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Climate change: sceptics, deniers and conspiracy theorists

An observation

By Mehdi Hasan

Why is it that the climate-change sceptics, deniers and conspiracy theorists are so keen to question, critique and/or dismiss the “theory” of climate change BUT don’t ever seem to have a problem with the theory of gravity? Or relativity? Or — dare I say it — evolution? Odd, isn’t it?

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