Several of you asked me to post the results of my request for course material. I got wonderful responses. You're a great group! I’ve included at the end some science references. Paul ------------------
Books and video Naomi Oreskes and Conway' “Merchants of Doubt” Oreskes U-tube hour lecture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4UF_Rmlio Peter Jacques “Environmental Skepticism” David Michaels Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health Bazerman and Watkins “Predictable surprises” -------------------------- Papers: Peter Jacques sent a chapter : “The Rearguard of Modernity: Environmental Skepticism as a struggle of Citizenship”. He also sent a great ppt presentation, on which I’ll draw. He includes a classic Doonesbury cartoon. Peter Jacques<[email protected]> Riley Dunlap sent a very helpful paper, coauthored with Aaron M McCright: “Climate Change Denial: Sources, Actors and Strategies” to be published in the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society. "Dunlap, Riley" <[email protected]> He also sent a great reference list, which follows. ---------------------- Riley Dunlap References “Social science analyses of climate-change skepticism and its impact – Riley Dunlap, Jan., 2010” Boycoff, Maxwell T. and Jules M. Boycoff. 2004. “Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press.” Global Environmental Change 14: 125-136. Dunlap, Riley E. and Aaron M. McCright. 2008. “A Widening Gap: Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change.” Environment 50 (September/October):26-35. Dunlap, Riley E. and Aaron M. McCright. 2010. “Climate Change Denial: Sources, Actors and Strategies.” Pp. 240-259 in Constance Lever-Tracy (ed.), RoutledgeHandbook of Climate Change and Society. London: Routledge. Jacques, Peter, Riley E. Dunlap and Mark Freeman. 2008. “The Organization of Denial: Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Scepticism.” Environmental Politics 17:349-385. Lahsen, M. 1999. “The Detection and Attribution of Conspiracies: The Controversy over Chapter 8.” Pp. 111-136 in G.E. Marcus (ed.), Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lahsen, Myanna. 2005. “Technocracy, Democracy, and U. S. Climate Politics: The Need for Demarcations.” Science, Technology & Human Values 30:137-169. Lahsen, Myanna . 2007. “Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist “Trio” Supporting the Backlash Against Global Warming.” Global Environmental Change 18:204-219. McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. 2000. “Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative Movement’s Counter-Claims.” Social Problems 47:499-522. McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. 2003. “Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement’s Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy.” Social Problems 50:348-373. McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. 2010. “Anti-Reflexivity: The American Conservative Movement’s Success in Undermining Climate Science and Policy.” Theory, Culture and Society 26: In press. Oreskes, Naomi and Erik M. Conway. 2008. “Challenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War.” Pp. 55-89 in R. N. Proctor and L. Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Oreskes, Naomi, Erik M. Conway, and Matthew Shindell. 2008. “From Chicken Little to Dr. Pangloss: William Nierenberg, Global Warming, and the Social Deconstruction of Scientific Knowledge.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 38: 109-52. -------------- Material not explicitly on the ‘skeptics issue’ http://climateprogress.org/ http://climatecrossroads.sierraclub.org/index.html [Sierra Club] http://www.ipcc.ch/ http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/ http://globalwarming.house.gov/ [Congressman Markey] http://americasclimatechoices.org/ NAS reports May 2010 Three reports just out --------------------- [The Oreskes U-tube page has a bunch of u-tube links to related talks. One is a first-rate UC talk by Ezra Mazria (Jan 2008): “Global Warming: Nation Under Siege:. Skeptics were watching: The first comment: “People, do not be fooled! Global warming is a government scam to increase government regulations! Do not trust NASA , they say whatever the government tells them! Humans do not have the influence over the climate that they think they have. and UCTV is a buch [sic] of propaganda, pure and simple!.]
