>>509396092It's because there's a lot of stupid people here... and it's quite embarrassing to be associated with them, but it is what it is. The most rudimentary issue this moronic subculture shares is that they think crude oil derivatives are the only fuel source for powering internal combustion engines. Further, there's a heavily subsidized indoctrination program that's been running steadily here for over 100 years now, that does everything in its power to insinuate a prideful stance on using crude oil. It's a complex system of propaganda management. So complex, that it's multi-generational, which makes the bond to crude oil almost impossible to penetrate. The ole "my pappy and grandpappy used crude oil, and I trust them more than any data or scientist!" It's zealotry that even evangelicals can only aspire to replicate.
The truth is that the majority of them are not REALLY stupid. They're just incredibly dedicated to very old propaganda, of which, the majority of them don't even realize they're indoctrinated with. That's why you always see the word belief/believe attached to any counterargument they make. Global warming, without any propaganda, is nothing more than empirical evidence and data showing the global average temperature rising, significantly, more so than any other time period in Earth's past. That's it. The belief portion gets tied into that data from theoretical positions of assessments of that data. The ole "I don't believe in global warming because the climate is always changing." Even though there's nothing to "believe in" about the data. It just is what it is. Therefore the entire premise of belief in global warming shifts outside of the data, to WHY the data exists. There's no argument that the planet is warming. It is, globally, and more so than any other epoch in Earth's past, so the emphasis shifts, but is later tied back into the empirical evidence as a belief.
