Readings

• Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. 2010. Merchants of Doubt. NY: Bloomsbury Press (Chapter 6, ‘The denial of global warming’). In Canvas.
• Rick Berman. 2014. Big green radicals: Exposing environmental groups. Western Energy Alliance Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, June 25. In Canvas.

Lecture pages

• Risk and society
• Persuasion and warming
• A page from the skeptic’s playbook

Video

• Excerpts from Merchants of Doubt
• Peter Sinclair. 2010. Climate denial crock of the week: Global warming or climate change? Youtube.com.
• PR pro Rick Berman on Rachel Maddow (quite the meeting of minds)