Picking up on December's open letter from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Forecast the Facts has started a new petition urging the media to stop referring to climate change deniers as "skeptics" and to instead call them what they are: deniers.
At the time of this writing, the petition was just over its original goal of 20,000 signers. But due to the initial success, they've upped the goal to 25,000. We're impressed by how quickly they've gotten signatures, but not that surprised considering that Bill Nye the Science Guy was one of the letter signatories.
We're thrilled by the success so far, and hope it is enough to cement the shift towards labeling skeptics as deniers. Because when you reach the opposite conclusion of the overwhelming weight of multiple lines of independent evidence; when you disagree with the position of every scientific society; when your arguments are full of simple errors, logical failings, cherry-picked trend lines; and when, no matter what all the studies say, you just know humans don't need to rein in emissions to prevent further climate change, you're not a skeptic. You're a denier.
Maybe a Sense of the Senate regarding skeptic vs denier will be the next amendment Senator Sanders (I-VT) introduces!
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