{"id":33483,"date":"2018-04-17T07:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33483"},"modified":"2018-04-17T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:45:49","slug":"denial-by-a-different-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33483","title":{"rendered":"Denial by a Different Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DENIAL BY A DIFFERENT NAME<\/a><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s Time to Admit That Half Measures Can\u2019t Stop Climate Change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I<\/span>T CAN FEEL GOOD<\/u> to make fun of climate deniers. So let\u2019s take a little romp with one: Wolfgang M\u00fcller.<\/p>\n

Here he is in a Dusseldorf hotel conference room,\u00a0100 people gathered to take a group photo before him. He\u2019s distributing stemware and pouring champagne, at the 11th annual International Conference on Climate and Energy, a convening this past November of some of Europe\u2019s pre-eminent denialist minds.<\/p>\n

Given that this is Europe, it\u2019s not a huge crowd. M\u00fcller and company fit the stereotype: cranks poking holes in scientific consensus, railing against the pointy-headed academics \u2014 often, though not in his case, with generous industry funding. This particular gathering is co-hosted by the European Institute for Climate and Energy, known as its German abbreviation EIKE; the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an American outfit; and a handful of smaller groups of self-identified climate skeptics.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to see why EIKE sits on the margins. In one presentation, a historical building preservationist argued that medieval building practices \u2014 castles with 2-foot-thick stone walls \u2014 were better suited to insulate heat than Germany\u2019s apparently tyrannical energy efficiency standards, in a talk that included an extended, only half-joking anecdote involving sex and boar skins. A session on renewables pleads sympathy for wildlife; literature handed out by the presenter features a picture of a dead bird at the foot of a wind turbine. The sole caption, in German, asks: \u201cBird shredder?\u201d<\/p>\n

Billed as a \u201cContra-COP23,\u201d it takes place about an hour\u2019s train ride from COP23, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change\u2019s 23rd annual Conference of Parties talks in Bonn, where the world is vowing to redouble its efforts to combat climate change in spite of the spurning of U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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DENIAL BY A DIFFERENT NAME It\u2019s Time to Admit That Half Measures Can\u2019t Stop Climate Change IT CAN FEEL GOOD to make fun of climate deniers. So let\u2019s take a little romp with one: Wolfgang M\u00fcller. Here he is in a Dusseldorf hotel conference room,\u00a0100 people gathered to take a group photo before him. He\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,1517,19831,16307,5567,19830],"class_list":["post-33483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-denial","tag-european-institute-for-climate-and-energy","tag-kate-aronoff","tag-the-intercept","tag-wolfgang-muller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33484,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33483\/revisions\/33484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}