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Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the scientific consensus on climate change. Those promoting denial commonly use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of a scientific controversy where there is none. [ 4 ]
For example, climatologist Kevin E. Trenberth has published widely on the topic of climate variability and has exposed flaws in the publications of other scientists. [6] [7] [8] For past debates and controversies on scientific details see for example: History of climate change science#Discredited theories and reconciled apparent discrepancies ...
The institute rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, [35] and promotes climate change denial with claims that the amount of climate change is not catastrophic, claims that climate change might be beneficial, [36] [37] and that the economic costs of trying to mitigate climate change exceed the benefits. [38]
Letters to the Editor: One hundred and thirty-nine elected officials in the 117th U.S. Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of ...
The 6-1 decision, the first of its kind by a U.S. state supreme court, came in the first lawsuit to go to trial nationwide by young environmental activists challenging state and federal policies ...
Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed to climate change deniers and foot-dragging politicians to have a change of heart, saying they cannot gloss over its human causes or deride scientific facts ...
Two papers were published by scientists of the NASA Sea Level Change Team in October 2014 in the same issue of Nature Climate Change. According to an October 6, 2014 NASA press release related to the papers, "One of the most prominent ideas is that the bottom half of the ocean is taking up the slack, but supporting evidence is slim."
In 2001, Scientific American took a random sample "of 30 of the 1,400 signatories claiming to hold a Ph.D. in a climate-related science." Of the 26 we were able to identify in various databases, 11 said they still agreed with the petition — one was an active climate researcher, two others had relevant expertise, and eight signed based on an ...