Denying climate

[Victor Steinbok]

I suspect, it's even more common than Google indicates. It's kind of
ironic, actually, because people were complaining earlier that "climate
change" was used instead of "anthropogenic climate change", usually
coded as "Global Warming".

     VS-)

On 10/25/2013 8:11 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
> The _Daily Kos_ refers to Congressman Pete Sessions as a "racist climate denier."  My first thought was that Republicans are now maintaining that climate itself is a liberal fiction.  Or that they wish to deny climate, along with food, to the needy.
>
> But the phrase "climate denier" gets a substantial 73,400 raw Google hits--plus a significant number in Google Books and Google News.
>
> --Charlie

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