That's very good, Shimrod. I see a number of parallels with religion and climate change denial. The deniers are wanting us to see things "from a different perspective." Religionists, same thing. The deniers have no evidence. God-fearers have no evidence. The deniers have ulterior motives in that they are generally in the pockets of oil companies, etc. Individual believers may or may not have ulterior motives (a bit of insurance, scared that granny might disinherit them if the kids aren't baptised, the Catholic school down the road has the "best reputation", that sort of thing), though many are just genuinely deluded. But big religion definitely has ulterior motives, mainly involving the deployment of instruments of control (lots of rules about your sex life, threats of hellfire apropos of the sin list they've carefully constructed, ostracism or death threats for apostasy, etc.). Deniers make a superficially attractive case by making you feel comfortable about your energy-gobbling car and air conditioning system, religion gives us fine music, art and architecture (and you won't find me denying that. I've just listened to a wonderful recording of Michael Haydn's Requiem, for example).

Climate change deniers haven't quite succeeded as yet in making their delusion the default position, unlike religion. I drove through a Cornish village the other day. Confronting me (literally) was a rather unattractive concrete church building (not all our villages are chocolate-box material) with a twenty-five foot high blank crucifix painted on it with the words BAPTIST CHURCH writ large underneath. Such nonsense is the norm in "Christian" countries, of course. We're so used to these monstrosities that we're resigned to seeing them everywhere and just shrugging. A complacent attitude well worth avoiding, both with religion and climate change deniers.