Secrets of the Climate Deniers Exposed: Exxon Mobil and the Plot to Keep the Public in the Dark
A refrain we hear constantly from climate change deniers is that the “science isn’t settled.” Countless Republicans have uttered this line in recent years, occasionally mentioning words like “research” and “studies.” None of this is true, of course, and it’s pure obfuscation. 97 percent of the world’s climate scientists agree that the earth is warming and that human beings are accelerating that trend – that’s about as settled as science gets.
But to the ears of right-wingers, people invested in ideological narratives, this bogus line sounds perfectly reasonable. After all, if the data isn’t clear, if the facts tell contradictory stories, then why not suspend judgment? The problem, though, is that the data is clear, and the facts are consistent: Climate change is real and the burning of fossil fuels and the release of methane gas is causing it.
The only debate worth having at this point is about how to deal with this problem. But that’s a debate we’re not having, because denialists and propagandists continue to muddy the waters with misinformation and erroneous factual claims.
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