Are Christians more likely to be climate sceptics?
In debates about climate change scepticism, much has been made of the influence of people’s political beliefs. Especially in the US, but in other Anglophone countries too, climate change has become one...
View ArticleRisk & ideology in the reporting of the IPCC
In this guest blog, James Painter of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, points to the partisan reporting of the latest IPCC report in UK media and asks whether greater deployment of...
View ArticleThe IPCC provides the vocabulary — now its time to weave the prose
The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published last month, summarising the state of the art in our understanding of climate change. It is an incredible...
View ArticleTelling stories about climate change
The science and politics of climate change get all the attention – the human face of climate change doesn’t get much of a look in. And although social scientists have made progress documenting the...
View ArticleWhy is climate change scepticism such a slippery concept?
What exactly is climate change scepticism? The quest to provide a satisfactory answer to this question is now well into its second decade, with scholars, commentators and campaigners (on both sides of...
View ArticleTime for a more Radical Plan?
In 2014, England will follow the example set by Wales and Scotland and introduce a carrier bag charge. If the Welsh and Scottish experiences are anything to go by, the policy will drastically reduce...
View ArticleTime to stop obsessing about scientific uncertainty?
For fans of probability, confidence intervals and margins of error, climate change is a dream come true. For everyone else, the fact that uncertainty (inherent in any complex area of science) has...
View ArticleWill UK floods bring an end to climate silence?
The wettest January in the UK in 250 years followed by a stormy February have brought misery to many thousands. Floods have submerged large chunks of the south-west of the country, a key stretch of...
View ArticleUnsustainable practices: why electric cars are a failure of ambition
In this guest post by Nicola Spurling and Dan Welch, of the Sustainable Practices Research Group, they argue that a focus on ‘techno-fix’ solutions to climate change like electric cars simply...
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Will floods & heatwaves convince people to care about climate change?
This is a re-post of a blog by Leo Barasi – you can find the original at his blog Noise of the Crowd. I’ve been arguing for a while that there’s been too little done to explain to the British public...
View ArticleA symphony of reason and emotion
This guest post is by Sander van der Linden, a doctoral candidate in social-environmental psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a visiting research scholar at...
View Article‘Must try harder’ on climate change communication
In a week that has seen an unusually high level of climate change coverage among mainstream media (with the launch of the second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s three-part...
View ArticleCOIN’s research informs new climate campaign
How does a national climate change campaign reach beyond the concerned minority to a broader, more diverse sector of the British public? COIN employed its unique methodology of narrative workshops to...
View ArticleThe IPCC provides the vocabulary — now its time to weave the prose
The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published last month, summarising the state of the art in our understanding of climate change. It is an incredible...
View ArticleTelling stories about climate change
The science and politics of climate change get all the attention – the human face of climate change doesn’t get much of a look in. And although social scientists have made progress documenting the...
View ArticleWhy is climate change scepticism such a slippery concept?
What exactly is climate change scepticism? The quest to provide a satisfactory answer to this question is now well into its second decade, with scholars, commentators and campaigners (on both sides of...
View ArticleTime for a more Radical Plan?
In 2014, England will follow the example set by Wales and Scotland and introduce a carrier bag charge. If the Welsh and Scottish experiences are anything to go by, the policy will drastically reduce...
View ArticleTime to stop obsessing about scientific uncertainty?
For fans of probability, confidence intervals and margins of error, climate change is a dream come true. For everyone else, the fact that uncertainty (inherent in any complex area of science) has...
View ArticleDon’t give up on engaging conservatives
This guest post is by Paul Connor, a postgraduate researcher in social psychology at the University of Melbourne. His research is currently focused on climate change communication and pro-environmental...
View ArticleWhy is climate change scepticism such a slippery concept?
What exactly is climate change scepticism? The quest to provide a satisfactory answer to this question is now well into its second decade, with scholars, commentators and campaigners (on both sides of...
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