The Changing Climate, Sans Conservative Acceptance

 IN THE AMERICAN WEST,  it refuses to rain. the drought intensifies, and the "great American desert" as nineteenth century pioneers termed it, live sup to its nick name. Back east, it won't stop raining. Extreme weather at both ends, the "new normal" as we like to say. The frequency and intensity of tornadoes and hurricanes is increasing, spring starts in February, October is now a summer month, record hot temperatures; the facts are well documented, if not well known. Excess heat, trapped in Earth's atmosphere, strengthening the winds, evaporating more water vapor, causing more violent weather.All this is simple. anyone can understand human made climate change, even those who pretend not to, the deniers. Simple, straight forward, the essentials, requiring only a high school understanding of basic science. Otherwise intelligent people refuse to acknowledge it only when they subconsciously perceive that doing so would cause irreparable harm to their ideology, create too much cognitive conflict, challenge the validity of their conservative thinking. suddenly the eastern United States is sundered by extreme heat in the northeast and extreme rain in the southeast. Extreme weather, side by side. Climate change creates complex weather patterns, varied by region. Prolonged drought in the American west, a looming new ice age across Europe, as melting polar ice  floods the Atlantic, cooling the gulf stream and the air above the colder water, the air flowing across England and then the continent, making it cold amidst global warming. climate change deniers, ostrich heads buried, bleat that climate change theory is "full of holes", and that in fact many many natural causes contribute to it, with or without humanity. what they fail to realize is that the experts at Harvard, M.I.T. and many other places around the world already know all about that, have already long since factored natural forces, all of them, into their research, and that the research, and the world around us, still proves that natural events do not prevent humans from having the impact we are having. Nature cause climate change, so can mankind. so does mankind. It is not a zero sum game, one excluding the other.  The climate change deniers, with their high school diplomas hanging proudly beneath their portraits of Donald Trump, simply know more than the people who spend years with their doctorates in physics and chemistry studying the climate daily, for decades. The right wing high school graduates simply cannot be wrong, because if they are wrong, so is their entire political and economic ideology of greed and individual freedom, society be damned. They will deny climate change even as climate change consumes their petty little bubble, and themselves along with it.