convened to discuss climate change? the first meeting was in 1963, sponsored by the conservation foundation. but the second? (in the united states, that is).
thanks, dale ********************** Dale Jamieson Director of Environmental Studies Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Affiliated Professor of Law Environmental Studies Program New York University 285 Mercer Street, 901 New York NY 10003-6653 Voice 212-998-5429 Fax 212-995-4157 http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/dalejamieson.html "Talk to people where they're at--not where you're at."--Saul Alinsky ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Craig <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:15 pm Subject: [gep-ed] "Skeptics inquiry" responses To: [email protected] > > 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!.]
