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Yes it appears that a lot of people who reject climate science do so because of religious/ideological beliefs, not science.
In the last 25-30 yrs, AGW and environmental regulations in general have been successfully tied to the much maligned concept of "big government regulation", and associated with liberal "boogeymen" such as Al Gore and Barack Obama.
As a result, questioning or denying global warming in some way, shape or form has essentially become an elemental aspect of many conservative's identity.
This is only true in the US, of course, not typical of conservatives in other parts of the world.
That is a fairly dramatic increase over 2014 and 2016 is predicted to be even hotter. Also 5 of the warmest years on record in the last 10 years.
"It’s official: 2015 was the hottest year on record, beating out 2014 by the widest margin in 136 years of record keeping, U.S. government agencies announced Wednesday. But this new record may not stand for long, as one of the strongest El Niños ever measured combines with the continued warming of the planet to potentially push 2016 to yet another record.“2015 was remarkable even in the context of the larger, long-term warming trend,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in a statement."
I am very suspicious of "worldwide" figures on climate change. Do you have figures for a composite of advanced temperate zone cities that have lengthy periods of reliable records? If you tell me, say, that a composite of New York, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Denver, Atlanta, Washington DC, Raleigh, Nashville, Tokyo, London, Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Berlin, Geneva, Vienna, Prague, Sydney, Perth, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro all broke records with a 10.8 º F positive anomaly over a 30 or 50 year moving average I might be concerned. Even then a super El Niño could pump the numbers.
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