Author: "Climate Denial in American Politics: #ClimateBrawl;" "Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol;" columnist Canada's National Observer; Fellow Royal Canadian Geographical Society
To become a leading climate scientist ... graduate with a Ph.D. ... publish years of study in peer-reviewed papers.
To become a leading climate denier ... no degrees ... publish daily lies on X posts.
On the deviant behaviour of climate denial read
https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
A nuclear war may be the world's greatest threat ... but
Climate change is the world's greatest crisis bc it is happening now.
The celebration of the end of democracy by a despot is often by a military parade ... only the most arrogant and feeble have the parade on their birthday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/13/alaska-first-heat-advisory/. A heatwave in Alaska - & climate change is still a "Chinese hoax", according to Donald Trump, @GeraldKutney. For some people, no amount of evidence or scientific proof will make any difference to their thinking. The power of cognitive dissonance is truly amazing! See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/trump-military-parade-pollution-emissions. And will Trump care? NO, @GeraldKutney!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/trump-california-gas-car-ban. Of course he does, @GeraldKutney. Trump is enforcing his climate change denial by law, so regardless of what the science says, no-one can do anything about it.
The celebration of the end of democracy by a despot is often by a military parade ... only the most arrogant and feeble have the parade on their birthday.
@Doeshecook Bravo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/11/epa-climate-rollback-emissions/. The Environmental Destruction Agency, the EDA, as it has become under Donald Trump, would do this, precisely because Trump doesn't believe in human-caused climate change, & doesn't intend to harm the profits of the fossil fuel industry, @GeraldKutney. In fact, he wants them to make even BIGGER profits - & the climate & the future can be damned, as far as he's concerned!
@GeraldKutney we have a guy running for mayor where I live that said it was an “opinion “ Everyone in audience laughed at him
Climate deniers always whine about being called climate deniers.
My standard reply is if they don't like it then stop being one.
Perhaps, we should use the terms of olden days - cranks and crackpots.
For the history of science and climate denial read https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
Climate deniers don't just cherry pick data, they use a microscope in a desperate attempt to find anything that they believe supports their lost cause ... and even then it does not ... the rest of the data, they conveniently ignore ... climate denial is a movement of the ignorant
The excuses are just a flyin' ... it is the fault of: Congress ... the far-right press ... billionaires.
WAKE UP - the fault rests on the shoulders of >77 million Americans who voted for @realDonaldTrump
You had been warned https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
The excuses are just a flyin' ... it is the fault of: Congress ... the far-right press ... billionaires.
WAKE UP - the fault rests on the shoulders of >77 million Americans who voted for @realDonaldTrump
You had been warned https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
Climate deniers always whine about being called climate deniers.
My standard reply is if they don't like it then stop being one.
Perhaps, we should use the terms of olden days - cranks and crackpots.
For the history of science and climate denial read https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa. "'We operated exactly how you would want an independent, nonpartisan communications group to operate,' said Lindsey, & noted that climate.gov is housed within the science division of NOAA, not its public affairs division. 'It does seem to be part of this sort of slow & quiet way of trying to keep science agencies from providing information to the American public about climate.'" Par for the Trump course, @GeraldKutney.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/10/spain-floods-valencia-criminal-investigation/. Climate change DOES get mentioned this time - amazing, @GeraldKutney! Why for this, but not for the Canadian wildfires? Why is the @WashPost being so inconsistent?
Climate deniers don't just cherry pick data, they use a microscope in a desperate attempt to find anything that they believe supports their lost cause ... and even then it does not ... the rest of the data, they conveniently ignore ... climate denial is a movement of the ignorant
@nedhamson1 @GeraldKutney Nigel Farage doesn't believe in global warming, & obviously doesn't care about air pollution, either - coal-burning giving rise to both - & nor does he care that coal-mining is a very unsafe occupation. Mining was ended in Wales because there were no viable coal seams left.
The energy-industrial complex has changed the world ... and that has not turned out very well.
