Climate Social Science Network

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Limited scientific evidence for decarbonization of energy end-uses and the challenges to learning and empowerment of green hydrogen niches - insights from Canada Supporting inappropriate uses for hydrogen can delay climate action and decarbonization efforts should limit hydrogen to difficult-to-electrify end-us…

When do we electrify, and when do we use hydrogen? See CSSN Scholar @christinahoicka.bsky.social and colleagues' paper that can tell us when hydrogen end-uses are appropriate, using a method that is applicable to other emerging technologies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Summer reads from IBES scholars Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.

Looking for your next summer read? Check out this list of new and notable titles by IBES scholars! From exploring environmental history to modeling climate futures, each book invites readers to reflect on the world around them and their role in shaping it.

CSSN Scholar Daniele Conversi commentates: "the Anthropocene has produced an overarching narrative which is
potentially enabling in a world divided by nationalism and where science is fractured by disciplinary
boundaries." See his article below. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

SLAPP’d: An Indigenous Nation Fights for Its Water As Greenpeace’s anti-SLAPP hearing gets underway in Europe, a look at what Energy Transfer wanted to keep out of its North Dakota suit.

Greenpeace's anti-SLAPP case against Energy Transfer in the EU started today. Meanwhile Greenpeace USA is appealing the $666 million ruling handed down in North Dakota in March. In @drilledmedia.bsky.social @alleenbrown.bsky.social w/the story ET tried to keep out of court drilled.media/news/slappd

🎉Happy to share that I recently won the Adam Weiler Award in the Social Sciences category gifted annually to
Sussex PhD students who show the potential to make an outstanding impact with their work!!

Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

“Despite overwhelming evidence of the interlinked, intergenerational, severe and widespread human rights impacts of the fossil fuel life cycle … these countries have and are still accruing enormous profits from fossil fuels, and are still not taking decisive action,” Elisa Morgera.
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Russia's Non-Western Climate Coalition: Genuine Consensus or Just Hot Air? - Climate Strategies This paper explores the prospects for a non-Western climate coalition, as advocated by the Russian government, in the context of various Asian cooperation organisations.

Russia attempts to create a non-Western climate coalition - will their strategy of shared carbon markets and emission trading (ETS) create an low-carbon future, or merely obstruct earnest efforts towards decarbonization?

@climatestrategies.bsky.social reports.

climatestrategies.org/publication/...

Important work by CSSN scholar @fgenovese.bsky.social and colleagues on the affect that locally-embedded fossil fuel interests have on climate reporting.

Read the first draft below!

Assistant Professor in sociology of law with focus on law, rights and social movements Vacancy announcement introduction: What we offer the successful candidate Those who want to become a research leader of tomorrow, through pioneering projects and research ideas, have the opportunity t

Job for social movements scholars, it would be great with someone interested in environmental/climate protests!

File under “the Italianization of Europe”, or how depriving conservative parties of moral compasses is detrimental for the public good

Cover art for podcast miniseries Carbon Bros, featuring every terrible manosohere meme

We might have had a little too much fun coming up with the cover art for the next @drilledmedia.bsky.social season (coming right after this one, at the end of July!)

WEBINAR TOMORROW💻
How does #misinformation threaten climate progress and what we can do to protect the integrity of information in the lead-up to COP30 in Belém?

Read more and register for the International Panel on the Information Environment's event here: ipie-info.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Throughout the literature, there are assertions that those endorsing conservative ideologies reject the science and solutions of climate change due to perceived threat. That is, they fear that accept...

This study builds upon previous work by the same authors on threat-based attitudes towards climate change and climate policy: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Conservative Opposition to Climate Policy May be Partially Threat‐Based: A Test and Critique of the Integrated Threat Model of Climate Attitudes One explanation for the link between political conservatism and rejection of the science and solutions of climate change is based on perceived threats. Yet, until recently, this claim has not been st...

Conservative opposition to climate change can be partially explained by a higher perceived threat to climate policy rather than to climate change itself. New research by Samantha K. Stanley, @zlevo.bsky.social, Kirsti M. Jylhä, and Iain Walker explains: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Publication alert! Thrilled to support this work in empirical testing and analysis of a novel greenwashing assessment tool. Lots of time went into this from the Spinning Climate Change working group. See @sahill.bsky.social's full post for more details and how you can use the tool yourself.

Criando um Clima: Combatendo a desinformação climática nas redes O Observatório Interdisciplinar das Mudanças Climáticas está lançando uma iniciativa de combate à desinformação e à obstrução climática no dia a dia digital....

Check out this web-series 'Criando Um Clima', an initiative to combat climate disinformation in short videos, presented by the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change (OIMC-UERJ) team in accessible, direct and precise language.

Frontiers | Climate and energy misinformation in Taiwan

"Renewable delayism exaggerates the limitations and negative
impacts of renewable energy, particularly solar power, to delay its adoption." See John Chung-En Liu and Chia-Fen Lee's article in frontiers here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

Noted author Amitav Ghosh's endorsement for the book Decolonizing Environmentalism (photo of book's cover page included), with parts of Ghosh's endorsement stating, "A valuable roadmap for building more inclusive and equitable environmental movements."

On this World Env Day: The agenda of decolonizing environmentalism has never been more imp. We outline a praxis for environmentalism fit for the purpose. Grateful to @amitav.bsky.social, whose work has inspired us, for his kind words @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

Congratulations, again, to our scholars Galen Hall, @joshuabasseches.bsky.social, Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, and Trevor Culhane for their award from ‪‪@apsa.bsky.social‬ for the best journal article on U.S. state politics or policy. Their paper can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The largest % of Brits know climate change is real, want the govt to do something about it, and are *very* happy to accept renewables as solutions.

Labour should not allow Farage to weaponize net zero, which he has such a weak case for. So many reasons to push forward with a just energy transition.

Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Maxwell Boykoff, Brenda McNally, James Painter, marysanford.bsky.social‬, Emily P. Diamond, Marc Esteve-del-Valle, Loredana Loy, Kelly E. Perry, Urooj S. Raja & Robin Tschötschel all co-authored this piece.

For more information on this working group, visit their page here: https://bit.ly/43uJhfp

Fantastic work from one of the CSSN working groups, led by @hannamorris.bsky.social and Rachel Wetts. This essay speaks towards the novel challenges faced by mediated climate communication researchers due to technological developments and the political landscape, and recommends future directions.

This shouldn't come as a surprise. Agribusiness corporations & their dependents in policy/politics have cynically exploited the narrative of regenerative agriculture without any interest in investing in developing climate friendly agriculture models.There are proven models of agriecological farming.

PhD opportunity! Work on the emerging and urgent challenge of climate policy misinformation with CSSN scholar Brenda McNally. See job posting here: cssn.org/job/phd-scho...

Ruling sends Chicago’s Big Oil lawsuit back to state court | Center for Climate Integrity

Chicago just won an early victory in its climate deception lawsuit against Big Oil companies.

"[W]e intend to shift those costs back where they belong: on the companies whose deceptive conduct brought us the climate crisis,” said Chicago's @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social.