The Difficulty Of Changing

ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS, who appears to be intelligent, denies man made climate change. Well, he's a conservative, so, no surprise. He knows for sure its all a big hoax, because, after all, he took a couple of science classes in high school. In America, there is no uncertainty. Everyone is his or her own best expert - on everything. Climate change deniers, every last one of them, is absolutely, positively, rock solid sure that this whole global warming business is a hoax, of some sort, Chinese or liberal, take your pick. We true believers are somewhat similar; we are certain that climate change is real, and man made, because the experts say that it is. whether or not we understand it,(and we don't) we believe in it, because we trust science. One might expect, from time to time, to encounter a skeptic who isn't sure one war or the other, but is skeptical of the science, but no, one never encounters such a person. The deniers are all rock solid certain, whether thy had science in high school or not. As if they had actually done the science themselves. They are all conservative. you will simply not find a liberal who questions climate science. Liberals are either very gullible, or very accomplished at maintaining conspiratorial secrecy. Belief is expertise has become, it would seem, a liberal value. If the climate is really changing, and if it is really due to human activity, then mankind must make drastic, fundamental changes to its economic systems, which, among conservatives, is anathema. I somehow sense that my friend the climate change denier could study chemistry, physics, and climate science for decades, even while the earth roasted beneath his feet, and his belief would never change.