Sounds a bit like when smoking was discovered to be bad for us based on accumulated medical data but the smokers[me included pre 2005] would try to convince each other it was OK based on their inability to accept the awful truth.
To accept the truth meant they/we had to stop smoking.
Accepting climate change means we have to change lots of things we don't want to lose either, so the alarmist denial continues.
At least the smoker was usually harming themselves and not taking everyone else with them.
