Conservatives/climate change deniers living in a false reality, science explains cognitive dissonance:
http://www.alternet.org/story/154709...warming?page=1
Coles notes for those who should read this but most likely wont to keep their confirmation bias thoroughly intact:
The more educated Conservatives are, the more likely they are to deny climate change. (weird)
The reason is that the more educated they are the more associated they feel with their ideology.
This ideology confirms 2 strong beliefs countenance to accepting global warming: 1) they are afraid of change and have very rigid ideas of what the world should look like 2) conservative individualism is fundamentally attacked because this model has failed the greater good
And this ideology is cultivated by the fact that conservatives live in a reality bubble supported by news agencies such as Fox News which reinforce their bias and openly discourages critical thinking on different viewpoints.
As a result you have alot of educated white men basically acting like idiots. Unfortunately it's in respect to the most important environmental issue humanity has faced with severe consequences for the biosphere and for us.