Fossil Fuel Companies Spend Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Convince You Climate Change Isn't Real. Here's How.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/fossil-fuel-companies-spend-hundreds-millions-dollars-convince-you-climate-change-isnt

by Mark Maslin
January 24, 2020

The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change - where none exists. The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200 million a year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate policy.

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At such a crossroads, it is important to be able to identify the different types of denial. The below taxonomy will help you spot the different ways that are being used to convince you to delay action on climate change.

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1. Science denial ...

2. Economic denial ...

3. Humanitarian denial ...

4. Political denial ...

5. Crisis denial ...