NYT: Why Conservative White Males Are More Likely to Be Climate Skeptics — Seek to ‘defend the status of their identity tied to the white male establishment’
'White male effect': 'Something that would challenge the status quo is something [conservative white males] want to shun...Conservative white males' motivation to ignore a certain risk -- the risk of climate change in this case --- BUT REALITY CHECK: 'The most prominent alarmists are liberal white males. So clearly race and gender has nothing to do with prominent alarmism or skepticism'
