> Climate denial groups may also argue that global warming stopped recently ...
> One study of climate change denial among farmers in Australia found that farmers were less likely to take a position of climate denial if they had experienced improved production from climate-friendly practices ...
> Jerry Taylor promoted climate denialism for 20 years as former staff director ...
> the Institute for Energy Research, a climate denial think tank ...
> McKibben calls this "climate denial of the status quo sort"
The last links to McKibben' op-ed in the NYT at https://web.archive.org/web/20210711235428/https://www.nytim... ("This is not climate denial of the Republican sort, where people simply pretend the science isn’t real. This is climate denial of the status quo sort,")
Checking elsewhere:
San Francisco Chronicle - "The trend now is for populist and far right groups in Europe to “manipulate information” through more nuanced messages, to promote anti-migration, anti-gay and climate denial themes." - https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Fake-news-changes-s...
BBC - "Asked why it was using social media to promote climate denial, Alexey Prudkov, coordinator of the Creative Society project in Switzerland, told BBC News: "Climate denialism is a very catchy and at the same time totally misleading term." - https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61166339
That might work were denial of higher-order objects not a thing. Thatcher famously denied the existence of society: ... and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families ... so "literal climate denial" is easily conceivable: ... and what is climate? There is no such thing! There are individual days of weather ...
Let's be honest, it's lazy copy-editing at the Guardian, which has crafted that into an art-form.
17% of native English speakers spell received as "recieved", and 23% of Americans pronounce nuclear as "nukyular" (*). Does that convince you that these are legitimate spellings and pronunciations? So a popularity contest does not convince me, but were someone to address my points above, possibly.
N-gram "received/recieved" shows a relative ratio of around 3000x, no doubt because it's derived from published books, many of which have gone through a copy editor.
I don't think you've made any other point besides your disdain for the copy editors at The Guardian.
Since it appears many other copy editors agree with The Guardian, I think it's fair to say your inference is unsupported.
