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| Title |
Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: Sceptics, scientists and politics
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| Published in |
Public Understanding of Science, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1177/0963662515584287 |
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| Authors |
Rusi Jaspal, Brigitte Nerlich, Kitty van Vuuren |
| Abstract |
This article charts the development of a label that appeared early on in Australian debates on climate change, namely 'greenhouse sceptics'. We explore who uses the label, for what purposes and with which effects, and how this label may contribute to the development of social representations in the climate debate. Our findings show that over the last 25 years, 'greenhouse sceptic' has been used by journalists and climate scientists to negativize those criticizing mainstream climate science, but that it has also been used, even embraced, by Australian climate sceptics to label themselves in order to construct a positive identity modelled on celebrity sceptics in the United States. We found that the label was grounded in religious metaphors that frame mainstream science as a catastrophist and alarmist religious cult. Overall, this article provides detailed insights into the genealogy of climate scepticism in a particular cultural and historical context. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 56% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 3 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 4 | 44% |
| Members of the public | 4 | 44% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 54 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Croatia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 15% |
| Researcher | 6 | 11% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 9 | 17% |
| Unknown | 8 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 18 | 33% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 11% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 22% |
| Unknown | 8 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2020.
All research outputs
#2,938,328
of 24,518,979 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#337
of 1,077 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,860
of 375,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#33
of 101 outputs
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