I want Obama to get on TV and say .."I was wrong, global warming doesn't exist"

Then the Rethugs will counteract it and say, " Obama is wrong, climate change is a possibility when you look at the data involved. The POTUS is not a scientist so he doesnt know what he is talking about"

may be useful, there is more on the link.

As many of those will simply give carbon tax credits to the Big Corporate Offenders, while sticking it to those who haven't yet had the money to obtain a Prius.

Because we all know that, despite their would-be "politically incorrect" reputation, right-wingers are in reality the most easily offended people on Earth.

I think that has a lot to do with their beliefs on the subject. The hacked emails that came out a few years ago ('Climategate') certainly didn't help. I have to admit, the way this question is worded seems like an attempt to deliberately bait people by insisting people to choose between black and white instead of allowing a grey area; if I had the choice I would say forcing is probably or even likely the main cause of recent warming but there's no such option in the survey.

Once they do Fox will change to the all climate change all the time channel.

we all have seen has not really happened.

That they are conservatives is only part of the problem. Big oil propaganda spending is the other. Multi-faceted PR campaigns have been waged. They've gotten otherwise intelligent people to actually doubt their own eyes. Their own experiences.

for having the temerity to bring up the idea that we need to think about water conservation/consumption in the years to come, and perhaps not just dump countless hundreds of thousands of gallons onto golf courses just to keep them a lush green color all year long.

They find scientific fact antagonizing? The poor lil hothouse flowers...

Yeah, I'll take that seriously when they turn away from the likes of Ted Cruz, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, et al.

When you look at any issue and ask yourself "what will create the most suffering?" you can usually determine what conservatives will support.

Try it.

The other 50% falls on the side of "greed".

They have a real problem in Miami. So the pragmatists, knowing that there need be a full court press to keep the damage to a minimum, is using a political maneuver to overcome opposition to the fact that Miami - if nothing is done locally- will lose billions of dollars of valuable real estate.

Locally, they need everybody to buy in and create infrastructure to keep Miami dry. There is no solution to the problem except to build seawalls and the like. The longer they argue the more it will cost.

I love the graph on the right!

Don't get me wrong, I love Al Gore. I voted for him. I truly believe that if he had not been screwed over by the Supreme Court the world would be a better place. At the time he released "An Inconvenient Truth" I applauded him but by becoming the public face of global warming he gave right wingers a figure to rally against.

Let's face it. Most people are not all that scientifically literate. Even those of us who understand science are not necessarily climatologists and are not deeply engaged in the research. If 99% of climatologists believe that global warming is man made, I'm going to trust that the scientists know what they are doing because I live in the 21st century and enjoy the benefits of a civilization that was based on science.

If I'm a conservative who despises liberals with a red hot passion, no matter what the scientists say, I am not listening to Al Gore of all people. Now if Rush Limbaugh, who I do trust, tells me that all this Global Warming nonsense was drummed up by a bunch of elitist snobs who want us all to freeze in the dark so that Al Gore can get rich trading carbon credits--well I'm going to trust Rush Limbaugh.

It's all about "Who Do You Trust".

Incidentally, when I countered my friend with the fact that the overwhelming number of climatologists (with the exception of those funded by the fossil fuel industry) agree that global warming is caused by human activity and that I'd prefer to base my opinion on what the scientists say rather than what non-scientists like Rush Limbaugh--or Al Gore for that matter--say he really had no answer.

I think that the flat earthers will never change their minds but there are reasonable conservatives who are not hostile to science. The question is, how do we get around that "Who Do You Trust" thing?

But all their multitude of sins against mankind are forgiven 'cause they love Jesus and they know not (don't really care) what they do. They are eaten up with infidelitis and a gigantic, grotesque reichousness.

This is why I keep saying use different terms when explaining certain concepts, as a method of getting them to agree with things that should be self evident.

It does tend to keep things civil as well. It does however require a heck of a lot more thinking.

It's called motivated reasoning and it involves denying facts that threaten cherished beliefs. We all do it to some extent, but right-wingers certainly seem to have it worse.