The power of narrative: climate skepticism and the deconstruction of science

"Narrative is the stuff of community. The book embarks on a quest to understand how narrative works to take an inchoate group of individuals and turn it into a cohesive social movement.

To understand the power of narrative, the authors examine the particular phenomenon of climate skepticism.

Somehow, the narrative of climate skepticism has been able to forge a movement and stake a challenge to the hegemony of the larger community of scientists on what is ostensibly a matter of science.

The book asks: how is this achieved? What is the narrative of climate skepticism, and how has it evolved over time and diffused from place to place?

Is it possible that this narrative shares with other narratives an underlying genetic code of sorts, a story that is more fundamental than all of these?

How has the climate skeptical narrative contended with its other, which is the narrative-network of climate change science, and forged its own social movemen