By Andy Rowell
So tomorrow is the day.
The day that the world’s leading scientists will announce they are more certain than ever that humans are changing the climate.
The report will be met with a frothing load of bile from the usual skeptics linked to a network of right wing think tanks such as the Heartland Institute in the U.S., the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK or right-leaning newspapers, many of whom are linked to a certain Mr. Rupert Murdoch.
The skeptical response is nothing new and fits into a well-trodden pattern of denial that now stretches back decades. The scientists Dana Nuccitelli and John Abraham have pointed out that there are five stages of climate denial: deny the problem exists, deny we are the cause, deny it’s a problem, deny we can solve it and claim it’s too late to do anything.
The problem with the denial is that it opens up political space for the oil industry to carry on doing what it does best. Drill for oil and gas.
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