Meanings
plural climate deniers
- Someone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to human activities.
President Trump unfortunately is a climate denier.
2018 December 2, Mark Dunlea, “Letter to the editor: Leaders must act on climate change now”, in Glens Falls Post-Star3 more examples
"Climate deniers fall into the same camp as people who still don't believe we landed on the moon," Gore's spokeswoman told Politico a few days ago.
2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSNIn a question and answer session following a public lecture, the prominent (and genuinely sceptical) climate scientist Chris Rapley was vociferously challenged by a climate denier in the audience.
2013, Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate, →ISBNMoney is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.
2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A22Synonyms: climate denialist · Antonyms: warmist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to human activities.
Origin
Shortening of climate change denier.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic نَاكِر التَّغَيُّر الْمَنَاخِيّ
- نَاكِر التَّغَيُّر الْمَنَاخِيّ (nākir at-taḡayyur al-manāḵiyy)Translations
Dutch klimaatontkenner
- klimaatontkennerTranslations
Finnish ilmastodenialisti, ilmastonmuutoksen kieltäjä
- ilmastodenialistiTranslations
- ilmastonmuutoksen kieltäjäTranslations
French climato-sceptique, climato-négationniste
- climato-sceptiqueTranslations
- climato-négationnisteTranslations
German Klimaleugner, Klimaleugnerin
- KlimaleugnerTranslations
- KlimaleugnerinTranslations
Irish séantóir aeráide
- séantóir aeráideTranslations
Korean 기후 변화 부정자
- 기후 변화 부정자 (gihu byeonhwa bujeongja)Translations
Polish but see zaprzeczający zmianie klimatu, zaprzeczająca zmianie klimatu
- but see zaprzeczający zmianie klimatuTranslations
- zaprzeczająca zmianie klimatuTranslations
Swedish klimatförnekare
- klimatförnekareTranslations
Cite this entry
climate denier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/climate%20denier
“climate denier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/climate%20denier. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “climate denier,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/climate%20denier.
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