ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the impact of past and present male domination of science on the production of scientific knowledge generally and in the specific case of climate science. It begins by spotlighting some gender cornerstones of 20th-century environmental and natural science upon which rests 21st-century climate science. The gendered history of science left an imprint on the scientific study of climate change. The chapter examines the gender structure of science and engineering in general, in environmental science, and in climate science. It explores the implications of a gendered institution the military and the masculine military substructure of climate change science, especially the influence of US science's largest source of public funding. Climate science depicts the causes and impacts of climate change as a universal process in which human distinctions are irrelevant. This emphasis on "human" obscures differences between men and women, rich and poor, young and old as they relate to the causes and consequences of climate change.
