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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.02.013
	Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community
	Lewandowsky S.; Oreskes N.; Risbey J.S.; Newell B.R.; Smithson M.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	33
英文摘要	Vested interests and political agents have long opposed political or regulatory action in response to climate change by appealing to scientific uncertainty. Here we examine the effect of such contrarian talking points on the scientific community itself. We show that although scientists are trained in dealing with uncertainty, there are several psychological reasons why scientists may nevertheless be susceptible to uncertainty-based argumentation, even when scientists recognize those arguments as false and are actively rebutting them. Specifically, we show that prolonged stereotype threat, pluralistic ignorance, and a form of projection (the third-person effect) may cause scientists to take positions that they would be less likely to take in the absence of outspoken public opposition. We illustrate the consequences of seepage from public debate into the scientific process with a case study involving the interpretation of temperature trends from the last 15 years. We offer ways in which the scientific community can detect and avoid such inadvertent seepage. © 2015 The Authors.
英文关键词	Climate change; Climate change denial; Global warming "hiatus"; Scientific assessment; Scientific norms
学科领域	assessment method; global warming; psychology; seepage; temperature effect; uncertainty analysis; climate change; global change; hiatus; temperature; training; trend analysis
语种	英语
scopus关键词	assessment method; global warming; psychology; seepage; temperature effect; uncertainty analysis; climate change; global change; hiatus; temperature; training; trend analysis
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117508
作者单位	University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University of Western Australia, Australia; Harvard University, United States; CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; University of New South Wales, Australia; Australian National University, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lewandowsky S.,Oreskes N.,Risbey J.S.,et al. Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community[J],2015,33.
APA	Lewandowsky S.,Oreskes N.,Risbey J.S.,Newell B.R.,&Smithson M..(2015).Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community.Global Environmental Change,33.
MLA	Lewandowsky S.,et al."Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community".Global Environmental Change 33(2015).