The culture and discourse of climate skepticism

摘要

Researchers in the organizational field are making strong calls for more problem-based research (Biggart and Lutzenhiser, 2007; Davis and Marquis, 2005), and I am an adamant supporter of this type of inquiry. In my view, few contemporary problems warrant social and cultural analysis by academics more than climate change. I believe social scientists can achieve greater 'rigor and relevance' (Tushman and O'Reilly, 2007) by studying the cultural dimensions of the climate debate with results for both academic and practitioner audiences. In short, social scientists have a duty to bring this type of research into the public sphere to help resolve such a pressing debate.