Global Warming and the Interaction Between the Public and Technical Spheres of Argument: When Standards for Expertise Really Matter

Dead Ducks and Dirty Oil: Media Representations and Environmental Solutions

“…as such, they are not only not technical, but are eminently political in the most radical sense of involving fundamental social choices' ' (25). While discussion about the division between the technical and public spheres of argumentation is not new (Goodnight 1982), the technical sphere is increasingly influenced by private interests, raising concerns about the ''contamination'' of scientific research (Paliewicz 2012). In turn, the technological interpretations tend to obscure the sociological and ecological interpretations of environmental problems.…”