TY - JOUR

T1 - No time for smokescreen skepticism

T2 - A rejoinder to Shani and Arad

AU - Hall, C. Michael

AU - Amelung, Bas

AU - Cohen, Scott

AU - Eijgelaar, Eke

AU - Gössling, Stefan

AU - Higham, James

AU - Leemans, Rik

AU - Peeters, Paul

AU - Ram, Yael

AU - Scott, Daniel

AU - Aall, Carlo

AU - Abegg, Bruno

AU - Araña, Jorge E.

AU - Barr, Stewart

AU - Becken, Susanne

AU - Buckley, Ralf

AU - Burns, Peter

AU - Coles, Tim

AU - Dawson, Jackie

AU - Doran, Rouven

AU - Dubois, Ghislain

AU - Duval, David Timothy

AU - Fennell, David

AU - Gill, Alison M.

AU - Gren, Martin

AU - Gronau, Werner

AU - Guiver, Jo

AU - Hopkins, Debbie

AU - Huijbens, Edward H.

AU - Koens, Ko

AU - Lamers, Machiel

AU - Lemieux, Christopher

AU - Lew, Alan

AU - Long, Patrick

AU - Melissen, Frans W.

AU - Nawijn, Jeroen

AU - Nicholls, Sarah

AU - Nilsson, Jan Henrik

AU - Nunkoo, Robin

AU - Pomering, Alan

AU - Reis, Arianne C.

AU - Reiser, Dirk

AU - Richardson, Robert B.

AU - Rogerson, Christian M.

AU - Saarinen, Jarkko

AU - Sæórsdóttir, Anna Dóra

AU - Steiger, Robert

AU - Upham, Paul

AU - van der Linden, Sander

AU - Visser, Gustav

AU - Wall, Geoffrey

AU - Weaver, David

PY - 2015/4/1

Y1 - 2015/4/1

N2 - Shani and Arad (2014) claimed that tourism scholars tend to endorse the most pessimistic assessments regarding climate change, and that anthropogenic climate change was a "fashionable" and "highly controversial scientific topic". This brief rejoinder provides the balance that is missing from such climate change denial and skepticism studies on climate change and tourism. Recent research provides substantial evidence that reports on anthropogenic climate change are accurate, and that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including from the tourism industry, play a significant role in climate change. Some positive net effects may be experienced by some destinations in the short-term, but in the long-term all elements of the tourism system will be impacted. The expansion of tourism emissions at a rate greater than efficiency gains means that it is increasingly urgent that the tourism sector acknowledge, accept and respond to climate change. Debate on tourism-related adaptation and mitigation measures is to be encouraged and welcomed. Climate change denial is not.

AB - Shani and Arad (2014) claimed that tourism scholars tend to endorse the most pessimistic assessments regarding climate change, and that anthropogenic climate change was a "fashionable" and "highly controversial scientific topic". This brief rejoinder provides the balance that is missing from such climate change denial and skepticism studies on climate change and tourism. Recent research provides substantial evidence that reports on anthropogenic climate change are accurate, and that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including from the tourism industry, play a significant role in climate change. Some positive net effects may be experienced by some destinations in the short-term, but in the long-term all elements of the tourism system will be impacted. The expansion of tourism emissions at a rate greater than efficiency gains means that it is increasingly urgent that the tourism sector acknowledge, accept and respond to climate change. Debate on tourism-related adaptation and mitigation measures is to be encouraged and welcomed. Climate change denial is not.

KW - Agnotology

KW - Climate change

KW - Denial

KW - Global warming

KW - Skepticism

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920115082&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.08.008

DO - 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.08.008

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:84920115082

VL - 47

SP - 341

EP - 347

JO - Tourism Management

JF - Tourism Management

SN - 0261-5177

ER -