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The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is a climate change denial advocacy organisation set up by S. Fred Singer's Science & Environmental Policy Project, and later supported by the Heartland Institute lobbying group, in opposition to the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the issue of global warming.
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 ]
How to identify and understand different types of denial: scientific, economic, humanitarian, political and crisis.
The Hockey Stick Illusion first outlines a brief history of climate change science with particular emphasis on the description of the Medieval Warm Period in the first IPCC report in 1990, with its inclusion of a schematic based on central England temperatures which Montford describes as a representation of common knowledge at that time.
The effects of climate change are worsening in every part of the U.S., according to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a breakdown of the latest in climate science coming from 14 different ...
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Four of the report's top authors have publicly engaged in climate change denial. [ 130 ] [ 13 ] McNamee dismisses climate change mitigation as progressive policy. [ 13 ] Gunasekara acknowledges the reality of human-made climate change, but considers it politicized and overstated. [ 131 ]
The Heidelberg Appeal, authored by Michel Salomon [], was an appeal directed against the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [1] The Heidelberg Appeal's goal was similar to the later published Leipzig Declaration. [2]