By Professor Dr. Heiner Flassbeck

Although it is by now clear that humanity finds itself in major trouble, deniers are not stopping their attempts to manipulate public opinion.

These people have been a curse for many decades.

As I said in the first part, a new study by Friedrich et al. shows that the IPCC prediction of an increase of the Earth’s average temperature of 2.6 and 4.8 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100 is an under-estimation.

Instead they predict that the range could be between 4.78C and 7.36C by 2100.

If this is true – and there is no scientific valid reason to doubt this result – we are facing a gigantic crisis.

Nothing less than the survival of our species – and many others (or perhaps all) – is at stake.

But the deniers go on. They publish op-eds, papers (although not in peer-reviewed journals) and books in…