Jimmy Carter who sat in sweaters in the White House with the heating off in the middle of winter. Carter believed in the concerns then that peak oil was imminent. They see this climate change bunkem as just another case of the looney left. They are confident partly because they believe they have seen it before and seen the greens proved wrong before. And they have related institutional beliefs and memories that support their views.
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Hi mjp2, I like your post. Most of that seems to be pretty much correct. I feel you missed two important point though. What denialists want is some evidence and there is no credible evidence. That is the whole crux of the matter. What warmist take as evidence can be easily refuted by any credible scientist. As has been said many times across millions of blogs and articles etc. It only takes one assumption to be wrong to disprove a theory. With AGW there are dozens of wrong assumptions.
