ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 describes the defining characteristics of bargainers. As the second type of climate skeptic, bargainers engage in metaphors of revolution, leverage scientific standards to stall productive deliberation, and cherry-pick experts and evidence to support their arguments. The bargainers’ main strategy is to borrow concepts and standards from environmental science but modify and cherry-pick them to promote skepticism toward the scientific consensus on climate change. These rhetorical features are detailed in the discourse of the exemplar bargainer, the Acton Institute, and personal conversations.
