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Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand Haydn Washington and John Cook Earthscan. London. 2011
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Janine Kitson
Climate Change Denial explains how, as climate science has become more certain, denial has increased.
Dr Haydn Washington and Dr John Cook are two Australian environmental scientists committed to communicating to the public the crisis of climate change and debunking the arguments of global warming 'scepticism'. John Cook's website www. skepticalsciencerom is an excellent resource for teachers to calmly and systematically debunk the arguments used by climate deniers.
Washington and Cook argue that denial has become dangerously pathological because it endangers the ecosystems humans rely upon. Species are threatened with extinction, cities with floods, and many more in the world will suffer water and food insecurity. The book examines the nature of climate change denial, its history, the attacks on the integrity of climate scientists, and how society needs to combat these negative forces and immediately act on...