Denying Bogus Skepticism in Climate Change and Tourism Research (original) (raw)

This final response to the two climate change denial papers by Shani and Arad further highlights the inaccuracies, misinformation and errors in their commentaries. The obfuscation of scientific research and the consensus on anthropogenic climate change may have significant long-term negative consequences for better understanding the implications of climate change and climate policy for tourism and create confusion and delay in developing and implementing tourism sector responses. Keywords: Climate change; Global warming; Skepticism; Denial; Agnotology Please note that this is a copy of the submitted version. For the authoritative version (if published) please consult the journal website Full citation is: Hall, C.M., Amelung, B., Cohen, S., Eijgelaar, E., Gössling, S., Higham, J., Leemans, R., Peeters, P., Ram, Y., Scott, D., Aall, C., Abegg, B., Araña, J.E., Barr, S., Becken, S., Buckley, R., Burns, P., Coles, T.E., Dawson, J., Doran, R., Dubois, G., Duval, D., Fennell, D., Gill, A., Gren, M., Gronau, W., Guiver, J., Hopkins, D., Huijbens, E.H., Koens, K., Lamers, M., Lemieux, C., Lew, A., Long, P., Koens, K., Melissen, F.W., Nawijn, J., Nicholls, S., Nilsson, J-H., Pomering, A., Reis, A.C., Reiser, D., Richardson, R.B., Rogerson, C.M., Saarinen, J., Sæþórsdóttir, A.D., Steiger, R., Upham, P., van der Linden, S., Visser, G., Wall, G., & Weaver, D. 2015, Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research. Tourism Management, 47: 352-356 <DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.08.009>.