A Late Burst of Climate Denial Extends the Era of Trump Disinformation - The New York Times - 0 views
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Dr. Legates, a climate denialist installed last year by the Trump administration
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ardenganse on 17 Jan 21People tend to surround themselves with people who agree with them. This could relate somewhat to confirmation bias.
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Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences who noticed the posts and drew attention to them on Twitter, called them “ridiculous” and a ham-handed effort to grant a veneer of government respectability to junk science before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. assumes office Jan. 20.
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“To climate science itself these pose very little danger because they are pseudoscience, because they are ridiculous, and because nobody serious in the scientific community will pay any attention to them.”