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Politics and humility in climate change debate

JUN 01, 2012

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1576

Frank Chen

Interesting wording in “Climate scientists not cowed by relentless climate change deniers.” The word “denier” has already been subsumed by the fabric industry as a measure of weave density—used, for instance, to quantify the opacity of pantyhose. I respectfully propose that we burden the “denyers” with a “y” if they persist with their denying.

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Frank Chen. (ffchen@ee.ucla.edu) University of California, Los Angeles.

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Volume 65, Number 6

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