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Climate change is an increasingly divisive topic due in part to widespread misinformation. All the myths floating around make it hard to separate climate fact from climate fiction. Sarah A. Green ...
Recent climate events such as extremely high temperatures and widespread drought have focused government and public attention on the effects of climate change in Australia. [8] Rainfall in southwestern Australia has decreased by 10–20% since the 1970s, while southeastern Australia has also experienced a moderate decline since the 1990s. [5]
[23] [71] Some climate change deniers claim that there is no scientific consensus on climate change, that any evidence for a scientific consensus is faked, [72] or that the peer-review process for climate science papers has become corrupted by scientists seeking to suppress dissent. [72] No evidence of such conspiracies has been presented.
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 ...
John Cook CSICon 2018 Taking on Fake News About Climate Change. After reading a 2007 speech by then US Senator Jim Inhofe, who maintains that global warming is a hoax, John Cook created Skeptical Science as an internet resource to counter common arguments by climate change deniers. [3]
But by 2011, Abbott had modified his position and stated that climate change is real and humanity makes a contribution to it. [ 70 ] In early 2010, Plimer toured Australia with British climate change denier Christopher Monckton , giving lectures on climate change, [ 71 ] and Plimer's views came to be associated with Monckton's claim that the ...
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change is a 2010 non-fiction book by Australian academic Clive Hamilton which explores climate change denial and its implications. It argues that climate change will bring about large-scale, harmful consequences for habitability for life on Earth including humans, which it is too late ...
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