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Politics and humility in climate change debate

JUN 01, 2012
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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