Climate Change Denial part 2: Fuelling the Flames

Uncovering the hidden histories of concepts, people and events you thought you knew.

In part two of the story of climate change denial Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey take a closer look at the techniques of the “merchants of doubt" who took the denial of man made global warming into the mainstream. Ian tells the real story behind 2009’s phoney scandal “Climategate”, while Dorian reads Michael Crichton’s crank thriller State of Fear and watches the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle to explain how denial became a kind of conspiracy theory.

A tale of wild claims, false balance, scientists under siege and the giant mess that the deniers have left behind.

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• “It’s the most malicious, cynical, unrepresentative assault on good science that you can imagine” – Ian Dunt
• "It’s apparently a conspiracy between corrupt scientists, hippies, neo-Marxists and Margaret Thatcher. I would love to have been at the meetings." – Dorian Lynskey
• “Science operates within doubt, that’s how it moves forward” – Ian Dunt

Reading List: 

Michael Crichton – State of Fear

Ross Gelbspan – The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate

Clive Hamilton – Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change

Bjorn Lomborg – The Skeptical Environmentalist

Chris Mooney – The Republican War on Science

Thomas Gale Moore – Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Global Warming

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway – Merchants of Doubt

Nathaniel Rich – Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change

Peter Stott – Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Channel 4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhCQv5tNsQ

Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production and music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production.

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