Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction, and Opportunity

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Uncertainty, scepticism and attitudes towards climate change: biased assimilation and attitude polarisation (2012, background): “People disagree about the reality, seriousness and consequences of climate change because it (socially) means very different things to different people (Hulme, 2009).”
Public understanding of climate change in the United States. (2011, neutral): “Accurate description of the world is only one objective of an enterprise that also seeks to maximize audience share and to conform to the interests or values of the media outlet’s owners or advertisers (Hoggan, 2009; Hulme, 2009).”
Impact of climate warming on European inland waters (2014, background): “1.705 Martin T Dokulil © International Society of Limnology 2013 gases or the sun cycle is more responsible for the observed changes (e.g., Hulme 2009 or http://www.skepticalscience. com/).”