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| − | |description=An [[enemy image]] used to marginalize and increasingly punish various skeptics of human-caused climate change.
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| − | '''Climate change denier''' or even '''climate denier''' (also more broadly '''science denier''') is an [[enemy image]] used to marginalize and increasingly punish various skeptics of [[anthropogenic climate change|climate change caused by humans]].
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| − | ==Official narrative==
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| − | The [[science is settled]], and anyone denying that climate change is happening or that it is caused predominantly by humans, its effects on nature and human society is in a state of denial. Several [[social science]] studies have analyzed these positions as [[pseudoscience]],<ref>https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.shpsa.2017.05.002</ref> or [[propaganda]].<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial#CITEREFJacquesDunlapFreeman2008</ref>
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| − | The campaign to undermine public trust in climate science has been described as a "denial machine" organized by industrial, political and ideological interests, and supported by conservative media and skeptical bloggers to manufacture uncertainty about global warming.<ref>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-have-climate-scientists-learned-from-20-year-fight-with-deniers/</ref>
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| − | Research has shown that individuals with authoritarian attitudes who accept hierarchical power structures tend to a larger extent deny the problem. Such opinions also correlates with low empathy and closed-mindedness.<ref>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161004103313.htm</reF>
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| − | However, a good "psychoanalysts, together with other therapists, can draw attention to the threats posed by climate change, and then challenge the mental defenses that prevent people from responding to climate change."<ref>https://qz.com/1554808/fighting-climate-change-with-psychoanalysis/</ref>
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| − | ==Sanctions==
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| − | [[YouTube]] and [[Google]] have prohibiting the ads with this type of contents. "This includes content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change," <ref>https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/07/no-place-science-denial-google-youtube-ban-monetization-climate-misinformation</ref>
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| − | There have been mooted plans to outlaw it altogether,<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/should-climate-change-deniers-be-prosecuted-378652</ref><ref>https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2016/11/is-climate-change-denial-a-crime/</ref> as a crime murder Some have stated it is premediated murder "condemning thousands of people to death and suffering today and millions more tomorrow", and should be punished as such.<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/climate-denialism-is-literally-killing-us/</ref>
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