Climate Change Denial Sees a Resurgence in Trump’s Washington A conference near the White House drew hundreds of people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change. The mood was triumphant. Climate Change Denial Sees a Resurgence in Trump’s Washington. | (Gift Article)

The only way to counter climate denial is to call out the source — the fossil fuels industry which benefits from befuddling us in a morass of misinformation.

The fossil fuels industry is successfully derailing action to counter the transition we need to renewable energy. While that transition is nonetheless occurring, unnecessary obstacles mean that it is taking place at too slow a pace to avert catastrophic damage from climate change.

Direct denial that climate change is happening, and that its effects are overwhelmingly harmful, is a key article of faith for the Counter-Enlightenment. It is a rallying cry for those who would end democratic self-governance because they fear where that would lead.

Distraction from a deteriorating climate reality is the only way left for the fossil fuel companies’ business model to survive.

Trump’s return to power was bankrolled by fossil fuel money, and his autocratic agenda is essential for fossil fuel power to prevail.

There is a method behind Trump’s madness in creating a cascade of emergencies to which we are forced to respond. The endless series of irrational policies (the latest being the Iran war) that pose more immediate existential threats than does climate change, effectively works to silence and cripple any movement for climate protection.

The fossil fuel industry’s short-term win is a loss for us all, and the loss is unrecoverable.

99% of scientists believe in climate change. But I don’t so I’m right.