The culture and discourse of climate skepticism
The culture and discourse of climate skepticism
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气候怀疑论的文化和话语
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2010
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A. Hoffman
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工作文件摘要（100-250字）：虽然气候变化问题的科学、技术和政策组成部分至关重要，但气候变化也是一个文化问题。更重要的是，这是一个高度争议的文化问题，在这个问题的解释和解决方案的必要性上，竞争的运动参与了话语辩论——或框架战。这个问题的这个方面被忽视了，因为能够识别和分析它的社会科学家在公开辩论中明显缺席。更令人惊讶的是，他们在很大程度上忽视了这个问题，甚至在他们自己的学术领域。事实上，我们的社会科学学科要么对那些挑战气候变化是真实存在的科学观点的人——被称为“气候怀疑论者”——采取相对不屑一顾的态度，要么认同他们的邪恶动机，完全忽视他们的信仰。在这篇文章中，我认为这种忽视是一个问题，并强调研究人员如何通过研究正在进行的关于气候变化的辩论来提高他们的学术水平和社会相关性。
Working paper abstract (100-250 words): While the scientific, technical and policy components of the climate change issue are of critical importance, climate change is also a cultural issue. More importantly, it is a highly contested cultural issue in which competing movements engage in discursive debates – or framing battles – over the interpretation of the problem and the necessity of solutions. This dimension of the issue is overlooked because social scientists who can identify and analyze it have been notably absent from the public debate. Even more surprising, they have largely neglected to attend to the issue even within their own academic realms. In fact, our social science discipline either takes a relatively dismissive attitude toward those who challenge the scientific view that climate change is real – dubbed “climate skeptics” – or subscribes to them sinister motives and neglects their beliefs altogether. In this essay, I argue that this neglect is a problem and highlight how researchers can advance their scholarship and social relevance by studying the ongoing debate over climate change.