Thursday, August 11, 2011
Is global warming denialism primarily based on free market fundamentalism?
Mostly people in the general public listening to free market fundamentalists on radio and t.v. pushing very fringe opinions with exhuberant pion as if they were certainly true (and as if anyone who disagrees with them must be insane). The public thinks there must be some sort of reality behind such strong pionate displays, so they go on the internet where they do "research" on global warming which usually consists of a string of blogs and links put up by free market fundamentalists trying to cast doubt on the concensus of 97-98% of climate scientists. Once they have the misinformation laden denialist talking points firmly established in their minds, they ridicule, ignore and deny any information that contradicts what they have filled their minds with. Having no personal understanding of the issue, they simply adopt the viewpoint from the political source of their choosing.
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