Confronting Climate Change Part 1: Understanding Deniers
The first of three free evenings at the Center for Brooklyn History examining climate change — starting with the manufactured doubt industry that has delayed action for decades.
Why we picked this
The story of how coordinated disinformation delayed climate action by a generation is well-documented but rarely laid out this clearly. This opens a three-part series with leading scientists and journalists — a curriculum worth following.
The Center for Brooklyn History launches a three-part series on climate change with an evening dedicated to a question that rarely gets enough serious attention: not what climate deniers believe, but how and why that denial was manufactured. Leading thinkers, scientists, journalists, and advocates examine the industry of doubt — the tobacco playbook repurposed for fossil fuels, the front groups, the think tanks, and the media ecosystem that amplified uncertainty long after the science was clear.
“Confronting Climate Change” is designed as a serious curriculum across three evenings. Part One focuses on denial — how doubt is manufactured, who funds it, and how it has shaped public understanding and policy for decades. Parts Two and Three address the science and solutions respectively, giving the series an arc from diagnosis to action.
This is free public programming at one of Brooklyn’s most respected cultural institutions. Whether you attend all three or only one, this first session stands alone as an essential mapping of how we got here.