Blog 3

Quasjale Selders
2/13/2019
Climate Justice, digital media, and gender
Professor Frances


In the article “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States” it talks about how white males in the US are most likely out of any other Americans to declare climate change denial. They did a study showing that Conservitive men are most likely to report and influence of climate change denialism. They also found that " these differences are even greater for those conservative white males who self-report understanding global warming very well" (McCright and Dunlap 2011). In the article “Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy” it explores the ideas of increasing surface temprutures and the melting of polar ice caps due to Global Warming. This article explains how " there is a wide gap between this broad scientific consensus and public opinion"(Harvey et al. 2018). And how internet blogs are strongly contributing to this gap by "fomenting misunderstandings of AGW causes and consequences." These bloggers are not looking or ignoring the sciencetific evidents, that are leaving polar bear vulnurable to the damages of Global Warming.



I enjoyed reading these articles because it explains more on how climate deniers are having a great impact on Global Warming. It also exclaims on what most of use already know. Which was that mainly white consevative males were climate change denier. Maybe these articles will help those denies see what they are doing is greatly impacting us and themselves.

 Denial- the action of declaring something to be untrue.


Communication- the imparting or exchanging of information or news.


vulnerability- the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.