How is it that there are still so many people who think global warming is a hoax, or that it is not caused by human activity?

Let's be clear: the technologies required for clean energy production already exist and are being implemented here and there, in an ad hoc way. All that is really needed is to scale up. But it will take some money to do that. Investment in the future. But the people with the kind of bucks we are talking about are reluctant to part with their cash. They have other priorities.

The fossil fuel industry has been for some time now been spending a considerable amount of money in their effort to cast doubt on climate science. They fund think tanks and private laboratories staffed by people with real science credentials. They may not be the best scientists, but hey, you know what they call the guy who graduated at the very bottom of his medical school class? Doctor! These few pathetic individuals (they comprise only a tiny fraction of the scientific community) have found for themselves a path of less resistance. They earn generous salaries and in return they cherry pick data and provide biased interpretations which get published in slick formats that to the lay person seem like legitimate science. Of course other scientists are not fooled by the propaganda, but it does not matter because they are not the target audience. The game is to sow doubt among the general public, and thereby achieve the overall goal of continuing to sell lots of fossil fuels to an energy-thirsty society. The people ultimately behind the disinformation campaign are the owners of large, multinational corporations with profits in the hundreds if billions if dollars annually. They are old farts, and they know they won't live to face the consequences of their actions. They are not interested in seeing their profits vanish. So they spend a fraction of their wealth on insurance. They buy off a few scientists and media outlets and lobbyists on K Street. The latter outnumber the members if Congress by ten-to-one, and often write the bills that are introduced on the floors if the House and Senate. Business friendly bills that relax environmental regulations and generally make it easier for the fossil fuel industry to make money. It all about money. To hell with planet. They want to make MONEY! ?✈?????

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