In our government/NGO section this week, Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab report Discourses of Climate Delay in the Campaign Against Offshore Wind: A Case Study from Rhode Island applies earlier work by Lamb (Discourses of Climate Delay) and Cook (FLICC taxonomy) to put the bright lights on a organization attempting to fossilize energy supplies, finding archetypal examples of both systems littering that organization s rhetoric :
Brown Report Claims Anti-Wind Group Uses Deceit, Delay, Denial and Chicanery to Sabotage Crucial Renewable Energy ecori.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ecori.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like global warming is caused by the sun , temperature has changed naturally in the past or other planets are warming too are examined to see what the science really says.
This blog post combines extracts from articles published by our German language partner website klimafakten.de, one from September 2020 and another from January 2021. It ll be the start of a series of blog posts looking more closely at the various discourses of climate delay, an insidious way to keep delaying action to combat climate change now that outright climate science denial seems to be waning.