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climate denial en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Synonym of climate denialism.
   • As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego. 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A22:
   • The term 'denier' is also controversial, with connotations that climate denial is akin to Holocaust denial. 2013, G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook, Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, →ISBN, page 446:
   • 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. 2020 July 1, Bill McKibben, “What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common”, in The New Yorker:
   • It’s really significant, Trevor, that Donald Trump is now the face of climate denial. 2018 November 29, Avi Selk, quoting Al Gore, “Al Gore calls Trump ‘the principal global face of climate denial’”, in The Washington Post:

Relateds

climate denier

Synonyms

climate denialism