ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the longstanding relationship between two historically gendered institutions: science and the military. It focuses on the ongoing intimate liaison between US science and the US Department of Defence. It also maps several past and present features of the US military-science complex, and shows how the United States compares to other countries in the extent of the military funding of science. The chapter focuses specifically on the influence of the militarization of US science on US climate change research. No institution is more masculine than the military, with its historically male-dominated personnel, strict codes of honor, rigid hierarchical authority structure, and manly values of strength, bravery, toughness, patriotism, and heterosexual virility. Some of the consequences of militarized climate science include a disinterest in the gendered dimensions of climate change, a fascination with large-scale interventions into the global climate system, and the increasing characterization of climate change as a national security problem.
