Debating Climate Change
Science in Society Series Series Editor: Steve Rayner Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford Editorial Board: Gary Kass, Anne Kerr, Melissa Leach, Angela Liberatore, Stan Metcalfe, Paul Nightingale, Timothy O’Riordan, Nick Pidgeon, Ortwin Renn, Dan Sarewitz, Andrew Webster, James Wilsdon, Steve Yearley Business Planning for Turbulent Times New Methods for Applying Scenarios Edited by Rafael Ramírez, John W. Selsky and Kees van der Heijden Debating Climate Change Pathways through Argument to Agreement Elizabeth L. Malone Democratizing Technology Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals Anne Chapman Genomics and Society Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions Edited by George Gaskell and Martin W. Bauer Marginalized Reproduction Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson and Floor van Rooij Nanotechnology Risk, Ethics and Law Edited by Geoffrey Hunt and Michael Mehta Resolving Messy Policy Problems Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy Steven Ney Unnatural Selection The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow’s People Edited by Peter Healey and Steve Rayner Vaccine Anxieties Global Science, Child Health and Society Melissa Leach and James Fairhead A Web of Prevention Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research Edited by Brian Rappert and Caitrìona McLeish
Debating Climate Change Pathways through Argument to Agreement
Elizabeth L. Malone
London • Sterling, VA
First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2009 Copyright © Battelle Memorial Institute, 2009 All rights reserved ISBN
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To Richard Brown, kind and wise mentor; and to Frank, Andrew, Ellen and Tyler, for their non-stop love and support
Contents
List of figures and tables Preface 1
Trying to Make Sense of Disparate Arguments about Climate Change
ix xi
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The Many Faces of the Dispute
17
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Climate Change: Part of Globalization?
35
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Arguments: Agreeing and Disagreeing
53
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Finding Common Ground: The Features of the Arguments
65
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Elements