The doubtful appeal of climate science denial I would love to accept the repeated claims on this page that man-made climate change is an ‘ideology’ and is not actually having an effect on basic human requirements such as food production, freshwater and safe housing. However, even if I ignore the many reports of increasingly severe storms, wildfires, droughts, crop failures and sea-level rise, an online search produces other concerns about climate science denial. Humans currently drill or mine a staggering 15 billion tonnes of coal, oil and gas every year, or almost two tonnes for each of the e…