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A new part of the No Duh curriculum
Peer-reviewed study finds that right-wing think tanks have stymied environmental progress |
David Roberts |
09 Jun 2008 |
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| To file under 'academic demonstration of what we already knew,' here's an abstract from a new paper in the journal Environmental Politics: Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed 'sceptics' claim to be unbiased analysts combating 'junk science.' This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, mos ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, messaging (all these topics) |
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