Climate Denial Is Harmful Bullshit, Peer-Reviewed Paper Explains

Yesterday was COP28’s official "rest" day, the half-way point of the 2-week UN climate negotiations. We spent the day reading this lovely paper we saw some deniers getting mad about at some point in the last month or so...

"Climate denialism bullshit is harmful" is the title of a paper published in the Asian Journal of Philosophy last spring. It is a delightful, if dense, read, moving quickly from the very approachable language aptly describing denial as bullshit, to the more sophisticated issue of epistemic trust.

It's worth the read, but the short version is that beyond the obvious harms of climate denial (preventing climate policy), denialism also harms the public by, among other things, making it harder for people to ever know if anything is true.

There being so much bullshit out there to wade through makes it harder for people to be good citizens, care about issues, and otherwise engage with the world around them in a meaningful and honest manner.

So never forget that even academia has recognized climate denial for what it truly is: bullshit!