In a Warming World

Hosted ByMoira Marquis

A podcast by ENGL 266: Ecocriticism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Episode 1: Climate Skepticism in the US and Germany

“Climate change?!! What a hoax!”
“Of course! It’s just heavy summer rain.”
Source: roth-cartoons.de/projekt/klimaluege/

Students from UNC Chapel Hill and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) discuss the similarities and differences between U.S. and German climate skeptics.
This project has been generously supported by UNC Chapel Hill’s Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs and the Chancellor’s Global Education Fund through a Collaborative Online Learning Grant and the Digital Humanities Lab in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Intro music provided by Tabitha Elkins: www.tabitha-elkins.com/

Sources Discussed
Aronofsky, Darren. Noah. Paramount Pictures, New Regency Productions, Protozoa Pictures, 2014.

Garrard, Greg, et al. “Introduction” in Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Goodbody, Axel. “Klimaskepsis in Germany” in Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis. Editors Greg Garrard and George Handley. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Handley, George B. “Climate Scepticism and Christian Conservatism in the United States” in Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis. Editors Greg Garrard and George Handley. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Kaiser, Jonas, and Markus Rhomberg. “Questioning the Doubt: Climate Skepticism in German Newspaper Reporting on COP17.” Environmental Communication, vol. 10, no. 5, Sept. 2016, pp. 556–74. doi:10.1080/17524032.2015.1050435.

Veldman, Robin Globus. The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change. Univ of California Press, 2019.