The new AI-generated Hot Air database of 'climate deniers' includes Eric Holthaus, who ranks among the world's top tier of extreme alarmists. Such utterly useless AI bodes ill for the future of free speech, says Ben Pile.
Chris Wright is a 'climate denier', screamed the headlines. Trump's Energy Secretary pick is certainly sceptical about the 'climate crisis', says Tilak Doshi. But that's because he wants to lift 7bn people out of poverty.
The real 'climate change deniers' are those who deny the climate was changing before we started burning fossil fuels, says geologist Dr. Matthew Wielicki.
Comedy environmentalist Jim Dale and Dale Vince have both suggested that climate 'denial' should be a criminal offence. Is this desperation because it's becoming so obvious the evidence is against them?
Anyone challenging climate change policy is automatically branded a 'denier', comparing them to a Holocaust denier. But if you have to resort to smears to win an argument you've already lost, says economist Robert Lyman.
