Climate Change Communication- Where does climate denialism come from?

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Climate Change Communication – Where does climate denialism come from?

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Where does climate denialism come from?

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Climate denialism denotes the unwarranted dismissal of the scientific findings on climate change following natural or artificial causes (Cook, 2016). Denialism means that people in Australia and the rest of the world fail to come to terms with the consensus that climate is changing at the global scale, and human activities that aggravate the change should be halted. Denialism undermines the trust bestowed on climate science to change public opinion on climate change. The pursuit of ideological, political and economic interests by world leaders, and supported by the conventionally sceptical media has derailed the overall acknowledgement of climate change as an environmental concern.

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