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Climate Consensus and ‘Misinformation’: A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change
Abstract
Agnotology is the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead. Legates et al. (Sci Educ 22:2007–2017, 2013) had questioned the applicability of agnotology to politically-charged debates. In their reply, Bedford and Cook (Sci Educ 22:2019–2030, 2013), seeking to apply agnotology to climate science, asserted that fossil-fuel interests had promoted doubt about a climate consensus. Their definition of...
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Fig. 1 Monthly global mean surface air temperature anomalies, December 1996 to J...
Table 1 Data showing the breakdown of the abstracts reviewed by Cook et al. (201...
Paper Details
Title
Climate Consensus and ‘Misinformation’: A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change
Published Date
Aug 29, 2013
Journal
Volume
24
Issue
3
Pages
299 - 318
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