Human beings tend to pay closer attention to things that are immediate and visible. Climate change isn’t. They are often not ready to take up facts especially when they are not comfortable with them, or they tend to take them up reluctantly. It is worse when facts impasse with our beliefs. People go to unbelievable limits to disfigure evidences- or sometimes ignore them completely, that outline the validity of facts that we aren’t comfortable with so that our beliefs can remain unaffected. Similarly, people tend to handle the cognitive dissonance caused by global warming by giving it conspiracy attributes. “Positive illusions”, and self-deception always come in handy when we want to handle difficult situations. In trying to avoid confrontations with situations that we are not comfortable with, we tend to convince ourselves that everything isn’t as bad as it actually seems. This is the same case with the author of the blog “Greeting Fellow climate-truthers”.
It is difficult to thoughtfully think about the challenges scientists attribute to global warming and climate change, and according to them, give up luxuries for the sake of the challenges that might come with it. For instance, the writer of the blog can’t contemplate giving up property because of ‘scientific fallacies’. “No way am I giving up my SUV without a fight” is an absolute example. Like when friend was recently diagnosed with diabetes, he didn’t want to accept the heftiness of the issue as much as he believed his medical expert. He was supposed to make changes to his lifestyle but he still wanted to live like before in self-deception that his kind of diabetes wasn’t as serious. It is so difficult to think that the activities that we engage in that give us comfort and fun, like the writer’s case, owning a SUV, could compromise earth’s ability to sustain life. To counter this, the writer, from his blog, tends to think that scientists are all wrong and the concept of global warming could be a scientific fallacy.
My individual interpretation of the blog’s writer is that the information that the writer received made them become more resistant to ‘scientific theories’, and concepts. The information the writer received before the official communication about global warming and people having to give up their property and freedoms made the writer more resistant to the fact that our activities could actually compromise the ability of earth to sustain life in future. This is best illustrated by the inoculation theory. Biologically, and medically, this can be described as a disease that is less harmful giving immunity to a disease that is more harmful. Naturally, scientific theories are skeptical, in their nature. This warrants scientific skepticism and denial as healthy. We tend to accept the effects of climate change, and cope with them the same way we accept and cope with death. They tend to differ with these scientific concepts owing to the fact that its impacts will be felt in the future when they will be dead and these impacts will not directly affect them (Marshall, 2016).
Climate change, global warming and their effects are not immediately felt. They do not affect our day to day lives immediately. We aren’t faced by difficulties daily, neither can we, humanly, feel the future effects of global warming the same way scientists might feel and predict them. Perhaps the write of the blog will accept the effects, and these ‘scientific fallacies’, when climate change would have affected his, and our lives more seriously than it has now. Perhaps, climate change, then, wouldn’t be a fallacy, it shall not be abstract; it will be here with us, and affecting our everyday lives. Inauspiciously, it might be too late.
The effects of climate change are already manifest. Deserts are expanding rapidly, and water masses are decreasing. Crops are not flourishing any more, and animal and plant species are becoming extinct. It is apparent to the eye. It is not hypothetical on the future. However, just like the writer of the blog, we are comfortable in our comforts. Severe weather conditions are more rapid and frequent, but we still audibly deny climate change, global warming and its impacts. The writer of the blog feels like scientists are deceiving them, and others, so that they can feel helpless and powerless (Taylor, 2016). So that they can give up their property, comforts and democracy to ‘the people that matter’, the powerful, for monetary and power benefits.

Marshall, G. (2016, May 24). GET RADICAL- ENGAGING CONSERVATIVES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE: 1. Retrieved from Climate Change Denial: http://climatedenial.org/
Taylor, S. (2016, May 24). The Psychology of Denial. Retrieved from Psychology today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/out-the-darkness/201504/the-psychology-denial