{"id":9207,"date":"2015-06-18T05:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2015-06-18T05:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:47:12","slug":"tomgram-naomi-oreskes-why-climate-deniers-are-their-own-worst-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9207","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, Why Climate Deniers Are Their Own Worst Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, Why Climate Deniers Are Their Own Worst Nightmares<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

When I go out with my not quite three-year-old grandson, his idea of a good time is hide-and-seek. This means suddenly darting behind a bush too small to fully obscure him or into a doorway where he remains in plain sight, while I wander around wondering aloud where in the world he could possibly be. In this, there\u2019s a kind of magical thinking and denial of reality that has great charm. When similar acts of denial are committed by adults, when they refuse to see what\u2019s right before their eyes — the\u00a0melting sidewalks<\/a>\u00a0and roads of\u00a0India<\/a>, the\u00a0emptying reservoirs<\/a>\u00a0of parched California, the\u00a0extreme rain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0flooding<\/a>\u00a0in parts of Texas and Oklahoma, the news that last year was a global heat\u00a0record<\/a>\u00a0for the planet and this year isalready threatening<\/a>\u00a0to be another, or that Alaska just experienced its\u00a0hottest May<\/a>\u00a0ever, or that 13 of the 14 hottest years since temperatures began to be recorded\u00a0took place<\/a>\u00a0in this century, or that a supposed post-1998 \u201cpause\u201d in the planetary warming process was\u00a0a fantasy<\/a>\u00a0— the charm fades fast. When you discover that behind this denial of reality lies at least\u00a0$125 million<\/a>\u00a0in dark money, it fades even faster. In just three years, unidentified conservative sources have poured that eye-popping figure into a web of think tanks and activist outfits dedicated to promoting climate denial (and not even included in that amount are the\u00a0vast sums<\/a>\u00a0that Big Energycontinues<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0contribute<\/a>\u00a0to the promotion of denialism, as it has done since the 1980s). In other words, some of the most powerful and profitable interests on the planet are determined to deny reality with a ferocity meant to confuse the public and put a damper on any moves or\u00a0movement<\/a>\u00a0to save a planetary environment that has long nurtured humanity. It\u2019s a charmless spectacle.<\/p>\n

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