climate denial
noun [ U ] disapproving uk/ˈklaɪ.mət dɪˈnaɪ.əl/ us/ˈklaɪ.mət dɪˈnaɪ.əl/ (also climate denialism)
(否认气候变迁存在或由人为因素造成)气候否认
the argument or belief that climate change is not happening, or is not caused by human activity such as burning fossil fuels
The right-wing magazine has long been associated with climate denial.
He said it was time to move on from climate denial and wake up to reality. 他说,是时候从气候否认中走出来,面对现实了。
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- Some believed that the leaders' climate denial was part of a deliberate policy of keeping people ignorant of it.
- The biggest polluters are spending billions of dollars to promote climate denial, she writes.
- Some activists put climate denial "in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial," he claims.
- There is a link between climate denialism and other conspiracy theories, for example about 9/11 or Covid.