Michele Bachmann: Man-Made Climate Change Is ‘Manufactured Science’ | ThinkProgress

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) promoted anti-science conspiracy theories on the campaign trail in South Carolina yesterday. Asked about the “man-made climate change myth” and “green jobs,” Bachmann said, “I think all these issues have to be settled on the base of real science, not manufactured science.” She went on to repeat the long-debunked attacks on Spanish green jobs from an Exxon-funded libertarian.

The CWM effect: What climate change's biggest sceptics have in common - National News - National - General - Muswellbrook Chronicle

The researchers concluded that “organised climate change denial” had spread from US conservative think-tanks to other nations, including New Zealand and Australia.

They wrote: “Throughought these Anglo countries organised denial seems to be dominated by politically conservative white males, and this suggests that a similar conservative white male effect might be emerging in the general publics of these nations with regard to climate change denial.”

[Professor Joseph Reser, a Research Fellow with Griffith University’s Climate Change Response Program in Queensland] said the fact conservatives were unduly confident about their own views on climate change “also makes them less open to differing views or able to accept that they might be wrong”.

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