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Manufacturing junk Think tanks, climate denial, and neoliberal hegemony Robert Neubauer ABSTRACT: This paper utilises a neo-Gramscian analysis to contextualise the proliferation of the North American Climate Denial movement within the rise of global, neoliberal capitalism. This movement has been partially constituted by a neolibera! ideology promoted by an integrated elite-backed network of think tanks, advocacy groups, foundations, and ideologically sympathetic media, here termed the Elite Policy and Information and Infrastructure (EPff). This paper uses several contemporary scholarly approaches to operationalise the key Gramscian concepts of bloc, front, and organic intellectuals in an attempt to understand the hegemonic nature of EP//,s neoliberal climate denialist activities at both the material and ideological level.

Environmental scepticism and the denial of climate science In recent years environmental communications scholars have attempted to explain why, although the scientific consensus behind Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) is now indisputable!, recent polls show that as many

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as 40% of Americans still believe expert opinion to be divided about climate change (Oreskes & Conway, 2010). As Antilla (2010) notes, this confusion can be partly attributed to the activities of an organised, well-funded group of professional climate 'sceptics' affiliated with carbon-based industry and free-market lobbies who have used the media to insert questionable scientific theories into the public sphere. In

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