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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.
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 ...
Another explanation for the Republican departure from climate denial is that it's becoming an increasingly untenable position to assert that climate change is not real, Lise Van Susteren, a ...
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.
For example, climatologist Kevin E. Trenberth has published widely on the topic of climate variability and has exposed flaws in the publications of other scientists. [6] [7] [8] For past debates and controversies on scientific details see for example: History of climate change science#Discredited theories and reconciled apparent discrepancies ...
Trump’s statement echoes a common climate change denial myth that there was a scientific consensus in the 1970s that Earth would cool instead of warm. This is also wrong.
Uncertainty over feedbacks, particularly cloud cover, [86] is the major reason why different climate models project different magnitudes of warming for a given amount of emissions. [87] As air warms, it can hold more moisture .