Climate-change-denial books are hitting the bookshelves in large numbers, with nearly 90 percent of the books having ties to conservative think tanks such as the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Cato
Institute, and the Marshall Institute, according to a study by Riley E. Dunlap of Oklahoma State University and Peter J. Jacques of the University of Central Florida.
Dunlap told Cristine Russell of the Columbia Journalism Review that the books help think tanks and others promote conservative causes, raise uncertainty about the threat of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, downplay the need for reducing carbon emissions, and help conservative think tanks in the U.S. spread the seeds of climate denial to other countries, including Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and a number of European nations.
Russell writes that 72 percent of the 108 books had "a verifiable link" to a conservative think tank, and virtually all of them espoused conservative ideology, according to information from Dunlap and Jacques. The books "confer a sense of legitimacy on their authors and provide an effective tool for combating the findings of climate scientists that are published primarily in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Regardless of whether or not they have scientific credentials, the authors, in turn, are often treated as 'climate experts' who may be interviewed on television and radio and quoted by sympathetic columnists, bloggers, and conservative politicians."
Dunlap told Cristine Russell of the Columbia Journalism Review that the books help think tanks and others promote conservative causes, raise uncertainty about the threat of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, downplay the need for reducing carbon emissions, and help conservative think tanks in the U.S. spread the seeds of climate denial to other countries, including Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and a number of European nations.
Russell writes that 72 percent of the 108 books had "a verifiable link" to a conservative think tank, and virtually all of them espoused conservative ideology, according to information from Dunlap and Jacques. The books "confer a sense of legitimacy on their authors and provide an effective tool for combating the findings of climate scientists that are published primarily in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Regardless of whether or not they have scientific credentials, the authors, in turn, are often treated as 'climate experts' who may be interviewed on television and radio and quoted by sympathetic columnists, bloggers, and conservative politicians."
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