No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad

Hall, C.M. and Amelung, B. and Cohen, S. and Eijgelaar, E. and Gössling, S. and Higham, J. and Leemans, R. and Peeters, P. and Ram, Y. and Scott, D. and Aall, C. and Abegg, B. and Araña, J.E. and Barr, S. and Becken, S. and Buckley, R. and Burns, P. and Dawson, J. and Doran, R. and Dubois, G. and Duval, D. and Fennell, D. and Gill, A. and Gren, M. and Gronau, W. and Guiver, J. and Hopkins, D. and Huijbens, E.H. and Koens, K. and Lamers, M. and Lemieux, C. and Lew, A. and Long, P. and Koens, K. and Melissen, F.W. and Nawijn, J. and Nicholls, S. and Nilsson, J-H. and Pomering, A. and Reis, A.C. and Reiser, D. and Richardson, R.B. and Rogerson, C.M. and Saarinen, J. and Sæþórsdóttir, A.D. and Steiger, R. and Upham, P. and van der Linden, S. and Visser, G. and Wall, G. and Weaver, D. (2014) No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad. Tourism Management. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Shani and Arad (2014) claimed that tourism scholars tend to endorse the mostpessimistic 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.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Climate change; Global warming; Skepticism; Denial; Agnotology
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure Q Science > QH Natural history
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	College of Social and Behavioral Science > Geography, Planning and Recreation
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2016 22:35
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/2284

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