ABSTRACT
The dominant Industrial Fatalist discourse and the Green Keynesian discourse accepted climate worries as explained by science while promising that existing institutions, new technology and the economic system would be able to adjust to the challenges ahead. Primarily, this discourse was created by Liberal-Conservative think tanks and by a group of elderly men with successful careers in academia or the corporate world, with only one female exception. The Climate Sceptics had very little association with parliamentary politics or the environmental movement, but they did have connections with the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and similar associations where representatives of business and scientific and technological research met. The most important and characteristic feature of the Climate Sceptic discourse was that it completely dismissed the existence of anthropogenic climate change. The starting point for the Climate Sceptic discourse was that the greenhouse effect did not exist, other than in the minds of certain scientists and politicians.
