re: #66 Big Beautiful Door

Because that’s what they are told; they are sheep. Lets say fossil fuel companies turned the spigot off, and lets say Big Nuclear starting dropping big money on the GOP and Rightwing media, and all of a sudden Fox News, Limbaugh and the Pulpit Pimps started talking about the need to build nuclear plants because God gave us Earth to tend like a garden. In no time at all, all the rightwing sheep would be convinced God wants us to replace coal fired plants with nuclear reactors.

My experience tells me different. It’s not so much that they’re sheep as that they REALLY, REALLY want to believe it’s all a hoax, for a variety of reasons. The Kochs, Limbaugh, etc. provide them with the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt they need to continue believing it’s a hoax, but there seems to be something deeper at work. I don’t understand the psychology behind it, but I have seen very rational people, guys who would shred the ridiculous illogical arguments of Creationists - “It’s all a plot by the Left; Scientists only say they believe it for that sweet, sweet grant money” etc - turn around and use THE SAME ARGUMENTS against AGW. They abandoned all reason and clung to any thin reed of counterevidence no matter how obviously it was bullshit.

Something deep and scary at work. Like the existence of AGW would attack some core foundation of their worldview.