Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of climate denialism.
As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego.
2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A223 more examples
The term 'denier' is also controversial, with connotations that climate denial is akin to Holocaust denial.
2013, G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook, Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, →ISBN, page 446It’s really significant, Trevor, that Donald Trump is now the face of climate denial.
2018 November 29, Avi Selk, quoting Al Gore, “Al Gore calls Trump ‘the principal global face of climate denial’”, in The Washington PostKeith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, announced that he was suing ExxonMobil, as well as the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries, for perpetrating a fraud by spreading climate denial for decades.
2020 July 1, Bill McKibben, “What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common”, in The New YorkerSynonyms: climate denialism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of climate denialism.
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climate denial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/climate%20denial
“climate denial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/climate%20denial. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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