{"id":2579,"date":"2009-12-18T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-strange-spread-of-climate-denial-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:29:59","slug":"the-strange-spread-of-climate-denial-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-strange-spread-of-climate-denial-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Spread of Climate Denial | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Mother Jones’ <\/em>blog “Blue Marble,” I’ve got a post<\/a>\/essay<\/a> on a topic that I started thinking about after my Wednesday night panel with the Guardian’s<\/em> George Monbiot in Copenhagen–namely, why is there suddenly a new surge of climate denial? The post starts like this:<\/p>

George Monbiot<\/a>, the Guardian <\/em>columnist and global warming author who combines pugilistic defenses of climate science with Monty Pythonesque levity, is struck by a paradox at the heart of the attempt to achieve action here in Copenhagen. For, as he put it to a full room last night at a panel hosted by the Danish science magazine FORSKERForum<\/a><\/em>, “In the past year, there has been a massive upsurge in climate change denial in the United States, even as the science gets stronger.”<\/p>

Opinion polls certainly support Monbiot’s contention. According to results released in October by the Pew Research Center<\/a>, considerably fewer Americans now believe the Earth is warming (the decline has been from 71 percent to 57 percent over the space of a year and a half). And as for agreement with scientists about the cause of global warming—human activities, human emissions—that too has sloped downwards, to just 36 percent today.<\/p>

How is this possible?<\/p>

Keep reading here<\/a> for Monbiot’s, and my, answer.<\/p>

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