NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Astroturfing, Market Fundamentalism, Climate Change Denial
7 Mar 2016
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Lecture 15: class notes risk and beck. Institute, claim they"re expanding freedom" or strengthening free markets". Oreskes thinks they"re really helping industries which make harmful products, whose actual cost isn"t fully included in the market price, from having to pay this hidden cost. credibility and a huge prestige boost: benefits of peer review: Also filters out repeated claims: problems with peer review: Ii) the tobacco industry and doubt: background to merchants of doubt. 2003: oreskes randomly selected 1000 recent peer rev articles on climate. Very few (none?) questioned that humans had something to do with causing climate change published findings in 2004 (science). Iii) the fossil fuel industry, anthropogenic climate change, and doubt: astroturfing" (false grassroots" - get it?) Climate change is not less frightening than global warming. The balance of evidence suggests a recognizable human impact on global climate.
