Climate Change Communication

i think a lot of t people who deny it are not doing so, like out of a conscious perversity. I mean, the fact is that motivated reasoning changes how facts appear to us. Things that are perfectly reasonable to believe just suddenly don't seem plausible to you because of motivations you have. And it can be easier, on some level, to simply live in denial like that is an easier mental construct to to erect in the mind than dealing with all these additional changes we've grown accustomed to.