Humans, generally speaking, tend to give more credit to facts that already aligned with their pre-conceived beliefs than facts that are not.

This isn't exclusive to conservatives and liberals fall into this trap as well.

The problem is that Fox News and conservative media have figured out how to take advantage of it to further their agenda.

In fact, the RNC and Fox News has done an absolutely fantastic job of convincing their base that educated people shouldn't be trusted because they are liberal.

This is something I've learned especially at work - charisma almost always wins over competence, unless you're speaking to other experts in the field. I've seen people spew absolute meaningless bullshit to audiences of hundreds in a field they should know at least a bit about, these are not exactly laymen. They will eat that shit up if the person speaking is charismatic and confident, and they'll clap like it's the most enlightening thing they've ever heard.

They just think everyone on the internet is as dumb as they are.

Yeah but some days are colder, so climate change isn't real. Ever think of that?

30 years or more

Where did you get that statistic? If anything it's the 30- group who actually believe in climate science. My parents are 60 and don't believe the climate is warming, despite new rules rolling out in my lifetime about extreme heat advisories. My high school started having 'heat' days where we had to study online at home like a snow day, 10 years ago, my school also didnt have AC

space is the source of the warming, so katie is basically consorting with the enemy...

He's working hard on his SKY doctorate.

Gary's dad tenured at TrumpU.

Bah, that's just a sham solution pushed by big calendar to sell everyone new, bigger, calendars when the year gets longer.

Lets build an array of huge engines at the equator, firing them in a timeframe around every 24 hours to raise our orbit!

Edit: KSP memories say: do this at the apoapsis for a nice circular orbit.

"research" in that context means "find flimsy reasons to not change my beliefs"

Well yes but the problem is they do their "research" on the flat Earth society's Facebook page. They also tend to believe people just because they've got names like Dr Phil, and they will find that one crank that is prepared to go on fox news and say climate change is a lie and disregard the other 10,000 scientists.

Yes, now a deep education with youtuber ClimateSkepticClint49 is the kind of education that matters

He's doing exactly that