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Global Warming
Omran Al-Bulushi
University of South Florida
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Questions/Steps
1. List at least ten stakeholder groups that have a voice or viewpoint on your topic.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Aeronautic Space
Administration (NASA) are some of the stakeholder groups that have voiced their
positions on the issue.
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American scientific societies consisting of 18 scientific associations like the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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American Chemical Society,
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American Geophysical Union,
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American Meteorological Society are categorical that global warming is
happening and fueled by greenhouse gases emitted through human activities.
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Geological Society of America,
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American Physical Society
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American Medical Association (NASA, n.d).
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Research groups and foundations have also voiced their perspectives on global
warming with some asserting that flood hazards will rise and affect at least 21%
of the surface area in the world if global temperatures rise by 2 degree Celsius
(Doll et al., 2018).
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Denial organizations include ExxonMobil and the Koch Industries,
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American Enterprise Institute
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Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Council (ALEC), Competitive
Enterprise Institute, and
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Heartland Institute among others (Collomb, 2014; Demelle, 2017).
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2. Choose four specific stakeholder organizations and write their slogans or mission
statements. You can find slogans or mission statements on the organization's website. Be
sure to cite your sources.
The four stakeholder organizations in relation to the issue of global warming include the
Union of Concerned Scientists, National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA), and the
Americans for Prosperity, and the American Enterprise Institute. The mission statement for the
Union of Concerned Scientists is “Science for a Healthy Planet and Safer World”. The National
Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) mission is to drive scientific advances in technology,
aeronautics, and space exploration to improve knowledge, education, innovation, economic
vitality and stewardship of the planet Earth. On its part, the American for Prosperity’s mission is
recruiting, educating, and mobilizing citizens to support policies and goals that encourage a free
society at all levels of governance to ensure that each American lives their “American Dream”
through fighting for reduced taxes, reduced government regulation, and economic prosperity
(Americans for Prosperity, 2018). The American Enterprise Institute’s mission is to defend
human dignity, expand human potential, and build freer and safer world (American Enterprise
Institute, 2017). While NASA and the Union for Concerned Scientists believe in climate change,
both American Enterprise Institute and Americans for Prosperity doubt the concept of global
warming and climate change.
3. Analyze two stakeholder organizations that seem to have conflicting viewpoints on your
topic. What are their viewpoints, and how are they different?
The Union for Concerned Scientists and The Americans for Prosperity have conflicting
viewpoints on global warming. THE Americans for Prosperity is part of a coalition that doubts
global warming through its statements and activities (Dunlap & Jacques, 2013). The organization
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offers avenues to propagate conservative views on the causes of global warming. The AFP origin
founders are fossil fuel billionaires that do not believe in global warming caused mainly through
man-made activities like burning fuels. On its part, the Union for Concerned Scientists believes
in human-induced causes of global warming and documents scientific evidence across different
sectors.
4. Stay with your two stakeholder organizations from question 3. What do they have in
common? Describe the goals or values that the organizations share.
While the two organizations research and discuss issues affecting climate change and
global warming, the Union for Concerned Scientists focuses on the causes and possible
interventions to address the issue. However, the Americans for Prosperity believe that other
interventions other than cutting greenhouse gases’ emissions would solve the problem.
Conversely, the two stakeholder organizations do not share common values and goals on the
issue but share a common ground on the issue of climate change. The Americans for Prosperity
seeks to educate people on governance policies and mobilize support from consumers while the
Union for Concerned Scientists drives efforts to reduce the effects of greenhouse emissions.
5. Given the shared goals and values that your two organizations share, describe a part of
your topic that they could both agree on—that's your common ground.
The common ground between the two organizations is that they all believe in climate
change and engage different stakeholders in courses to protect the planet. The two can use this
common ground to establish a compromise and forge an approach that integrates all
stakeholders.
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6. Explain how your two stakeholder organizations could achieve a compromise. What
would each stakeholder organization have to contribute to reach this compromise? What
would each stakeholder organization have to give up?
Therefore, based on this common ground, the two organizations can attain a compromise
to drive the overall agenda of climate change and its effects through mobilization of funds and
support from other stakeholders. The stakeholders can attain a compromise by offering their best
efforts to create awareness and mobilize support. For example, the Union for Concerned
Scientist should drop its hard stance on Americans for Prosperity, especially what it calls doublespeak from the organization. On its part, Americans for Prosperity needs to acknowledge that
global warming is part of climate change and drop its conservative position.
7. What needs to happen to accomplish your compromise? Prove that your compromise will
actually work using research, such as articles that support your logic, that report on a
similar situation in which your idea has previously been successful, or that prove the
viability of your compromise.
The organizations should set up a combined team and approaches to attain the
compromise by using unbiased scientific research, and refraining from serving sectarian
interests, especially from fossil fuel corporations. Scientific research has demonstrated over time
that the war on global warming in the U.S is largely informed by political and economic
discourses and positions to protect certain corporations and scientific points of view without
concrete and unbiased evidence. Imperatively, through this compromise each player will
appreciate their roles and leave to the expectations in attaining a common ground
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Working Thesis.
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The issue of global warming and its manifestation continue to draw controversy between
proponents and critics. Recent public opinion in the United States demonstrate that many
Americans acknowledge climate change and global warming as critical issues in managing the
future of the planet, but some believe that it is an expensive hoax (Schuldt, Enns & Cavaliere,
2017). The implication is that global warming remains a controversial issue because of strong
opposing positions between proponents and those who do not believe in it. Schuldt et al (2017)
show that more Americans doubt “global warming” than “climate change”. The study
demonstrates that only 65% of the respondents believe in global warming compared to 85% that
responded yes to climate change. Consequently, while scientific consensus from different
stakeholders on global warming continues to increase, those in socioeconomic and political
spheres continue to amplify their doubts and do not support any efforts aimed at addressing the
problem. The scientific stakeholder organizations are drawn from American scientific societies;
the 18 scientific associations that include National Aeronautic Space Agency and American
Chemical Society among others (NASA, n.d). The Union of Concerned Scientists asserts that
increased temperatures, humidity and rising of sea levels indicate that the planet is warming.
Further, the union states that the heat-trapping emissions released into the atmosphere continue
to alter the global climate leading to global warming. Imperatively, there is need for a
compromise position from both sides of the debate; those who believe and those who do not
believe to assess the overwhelming evidence and take effective steps to address the issue for
long-term sustainability (Hartter et al., 2017). This paper has proposed common ground and
compromise among the stakeholders on how to address global warming concerns.
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References
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Collomb, J. D. (2014) The Ideology of Climate Change Denial in the United States. European
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Demelle, B. (2017) Top 10 Climate Deniers; Retrieved from
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Doll, P., Trautmann, T., Gerten, D., Schmeid, H. M., Ostberg, S., Saaed, F., & Schleussner, C. F.
(2018) Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming.
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Schuldt, J. P., Enns, P K. & Cavaliere, V. (2017) Does the label really matter? Evidence that the
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NASA (n.d) Scientific consensus: Earth's climate is warming. Retrieved from
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NASA (2018) Our Missions and Values. Retrieved from
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