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“‘Biased assimilation’ has been demonstrated in experiments that find people reject information about the existence of a problem if they object to its possible solutions,” they note, before later stating that many appear to be “basing their beliefs about science and physical reality on what they thought would be the political implications if human-caused climate change were true.”

It’s no surprise that those who dislike government regulation and favor established business interests would object to some of the proposed responses to climate change, so the sociological explanation seems to involve stating the obvious in an unnecessarily complex manner.