Global Warming and Sociology

Global Warming and Sociology

Ryan Losasso

Lever-Tracy, C. 2008 Global Warming and Sociology. Current Sociology, Vol. 56, No. 3, 445-466

‘Global Warming and Sociology’ has put across a number of points. Details about a number of different consequences of Global Warming, and statistical, and scientific evidence that ratifies Global Warming are stated. The journal says that Sociologists are ignoring Global Warming, as it has not appeared in any main journals within the Sociology field, and rarely mentioned in smaller Sociological work. Sociology’s usual distance from natural science, the fixation on instant gratification, and because Global Warming will effect us in the far future, were given as reasons why Sociologists have not been writing about Global Warming. Lever-Tracy then points out that if scientific data is correct, then Global Warming is not in the future and it is having a huge affect on our lives now.

I believe that the journal is trying to determine why the subject of Global Warming has not been discussed in any main Sociological journals. The Journal creates awareness about this apparent gap in Sociology and could potentially provoke the inclusion of this issue in future work. The journal uses a lot of statistical data and real life examples (perhaps too many) to prove that Global Warming is real. However, this data could be bogus. Scientists could have manipulated or made up this data and natural disasters such as the Tsunami in 2005 could well have had nothing to do with Global Warming. Finally I feel Lever-Tracy doesn’t include enough information about the implementation of innovation to help combat Global Warming that is currently going on all around the world.

This Journal is interesting when looking at the Global Warming Conspiracy debate. This journal takes for granted that Global Warming is upon us and