The American 'allergy ' to global warming: Why?

[Snip] …. What 's going on? "The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows," concludes economist-ethicist Clive Hamilton. He and others who track what they call "denialism" find that its nature is changing in America, last redoubt of climate naysayers. It has taken on a more partisan, ideological tone. Polls find a widening Republican-Democrat gap on climate. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry even accuses climate scientists of lying for money. Global warming looms as a debatable question in yet another US election campaign. From his big-windowed office overlooking the wooded campus of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY, Broecker has observed this deepening of the desire to disbelieve. "The opposition by the Republicans has gotten stronger and stronger," the 79-year-old "grandfather of climate science" said in an interview. "But, of course, the push by the Democrats has become stronger and stronger, and as it has become a more important issue, it has become more polarized. "The solution:" Eventually it 'll become damned clear that the Earth is warming and the warming is beyond anything we have experienced in millions of years, and people will have to admit … "He stopped and laughed." Well, I suppose they could say God is burning us up. "[snip] (Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com …