I don't think people are more likely to believe that scientists are lying about global warming or conspiracies like this. Those are vocal super minorities. But

I don't think people are more likely to believe that scientists are lying about global warming or conspiracies like this. Those are vocal super minorities. But I think people are less willing to give up their shot at making it in an increasingly unequal world for the sake of global warming. In some ways it's kind of anti-rational for scientists to direly warn of global warming while fixing it requires people to sacrifice more in a world where it's so hard to get ahead. Though we call these social waves anti-rational and rational they are really just preferences and fads that come and go. Smoking was "cool" for many years despite tons of science showing how bad it was for so many decades. Drinking alcohol still is. This doesn't mean people who drink are anti-rational, yeah?