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CLIMATE CHANGE deniers are “winning the propaganda war” at present, one of the Ireland’s best-known experts on global warming has admitted.

Prof John Sweeney, director of the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit (Icarus) at NUI Maynooth, acknowledged that scientists were “lousy” at communicating their ideas to the general public.