Climate Science Denial

The fact of dangerous anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is now accepted by all but an insignificant number of climatologists worldwide, by every major national and international scientific society, and by every major nonpartisan humanitarian and economic organization.  This chapter in the book The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion, which is a wide-ranging examination of denial, discusses different interpretations of the denial of science consensus, with a focus on climate science denialism.  It investigates whether, in addition to elite manipulation of public opinion, the system justification, personality, and identity-protective cognition approaches to understanding science denial may all have a role to play in understanding the phenomenon.