One of the strangest things about the ongoing non-controversy over the hacked climate emails is that it’s revealed how irrational much of the thinking behind global warming denial really is. It’s always been understood that people have fundamental reasons for resisting the idea that man’s behavior is causing the climate to change–especially if they’re deeply comfortable with said behavior. But I hadn’t realized how many people actually–I mean really, truly–believe that climate change is a nefarious conspiracy concocted by elite l…Read the full story on TreeHugger