Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
- ISBN-10
- 1849713359
- ISBN-13
- 9781849713351
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 174
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- John Cook, Haydn Washington
Description
Paradoxically, as the climate science has become more certain, denial about the issue has increased. This book examines the nature of climate change denial, its history, how we let denial prosper, and how we can roll it back. It summarises the climate science and explains uncertainty and probability. It contains a detailed examination of the principal climate change denial arguments, from attacks on the integrity of scientists, to impossible expectations of proof and certainty, to the cherry picking of data. This book shows how we can break through denial, accept reality, and thus solve the climate crisis.
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