Denialist

At SolveClimate, we've answered the question posed in the headline with a resounding "no!" Unfortunately, the New York Times and The Guardian – to name two prominent outlets – think otherwise. Read their stories about the three-day International Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Heartland Institute, and you are left with a big so-what.

The stories serve primarily to legitimize the attempts of climate change deniers to undermine the integrity of science through political means, with prominent media coverage being their most potent weapon.

Once again, Kevin Grandia of DeSmogBlog and Kert Davies of Greenpeace are on site, doing yeoman's work to make sure the media stories are "balanced."

Grandia produced an indispensable guide called "How to Manufacture Public Doubt - analysis of the public relations techniques used by the climate denial industry."

Davies was letting the media know that the so-called experts giving presentations at the conference were “a shrinking collection of extremists” and that they were “left talking to themselves.”