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=== Climate change ===
He wrote about the legacy of the [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy]] and whether it revitalized or undermined climate science and climate policy.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The legacy of climategate: revitalizing or undermining climate science and policy? - Grundmann - 2012 - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change - Wiley Online Library|journal = Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change|doi=10.1002/wcc.166|volume=3|issue = 3|pages=281–288|year = 2012|last1 = Grundmann|first1 = Reiner}}</ref> His own experiences with peer review of another paper about the issue are described in an interview with [[Hans von Storch]] on Storch's Klimazwiebel blog.<ref name="hvSint">[http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/interview-reiner-grundmann.html Tuesday, May 29, 2012 Interview with Reiner Grundmann by Hans von Storch]</ref> According von Storch's intro, Grundmann's paper ''Climategate and The Scientific Ethos''<ref name="CSG">{{Cite journal|url = |title = Climategate and the Scientific Ethos|last = Grundmann|first = Reiner|date = 2012|journal = Science, Technology & Human Values|volume = 38|pages = 67–93|accessdate = |doi = 10.1177/0162243911432318|pmid = }}</ref> faced severe resistance from social science journals before it was published in [[Science, Technology, & Human Values]].<ref name="hvSint" />
 
Grundmann and Stehr had themselves a controversy in the peer reviewed literature, when they clashed with Constance Lever-Tracy about the role of sociology in climate affairs. Grundmann stated a ''politicization of climate science'' which makes [[science, technology and society]] (STS) scholars feel uncomfortable with the topic of climate change.<ref name="rgclt" /> Grundmann identifies a problematic approach of climate scientists who believe to have a prerogative to make political suggestions in the field "which society at large should take up because scientists always know best"<ref name="hvSint" /> combined with a basic lack of actual<ref name="rgclt">{{cite journal | title=Climate Change: What role for Sociology? A Response to Constance Lever-Tracy' | author=Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr | journal=[[Current Sociology]] | year=2010 | volume=58 | issue=6 | pages=897–910 | doi=10.1177/0011392110376031}}</ref> feasible solution proposals.<ref name="hvSint" /> He sees climate change as a long term issue requiring more public involvement and debate, not less<ref name="hvSint" /> and asks social scientists to study the interaction between climate and society, Lever-Tracy was more about letting the climatologists having the lead.<ref name="rgclt" />