As the seas around them rise, fishermen deny climate change

The GOP has lied to these people so effectively, the prefer death to admitting that they were fooled…

Leo Dotson is among the skeptics. He’s been shrimping in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, for 54 years and he’ll admit the coastline has changed.
“It’s moved,” he says.
But that has nothing to do with man-made climate change, he adds.
Dotson gets red in the face, repeating that scientific studies showing climate change as affecting weather patterns or warming the Earth are simply wrong.

Cameron is home to the highest percentage of people in a county who believe climate change doesn’t affect plants or animals, according to a recent Yale University study. Of the 4,500-plus who live here, more than 36% share those views. The county also places in the top 10 when it comes to those who dismiss climate change overall.
Dotson doesn’t believe climate change would negatively impact the fishing industry on the Louisiana coast. Not based on what he’s seen.
“It doesn’t concern me. What is science? Science is an educated guess,” Dotson says defiantly. “What if they guess wrong? There’s just as much chance as them to be wrong as there is for them to be right.”
Could anything change Dotson’s mind on climate change? Only a very specific scientist.
“If he was 500 years old, and he told me it’s changed, I would probably believe him,” Dotson says. “But in my lifetime, I didn’t see any change.”