| Title |
: Is Climate Science Political?: A Rebuttal to Climate Change Skeptics’ Criticism on Climate Scientists |
| Date |
: 2014. 12. |
| Journal title |
: ECO |
| Author |
: Hee–Je Bak, Myung–sim Kim |
| Contact us |
: csts@khu.ac.kr |
| Abstract |
: In the controversy over global climate change, climate change skeptics have argued that mainstream climate scientists, influenced by their interest of research fund and liberal political ideology, exaggerated the seriousness of global climate change for political purposes and made uncertain claim of anthropogenic global warming. To test the validity of the skeptics’ claim, we classify a sample of Korean scientists into three groups, contributory experts who conduct climate research, interactional experts who do not conduct climate research but have much knowledge on it, and scientists–in–general who do not have much knowledge on climate change, and compare their perceptions of global climate change. We hypothesize that, if scientists’ interest of research fund has effect on their perceptions of climate change, contributory experts of such interest may perceive it as a more serious problem than other scientists do. The results of this study, however, disconfirm it. The level of knowledge on climate change and political ideology of scientists also turn out not to influence their perceptions of global climate change. These results strongly suggest that the blame on mainstream climate scientists for exaggerating climate change issues by skeptics might be groundless and that interest–based explanation of scientists’ risk perceptions would be too simple to understand complex relationship between science and society.
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