The scientific consensus on climate change is not recognized by the public. This is due to many related factors, including the Bush administration's science policy, the reporting of the controversy by the media, the public's understanding of science as dissent, and the differing standards of argumentation in science and the public sphere. Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" was produced in part as a response to the acceptance of climate dissent by the Bush administration and achieved a rupture into the public sphere by bringing the technical issue forward for public deliberation. Rather than...