Many scientists believe global warming (GW) to be one of the most serious problems facing the world today and that it demands immediate action. However, many people, called skeptics, advocate for various reasons that action should not be taken at this time. We performed a content analysis of their literature to quantitatively analyze their arguments to help counteract them. We found that the most common argument dealt with the lack of evidence that GW was happening, followed by arguments that GW would be too expensive to counteract or that GW would not be harmful.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Carruth, Andrew Stephen
• Gorse, Michael Peter

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00C035I

Keyword

• Climatic changes
• Climate change mitigation

Advisor

• Jamison, Wes V.
• Pierson, Stephen W.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-11-27