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Institutions
· This is a very partial listing of organizations that voice a signficant level of
doubt regarding the reality of anthropogenic climate change. A much
fuller listing can be found at SourceWatch.
Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
American Energy Alliance (AEA)
Climate change page
· Not working as of 2023-03-22
Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL)
· In Dutch
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Competitive Enterperprise Institute (CEI)
Cooler Heads Coalition/GlobalWarming.org
European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE)
· Not working as of 2023-03-22
· "...a Jackson, Mississippi based 501(c)(4) non-profit educational organization
dedicated to informing the public about the environmental and economic gains
made under the Trump Administration."
· "a research program of the Independent Petroleum Association of America...
Energy In Depth – Climate and Environment, is focused on getting the facts out
about the coordinated effort to bring frivolous lawsuits against oil and gas
producers for climate related concerns."
· Not working as of 2023-03-22
Global Warming Policy Foundation
· From the homepage, click on "Our Sites" in the top navigation menu for
climate change links.
Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy
· "...founded in 1989 from a predecessor non-profit organization registered by
Charles G. Koch and Robert L. Bradley Jr., advocates positions on
environmental issues including deregulation of utilities, climate change
denial, and claims that conventional energy sources are virtually limitless.”
Minnesotans for Global Warming
· Not working as of 2023-03-22
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
Principia Scientific International
Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)
Websites
· Not updated since 2013, but contains links to a range of climate denial websites.
· Sponsored by the Heritage Foundation
Global Warming Policy Forum [UK]
Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change
Science & Environmental Policy Project
· This website is monitored by the site: Wott's up with that?
Social media
Films
Great Global Warming Swindle [Wikipedia site]
Blogs
· Blog of Steve McIntyre
· Blog of Judith Curry
Select readings on climate change denialism
Socioeconomic roots of climate change denial and uncertainty among the European population
· 2021 ~ Christiane Lübke ~ European Sociological Review
· Examines the denial of anthropogenic climate change and uncertainty about the anthropogenic
source of climate change in Western countries
· Examines the socioeconomic roots of uncertainty and denial of climate change using European
Social Survey data at country, regional, and individual levels
· Finds that rural areas and areas with insecure economic futures or reliance on fossil fuels are
more likely to have residents who deny climate change or doubt its anthropogenic causes
Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications
· 2021 ~ Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes ~ One Earth
· Examines 180 ExxonMobil communications including peer reviewed studies, advertorials, and
internal documents to summarize the rhetorical framing done by ExxonMobil to downplay the
significance of climate change
· Uses rhetorical techniques to frame CO2 emissions as an individual responsibility, and downplays
the effects of CO2 emissions on the climate
· Compares the ExxonMobil strategy to that of tobacco companies, which deemphasized harm
while shifting the responsibility of harm due to smoking onto consumers
Online misinformation about climate change
· 2020 ~ KMI Treen ~ WIREs Climate Change
· Focuses on climate change misinformation and its links to skepticism and denial, examining how,
why, and where it is spread
· Network of actors finance, produce, and distribute information online, where information is then
spread through online social networks
· Characteristics of social networks including polarization and echo chambers amplify and spread
disinformation online
Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community
· 2015 ~ Stephan Lewandowsky et al. ~ Global Environmental Change
· Scientific uncertainty is often used to prevent action on climate change within political and social
communities
· Propagation of scientific uncertainty relating to climate denial can spill into the scientific community
· This is caused in part by the weakening of boundaries between public and professional debate in
scientific communities
· Scientists often shift research and peer reviewing to respond to this non-scientific uncertainty,
appearing to legitimize unfounded claims
Living in denial: Climate change, emotions, and everyday life
· 2011 ~ Kari Marie Norgaard ~ MIT Press
· Examines climate denial through a sociological lens by interviewing residents of rural western Norway
during the above average temperature winter of 2000 – 2001
· During this time, ice fishing was impossible, snow came 2 months late, and ski areas had to invest in
artificial snow
· Despite climate change being accepted as a fact in this community, socially organized denial allowed
a disconnect between the facts and political and social realities – residents didn't directly connect the
events of that winter with climate change
Assessing climate change denialism
The following institutions, websites, and initiatives aim to expose climate change obfuscation in its many forms.
Center for Countering Digital Hate
Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)
Center for Studies of Climate Change Denialism
Climate Accountability Scorecard @ UCS
· "An in-depth analysis of eight major fossil fuel
companies finds they continue to spread
climate disinformation and have failed to
adequately plan their businesses for a
low-carbon world."
Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair
· "The DeSmogBlog Project began in January 2006
and quickly became the world’s number one
source for accurate, fact based information
regarding global warming misinformation
campaigns."
· Podcast series on climate denial perpetrated by
the fossil fuel industry.
Greenpeace
Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
...and then there's physics [blog]
Climate change denialism & lukewarmism
Including backlash, contrarianism, criticism, obfuscation & “skepticism.”
Contents of this page:
· Institutions
· Websites
· Social media
· Films
· Blogs
· Select readings on climate change denialism
Also see the Environmental backlash, criticism page.
Keyan Li of Brandeis University contributed to this page in 2023.
