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Claire Knox and I just published work explaining the individual (micro) level rationale for climate denial in Environmental Politics<http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2016.1189233>. If anyone would like a copy, I can send you the pdf, just let me know. We also published the dataset for it at openICPSR<https://www.openicpsr.org/repoEntity/show/72311> for anyone to use. ABSTRACT The climate change countermovement and its program of climate change denial have been well documented and studied. However, individual rationales for rejecting climate science remain under-studied. Twitter data related to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 are used to understand why individuals reject the orthodox climate consensus, using a summative content analysis of climate change denial discourses. Three major discourses are discovered: rejecting climate science because climate science is a conspiracy favoring growth of government; opposing renewable energy and energy taxation; and expressing fear of governmental abuse of power. Importantly, each discourse expressed certainty that climate science itself was a wholesale fraud; the denial discourses themselves focused far more on climate politics than on science. PETER J. JACQUES, PH.D. Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator Department of Political Science University of Central Florida MANAGING EXECUTIVE EDITOR, [Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences]<http://www.springer.com/environment/journal/13412> JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND SCIENCES BOOK: SUSTAINABILITY: THE BASICS<https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415608480> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
