The problem is that they really, really hate hippies. And hippies are all about global warming, they'll even go one step further and lecture you with a bunch o

The problem is that they really, really hate hippies. And hippies are all about global warming, they'll even go one step further and lecture you with a bunch of crap about "gaia" or something. So in order for these people to be good, upstanding Americans, they must be 100% diametrically opposed to the hippies, even if the hippie is saying "the sky is blue". Personally, I'm ok with dropping the gaia and taking the science.