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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 7d

You can find a summary of this chapter on our website and pre-order a physical copy here: cssn.org/news-researc.... The full book will be available open access on our website as well.

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 7d

See the latest episode of @drilledmedia.bsky.social where authors of our upcoming book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment discuss the rise of rightwing populism and its relationship to climate resistance. The podcast can be found here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep2 | Welcome to the Rapture! How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Intersect with Climate

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 14d

In which Jesse Bryant explains the connection between accelerationism and climate politics, and why tf Joe Rogan is always talkin about the Kali Yuga

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Welcome to the Rapture! How Accelerationism Intersects with Climate

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 9d

Our submission draws on published research by @cssn.org scholars, including a forthcoming book on the topic entitled Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment to be published by Oxford University Press in October.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 15d

Listen wherever you get your podcasts:

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Liars and blockers: The rising threat of climate disinformation and misinformation

YouTube video by TRACK CHANGES - climate + sustainability podcast

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 15d

Experts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social @aronczyk.bsky.social and @johnfocook.bsky.social speak with @trackchangesmedia.bsky.social on the rising threat of climate disinformation in the media, solutions misinformation, and the attack on climate science and scientists themselves.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21d

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 21d

Hosted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social and her team of investigators, each episode will highlight a key tactic or industry responsible for the delay of climate action.

The first episode features the editors of CSSN's forthcoming book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment bit.ly/COGA25

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 21d

Disinformation, false solutions, regulatory capture, oh my! See @drilledmedia.bsky.social's newly launched podcast series below where they dig into how obstructing actors use coordinated tactics across industry and policy to block the clean energy transition. drilled.media/investigatio...

Climate Obstruction

Climate disinformation doesn’t begin and end with science denial. As the world moves towards climate action, the fossil fuel industry has begun using familiar tactics to advocate for solutions it know...

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 28d

New study from Carlos R.S. Milani, Janaina Pinto, and Arthur Facini on the organized obstruction observed in the Brazilian government and industries. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Sep 2

The lexicon used by climate misinformers has changed, and "‘New Denial’ is bent on condemning solutions to climate change and their supporters."

Researchers found the most prevalent climate-related terms on Twitter/X from 2021-2023 and shared their results below.

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A chart of the most frequent search terms. "Climate control" is by far number one, followed by "green fossil fuels" and "drill baby drill."

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Aug 29

CSSN Scholar, D. Rosenbloom states: "the paper develops a practical framework to assess whether near-term choices can build toward climate-aligned futures or whether they waste scarce time and resources on pathways that cannot go the distance." See new article below journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Dead-end pathways: Conceptualizing, assessing, avoiding

Despite rising climate urgency, decision-makers continue to support emission reduction options that appear promising on the face of it but hinder progress in practice. Whether through more efficient g...

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Aug 27

See @kathymulvey.bsky.social's piece in @ucs.org. blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

Big Oil Has Been Lying to Us for Decades: Don’t Let It off the Hook

As people and communities seek accountability, the industry is pleading for an escape hatch.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Aug 25

New report that maps the network of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers: www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-e...

Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States

Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against ...

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Aug 25

Student research out of the @climatedevlab.bsky.social has sparked legal backlash from anti-wind groups. With offshore wind construction already at risk, attacks from groups like these threaten the possibility of meeting local climate goals. See the full article below, and the newly released report.

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · Aug 19

More evidence that utilities are a "pivotal player" in U.S. climate policy, with the Edison Electric Institute preferring EPA retain its authority to regulate power plants-- not for altruistic reasons but because of the "certainty" it provides their investors: (1/2)
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Industry shows tension over EPA plan to kill climate rule

Electric utilities urged the agency to preserve its ability to regulate power plants for greenhouse gases.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 13

UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics on.ft.com/3Ut4pNF | opinion

UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics

Conflicting interests are coming to a head as countries attempt to end the scourge of pollution

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Wanna know more? Check out my book! Coming to a bookstore near you in early October! (Just in time for #COP30) press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · Aug 12

Predictably, the national administration's policies and unconstrained load growth from data centers are leading to backsliding in corporate clean energy goals: (1/)
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Arizona’s largest utility scraps its 2050 climate emissions target

Phoenix-based Arizona Public Service is also setting aside interim carbon goals as it plans power generation expansions to meet rising demand.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Aug 6

How does the social value of education contribute to partisanship within climate debates?

Wetts: "political elites and interest groups attempting to delay climate action may... stok[e] opposition...among lower-education Americans through appeals to class-based resentment against cultural elites."

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Aug 6

Michael DeBellis, George Gino, Aadarsh Balaji, and Jacob Gino use both Web Ontology Language (OWL) and LLM capability to organize and search climate obstruction research and data. See their preprint,"Using Retrieval Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graphs to Understand Climate Obstruction."

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 26

The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.

Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people

The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Jul 25

For the first time, the UN's International Court of Justice speaks on climate change. See ‪‪@karenzraick.bsky.social and Marlise Simons piece below. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...

Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Jul 24

Check out this podcast with CSSN member @guywhedwards.bsky.social!

Guy Edwards @guywhedwards.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎙️Here’s a podcast episode I did w/ @landclimate.bsky.social on President Petro's bold pledge to end the granting of new hydrocarbon contracts in 🇨🇴. We looked at the motivations behind the pledge, the fierce opposition to it and whether it might last beyond 2026.

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Colombia versus oil and gas: what’s the truth behind the transition? - Land and Climate Review

Alasdair speaks with third-year doctoral student Guy Edwards about the impact of President Gustavo Petro’s pledge on Colombia’s energy transition.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Jul 23

How do far right parties frame solar power? How have their positions changed? What does this variation over time tell us about the motives of the far right's obstruction of solar?

See @manesweisskircher.bsky.social and ‪@sabinedvolk.bsky.social‬'s piece below:
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The People against the Sun? Ideology and Strategy in Far-Right Parties' Climate Obstruction of Solar Energy

Far-right parties increasingly mobilize against climate action. While scholarship has initially focused on explicit climate denialism, by now research analyzes the opposition against specific clima...

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