Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research

Hall, C. Michael; Amelung, Bas; Cohen, Scott; Eijgelaar, E; Gößling, Stefan; Higham, James; Leemans, Rik; Peeters, Paul; Ram, Yael; Scott, Daniel; Aall, Carlo; Abegg, Bruno; Araña, Jorge E.; Barr, Stewart; Becken, Susanne; Buckley, Ralf; Burns, Peter; Coles, Tim; Dawson, Jackie; Doran, Rouven; Dubois, Ghislain; Duval, David Timothy; Fennell, David A.; Gill, Alison; Gren, Martin; Gronau, Werner; Guiver, Jo W; Hopkins, Debbie; Huijbens, Edward H.; Koens, Ko; Lamers, Machiel; Lemieux, Christopher J.; Lew, Alan A.; Long, Patrick; Melissen, Frans; Nawijn, Jeroen; Nicholls, Sarah; Nilsson, Jan; Nunkoo, Robin; Pomering, Alan; Reis, Arianne Carvalhedo; Reiser, Dirk; Richardson, Robert B.; Rogerson, Christian M.; Saarinen, Jarkko; Sæórsdóttir, Anna Dóra; Steiger, Robert; Upham, Paul; Linden, Sander van der; Visser, Gustav; Wall, Geoffrey; Weaver, David

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2014.08.009

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“…Other motivations may be at play. There are growing concerns that regard for academic expertise more generally is being eroded (Motta, ; Nichols, ), with climate change science being a spectacular example of dissension (see, for example, Hall et al ., ; Motta, ). Within academic institutions, themselves weakened by managerialism and growing corporatisation, the consequences threaten tenure and academic self‐governance in particular (Fichtenbaum, ; Sims, ; see also McDonald & Williams, ).…”

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Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

Bartel

2019

Geographical Research

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Academic freedom is under threat internationally. Several high profile incidents suggest that academic freedom is a principle neither well understood nor appreciated by key decision makers and stakeholders whom one might expect to champion it, be they in government or within the academy itself. Among those incidents are the arbitrary exercise of ministerial discretion to override the Australian Research Council expert peer review recommendations for allocation of funding, recent attacks on the credibility of academic publishing internationally, and the atrocious treatment of scholars by authoritarian regimes across the globe. In light of such developments, the membership of the Institute of Australian Geographers recently adopted a resolution that, inter alia, called on the Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers ‘not to be silent on the issue of attacks on critical scholarship, academic freedom and the integrity of academic procedures in higher education, research and publishing’. Given the complexity of the issues, this paper invites further discussion and debate on how Australian geography and geographers might better appreciate and advance academic freedom including via the promotion of scholarship that gives full effect to the principle.

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Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

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2019

Geographical Research

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“…Selective reading of literature can be a major factor compounding understanding of climate change (Tol, 2008;Hall et al, 2014aHall et al, , 2014b. Shani and Arad (2014a, p.83) claim that "recent studies reveal that there have been eras in which the earth's average temperature was higher than at present, even during recorded history."…”

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“…It is not "a highly controversial scientific topic" (Shani & Arad, 2014a, p.82). Instead, what is controversial, and is extremely important in the wider tourism context, is the extent to which it is a topic of public debate in which scientific findings and reasoning have become obfuscated by vested interests and a few outlier studies of climate change, often from nonrefereed sources, in an attempt to influence government, private sector and citizen action (Dunlap, 2013;Friel, 2010;Gelbspan, 1997;Hall et al, 2014aHall et al, , 2014bHoggan, 2009;Hulme, 2009;Manne, 2012;Oreskes & Conway, 2010).…”

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“…It is actually far worse. To claim that references used by tourism scholars engaged in climate change research "ignore the critical debate on the accurateness and implications of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), which in actual fact is far from being conclusive" (Shani & Arad, 2014a, p.82), that "the theory of AGW is, in fact, under intense scientific dispute" (Shani & Arad, 2014a, p 83), and that "the theory of AGW is highly controversial among climate scientists" (Shani & Arad, 2014a, p.84) is to deliberately misrepresent both contemporary scientific accounts of climate change as well as the extensive dialogue within the tourism academy with respect to climate change and its interrelationships with tourism and sustainability (Hall et al, 2014a(Hall et al, , 2014b; see also Gössling, Hall, Lane & Weaver, 2008;Scott, 2011;Weaver, 2011). In fact, such comments reflect what Mann (2012, p.60) describes as "the Potemkin village of climate change denial", settled by organizations such as the Cato and Heartland Institutes.…”

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“…This paper responds to the numerous spurious claims made by Shani and Arad (2014a, b) with respect to the realities of climate change, research on the current and potential effects of climate change and tourism, and how the tourism industry and destinations should react. Although Hall et al (2014aHall et al ( , 2014b) provided a specific response to Shani and Arad (2014a, b) this paper seeks to provide a broader critique, given that Shani and Arad's claims and methods of argument are representative of a broader approach to climate change denial and dogmatism (Wilson, 2008). We emphasise that knowledge claims with respect to climate change need to be supported by peer-reviewed evidence.…”

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The period leading to and immediately after the release of the IPCC’s fifth series of climate change assessments saw substantial efforts by climate change denial interests to portray anthropogenic climate change (ACC) as either unproven theory or a negligible contribution to natural climate variability, including the relationship between tourism and climate change. This paper responds to those claims by stressing that the extent of scientific consensus suggests that human-induced warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Secondly, it responds in the context of tourism research and ACC, highlighting tourism’s significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as climate change’s potential impacts on tourism at different scales. The paper exposes the tactics used in ACC denial papers to question climate change science by referring to non-peer reviewed literature, outlier studies and misinterpretation of research, as well as potential links to think-tanks and interest groups. The paper concludes that climate change science does need to improve its communication strategies but that the world-view of some individuals and interests likely precludes acceptance. The connection between ACC and sustainability illustrates the need for debate on adaptation and mitigation strategies, but that debate needs to be grounded in scientific principles not unsupported skepticism

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Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research

Cited by 28 publications

References 19 publications

Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

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