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climate denier

noun

Etymology

Shortening of climate change denier.

Definitions

  1. Someone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to…

    Someone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to human activities.

    • "Climate deniers fall into the same camp as people who still don't believe we landed on the moon," Gore's spokeswoman told Politico a few days ago.
    • 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.
    • Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.

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