Can you believe there are still people who deny climate change exists? What is the psychology behind such people?

Climate change denial describes efforts to counter all or part of the theory of global climate change. Some denials and disinformation campaigns have been promoted by individuals or groups that are funded by special interest groups with a financial interest in misrepresenting the scientific consensus on climate change, particularly those with ties to companies like ExxonMobil or the energy lobby. Newsweek, as well as numerous journalists, including George Monbiot and Ellen Goodman, among others, describe climate change denial as a form of denialism.

So probably the greatest reason, now, for denialism is that it's become an official cause of the right-wing. Individual deniers simply align themselves with whatever the right wing says, despite what most of the world's scientits say, and what is going on in the underdeveloped countries. The larger groups formed to feed the denial mentality are of course funded by big business to avoid taxes, penalties, etc. Asked by lydianell 24 months ago Similar questions: people deny climate change exists psychology Science.

Similar questions: people deny climate change exists psychology.

It's not *DOES it exist* it is *WHY it exists* I certainly agree that climate change is happening. I am not a skeptic as to the facts of melting icebergs, funny weather patterns, etc. Where I disagree with the crowd is causation. I am reasonably well read on the issue - although admittedly, not an expert.

Call me an enlightened non-scientist. What isn't clear to me is the assumption that industry/mankind is solely responsible for the changes. There is more than ample evidence of long cycles (one being the 20-30 year cold/warm cycle, related to sunspot activity; another is the multi-hundred year cycle of cooling and warming) that have nothing to do with man's activity and everything to do with the rotation of the earth and its place in the galaxy, and so on.

What bothers me is that the climate change scientists moved off of their science and started to dictate socio-economic stuff. In some ways, the climate change events unleashed the social change by any means group - it unleashed the tree huggers and made them into dictators of our social and behavioral models. Basically, the latent radical envrionmentalists now want to dictate my life.

(Underneath at all, everyone is a fascist. Left wing, included.) It certainly doesn't help the climate lobby's case that they have now been shown to suppress evidence that they didn't like, and that in some cases they flat out lied. So count me as a person who remains to be convinced -- not of the fact of climate change, but rather of the role of mankind and industry in its creation.

I think the psychology involves not wanting to admit that if climate change is happening, and we, as humans are involved and responsible, and if it can be determined that we have a method for stopping or reversing the damage, it will come at a cost in the form of less profits, higher taxes, a reduced standard of living or whatever. Most people who are against climate change appear to be rabid capitalists, who think as long as the economy doesn't suffer, corporations should be allowed to rape the earth regardless of the consequences short term or long. They feel that having a good quarter not is better than worrying about our species surviving in 50 years.

They don't understand the long view, only living in the present.

That's the first rule of communication and EVERYONE ignores it. Fact is, , the whole promotion of this "climate change" has spent the last ten years sounding like a propaganda campaign and about as reliable. I've read plenty of othe data that presents other causes and shows the carbon dioxide levels to be a factor--but not the only factor and not necessarily the important factor.

Combine all that and you might be able to see that a lot of people are not thinking they don't want to give up their cars but instead are thinking they don't want to get suckered yet again. And then there's the fact that 35 years ago it was all about "global cooling." Ever see that Twilight Zone episode?

It's not corporatist psychology nor individual denialism nor right wing politics--it's scientists turning this shebang into a religion that we MUST believe. Cripes, you know humans as well as I do: say they "must" do something and expect them to do the opposite, right? If this is indeed a warming planet AND if indeed this warming will be catastrophic instead of beneficial (1000 a.d.

It was beneficial) AND we humans can do something to avert this catastrophe, then those presenting this case are simply doing a very bad job of it. I could sell a program better than they're doing and I'm not even good at it..

I believe it, because they don't want to accept it and so look at the data selectively; but that is a fringe ..... position. The true division among almost all climatologists is between, on the one hand, those who judge that all climate change is natural and cannot be significantly affected, and, on the other hand, those who judge that the currently ongoing climate change is "anthropogenic" (human-caused) and can be slowed or reversed by altering the patterns of human activity.

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1 And in case a lot of people don't realize it, Al Gore's film was primarily funded by and created in order to further the nuclear power industry.

And in case a lot of people don't realize it, Al Gore's film was primarily funded by and created in order to further the nuclear power industry.

Looking for a book about psychology called The Shell People, I think.

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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.