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  Inconvenience versus rationality: Reflections on different faces of climate contrarianism in Poland and Norway

Ceglarz, A., Benestad, R. E., Kundzewicz, Z. W. (2018): Inconvenience versus rationality: Reflections on different faces of climate contrarianism in Poland and Norway. - Weather, Climate, and Society, 10, 4, 821-836.
https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-17-0120.1

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Ceglarz, Andrzej1, Author              
Benestad, R. E.2, Author
Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W.1, Author              
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 Abstract: There has been increasing scientific evidence related to climate change and its attribution, impacts, and possibilities of mitigation. Yet, climate contrarianism still persists. This paper concentrates on Poland and Norway—two fossil fuel giants that represent essential differences on climate contrarianism. In Norway there is a broad social and political consensus about the attribution and importance of climate change and a motivation to undertake climate change mitigation measures, whereas in Poland the inconvenient truth on anthropogenic climate change remains particularly inconvenient. By taking a qualitative approach, this paper discusses different drivers of climate contrarianism in both countries; provides examples of contrarian attitudes present in society, media, politics, and research; and compares their role in Polish and Norwegian contexts. The findings show the difficulties in defining universal factors determining contrarian attitudes, because their understanding and weight can be different among countries and a more nuanced analysis is needed to scrutinize different national contexts. The conclusion calls for more comparative research, which would combine quantitative and qualitative approaches investigating climate contrarianism.

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 Dates: 2018
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-17-0120.1
PIKDOMAIN: Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods - Research Domain IV
PIKDOMAIN: Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities - Research Domain II
eDoc: 8095
Research topic keyword: Climate Policy
Regional keyword: Europe
Organisational keyword: RD2 - Climate Resilience
Organisational keyword: RD4 - Complexity Science
Working Group: Hydroclimatic Risks
Working Group: Dynamics, stability and resilience of complex hybrid infrastructure networks
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Title: Weather, Climate, and Society
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 10 (4) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 821 - 836 Identifier: ISSN: 1948-8327
Other: 1948-8335
Other: American Meteorological Society
CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/202002122