What Deniers have in Common

Now that Al Gore is sharing the Nobel Peace Prize, the global warming deniers have come crawling out of the woodwork. If you press a global warming denier, you will find that they deny that global warming is occurring because it would otherwise be really inconvenient to their world views. They have also repeated the lie that "Global warming does not exist" often enough that they believe it to be true and they hang out with people who also believe the lie is true and so feel that further justifies their views.

The global warming denier who actually looks at the science behind global warming (available here) and still denies that it exists is the rare individual.

I've always felt that global warming deniers share lots of similarities with evolution deniers, HIV deniers, and the like.

The Science Avenger agrees and has a great post available on the subject.

He also has a pointer to a great post on why right-wing conservatives hate Universities so much.

While I tend to get depressed about the sea of anti-intellectuals that inhabit the USA, its great to find the blogs of other people who 1) understand science and 2) are willing to defend it.

If our country is to retain its place as a scientific powerhouse, we need every scientist we can get!

Ken