Are conservatives obsessed with denying climate change because they don't believe in the Bible?

Because they are ignorant and/or liars. Look at Caliservative's answer: He begins with a false claim about climate science and the scientific method - even though he has no clue what either of those are. He concludes with the ever-popular Denier "Argument from Authority" complaint which (1) he does not understand and (2) is the basis of his entire answer.

In fact, his Argument from Authority accusation is, itself, an Argument from Authority. It just does not get any funnier than that.

Yale university last year completed a segmentation study where they identified six climate profiles. You can download the study from here and/or a quiz to see which segment you fit into. http://environment.yale.edu/climate-comm... Personally, I fit best into the "concerned" segment based on the quiz.

The segments do generally align with political beliefs. The most concerned segment, "Alarmed" is mostly people who call themselves Democrats and/or Liberals. The least concerned segment, "Dismissive", is mostly people who call themselves "Conservative" or Republican.

It's easy enough to understand that conservatives would not want to act, because they don't believe government should do anything. Any sort of environmental protection requires social cooperation and they are opposed to that. But there is more going on, because the Dismissive don't so that government shouldn't address a problem, they claim the problem doesn't exist.

What I find most interesting about the segments is that the Dismissive refuses to trust anybody. It does not matter what you tell this group, they don't believe anything. They do not trust "climate scientists" They do not trust "other scientists" They don't care what their own weather forecaster says.

They wouldn't care that 90% of climate scientists agree They don't trust their heath department They don't trust their own family doctor. Otherwise they match up with typical conservatives: tend older, male, non-college grads, almost all white, opposed to all environmental protections including reserves, in favor of more drilling for oil. All of that fits with opposing action, but this refusal to admit that the problem is real is based on the flat-out refusal to accept anybody else' expertise.

If they have seen a glacier thawing then there is no way that a glacier is thawing, and as they live in the Southern U.S. they don't see many glaciers melting. You might not agree with my interpretation of the segmentation study. I encourage you to read it yourself and determine whether/how it is important.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.