climate denial

English

Noun

climate denial (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of climate denialism.
    • 2013, G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook, Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, →ISBN, page 446:
      The term 'denier' is also controversial, with connotations that climate denial is akin to Holocaust denial.
    • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, page A22:
      As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego.
    • 2018 November 29, Avi Selk, quoting Al Gore, “Al Gore calls Trump ‘the principal global face of climate denial’”, in The Washington Post:
      It’s really significant, Trevor, that Donald Trump is now the face of climate denial.
    • 2020 July 1, Bill McKibben, “What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common”, in The New Yorker:
      Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, announced that he was suing ExxonMobil, as well as the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries, for perpetrating a fraud by spreading climate denial for decades.
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