Dear GEP-ed colleagues, I've heard comments numerous times about links between climate outliers (mainly contrarians) and subversive undertakings through new/social media to influence/disrupt constructive public discussions on climate change. Perhaps many of you have also heard these things many times before.
However, I have found most of it to be speculation and conjecture. Through my ongoing research, I'd like to address this w some more systematic analysis if possible. If you have leads on any documentation/stories/evidence re organized efforts to flood new/social media w comments by outlier groups or individuals, could you pass them along? In asking this to others before, I've been passed items like this one from a film 'AstroTurf Wars' on environmental/science issues more generally http://climatecrocks.com/2011/01/28/climate-denying-trolls-trained-to-disrupt-internet/ But I'm looking for info SPECIFIC TO CLIMATE CHANGE at this time. Thanks in advance. Cheers, max -- Assistant Professor, CIRES Center for Science & Technology Policy University of Colorado-Boulder ~~ http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/boykoff/ twitter: @boykoff Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford ~~ http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/boykoffmax.php
