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Marianne Ryghaug1, Knut Holtan Sørensen, Robert Naess
1Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. marianne.ryghaug@ntnu.no
Abstract:
This paper studies how people reason about and make sense of human-made global warming, based on ten focus group interviews with Norwegian citizens. It shows that the domestication of climate science knowledge was shaped through five sense-making devices: news media coverage of changes in nature, particularly the weather, the coverage of presumed experts' disagreement about global warming, critical attitudes towards media, observations of political inaction, and considerations with respect to everyday life. These sense-making devices allowed for ambiguous outcomes, and the paper argues four main outcomes with respect to the domestication processes: the acceptors, the tempered acceptors, the uncertain and the sceptics.
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