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Climate change disinformation is evolving. So are efforts to fight back

Researchers are testing games and other ways to help people recognize climate change denial

People hold up a poster that reads, "Earth needs thinkers not deniers"

Protesters in New York City fought against climate change denial in 2017. As evidence of humans' impact on the climate grows, disinformation tactics have shifted.

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By Carolyn Gramling

- More than 2 years ago

Over the last four decades, a highly organized, well-funded campaign powered by the fossil fuel industry has sought to discredit the science that links global climate change to human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.