What’s going on in climate skeptics’ deluded heads?

Why do all you climate deniers risk your reputations defending positions utterly at odds with science and reason?
 
Much has been made of your ties to the oil and coal lobbies, but can you really be doing it just for the money?
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[George Marshall, the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network] suspects your motivations are less venal and may be related to a kind of deranged careerism. Marshall notes that the most prominent of your kind are almost all men — men whose careers weren’t terribly noteworthy until you threw in with the adoring denialist hordes.
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It’s a pity that the media and public can’t see through this rogues’ gallery of failed men and aging cranks.
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Shame: Morano has none. He’s a tireless brawler who dances away from his every misstep and never misses an opportunity for a low blow against an opponent. Morano’s the dirtiest fighter in the climate denier gang. Do not underestimate.