Dear Paul, I'm not sure about lecture notes, but Oreskes and Conway's recent Merchants of Doubt and Michaels' Doubt is their Product are both excellent studies on climate contrarians that are written for popular audiences. Oreskes and Conway cover the overlap between climate and tobacco contrarians in some detail. Best, Chris - Christopher Schlottmann Environmental Studies Program New York University 285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10003 http://environment.as.nyu.edu
On May 18, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Paul Craig wrote: Does anyone know of 'canned' lecture notes on climate change and anti-science sentiment in the US? I've got lots of technical material, but I'm light on social science. Especially climate deniers, and connections with anti-evolutionists and possibly history such as tobacco battles. A major theme will be 'whom do you trust about scientific and technical matters, and why'. Doctors, scientists, weather reporters, clergy, etc etc.... (Fred Singer, one of the most visible deniers, apparently in an earlier incarnation denied links between smoking and cancer. There must be a literature on this sort of thing. I'd like to make this a part of my discussion of 'climategate') My target audience is retired folk -- as a part of an OLLI project (Osher Life Long Learning Institute) at CalStateUniv East Bay CA Many thanks Paul Craig Prof Emeritus, UCD
