Why Is Generation X So Skeptical About Climate Change?

"Generation X", as marketing people call the generation after the Baby Boomers, aren't buying it, despite the fact that awareness campaigns about global warming have gone on for most of their lives.
...Basically, if you are a liberal, you are more trained to obey experts and elites.

Don't like that phrasing? I know how you vote.
...when it came to Democrats, 86% believed no matter what term was used. They believed what the question told them they were supposed to believe and you could have written 'Smurfs are causing the planet to warm and it is caused by man's effect on the environment' and they would have checked that True box. That isn't being smarter than the other side, it is being intellectual sheep.

Does this mean Generation X is more intellectually independent than prior or more recent generations? There is no evidence for that. Scientific literacy is growing, no matter how much self-loathing you read in mainstream media about how stupid people are. Adult science literacy has tripled since I graduated college...And being a parent makes no difference, so it isn't like we can just appeal to letting future generations enjoy nature - people with young children were less likely to be worried about climate change than single people or childless couples in the new Generation X report.

It also must be considered that as scientists became more politically one-sided, and more politically active, people became less inclined to believe scientists were being impartial.