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climate denier

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Etymology

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Shortening of climate change denier.

Noun

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climate denier (plural climate deniers)

  1. Someone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to human activities.
    Synonym: climate denialist
    Antonym: warmist
    • 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune[1], →ISSN:
      "Climate deniers fall into the same camp as people who still don't believe we landed on the moon," Gore's spokeswoman told The Politico a few days ago.
    • 2013, Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate, →ISBN:
      In a question and answer session following a public lecture, the prominent (and genuinely sceptical) climate scientist Chris Rapley was vociferously challenged by a climate denier in the audience.
    • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, page A22:
      Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.
    • 2018 December 2, Mark Dunlea, “Letter to the editor: Leaders must act on climate change now”, in Glens Falls Post-Star:
      President Trump unfortunately is a climate denier.

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