White House moves to fight climate ‘denialism’
amid calls to end fossil-fuel crackdown
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/26/2022 12:33:15 PM
The White House held a brainstorming session on how to combat climate “denialism and delay” even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine fueled pressure on President Biden to end his crackdown on domestic oil-and-gas production. The White House released Friday a readout from the previous day’s first-ever roundtable discussion held by the Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP] on “the scientific understanding of why arguments for delaying action on climate change are appealing and how they can be countered effectively.” “It’s clear that a variety of special interests have had a vested interest in sowing doubt on climate change and feeding denialism and delay,”
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Are you now, or have you ever been, a climate change denialist? Confess now and maybe we'll leave it at that. Otherwise, your CIA dossier surely includes other things that can and will be used against you.