There is a new form of climate denialism to look out for – so don't celebrate yet | Naomi Oreskes

At the exact moment in which we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel, we're being told that renewable sources can't meet our energy needs

After the signing of a historic climate pact in Paris, we might now hope that the merchants of doubt - who for two decades have denied the science and dismissed the threat - are officially irrelevant.

But not so fast. There is also a new, strange form of denial that has appeared on the landscape of late, one that says that renewable sources can't meet our energy needs.