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Climate Change Denial de Haydn Washington, John Cook, 9781849713351, GEOLOGÍA, cambio climático, Earthscan, Inglés

Climate Change Denial

Haydn Washington, John Cook

EAN9781849713351

TématicaGeología

SubtématicaCambio climático

EditorialEarthscan

IdiomaInglés

FormatoCartoné   Año de publicación2011

 
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case. Paradoxically, as the climate science has become more certain, denial about the issue has increased. The paradox lies in the denial. There is a denial industry funded by the fossil fuel companies that literally denies the science, and seeks to confuse the public. There is denial within governments, where spin-doctors use ’weasel words’ to pretend they are taking action. However there is also denial within most of us, the citizenry. We let denial prosper and we resist the science. It also explains the social science behind denial. It contains a detailed examination of the principal climate change denial arguments, from attacks on the integrity of scientists, to impossible expectations of proof and certainty to the cherry picking of data. Climate change can be solved - but only when we cease to deny that it exists. This book shows how we can break through denial, accept reality, and thus solve the climate crisis. It will engage scientists, university students, climate change activists as well as the general public seeking to roll back denial and act.
CONTENTS (Show expanded contents) (Hide expanded contents)


1. Denial and the Nature of Science
What is Denial?
Science - Uncertainty and the ’Preponderance of Evidence’

2. Climate science
Probability
’Forcing’
Natural and Human-caused Greenhouse Effect
The Carbon Cycle
Feedback
Runaway Climate Change
Is there a Safe Level of CO2?
The Spinning ’Greenhouse Gamble’ Roulette Wheel
So What? Is There Really a Problem?
New Factors Emerging

3. The Five Types of Climate Change Denial Arguments
Conspiracy Theories
’Climategate’
Fake Experts
’There is No Scientific Consensus’
Impossible Expectations
’Climate Models are Unreliable’
Misrepresentations & Logical Fallacies
’Climate’s Changed in the Past’
Cherry Picking
’Temperature Measurements are Unreliable’
’Global Warming Stopped in 1998’
’The Hockey Stick was Broken’
’It’s the Sun’
’Global Warming is Good’

4. The History of Denial
The Long History of Denial
Heaven and Earth

5. Do We Let Denial Prosper?
Fear of Change
Failure in Values
Fixation on Economics and Society
Ignorance about Ecology and Exponential Growth
Gambling on the Future
The Media
Despair, Apathy and Confusion
Denial within our Governments
Psychological Types of Denial

6. Rolling Back Denial - the Big Picture
Because we Let It
What Stops us Accepting Reality?
Population
The Tragedy of the Commons Continues
How do you Go About Solving Climate Change?
Changing our Economy
Getting the Message Across
Adapt or Mitigate?
Sustainability
Market and Civic Environmentalism Approaches
A Farewell to Coal

7. Rolling Back Denial - the Technological Solutions
Technologies - Appropriate and Inappropriate
Renewable Energy
Is Nuclear Power the Way Out?
Is Carbon Capture and Storage the Solution?

Summary and Conclusion


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