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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.
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)
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand (2011) by Haydn Washington and John Cook; Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (2009) by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore; Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (2008) by David Michaels
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.
While denying climate change no longer resonates with some GOP voters as strongly as it once did, the policies that are required to transform the energy economy in the U.S. and around the world to ...
According to Brulle, it was "the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the funding behind climate change denial." [ 9 ] Brulle's study estimated that the 91 organizations he examined had a total annual income of just above $900 million, and that the vast majority of funds donated to such organizations came from ...
Persistent climate denial will increase the domestic cost of extreme weather events driven by the warming now built into the global system. Incentives for where to live and build will be mis ...