There's not a single answer. The big, destructive attacks on scientists are mostly funded by people who make money from fossil fuels. There's some perpetual adolescents who simply don't like hearing no. And who, after all, wants to hear that we've made a huge mistake and we need to change a lot of the ways of our lives, probably to harder ways? But, also, I believe, it is simply that many of us still imagine that the universe revolves around us, and badly do not want to change that idea.
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Date: 2010-07-04 02:30 am (UTC)