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It will warm up and that will be better: Czech Climate Skepticism in the Age of Global Risks

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018

Abstract

Climate change skepticism has been becoming a more and more distinct and apparently increasing social phenomenon. To date, western scholars have described the different forms it can take and the factors supporting its increase.

In the recent years, we've been observing some signs of a similar trend in the Czech Republic because the number of people who find the anthropogenic climate changes significant has been decreasing and the proportion of the "skeptic population" has been growing. This book draws mainly from a qualitative study conducted between 2011 and 2014 by means of semi-structured interviews with active Czech climate change skeptics.

The goal of the study was to describe the strategies of climate change skeptics in the changing political and discursive environment, the forms of their organization and the framing of the climate changes as well as related stakeholders.