Hurricanes and hegemony: A qualitative analysis of micro-level climate change denial discourses

摘要: ABSTRACTThe climate change countermovement and its program of denial have been well documented studied. However, individual rationales for rejecting science remain under-studied. Twitter data related to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 are used understand why individuals reject the orthodox consensus, using a summative content analysis discourses. Three major discourses discovered: because is conspiracy favoring growth government; opposing renewable energy taxation; expressing fear governmental abuse power. Importantly, each discourse expressed certainty that itself was wholesale fraud; themselves focused far more on politics than science.