{"id":177489,"date":"2025-12-24T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raed.academy\/?p=177489"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:02:28","slug":"the-barrier-of-climate-change-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raed.academy\/en\/the-barrier-of-climate-change-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"The barrier of climate change denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Baldasano<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia<\/strong>, Nobel Peace Prize laureate as a representative of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/strong>, and Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (READ)<\/strong>, presents the book \u00abDos grados m\u00e1s no son para tanto. Una historia del negacionismo clim\u00e1tico\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> (Two Degrees More Are Not Such a Big Deal. A History of Climate Change Denial) (C\u00e1tedra), in which he examines the controversial history of the denial of the climate crisis, consistently driven by political and commercial interests. The expert also introduces recently coined concepts such as delayism and technological neutrality and calls for collective responsibility in the face of the climate emergency.<\/p>\n

\"\"The book, prefaced by Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Calvo<\/strong>, Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Basque Country<\/strong> and Numerary Member and President of the Institute for International Cooperation<\/strong> of the READ, was presented in Barcelona on October 23 at an event held at the Ateneu Barcelon\u00e8s<\/strong>, with the participation of Santiago Vilanova<\/strong>, journalist and writer, and Antonio Cerrillo<\/strong>, a leading environmental journalist at \u00abLa Vanguardia.\u00bb \u00abOne of the strategies used by climate change denial has been to systematically question and place climate science in a constant state of doubt and uncertainty. Consequently, it has become necessary to put in black and white that we have more than two hundred years of scientific knowledge about how the atmosphere works and the role played by greenhouse gases,\u00bb the author explained.<\/p>\n

\u00abClimate change deniers and skeptics want us to believe that the entire issue of global warming is an idea dreamed up by a group of scientists bent on destroying the economy and society. However, the roots of scientific thinking about the Earth\u2019s temperature and its causes stem from the development of knowledge throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The reason for recounting this journey through time of scientific knowledge that has enabled us to better understand how the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and climate system function is that many of the myths, lies, and hoaxes promoted by denialism are based on a biased, manipulated, and falsified use of that knowledge. Climate change denial is fundamentally an economic, ideological, political, social, and media phenomenon that rejects or downplays the scientific consensus on current climate change and its consequences, with the primary objective of allowing humanity to continue within a fossil-fuel-based civilization,\u00bb Baldasano added during the presentation of the monograph.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the academic participated on December 5 in the Institutional Seminar<\/strong> organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change of the National Autonomous University of Mexico<\/strong>, delivering the lecture \u00abWhat Role Are Aerosols Playing in Current Climate Change?\u00bb<\/strong> via videoconference, which can be viewed on the institution\u2019s YouTube channel. Drawing on an extensive compilation of data, the expert analyzed the historical and ongoing impact of these types of emissions on the planet\u2019s temperature and its gradual warming.<\/p>\n

Baldasano authored the \u00abReport on Climate Change\u00bb<\/strong> debated by the Climate Emergency Committee of the Parliament of Catalonia<\/strong> and also prepared the \u00abReport of the King Jaime I Awards for the Environment on Current Climate Change,\u00bb<\/strong> co-signed with Jos\u00e9 Luis Rubio and presented before the plenary session of the High Advisory Council for R&D&I<\/strong> of the Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana. The academic also presented the study \u00abLow-Emission Zones to Improve Urban Air Quality\u00bb<\/strong> at the virtual meeting \u00abBarcelona, Low-Emission Zone,\u00bb<\/strong> organized by \u00abLa Vanguardia.\u00bb<\/strong> Baldasano also examined in depth the effects of emission reductions resulting from mobility restrictions during the pandemic in articles such as \u00abCovid-19 lockdown effects on air quality by NO\u2082 in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain),\u00bb<\/strong> in which he called for the implementation of new urban mobility policies after confirming emission reductions of between 50% and 62% in these two cities during March 2020.<\/p>\n