Thus, the campaign to deny the significance of AGW relied heavily on contrarian scientists early on, to give it scientific credibility, but over time climate change denial has spread sufficiently throughout the conservative community that individuals without any scientific expertise now produce denial volumes.
We also examine the national origins of the books and the academic backgrounds of their authors or editors, finding that with the help of American CTTs climate change denial has spread to several other nations and that an increasing portion of denial books are produced by individuals with no scientific training.
This is the same ExxonMobil and the same Kenneth Cohen scrambling daily to contain the damage from the spreading revelation that Exxon knew everything there was to know about climate change 30 years ago and, instead of owning up, spent a quarter century spreading denial and disinformation.
Instead of changing their ways, they used their amassed wealth to spread climate denial and buy political influence.
It funded think tanks that spread climate denial and even recruited lobbying talent from the tobacco industry.
At the same time, the federal government was in denial of the rapid spread of the HIV epidemic and was deeply entrenched in the war on drugs, which further criminalized nonviolent marginalized populations across the country.
It also apparently means spreading his denial of the Holocaust, calling it a "racket" invented by Jewish people who want to claim certain tax deductions.
Rex Tillerson, Trump's secretary of state pick, spent his entire career at Exxon Mobil, which is not just among the world's largest oil companies, but the corporation most responsible for spreading climate denial and intimidating climate activists.
She wanted, she told Hershleder, some small understanding of what had happened to her". Near the end of her life, she was "increasingly troubled" by the spread of Holocaust denial.
We have written to Facebook previously offering to work with them to tackle the spread of Holocaust denial and hate on its platform and to promote education.
