Science Denial

us/Alberta Inquiry Steps into a Past Era's Dark Denial

onJan 27, 2021 @ 11:54 PST

That anyone today could deny the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence for human-caused climate disruption is shocking. You don't even need a science background to see its worsening effects oc...

us/Scenes from a Locked-Down Washington D.C. as Biden Takes the Reins

By Julie Dermansky

onJan 22, 2021 @ 13:55 PST

A few hours before President Joe Biden was inaugurated, I talked to a supporter of President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. who was on her way to celebrate Trump’s inauguration at The Ellipse, a f...

Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought

By Nick Cunningham

onJan 15, 2021 @ 07:08 PST

The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously though...

us/In Louisiana Where Science Denial is Commonplace, Support Remains Strong For Trump

By Julie Dermansky

onJan 13, 2021 @ 06:26 PST

“The president has not conceded — the president said he has got us,” I heard a voice blare out over a loudspeaker as I walked toward the Louisiana State Capitol building in Baton Rouge at a “Stop t...

us/Climate Deniers Moved Rapidly to Spread Misinformation During and After Attack on US Capitol

By Sharon Kelly

onJan 8, 2021 @ 11:58 PST

Prominent climate science deniers moved rapidly to spread false and misleading conspiracy theories online during and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters this week. Some climat...

uk/From COVID-19 Deniers to Climate Activists — Looking Back at the Faces of 2020

By Rachel Sherrington

onDec 29, 2020 @ 00:00 PST

Expectations for 2020 were quickly thrown up in the air as the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world. The annual United Nations climate conference, COP26, was cancelled as world leaders stru...

uk/Our 2020 Highlights: COVIDenial, Polluter Backlash, and Big Oil's 'Forest Fever'

By Rich Collett-White

onDec 23, 2020 @ 00:00 PST

Climate change took a bit of a backseat this year, there’s no denying it. The Greta Thunberg-inspired school strikers and Extinction Rebellion protesters stepped out of the limelight, for the most ...

Big Name Climate Deniers Aren't Joining Conspiracy Theory-Friendly Parler — Yet

By Phoebe Cooke

onDec 17, 2020 @ 03:14 PST

Parler is fast becoming a conservative echo-chamber but big name climate deniers don't seem to be abandoning mainstream social media for the fringe platform — at least not yet. An analysis by DeS...

uk/Meet The Anti-Regulation Groups Influencing Post-Brexit Trade Policy

By Rachel Sherrington

onNov 27, 2020 @ 12:13 PST

A handful of prominent individuals from anti-regulation thinktanks with close ties to International Trade Secretary Liz Truss have been appointed to top government advisory boards guiding the futur...

Climate Deniers Are Claiming EVs Are Bad for the Environment — Again. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

By Dana Drugmand

onNov 17, 2020 @ 14:44 PST

A new paper published Tuesday, November 17, by the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), raises environmental concerns with electric vehicles in what appears to be the...

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