How Religious Framing Influences the
Policy Debate on Climate Change
Michael Svoboda will Examine Climate Change Communication and How It Attempts to Influence Climate Policy Outcomes, with an Historical Interpretation of the Use of the Global-Warming-as-Religion Meme by Climate Skeptics and Others.
Tuesday Policy Forum
September 18, 2012
12:15-1:20 PM
1203 Van Munching Hall
Michael Svoboda is an Assistant Professor of Writing at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He earned his interdisciplinary PhD in Hermeneutics from Penn State University (2002) after closing the bookstore he had owned and operated in State College, PA, for 17 years. Although he began with and still maintains a research program in ancient Greek rhetoric, philosophy, and history, for the past six years he has also conducted research in environmental communication. His academic articles, reviews, and review essays have been published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Rhetorica, Review of Communication, Research in Philosophy & Technology, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Plagiary, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and the Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. Since 2011 he has been a regular contributor to the web magazine, The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. His most recent piece was “Skeptical Uses of ‘Religion’ in the Debate on Climate Change.”
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