climate denier

English

Etymology

Shortening of climate change denier.

Noun

climate denier (plural climate deniers)

1. Someone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to human activities.

   Synonym: climate denialist

   Antonym: warmist

   • 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune‎^[1], →ISSN:

     "Climate deniers fall into the same camp as people who still don't believe we landed on the moon," Gore's spokeswoman told The Politico a few days ago.

   • 2013, Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate, →ISBN:

     In a question and answer session following a public lecture, the prominent (and genuinely sceptical) climate scientist Chris Rapley was vociferously challenged by a climate denier in the audience.

   • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, page A22:

     Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.

   • 2018 December 2, Mark Dunlea, “Letter to the editor: Leaders must act on climate change now”, in Glens Falls Post-Star:

     President Trump unfortunately is a climate denier.

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: نَاكِر التَّغَيُّر الْمَنَاخِيّ m (nākir at-taḡayyur al-manāḵiyy)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: klimaatontkenner (nl) m
• Finnish: ilmastodenialisti (fi), ilmastonmuutoksen kieltäjä
• French: climato-sceptique (fr) m or f, climato-négationniste
• German: Klimaleugner (de) m, Klimaleugnerin f
• Irish: séantóir aeráide m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see zaprzeczający zmianie klimatu m, zaprzeczająca zmianie klimatu f
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• Swedish: klimatförnekare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can