Believers on "denialists": "a miniscule number ... believe climatologists are wrong"; they are "a group of highly organized message managers who take ideas and break them up in a way so they are easily understood and heard frequently"

New National Climate Assessment is scary, say experts. But that won’t change climate deniers - thestar.com

Climate change deniers dismiss the scientific consensus on global warming and its significance. Some are contrarians, some are involved with think-tanks and some are scientists, climatologists say. There aren’t many of them but they are organized, they add.
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Climate change deniers are effective, Smol said. “They have been good at confusing scientific issues with the public.”

Why do they resist “data” and “facts” about climate change? It’s a conundrum, say scientists.
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McBean and other climate change scientists believe some deniers do it for attention, others because they are being funded and a miniscule number because they believe climatologists are wrong.

In a blog post on davidsuzuki.org in August, environmental activist David Suzuki said climate change deniers are almost extinct.

But Harry McCaughey, a climatologist at Queen’s University in Kingston, disagrees; he says their number has increased in the past two decades.

“They are also more vocal now,” said McCaughey. “What we have in the denier community is a group of highly organized message managers who take ideas and break them up in a way so they are easily understood and heard frequently.”

It doesn’t help that scientists are hopeless at communicating ideas to the media, he added.