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Climate change denial refers to denial, dismissal, or doubt of the scientific consensus on the rate and extent of climate change, its significance, or its connection to human behavior, in whole or in part. [15] [6] Climate denial is a form of science denial. It can also take pseudoscientific forms.
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.
The debates are around the specific actions for climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, or climate action in general. See for example: Economic analysis of climate change; Climate change denial#Delaying climate change mitigation measures; Climate change denial#Pushing for adaptation only; Climate action (Climate crisis)
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 terms Holocaust denial and AIDS denialism describe the denial of the facts and the reality of the subject matters, [4] and the term climate change denial describes denial of the scientific consensus that the climate change of planet Earth is a real and occurring event primarily caused in geologically recent times by human activity. [5]
Climate change may not be a top concern for voters for the 2024 presidential election, but that hasn't stopped many Republicans from making misrepresentations about environmental and energy policy ...
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?’
Climate change has become a concern for a number of disciplines due to its potentially catastrophic impacts on environmental systems, wildlife, nature, and humans.Climate change poses a serious threat to the global economy as economic development, especially in the West, has been largely dependent on the extraction and burning of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution. [5]