‘Not going to give charlatans a platform’: UNLV professor won’t back down on climate change
‘Not going to give charlatans a platform’: UNLV professor won’t back down on climate change
- June 8, 2025
- Benjamin Leffel, '20 UCI sociology Ph.D., Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 8, 2025
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In response to a climate change denier’s recent challenge to debate him, UNLV professor Ben Leffel had one condition: The debate had to be held “in the form of a WWE professional wrestling match.” It’s one of the many bold tactics that Leffel takes when confronted with the firehose of misinformation swirling around the internet. He’s well aware that 99 percent of peer-reviewed science supports the existence of human-caused climate change, with a direct connection to carbon emissions.
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