The four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them all | Damian Carrington

The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool: each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way

A new book, described as deeply and fatally flawed" by an expert reviewer, recently reached the top of Amazon's bestseller list for environmental science and made it into a weekly top 10 list for all nonfiction titles.

How did this happen? Because, as Brendan Behan put it, there's no such thing as bad publicity". In an article promoting his book, Michael Shellenberger - with jaw-dropping hubris - apologises on behalf of all environmentalists for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years".