climate denial

climate denial (uncountable)

1. Synonym of climate denialism.
   • 2013, G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook, Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, →ISBN, page 446:

     The term 'denier' is also controversial, with connotations that climate denial is akin to Holocaust denial.

   • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, page A22:

     As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego.

   • 2018 November 29, Avi Selk, quoting Al Gore, “Al Gore calls Trump ‘the principal global face of climate denial’”, in The Washington Post:

     It’s really significant, Trevor, that Donald Trump is now the face of climate denial.

   • 2020 July 1, Bill McKibben, “What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common”, in The New Yorker:

     Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, announced that he was suing ExxonMobil, as well as the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries, for perpetrating a fraud by spreading climate denial for decades.

• climate denier