climate denial

American  

[klahy-mit di-nahy-uhl] / ˈklaɪ mɪt dɪˌnaɪ əl /

noun

1. the refusal to accept the existence or validity of climate change.

   She has railed against the climate denial of her predecessor.

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Other Word Forms

• climate denialism
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of climate denial

First recorded in 2005–10

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Example Sentences

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climate denial

In his 2016 book, “The Great Derangement,” the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh says it’s unwise to reduce climate denial to “only a function of money and manipulation.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

The researchers manually reviewed every post to make sure it met their definition of climate denial and was not a post condemning such beliefs.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2021

And yet the growth of Las Vegas itself, a city of excessive tastes carved into the desert, is something of an exercise in climate denial.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2021

"Companies are starting to see the writing on the wall — that there's no more room for climate denial," Michael Khoo, who works on climate misinformation for Friends of the Earth, said in an interview.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2021

Amy Westervelt, a climate accountability journalist and Heglar’s co-host on “Hot Take,” has spent her career reporting on fossil fuel companies and the role they play in sowing the seeds of climate denial.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

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