MAYS , Claire

Information about the level of scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change have often been used to promote climate change beliefs. The importance of perceived climate consensus (PSC) for climate change beliefs, and the fact that it can be distorted to match pre-existing CC beliefs call for a better clarification of the...

Despite the established scientific consensus on the existence of anthropogenic climate change, uncertainties endure as to future outcomes of mitigation and adaptation measures. These are normal epistemic uncertainties, but in some quarters appear to have been 'translated' as uncertainties as to the very reality of anthropogenic climate change....

Nanotechnologies are becoming a larger presence in everyday life and are viewed by governments and economic actors as a key area for development. The theory of social representations proposes that the general public appropriates scientific information on the basis of common sense understandings, leading to the emergence of new hybrid forms of...

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