Paper short abstract:

Although extensive studies on climate change denial were conducted, little or no attention is given to communities that advocate for climate change. As climate change denial may also take an implicit form, such an approach may offer clues into the dynamics of implicit climate change denial.

Paper long abstract:

In present day, the climate change issue acts as a glue for the ideological left-right political views in USA and Western Europe. However, such a model fails to comprehensively explain the case of Eastern Europe where climate change has a reduced political salience, and the left-right political spectrum is not clearly defined. A more appropriate model for the Eastern European climate change controversy is therefore required. Given all these, it would rather be inappropriate to discuss about an explicit climate change controversy in Romania. However, the acceptance of the scientific arguments and the failure to translate it into action is recognized as a form of climate change denial. Therefore, it may be proven fruitful to understand the public discourse of climate change supporters as it may provide clues into the structure of an implicit climate change denial in Romania. As such, this paper presents a content analysis on climate change supporters discourses from a Romanian online community as an attempt to model the implicit climate change denial in this territory.