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Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed sceptics claim to be unbiased analysts combating
junk science. This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language
environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We nd
that over 92 per cent of these books, most published in the US since 1992,
are linked to conservative think tanks (CTTs). Further, we analyse CTTs
involved with environmental issues and nd that 90 per cent of them
espouse environmental scepticism. We conclude that scepticism is a tactic
of an elite-driven counter-movement designed to combat environmentalism, and that the successful use of this tactic has contributed to the
weakening of US commitment to environmental protection.
The days when the United States was an environmental pioneer . . . are a
distant memory (Dryzek et al. 2003, p. 174). After a burst of legislation in the
1960s and 1970s, US environmental protective policy eorts have been in
decline (Vig and Faure 2004). The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, in particular,
marked an important turning point. The US conservative movement began to
see global environmentalism as a threat to US national sovereignty and
economic power, and became aggressively anti-environmental. Further, these
anti-environmental interpretations . . . were endorsed, albeit obliquely, by the
[George H.W.] Bush administration as it felt the mounting pressures of the
1992 presidential primaries (Luke 2000, p. 54).
The elder Bush did not win the 1992 election, but the 1994 Republican
takeover of the United States House of Representatives stimulated the
continuing US retreat from international environmental agreements
(Sussman 2004, p. 358) during the 19922000 Clinton administration. In
addition, the George W. Bush administration aided by a Republican
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the United States and the European Union (EU) are following divergent paths in
one of the most critical areas of contemporary policy and governance protection
of the natural environment. Particularly in the past decade, the United States has
more often than not appeared reluctant to support new national and international
initiatives to regulate human impacts on the environment. While the US led the
world in establishing environmental policies and institutions for this purpose in
the 1970s and 1980s, in the 1990s it appeared to become a laggard in international
environmental politics.
While most visible in the case of climate change policy, US divergence from the
EU in environmental matters is wide-ranging (Vig and Faure 2004).
Van Putten (2005, p. 468) has captured the enigma of US backtracking on
environmental policy-making:
The most perplexing feature of current federal environmental policy is that public
attitudes, compelling science, and pragmatic solutions matter so little. Poll after
poll demonstrates that the American people embrace environmental values and
support stronger environmental protections. The mobilization of competent
scientic expertise to speak with overwhelming consistency about environmental
threats, such as global warming and biodiversity loss, is extraordinary and
unprecedented. . . . Yet the prospects for US government leadership on these and
other environmental issues is grim. Gridlock appears to be the likely scenario,
with the rollback of current environmental policies at least as plausible. How can
this be?
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Krehely et al. 2004). In the process they have become a vital component of the
Republican Partys success since the Reagan era, overwhelming in numbers
and inuence the small number of liberal think tanks inclined to support the
Democrats (Allen 1992, p. 105).
A key to the success of CTTs has been their ability to establish themselves
as a true counter-intelligentsia that has achieved equal legitimacy with
mainstream science and academia both of which have been eectively
labelled as leftist in order to legitimise CTTs as providing balance (Austin
2002). Beder (2001, p. 129) highlights this, noting that even though think tanks
have more in common with interest groups or pressure groups than academic
institutions, their representatives are treated by the media as independent
experts and . . . are often preferred to representatives from universities and
interest groups as a source of expert opinion. This has been a particularly
notable accomplishment in the realm of scientic and environmental issues
because CTTs are populated primarily by economists, policy analysts and legal
scholars rather than natural scientists (Fischer 1991); the George C. Marshall
Institute is an exception (Lahsen 2005).
The lack of in-house scientic expertise helps explain why CTTs have been
quick to form relationships with the small number of academic scientists who
support their views, as in the case of climate sceptics (Lahsen 2005; McCright
and Dunlap 2003). Doing so helps shield the fact that the sceptical position is
strongly aligned with conservatism and the economic interests it represents
(Austin 2002; Mooney 2005b), thus hiding from the public the underlying
source of what appears on the surface to be another policy debate among
equally qualied experts (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1996; Lahsen 2005).
As elite social movement organisations that with the support of
conservative foundations and corporations provide leadership for the
conservative movement (Allen 1992; Covington 1997), it is not surprising
that CTTs have been in the forefront of the anti-environmental countermovement. Their eorts are particularly apparent in the area of climate
change. For example, Meyer and Staggenborg (1996, p. 1634) note that
counter-movements can draw media attention that activates balancing norms
in mainstream media, or the pressure on journalists to present both sides of an
issue. As a result of their ready access to media (Dolny 2003), CTTs were able
to create a situation in which major media outlets portrayed climate science as
an evenly divided debate between sceptics and non-sceptics (Boyko and
Boyko 2004) employing what McCright and Dunlap (2003, p. 366) term the
duelling scientists version of the balancing norm. The result is that US media
have given disproportionate attention to the views of a small number of global
warming sceptics (Antilla 2005; Boyko 2007), and as a consequence have been
signicantly more likely than media in other industrial nations to portray
global warming as a controversial issue characterised by scientic uncertainty
(Dispensa and Brulle 2003; Gelbspan 2004; Grundmann 2007).
As is true of the movements they are opposing, counter-movements seek to
inuence state structures, capacity and policy (Meyer and Staggenborg 1996)
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validity of the database is indicated by the fact that all of the organisations
identied by McCright and Dunlap (2000; 2003) were found on the Heritage
list.
It is possible to locate both think tanks and individual policy experts on the
Heritage Foundations website by searching either by expert or by issue. We
searched the organisations category by policy issue which searches all
organisations in the database, including international think tanks. We searched
for organisations listing an interest in environment, environmental policy,
global warming and/or climate change. These searches were conducted in
summer 2005, and produced a list of 60 think tanks. We then visited their
websites between June and December 2005. At each we determined whether or
not the organisation is indeed conservative according to the denition of
Schumaker et al. (1997) and that it has at least some interest in environmental
issues, or else it was dropped from the list.
Two organisations, the Constitutional Coalition and the Center for Policy
and Legal Studies, did not have websites and had to be deleted. Of the
remaining 58, only one the Kansas Policy Research Institute failed to
express a conservative orientation. The KPRI appears to be an academic think
tank with a plurality of ideological views, and it was therefore dropped.
Finally, we found no evidence of interest in environmental issues on the
websites of seven organisations, including four separately listed chapters of the
Black Alliance for Educational Options and the F.A. Hayek Foundation in
Bratislava, so they were also deleted from the list.
The remaining set of 50 think tanks, their national origin and whether or
not they espouse environmental scepticism are shown in Appendix 2. The eight
in bold have a specic interest in global warming or climate change
according to their listing in the Heritage Foundation database.
Our population of 50 conservative think tanks interested in environmental
issues includes only six outside the US, and no doubt the list is skewed toward
Heritages interest in the US. Nonetheless, the bulk of think tanks are, in fact,
thought to be in the US (Abelson 2000). Also, some think tanks that would
seem obvious, such as the Cato Institute, are not on the list because they were
not coded by the key words used in our search of the database. However, for
reproducibility of the study, we have limited our study to those CTTs produced
by our search of the Heritage website using the key words noted above.
We then searched the websites of these 50 CTTs for evidence of support for
environmental scepticism. We did this in one of two ways. If the website had an
internal search, we used it to search for environment, climate change, global
warming and junk science. Junk science was searched because it is a strong
cue for scepticism (Herrick and Jamison. 2001). If there was no internal search
capability at the website, we searched the organisations publications, position
papers, press releases and other web pages manually.
If any of the organisations publications or web material was found to
support environmental scepticism, it was coded as sceptical. If no evidence of
scepticism was found on the website, the organisation was coded as not
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Findings
Books promoting environmental scepticism
Appendix 1 and Table 1 show that, of the 141 books which promote environmental scepticism, 130 (92.2 per cent) have a clear link to one or more CTTs
either via author aliation (62 books) or because the book was published by a
CTT (ve books) or both (63 books). Furthermore, most of the remaining 11
books clearly reect a conservative ideology, but are not connected to a CTT
and are not coded as such here. Indeed, it appears that only one of the 141
books was written by a current self-professed liberal Greg Easterbrook
(1995).5
It is therefore evident that advocates of environmental scepticism are
overwhelmingly conservative, and in a vast majority of cases their books are
directly linked to one or more CTTs whether in the US or abroad. The
relationship between sceptic books and CTTs is especially pronounced for
books written by non-US authors, as 29 of 31 are linked to CTTs. The fact that
many of these books are linked to CTTs in the US suggests that the spread of
scepticism internationally has been stimulated or at least assisted by these
powerful agents of American conservatism. Of course, our focus on Englishlanguage books likely resulted in our missing sceptical volumes published in
other languages that are not linked to US-based CTTs. Nonetheless, our
Table 1.
No conservative
think tank
associations
Total
books
USA
UK
Australia
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Netherlands
New Zealand
South Africa
Sweden
101
19
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
9
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
110
20
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Totals
130
11
141
Country
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results imply that CTTs in the US have helped diuse environmental scepticism
internationally.6
The timing of sceptical books follows a noticeable trend, as illustrated in
Table 2. There is a consistent increase in sceptical literature over time, starting
with only six books in the 1970s and 14 in the 1980s. All save two of these 20
are by US authors. The 1990s saw a ve-fold increase in sceptical literature
over the preceding decade. Further, judging by the number of books published
in its rst six years, the current decade is on track to surpass the 1990s (see
Table 2).
Four of the 11 volumes with no apparent links to CTTs were published in
the 1970s, a decade in which only six sceptical books were published. The
conservative movement had not yet adopted environmental scepticism.
However, Julian Simons The Ultimate Resource (1981) became a model (see
Dryzek 1997) for cornucopian conservative environmental scepticism, and all
14 of the sceptical books published in the 1980s were linked to CTTs. The
conservative movement had clearly come to realise the potential of environmental scepticism, but environmental issues probably had lower salience than
anti-Communism as the Cold War still preoccupied conservatives (Buell 2003,
p. 22).
As noted earlier, President Reagans call for weaker environmental
regulation spawned a backlash from the general public and environmental
organisations in the early 1980s (Dunlap 1995; Kraft and Vig 1984).
Consequently, anti-environmentalists learned that it was safer to question
the seriousness of environmental problems and portray environmentalists (and
environmental scientists) as radicals who distort evidence in order to
exaggerate problems (Buell 2003).
The conservative movement and its corporate sponsors had previously
learned that industry scientists lack the credibility of government and
university scientists in debates on issues such as pesticides and cigarette
Table 2.
Country
1970s
1980s
1990s
20002005
USA
UK
Australia
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Netherlands
New Zealand
South Africa
Sweden
5
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
13
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
56
13
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
36
6
1
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
Totals
14
72
49
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World Socialist Party she said, Well, of course. That was reported in Brazil but
not picked up by the American press.
R&L: Did you see a big inuence by the radical environmentalists there?
Ray: Oh yes. No question about that, the radicals are in charge. One of the
proposals that did indeed pass as part of Agenda 21 proposes that there be world
government under the UN, that essentially all nations give up their sovereignty,
and that the nations will be, as they said quite openly, frightened or coerced into
doing that by threats of environmental damage.
Ray, a powerful conservative elite member in her own right as former director
of the US Atomic Energy Commission and governor of the State of
Washington, was not an isolated observer. She describes her support from
and aliation with powerful think tank elites in Paul Weyrich and Fred Smith.
Weyrich served as the founding president of the Heritage Foundation in 1973
4 among other key positions, and Fred Smith is the founder and head of the
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Rio, therefore, very likely explains why
81 per cent of the sceptical books have been published since 1992.
Also, it is clear that the bulk of English-language environmental scepticism
is produced in the US (110 volumes being authored or edited by Americans).
As shown in Table 1, 20 books have been written by 11 authors from the UK,
but only a trivial number come from other countries. Environmental
scepticism, although it is diusing abroad, thus appears to be primarily a US
phenomenon. However, almost none of the books was published by authors
outside the auent industrialised world, indicating that scepticism is distinct to
the auent global North. Scepticism may be Northern because the conservative counter-movement sees itself as defending Northern lifestyles and
Northern-dominated economic systems and Northern privileged identity
(Jacques 2006; 2008).
Environmental scepticism and conservative think tank websites
We now turn to our analysis of the CTT website data. We nd a similar pattern
in the websites as in the books. A vast majority of the CTTs interested in
environmental issues express support for environmental scepticism, as shown
in Appendix 2. Out of the 50 think tanks examined, 45 (90 per cent) support
scepticism on their websites and in their publications. Further, consistent with
McCright and Dunlaps (2000; 2003) ndings, all eight think tanks (highlighted
in bold) that have global warming/climate change as a principal interest
espouse scepticism and are based in the US.
Only ve of the think tanks we studied are not disseminating environmentally sceptical positions. Interestingly, a few of the non-sceptical think tanks
advocate conservative but pro-environment attitudes. For example, Environmental Probe, based in Canada, is a staunch supporter of free-market options,
but favours environmental regulations when markets cannot provide adequate environmental protection. Nonetheless, our basic nding is that an
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Summary
Our analyses of the sceptical literature and CTTs indicate an unambiguous
linkage between the two. Over 92 per cent of environmentally sceptical books
are linked to conservative think tanks, and 90 per cent of conservative think
tanks interested in environmental issues espouse scepticism. Environmental
scepticism began in the US, is strongest in the US, and exploded after the end
of the Cold War and the emergence of global environmental concern
stimulated by the 1992 Earth Summit.
Environmental scepticism is an elite-driven reaction to global environmentalism, organised by core actors within the conservative movement. Promoting
scepticism is a key tactic of the anti-environmental counter-movement
coordinated by CTTs, designed specically to undermine the environmental
movements eorts to legitimise its claims via science. Thus, the notion that
environmental sceptics are unbiased analysts exposing the myths and scare
tactics employed by those they label as practitioners of junk science lacks
credibility. Similarly, the self-portrayal of sceptics as marginalised Davids
battling the powerful Goliath of environmentalists and environmental
scientists is a charade, as sceptics are supported by politically powerful CTTs
funded by wealthy foundations and corporations.
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The authors would like to thank Chris Rootes and Bob Brulle for helpful comments on
earlier drafts of this paper.
Notes
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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William Brown, and
Leon Martel
Kaufman, Wallace
Jastrow, Robert,
William A.
Nierenberg and
Frederick Seitz
Heartland Institute
Manhattan Institute
Basic Books
Manhattan Institute
(continued)
1992, 1997
1994, 2000
1976
1989 via
Marshall;
1990 via
Jameson
1989
1982
2005
1999
1991
1990
2003
None apparent
Manhattan Institute
Date of
publication
Basic Books
Perseus Books
University of California
Press
Publisher
Idso, Sherwood B.
Idso, Sherwood B.
Huber, Peter W.
Huber, Peter W.
Huber, Peter W.
Title
(Continued ).
Hollander, Jack M.
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
374
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Michaels, Patrick J.
Michaels, Patrick J.
Meyer, Herbert E.
Michaels, Patrick J.
London,
Herbert I.
Maduro, Rogelio A.
and Ralf
Schauerhammer
Mathieson, M. Mihkel
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
None apparent
American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy
Research
Storm King Publishers
Cato Institute
None apparent
Cato Institute; Consumer Alert
None apparent
Competitive Enterprise
Institute
Logomasini, Angela
and David Riggs
Publisher
Title
(Continued ).
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
(continued)
2000
2005
2004
1979
1994
1999
1984/1987
2000, 2004
1992
1984
2002
1999
Date of
publication
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Milloy, Steven J.
Milloy, Steven J.
Title
(Continued ).
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
Greenwood Publishing
Group/Praeger
Publisher
Cato Institute
(continued)
2001
2000
1998
1995
1992
2000
1997
1999
2001
1995
2004
Date of
publication
376
P.J. Jacques et al.
Rubin, Charles T.
Parsons, Michael L.
Title
(Continued ).
Ottoboni, M. Alice
OLeary, Richard
ORourke, P.J.
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
Regnery Publishing
(self-proclaimed
conservative publisher)
Regnery Gateway
(self-proclaimed
conservative publisher)/
HarperPerennial
Regnery Gateway
(self-proclaimed
conservative publisher)/
HarperPerennial
The Free Press-MacMillan/
Rowan and Littleeld
None apparent
self-declared conservative
self-declared conservative
None apparent
Cato Institute
Vincente Books,
Incorporated/John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. (2nd edn)
Algora Publishing
The Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher
(continued)
1993 via
Regnery;
1994 via HarperPerennial
1993 via
Regnery;
1994 via HarperPerennial
1994 via the
Free Press;
1998 via
Rowman and
Littleeld
1999
1999
2003
1994
Date of
publication
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Simon, Julian L.
Simon, Julian L.
Singer, S. Fred
Singer, S. Fred
Simon, Julian L.
Simon, Julian L.
Seitz, Frederick
Simon, Julian L.
Title
(Continued ).
Schwartz, Joel
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
Paragon House/
International Conference
on the Unity of the
Sciences (Founded by
conservative Sun Myung
Moon)
The Independent Institute
AEI Press
Publisher
(continued)
2000
1998
1989
1984
1996
1999
1995
1981
1990
1994
2003
Date of
publication
378
P.J. Jacques et al.
Whelen, Elizabeth M.
and Fredrick J. Stare
Whelen, Elizabeth M.
Bate, Roger
B. United Kingdom
Bate, Roger
CRC Press
Writers Club Press
Simon & Schuster
Wildavsky, Aaron B.
Butterworth-Heineman
(Elsevier)
Prometheus Books
Publisher
(Continued ).
Title
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
None apparent
None apparent
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research; Hudson Institute
Whelen: American Council on Science and Health;
Consumer Alert, Heartland Institute
Stare: None apparent
(continued)
2000
1997
1995
1999
2001
1984
2001
Date of
publication
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Maddox, John
Le Fanu, James
Emsley, John
BoehmerChristiansen,
Sonja and
Aynsley Kellow
Beckerman, Wilfred
Beckerman, Wilfred
Beckerman, Wilfred
Title
(Continued ).
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
McGraw Hill
None apparent
Boehmer-Christiansen:
None apparent
Kellow: The Institute for
Public Aairs
(The leading Australian free market think tank)
European Science and Environmental Forum
Edward Elgar
2000
(continued)
1972
1994
1996
2002
2002
1996
1995
Date of
publication
Cato Institute
Gerald Duckworth.
American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy
Research
Publisher
380
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Morris, Julian
OHear, Anthony
Ridley, Matt
Stott, Phillip
Ridley, Matt
North, Richard D.
Morris, Julian
Morris, Julian
Title
(Continued ).
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
Manchester University
Press/
St Martins Press in the US
Social Aairs Unit
Institute for Economic
Aairs
Institute for Economic
Aairs
Institute for Economic
Aairs
Butterworth-Heinemann
Publisher
None apparent
None apparent
1999
(continued)
1999
1996
1997
1995
1995
1999
2002
2000
1997
Date of
publication
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Kininmonth, William
G. Germany
Weber, Gerd R.
H. Netherlands
Labohm, Hans, Simon
Rozendaal, and Dick
Thoenes
F. France
Leroux, Marcel
E. Denmark
Lomborg, Bjorn
C. Australia
Daly, John L.
D. Canada
Baarschers, William H.
Title
(Continued ).
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
Multi-Science Publishing
Co., Ltd
Bottiger Verlags-GmbH.
Springer-Praxis Books
Routledge
Multi-Science Publishers
Bantam Books
Publisher
None apparent
(continued)
2004
1991
2005
2001
2002
1996
2004
1989
Date of
publication
382
P.J. Jacques et al.
Multi-Science Publishing
Co., Ltd.
Multi-Science Publishing
Co., Ltd
Publisher
1999
2001
2002
Date of
publication
1. Entries in bold indicate no evidence found linking the books to conservative think tanks, while italicized entries for book publishers and author aliations
indicate conservative think tank presses and author/editor aliations with conservative think tanks, respectively.
2. Techcentralstation.com is not a think tank but is conservative.
3. EAI is a unit of the Danish Government.
Notes:
Title
(Continued ).
K. Sweden
Gerholm, Tor Ragnar
J. South Africa
Tren, Richard and
Roger Bate
I. New Zealand
Gray, Vincent
Author(s)/
editor(s)
Appendix 1.
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Appendix 2.
National
location
Environmental
scepticism
espoused
Canada
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
Canada
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
USA
USA
USA
Belgium
USA
USA
Sweden
USA
USA
USA
USA
France
USA
USA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
USA
UK
Yes
Yes
(continued)
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(Continued ).
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National
location
Environmental
scepticism
espoused
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Notes:
1. The eight think tanks shown in bold have a specic interest in global warming or climate
change as indicated by their listing in the Heritage Foundations database.
2. Coded sceptical for the publication of Singer (1992), which has no apparent ISBN and is
therefore not listed in Appendix 1.
3. The status of JunkScience.com as a non-prot think tank is unclear, so here we follow the
Heritage Foundations categorization of policy expert organization that implies it is a think tank.
4. The Greening Earth Society website notes that it expired February 2007, but may continue at a
later date.