The Global Warming theory is an integral part of left wing ideology and GW comes the closest to religion as anything these days. Non believers are shouted down (or worse) as "deniers" (heretics) when the theory isn't even proved. True believers have to rely on faith rather than trusting their senses when they face a blizzard south of the Mason Dixon line a week before spring begins. True believers are taught from an early age that the decadence of their own Country causes droughts in Africa and floods elsewhere and the Co2 that used to be thought of as beneficial for the life of plants is an evil substance. Meanwhile the billions of tons of sulfur turning into sulfuric acid spewed into the air by seismic activity is spun by propaganda sources as beneficial.
No needs for ideology when there is
97 percent consensus. Carbon dioxide is necessary, without it we would freeze, but too much, then we become venus.
The more appropriate question to ask:
why does lower cognitive ability predict greater prejudice through right-wing ideology.