Meira Cartea, Pablo2020-05-252020-05-252016Meira Cartea, P. (2015). Is there a hole in the ozone layer of your climate change? From scientific culture to popular culture. "Mètode Science Studies Journal", 6. 57-62. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/metode.0.42192174-3487http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22550Eight out of ten Spaniards think the hole in the ozone layer, caused by human actions, is the key physical cause of climate change. This belief, constructed from scientific elements (concepts, images, icons, discourse), is a product of popular culture. Science has never confirmed this relationship. It was the ability of popular culture to incorporate scientific «objects» according to its own epistemology that established and popularised the idea until it became a global cultural belief. The divergence between social and scientific representation invites us to reflect upon how contemporary societies embrace and remodel scientific culture to construct representations for interpreting reality and directing responses (or inaction) to threats identified by science.eng© The author 2016. This article was published by Mètode under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Scientific culturePopular cultureSocial representationClimate changeOzonejournal article10.7203/metode.85.42192174-9221open access