"Last week, amid the cacophony of reactions
to Greta Thunberg's appearance before the United Nations Climate Action
Summit, a group of self-proclaimed "prominent scientists" sent a registered letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
"…a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation."The group, supported by 75 Australian business and industry figures, along with others around the world, obviously rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.
But this missive displays remarkably different tactics to those
previously used to stymie climate action.
The language of climate change denial and inaction has transformed.
Outright science denial has been replaced by efforts to reframe climate change as natural, and climate action as unwarranted.
However, this is just another way of rejecting the facts, and their implications for us. Denial can take many forms."
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