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Not Evil Just Wrong is a 2009 climate change denial documentary film by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer that challenges Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth by claiming that the evidence of global warming is inconclusive and that the impact global warming legislation will have on industry is much more harmful to humans than beneficial. [1]
The episodes called Denial, Doubt, and Delay, examine how industry was researching climate change as early as the 1970s, how it attempted to cast doubt on the science, and how it influenced public perception and policy. It spans a half-century and draws on interviews with world leaders, oil industry scientists, whistleblowers, lobbyists, and ...
Climate change conspiracy theories and denial have resulted in poor action or no action at all to effectively mitigate the damage done by global warming. 40% of Americans believed (ca. 2017) that climate change is a hoax [276] even though 100% of climate scientists (as of 2019) believe it is real.
Many YouTubers undermining climate action no longer call global warming a hoax, but they are sowing doubt over the science, solutions and impacts of the crisis. What is ‘new denial?’
The number of Google searches for the term "climate change" rose steadily following release of the film. The documentary has been generally well-received politically in many parts of the world and is credited for raising further awareness of global warming internationally. [101]
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A 1979 panel said, “We have no reason to doubt global warming will happen and no reason to think changes will be small.” Had Reagan not become president, things would have been different.
The idea of "soft" or implicit climate change denial became prominent in the mid-2010s, but variations of the same concept originated earlier. An article published by National Center for Science Education referred to "implicit" denial: Climate change denial is most conspicuous when it is explicit, as it is in controversies over climate education.