Everywhere one looks – newspapers, websites, books, statements by public leaders and nonpartisan organizations – one hears that climate change is a misguided and unsupported conclusion (Inhofe, 2012; Dixon, 2013; Fox News, 2014; see also http://www.climate changedispatch.com/Sites-of-Interest/; http://appinsys.com/globalwarming/GW_Books.htm; http://www.iloveco2.com/p/resources.html). Even more disturbing, however, are the claims about what Tim Ball (2014) recently called “the deliberate corruption of climate science.” For example, one website dedicated to “exposing the truth about global warming hysteria” says global climate change science is a scam (Minnesotans for Global Warming, 2014; see also Rivero, 2009; Pruden, 2013). The Chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, Jim Inhofe (2003), by contrast, called the threat not a scam, but the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” a view echoed by GlobalWarmingHoax.com, “Where Only the Truth Heats Up™” (see also Caruba, 2014...

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