Climate Change Denial

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Date published 2021-08-12
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Summary Climate change denial contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change, including: Social science studies have analyzed these positions as forms of denialism,   pseudoscience, or propaganda.
Main article Anthropogenic Climate Change
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  • Public trust in climate science has been undermined by a campaigning by industrial, political and ideological interests - supported by conservative media and skeptical bloggers - to manufacture uncertainty about global warming.

  • Those promoting denial commonly use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of a scientific controversy where there is none (adopting a page from the tobacco industry's disinformation playbook).

  • As recently as the 1970s, oil companies were publishing research which broadly concurred with the scientific community's view on global warming. Despite this, oil companies organized a climate change denial campaign to disseminate public disinformation for several decades.

  • Organized campaigning to undermine public trust in climate science is associated with conservative economic policies and backed by industrial interests opposed to the regulation of CO2 emissions.

  • Climate change denial has been associated with the fossil fuels lobby, the Koch brothers, industry advocates and conservative think tanks, often in the United States. More than 90% of papers skeptical on climate change originate from right-wing think tanks.

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  • Background

    Climate change denial, or global warming denial, is denial, dismissal, or unwarranted doubt that contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change, including the extent to which it is caused by humans, its effects on nature and human society, or the potential of adaptation to global warming by human actions. Many who deny, dismiss, or hold unwarranted doubt about the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming self-label as "climate change skeptics," which several scientists have noted is an inaccurate description. Climate change denial can also be implicit when individuals or social groups accept the science but fail to come to terms with it or to translate their acceptance into action. Several social science studies have analyzed these positions as forms of denialism,   pseudoscience, or propaganda.

    The campaign to undermine public trust in climate science has been described as a "denial machine" organized by industrial, political and ideological interests, and supported by conservative media and skeptical bloggers to manufacture uncertainty about global warming.

    The politics of global warming have been affected by climate change denial and the political global warming controversy, undermining the efforts to act on climate change or adapting to the warming climate. Those promoting denial commonly use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of a scientific controversy where there is none.

    Organised campaigning to undermine public trust in climate science is associated with conservative economic policies and backed by industrial interests opposed to the regulation of CO2 emissions [Greenhouse gas emissions]. Climate change denial has been associated with the fossil fuels lobby, the Koch brothers, industry advocates and conservative think tanks, often in the United States. More than 90% of papers skeptical on climate change originate from right-wing think tanks.

    Since the late 1970s, oil companies were publishing research which broadly concurred with the scientific community's view on global warming. Despite this, oil companies organized a climate change denial campaign to disseminate public disinformation for several decades, a strategy that has been compared to the organized denial of the hazards of tobacco smoking by the tobacco industry, and often even carried out by the same individuals who previously spread the tobacco industry's denialist propaganda.


    Additional Reading

  • [DeSmogBlog.com, 2022-02-24] The Canadian Government Is Funding A Researcher Who Spent Years Denying Climate Science.  Gerrit Cornelis van Kooten has for years questioned if global warming is "real."

  • [NPR.org, 2022-02-23] Facebook fell short of its promises to label climate change denial, a study finds.

  • [theTyee.ca, 2022-02-08] Climate Skeptic Patrick Moore Axed from B.C. Conference.  Provincial regulatory agencies said they wanted to encourage debate, but were not given the 'whole story' before booking Moore.

  • [BBC.com, 2021-12-23] Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia.  Wikipedia has for so long been plagued by climate change denial. But a group of dedicated volunteers around the world is working tirelessly to keep the deniers at bay.

  • [EcoWatch.com, 2021-12-24] Volunteers Work to Keep Climate Deniers off of Wikipedia.

  • StopFundingHeat is a climate change advocacy group campaigning against climate change denial, climate change misinformation, and climate change disinformation.

  • [📌 pinned article] [Paul D. Thacker, DeSmog.com, 2021-10-29] In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil's Secret Climate Knowledge.  Science historian Ben Franta unpacks some of the most critical documents exposing what the fossil fuel industry knew and when they knew it.  |  local copy

  • [📌 pinned article] Bonneuil C. et al. (2021-10-19]) "Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total's responses to global warming, 1971-2021." Global Environmental Change. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102386.

  • [📌 pinned article] [TrueNorthResearch.org, 2021-01-14] Justice Barrett's Ties to Shell and API [American Petroleum Institute] Are Far Deeper Than Reported: Her Father Could Be Deposed in Climate Change Suits.


  • [CTVNews.ca, 2021-10-28] Exxon CEO Darren Woods denies spreading disinformation on climate change.&sp;

  • [DeSmogBlog.com, 2021-10-20] French Oil Company Total 'Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971', Study Finds.  Campaigners say the research shows Total and other oil and gas majors have "stolen the precious time of a generation to stem the climate crisis".

  • Lynas M. et al. (2021-10-19) Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Environmental Research Letters, 16: 114005.

  • [DeSmogBlog.com, 2021-10-11] Climate Science Denial Group Rebrands as 'Net Zero Watch'.  The former Global Warming Policy Forum URL now re-directs to the Net Zero Watch website and the group's Twitter account has been renamed.

  • [theGuardian.com, 2021-10-01] Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill.  Amazon.com and Microsoft Corporation also supporting groups fighting legislation despite promises to combat the climate crisis, analysis finds.  |  [discussion, 2021-10-02+] Hacker News

  • [ReadSludge.com, 2021-08-03] Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Tape Is an Advisor to Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.  The lobbyist, Keith McCoy, was caught on video discussing how his company has fought climate science and worked to stop Congress from passing climate bills. The CBC Foundation has declined to boot him from its advisory board.


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