Alpha Males, Hierarchy Endorsers, System Justifiers...and Climate Deniers?

Explore the conservative white male climate denial phenomenon and its roots in social dominance and system justification theories.

Written byChris Mooney
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My latest DeSmogBlog post goes into much more detail about the whole conservative white male climate denial phenomenon. It starts like this:

They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there’s a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments section. They have a seemingly insatiable desire to debate, sometimes quite aggressively. They’re the conservative white men (CWM) of climate change denial....

Then I get into all the theory behind why this may occur, including social dominance theory, system justification theory, and many others. You can read on here....

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