Challenging global warming as a social problem: An analysis of the conservative movement's counter-claims

By Aaron M. McCright, R. Dunlap. 2000

705 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Robert Brulle
2. C. Cooper
3. J. Urry
4. R. Shwom
5. Thomas Dietz
6. R. Dunlap
7. Elinor Ostrom

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Robert Brulle
2. Thomas Dietz
3. C. Cooper
4. J. Urry
5. R. Shwom
6. Helena Bilandzic
7. J. Soentgen
8. Anja Kalch

Citations in the corpus

• Cross-national comparison of the presence of climate scepticism in the print media in six countries, 2007–10 (2012, background): “Examining what they termed a ‘conservative countermovement’ to undermine climate change policy, they explored its organization within right-wing think tanks, looking first at its claims-making activities (McCright and Dunlap 2000), and then its organization and tactics.”
• Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations (2014, background): “…to those constituting the larger conservative movement, indicating that the CCCM is a subsidiary movement of the larger conservative movement, as numerous analyses have argued previously (McCright and Dunlap 2000, 2003; Dunlap and McCright 2011; Jacques et al. 2008, and Oreskes and Conway 2010).”
• Media Literacy as a Key Strategy Toward Improving Public Acceptance of Climate Change Science (2011, background): “…climate change deniers was that global warming would improve our agricultural output because higher levels of carbon dioxide enhance plant growth (McCright and Dunlap 2000); however, they omitted key information about the disruption of local climate and rainfall patterns, a change likely to harm…”
• Climate Change Skepticism and Denial (2013, background): “…first article, Peter Jacques and I analyze the role of conservative think tanks (CTTs), long recognized as a central actor in the denial machine (McCright & Dunlap, 2000), focusing specifically on their links to the rapidly increasing number of books (108 through 2010) that espouse climate…”
• The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy (2017, background): “The polarization (McCright & Dunlap, 2000, 2003, 2010) between Democrats and conservative Republicans, whose party held the Presidency in the United States from 2001 to 2008, provided heated debates and introduced doubt in the minds of many non-experts regarding the actual occurrence of climate…”
• Support for Climate Change Policy: Social Psychological and Social Structural Influences* (2007, background): “But it may be that the drift of pubic debate on climate change away from the state of the science (Dispensa and Brulle 2003; McCright and Dunlap 2000, 2003) has encouraged the public to ‘‘tune out’’ the debate.”
• Constructing a Climate Change Logic: An Institutional Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons" (2013, neutral): “Although some skepticism among scientists remained at this time (McCright and Dunlap 2000), the IPCC, in its 1990 First Assessment Report, furthered the appreciation that humans were interconnected by invisible, potentially human-induced changes in the atmosphere's composition, thereby advancing…”
• Consuming the Planet to Excess (2010, background): “Social science research has revealed the complex and ‘interested’ funding that has supported much of the research that denies the thesis of climate change (McCright and Dunlap, 2000, 2010).”
• Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change (2017, background): “Positive benefits or gains, such as longer harvesting times, are predominantly communicated by climate skeptics (McCright & Dunlap, 2000; Wiest et al., 2015).”