cognitive dissonance pure and simple is what it is. The more somebody’s false belief system is exposed for the nonsense that it is by contradicting evidence, the more they will hunker down and declare the evidence false and their discredited lies the gospel truth. In other words, the NY Times and Gore’s madness is to be expected. It’s only going to get worse, the climate hysterics, not any less bad for this very reason – dissonance and the rationalisations that follow. Since when do facts have anything to do with how people think and behave?