Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019, which causes the disease COVID-19, was officially a “public health emergency of international concern.” At the time, there were cases confirmed in 19 countries and deaths in China had reached 170.

U.S. President Donald Trump was among those questioned the coronavirus.

The very next day, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) published an article titled, “Coronavirus in the U.S.: How Bad Will It Be?”

“Is coronavirus worse than the flu?” it began. “No, not even close.”

“It already has spread from person-to-person in the U.S., but it probably won't go far,” ACSH added. “And the American healthcare system is excellent at dealing with this sort of problem.”

ACSH is one of several organizations promoting climate science denial that are now spreading misinformation on the coronavirus, with potentially deadly consequences.

Read the story from DeSmog by Sharon Kelly - “Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks.”

How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups

Cory Bernardi addresses the Senate as he
announces his defection from the Liberal
 party on Tuesday. 

If the dissident conservative senator Cory Bernardi’s new political party shares the views of its founder, then we can chalk up it up as another fringe party firmly in the climate science denial camp.

Ignoring mountains of evidence from multiple lines of inquiry carried out over many decades, Bernardi has for a long time chosen to listen instead to fake experts pushing talking points that walk like zombies through barbecue conversations across Australia.

A Bernardi-led party would join One Nation, Family First, the Liberal Democrats and Rise Up Australia in rejecting the evidence for action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story in The Guardian - “How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups.”