Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy
Increasing surface temperatures, Arctic sea-ice loss, and other evidence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are acknowledged by every major scientific organization in the world. However, there is a wide gap between this broad scientific consensus and public opinion. Internet blogs have strongly c...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5894087 2023-05-15T14:47:50+02:00 Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy Harvey, Jeffrey A van den Berg, Daphne Ellers, Jacintha Kampen, Remko Crowther, Thomas W Roessingh, Peter Verheggen, Bart Nuijten, Rascha J M Post, Eric Lewandowsky, Stephan Stirling, Ian Balgopal, Meena Amstrup, Steven C Mann, Michael E 2018-04-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894087/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29662248 https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix133 en eng Oxford University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894087/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29662248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix133 © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com CC-BY-NC Forum Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix133 2018-04-22T01:27:21Z Increasing surface temperatures, Arctic sea-ice loss, and other evidence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are acknowledged by every major scientific organization in the world. However, there is a wide gap between this broad scientific consensus and public opinion. Internet blogs have strongly contributed to this consensus gap by fomenting misunderstandings of AGW causes and consequences. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) have become a “poster species” for AGW, making them a target of those denying AGW evidence. Here, focusing on Arctic sea ice and polar bears, we show that blogs that deny or downplay AGW disregard the overwhelming scientific evidence of Arctic sea-ice loss and polar bear vulnerability. By denying the impacts of AGW on polar bears, bloggers aim to cast doubt on other established ecological consequences of AGW, aggravating the consensus gap. To counter misinformation and reduce this gap, scientists should directly engage the public in the media and blogosphere. Text Arctic Climate change Global warming Sea ice Ursus maritimus PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic BioScience 68 4 281 287 |
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Increasing surface temperatures, Arctic sea-ice loss, and other evidence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are acknowledged by every major scientific organization in the world. However, there is a wide gap between this broad scientific consensus and public opinion. Internet blogs have strongly contributed to this consensus gap by fomenting misunderstandings of AGW causes and consequences. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) have become a “poster species” for AGW, making them a target of those denying AGW evidence. Here, focusing on Arctic sea ice and polar bears, we show that blogs that deny or downplay AGW disregard the overwhelming scientific evidence of Arctic sea-ice loss and polar bear vulnerability. By denying the impacts of AGW on polar bears, bloggers aim to cast doubt on other established ecological consequences of AGW, aggravating the consensus gap. To counter misinformation and reduce this gap, scientists should directly engage the public in the media and blogosphere. |
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Harvey, Jeffrey A van den Berg, Daphne Ellers, Jacintha Kampen, Remko Crowther, Thomas W Roessingh, Peter Verheggen, Bart Nuijten, Rascha J M Post, Eric Lewandowsky, Stephan Stirling, Ian Balgopal, Meena Amstrup, Steven C Mann, Michael E |
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Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy |
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Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy |
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Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy |
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© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
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