Deniers are phsychologically flawed individuals who actively deny the mainstream scientific viewpoint that the
earth is warming due to the release of CO2 by the burning of fossil fuels. While
97% of climate scientists are in agreement and the evidence collected by use of the scientific method is indisputable, these
people deny the
reality through
confirmation bias reinforced by well funded oil company propaganda and disinformation. Social dominance orientation, system justification, and identity protective cognition define the denier. These are character traits that reinforce white male hegemony over the environment and reinforce social hierarchies, and are common in a strict
father worldview where the children never learn to think for themselves. The pedagogy of the strict
father is belief over facts, with a powerful “head” of the family, much
like in a dictatorship where there is only
one leader in charge. Denialism is also closely linked to hate groups, Golf, Nascar, country
music, religious zealots, and much of middle America who have been brainwashed by AM radio, essentially using our public airwaves for free, to protect the profits of companies whose pollution could potentially end most of humankind. And the pope agrees.
