全球变暖是如何被否认的?

How is Global Warming Denied?

公然否认全球变暖的特朗普政府明显拒绝客观事实和证据支持的科学。科学在政府决策中扮演的角色逐渐被消解和抹杀引发了众多科学家的不满,科学与政治的关系空前紧张。在情感信仰高过客观事实的非理性社会背景下,以否认全球变暖为主的伪科学主要通过以下四种策略建构自身:(1)以社会资本代替科学资本;(2)利用不确定性编造争议;(3)有意挑选证据,妄称科学革命;(4)利用媒体和网络,声称认知民主。厘清全球变暖否定论的社会建构过程有助于我们认知伪科学背后复杂的政治、经济利益关系,也为我们更有针对性地捍卫科学权威提供了方向和路径。

The Trump administration,which explicitly denies global warming,apparently rejects the objective and factual evidence-supported science,and gradually dispels and obliterates the role of science in government decision-making,has caused dissatisfaction among many scientists.The relationship between science and politics is unprecedentedly tense.Under the irrational social background in which the status of emotional beliefs is higher than objective facts,pseudoscience,which is dominated by global warming denial,constructs itself through the following four strategies:(1)replacing scientific capital with social capital;(2)using uncertainty to fabricate disputes;(3)deliberately selecting evidence and falsely claiming scientific revolution;(4)using the media and the Internet to claim cognitive democracy.Clarifying the social construction process of global warming denial helps us to understand the complex political and economic interests behind pseudoscience,and also provides direction and path for us to more specifically defend scientific authority.