Short Essay #2: Choose one version of climate change denial discussed in our course reading. Explicate carefully how that form of denial works and then
explain why you think that form of denial is so prominent in the United States or elsewhere today. Each component should be approximately 250-350 words
in length.
I chose Conspiracy Theories and this is the article that I need to write based on
'Climategate proves conspiracy'
In November 2009, the email servers at the University of East Anglia in Britain
were illegally hacked and emails were stolen. When a selection of emails betweenclimate scientists was published on the internet, a few suggestive quotes
were
seized upon to claim that global warming was all just a conspiracy (Cook,
2010). The incident, dubbed 'Climategate', is symptomatic of a movement that
denies the scientific consensus (Delingpole, 2009). If one disagrees with a view
held by the great majority of the world's scientists, the most common response
is to assume all those scientists are involved in a vast conspiracy to deceive.…
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