A later denial stage minimizes harm rather than disputing it

Evidence

In the third stage, skeptics acknowledge that global warming is real and that humans contribute to it, but the effects are trivial or even beneficial. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2729

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2729
• XREF: connects to: Comparative negligence reduces damages rather than barring partially at-fault plaintiffs. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3452; Official denial of a harm facilitates its expansion and sanction; Ignoring, minimizing, or discrediting evidence of harm preemptively disables moral self-censure. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2721 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Comparative negligence reduces damages rather than barring partially at-fault plaintiffs. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3452; Official denial of a harm facilitates its expansion and sanction; Ignoring, minimizing, or discrediting evidence of harm preemptively disables moral self-censure. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2721 (+1 more)