This is not a very current article that I normally post, but it is a good one given the mass media campaign to discredit any research which shows that climate change is real and man-made. I wonder, though, if the denialists won't go into hiding for a while given the fact that the Gulf of Mexico is filling up with oil, and we've only begun to see the devastating environmental consequences. Although they may continue to deny that the burning of fossil fuels is causing climate change, they may find it difficult to continue to deny that the mad pursuit of mining fossil fuels is causing environmental havoc.
Denialism is a process that employs some or all of five characteristic elements in a concerted way.