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Two UK climate-denying advocacy group members lose climate change bet

AUG 01, 2016
Physics Today

Guardian : In 2008, Ian Plimer and Alan Rudge, two members of a UK advocacy group called Global Warming Policy Foundation, which challenges the concept of climate change, accepted a bet proposed at a conference by climate scientist James Annan and climate economist Chris Hope. Annan and Hope offered to bet £1000 on 2015 being warmer than 2008; Plimer and Rudge took the bet—and lost. Some scientists are hoping to make betting on climate change a more common tactic when dealing with climate skeptics. The idea is to challenge climate deniers to support their beliefs with actions and not just words.

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