2015
DOI: 10.7203/metode.85.4182
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Consensus and contrarianism on climate change: How the USA case informs dynamics elsewhere

Abstract: Enfront d'una situació general de consens sobre els punts clau del canvi climàtic, un grup heterogeni conegut com «escèptics», «opositors» o «negacionistes» (en anglès skeptics, contrarians i deniers respectivament) ha marcat el debat en l'opinió pública entorn del canvi climàtic i de les mesures polítiques necessàries per a abordar-lo. Aquest text se centra en el context nord-americà i explora alguns dels aspectes socials, polítics i econòmics implicats, així com els trets culturals i psicològics que han infl… Show more

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“…The results reveal that the media with Republican political tendencies, Breitbart and Fox News, were the only ones that expressed denialist positions on climate change. The first of these, with the greatest political inclination, was in turn the one that broadcast the greatest quantity of news during the summit, supporting the postulates of authors who link the influence of fossil fuel and coal industry lobbies on US Republican policy [7,18,[21][22][23]26,[28][29][30] with the intention of undermining scientific consensus, fragmenting public opinion, and delaying environmental legislation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 77%
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“…The results reveal that the media with Republican political tendencies, Breitbart and Fox News, were the only ones that expressed denialist positions on climate change. The first of these, with the greatest political inclination, was in turn the one that broadcast the greatest quantity of news during the summit, supporting the postulates of authors who link the influence of fossil fuel and coal industry lobbies on US Republican policy [7,18,[21][22][23]26,[28][29][30] with the intention of undermining scientific consensus, fragmenting public opinion, and delaying environmental legislation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…These skeptical discourses have been defined by McKie as tactics of denial of responsibility: "climate change is happening, but humans are not the cause"; denial of harm or injury: "climate change cannot cause harm, or if it did, the consequences would be positive"; denial of the victim: "there are no victims of climate change, or if there were, they deserve to be victims"; condemnation of the condemner: "climate change research is distorted by scientists, and manipulated by the media, politicians and environmentalists"; and appeal for greater loyalty: "economic progress and development are more important than preventing climate change" [28] (p. 8). Interdisciplinary studies [23,29,30] explore some of the social, political, and economic factors, as well as cultural and psychological characteristics, that have influenced the adoption of these beliefs, characterizing ultra-conservative white men as significantly more likely than other Americans to support these views.…”
Section: Conservative Think Tanks (Ctt) and The Skeptical Climate Cha...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Scholars have identified four key dimensions of literal and interpretative climate change denial (McCright 2016): (1) the warming of the earth and climate change (trend skepticism), (2) attributing climate change to human activities (attribution skepticism), (3) the severity of the consequences of climate change (impact skepticism), and (4) strong scientific agreement on the reality and human causes of climate change (consensus skepticism). The study of these dimensions at the political economy level has unveiled the denial machine organized by the US right-wing countermovement and its extensive influence (e.g., McCright and Dunlap 2010, Dunlap and McCright 2015, Boykoff 2016.…”
Section: The Manufacturing Of Ignorance Through Discoursementioning
confidence: 99%