Climate Social Science Network
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A global network of social scientists focused on political conflicts around climate change, headquartered at Brown University. https://cssn.org/
The past week has been devastating for the Brown University community. Our hearts are with the students, faculty, staff, and greater Providence community as we move into the academic break.
We hope for healing. We hope for rest. We hope for change.
We hope for healing. We hope for rest. We hope for change.
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"December 19, 2025
Statement of Support for Brown’s Leadership and Staff
In the wake of the horrific act of gun violence on our campus, the Brown chapter of the AAUP expresses its strong support for President Christina Paxson and the rest of the university's..
"December 19, 2025
Statement of Support for Brown’s Leadership and Staff
In the wake of the horrific act of gun violence on our campus, the Brown chapter of the AAUP expresses its strong support for President Christina Paxson and the rest of the university's..
Statements — Brown AAUP
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December 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The past week has been devastating for the Brown University community. Our hearts are with the students, faculty, staff, and greater Providence community as we move into the academic break.
We hope for healing. We hope for rest. We hope for change.
We hope for healing. We hope for rest. We hope for change.
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Happy to share my first solo-authored peer reviewed article published in @climdevjournal.bsky.social!
It examines some of the main discourses of climate delay in Colombia’s energy transition debate in the national media.
Here's a quick 🧵 with the open access link and key findings.
It examines some of the main discourses of climate delay in Colombia’s energy transition debate in the national media.
Here's a quick 🧵 with the open access link and key findings.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy to share my first solo-authored peer reviewed article published in @climdevjournal.bsky.social!
It examines some of the main discourses of climate delay in Colombia’s energy transition debate in the national media.
Here's a quick 🧵 with the open access link and key findings.
It examines some of the main discourses of climate delay in Colombia’s energy transition debate in the national media.
Here's a quick 🧵 with the open access link and key findings.
Climate litigation is a path forward, if done correctly.
@mer29-cam.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social have published a piece in @natclimate.nature.com that helps us understand effective action.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mer29-cam.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social have published a piece in @natclimate.nature.com that helps us understand effective action.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash - Nature Climate Change
Restrictions on civil society may drive climate activists to shift from protest to litigation. However, challenges to judicial independence, deregulation and anti-climate litigation mean that activist...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Climate litigation is a path forward, if done correctly.
@mer29-cam.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social have published a piece in @natclimate.nature.com that helps us understand effective action.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mer29-cam.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social have published a piece in @natclimate.nature.com that helps us understand effective action.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Especially because the problem is not lack of solutions: it's the fact that we are being prevented from implementing them.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Especially because the problem is not lack of solutions: it's the fact that we are being prevented from implementing them.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Newsletter coming this week! Be sure to sign up for our mailing list here: cssn.org/about-us/sub...
Excellent coverage of exactly the problem we face 35 years into the effort to face #climatechange:
"a decades-long disinformation bombardment.," as @whitehouse.senate.gov put it.
Now on solutions--see work by Climate Action Against Disinformation groups
caad.info
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
"a decades-long disinformation bombardment.," as @whitehouse.senate.gov put it.
Now on solutions--see work by Climate Action Against Disinformation groups
caad.info
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"10 Years After Paris Accord, Climate Denial Is Surging" - see @lisagsf.bsky.social and @stevenleemyers.bsky.social' piece in the NY Times, featuring the work by our scholars on the infiltration of misinformation in international climate negotiations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"10 Years After Paris Accord, Climate Denial Is Surging" - see @lisagsf.bsky.social and @stevenleemyers.bsky.social' piece in the NY Times, featuring the work by our scholars on the infiltration of misinformation in international climate negotiations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Reporting by @mongabay.com on our new Global Assessment and larger trends of climate obstruction in the COP: india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
Obstruction tactics delay climate action, says global assessment
A new global assessment explores who is blocking action on climate change through coordinated disinformation campaigns.
india.mongabay.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reporting by @mongabay.com on our new Global Assessment and larger trends of climate obstruction in the COP: india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
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Also: a custom rap anthem is the absolute best way to end any session. Check out Baba Brinkman's astounding rap-up of our climate information integrity panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH_5...
@cape-acme.bsky.social
@cape-acme.bsky.social
COP30 – Just Facts – Baba Brinkman Rap Up
YouTube video by Event Rap
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Also: a custom rap anthem is the absolute best way to end any session. Check out Baba Brinkman's astounding rap-up of our climate information integrity panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH_5...
@cape-acme.bsky.social
@cape-acme.bsky.social
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Thank you @climateconnections.bsky.social for bringing this important paper by @ccallahan45.bsky.social & @jsmankin.bsky.social to my attention. Three cheers for their research and for the powerful lede to their abstract:
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thank you @climateconnections.bsky.social for bringing this important paper by @ccallahan45.bsky.social & @jsmankin.bsky.social to my attention. Three cheers for their research and for the powerful lede to their abstract:
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ATTN #COP30, come by our event today, November 20, Side Event Room 5 from 6-8:30pm: "Reimagining climate policy-making to be effective, inclusive, and action-oriented."
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
ATTN #COP30, come by our event today, November 20, Side Event Room 5 from 6-8:30pm: "Reimagining climate policy-making to be effective, inclusive, and action-oriented."
From surveillance and shifting “red lines” to data manipulation and participant safety, our new brief by the Climate Obstruction in Authoritarian and Non-Democratic States working group gives strategies for researchers investigating in restrictive environments.
bit.ly/Mar_Pob_etal_25
bit.ly/Mar_Pob_etal_25
Researching Climate Obstruction in Authoritarian and non-Democratic Contexts
In this brief developed by the Climate Obstruction in Authoritarian and Non-Democratic States working group, researchers share the challenges they faced when investigating climate obstruction in restr...
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
From surveillance and shifting “red lines” to data manipulation and participant safety, our new brief by the Climate Obstruction in Authoritarian and Non-Democratic States working group gives strategies for researchers investigating in restrictive environments.
bit.ly/Mar_Pob_etal_25
bit.ly/Mar_Pob_etal_25
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The @beyondoilgas.bsky.social (BOGA) press conference is getting underway at #COP30. See webcast link below. Lots of ministers and ambassadors on stage including UK's Ed Miliband and Colombia's Irene Vélez.
unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_111181...
unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_111181...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The @beyondoilgas.bsky.social (BOGA) press conference is getting underway at #COP30. See webcast link below. Lots of ministers and ambassadors on stage including UK's Ed Miliband and Colombia's Irene Vélez.
unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_111181...
unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_111181...
A big move in the right direction by world leaders.
See CSSN Director @timmonsroberts.bsky.social quoted in @earthjournalism.bsky.social: earthjournalism.net/stories/coun...
See CSSN Director @timmonsroberts.bsky.social quoted in @earthjournalism.bsky.social: earthjournalism.net/stories/coun...
Countries Sign A Declaration To Fight Climate Disinformation At COP30
earthjournalism.net
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A big move in the right direction by world leaders.
See CSSN Director @timmonsroberts.bsky.social quoted in @earthjournalism.bsky.social: earthjournalism.net/stories/coun...
See CSSN Director @timmonsroberts.bsky.social quoted in @earthjournalism.bsky.social: earthjournalism.net/stories/coun...
"Exxon’s efforts to deny climate change through public campaigns were not just about avoiding their own obligations to take action...they may have also undermined climate action by individuals and other institutions, including governments."
www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: Use money from a greenwashing settlement to correct the record on meat’s climate impacts
We clean up after polluters. How about cleaning up after they pollute our public discourse with climate misinformation?
www.timesunion.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Exxon’s efforts to deny climate change through public campaigns were not just about avoiding their own obligations to take action...they may have also undermined climate action by individuals and other institutions, including governments."
www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
See a recent content analysis of foundational climate denial research by Peter J. Jacques and Riley E. Dunlap here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Foundations of climate change denial: Anti-environmentalism and anti-science
Despite a longstanding scientific consensus about the reality of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), a climate change countermovement (CCCM) has worked to undermine and cast doubt on climate science f...
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
See a recent content analysis of foundational climate denial research by Peter J. Jacques and Riley E. Dunlap here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Ignoring fossil fuels is, 'like telling the story of Star Wars without mentioning Darth Vader.'
Great work to everyone on the panel and all who have contributed to this book.
You can view a recording of this press conference from @canclimateaction.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...
Great work to everyone on the panel and all who have contributed to this book.
You can view a recording of this press conference from @canclimateaction.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Ignoring fossil fuels is, 'like telling the story of Star Wars without mentioning Darth Vader.'
Great work to everyone on the panel and all who have contributed to this book.
You can view a recording of this press conference from @canclimateaction.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...
Great work to everyone on the panel and all who have contributed to this book.
You can view a recording of this press conference from @canclimateaction.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...
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Global climate negotiations are complex. #COP30 brings together nearly 200 countries to address a shared crisis. That level of coordination is extraordinary, and disagreement is plentiful. Some reflect genuine differences, but others are deliberate efforts to stall, dilute, or redirect ambition.
Recognizing and Resisting Obstruction at COP30
As the world gathers in Belém, Brazil, for the annual UN climate summit COP30, both expectations and stakes are high. This conference marks thirty years of global climate negotiations, and ten years s...
blog.ucs.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Global climate negotiations are complex. #COP30 brings together nearly 200 countries to address a shared crisis. That level of coordination is extraordinary, and disagreement is plentiful. Some reflect genuine differences, but others are deliberate efforts to stall, dilute, or redirect ambition.
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People might also be interested in this excellent FREE resource, a collective effort by >100 social scientists, 'Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment' and the accompanying @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast series interviewing authors about each chapter
(deets, links in post below)
(deets, links in post below)
The fossil fuel industry’s playbook: Deny. Delay. Dilute.
Chapter 2 of “Climate Obstruction” shows how Big Oil reinvented obstruction for the net-zero era.
Read: cssn.org/news-researc...
Chapter 2 of “Climate Obstruction” shows how Big Oil reinvented obstruction for the net-zero era.
Read: cssn.org/news-researc...
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
People might also be interested in this excellent FREE resource, a collective effort by >100 social scientists, 'Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment' and the accompanying @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast series interviewing authors about each chapter
(deets, links in post below)
(deets, links in post below)
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How the disadvantaged are disadvantaged here at #COP30
Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...
Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...
Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress - Inside Climate News
Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations.
insideclimatenews.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
How the disadvantaged are disadvantaged here at #COP30
Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...
Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...
See @npr.org for an interesting look into Columbia's energy transition, with cited research on national-level climate delay from CSSN scholar @guywhedwards.bsky.social, where he "expos[es] Colombia’s media as a site of climate obstruction."
Full journal article available here: bit.ly/4oDK2ux
Full journal article available here: bit.ly/4oDK2ux
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
See @npr.org for an interesting look into Columbia's energy transition, with cited research on national-level climate delay from CSSN scholar @guywhedwards.bsky.social, where he "expos[es] Colombia’s media as a site of climate obstruction."
Full journal article available here: bit.ly/4oDK2ux
Full journal article available here: bit.ly/4oDK2ux
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🚫 Bad COP to good COP: Blocking fossil-fueled disinformation in Belém & beyond
@ucs.org's Kate Cell and Kathy Mulvey explain why fossil fuel companies should be barred from COP climate talks, where they attempt to derail discussions.
via @climatechangenews.com
buff.ly/Il1bnfM
@ucs.org's Kate Cell and Kathy Mulvey explain why fossil fuel companies should be barred from COP climate talks, where they attempt to derail discussions.
via @climatechangenews.com
buff.ly/Il1bnfM
Blocking fossil fuel disinformation in Belém and beyond
Fossil fuel companies should be barred from COP climate talks, where they attempt to derail discussions, and their disinformation must be tackled
www.climatechangenews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚫 Bad COP to good COP: Blocking fossil-fueled disinformation in Belém & beyond
@ucs.org's Kate Cell and Kathy Mulvey explain why fossil fuel companies should be barred from COP climate talks, where they attempt to derail discussions.
via @climatechangenews.com
buff.ly/Il1bnfM
@ucs.org's Kate Cell and Kathy Mulvey explain why fossil fuel companies should be barred from COP climate talks, where they attempt to derail discussions.
via @climatechangenews.com
buff.ly/Il1bnfM
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Multilateral action must focus on destabilizing the entrenched power of fossil asset owners like oil&gas, heavy industry, big ag thru trade, tax and finance institutions. My book explains how.
Existential Politics
A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation
press.princeton.edu
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Multilateral action must focus on destabilizing the entrenched power of fossil asset owners like oil&gas, heavy industry, big ag thru trade, tax and finance institutions. My book explains how.
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As #COP30 officially starts today, a look at how various actors try to obstruct UN climate processes, with @cssn.org's Kari de Pryck and Eduardo Viola drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
S14, Ep10 | The Corruption of COP
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
As #COP30 officially starts today, a look at how various actors try to obstruct UN climate processes, with @cssn.org's Kari de Pryck and Eduardo Viola drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Great joining @amywestervelt.bsky.social (along with colleague and co-author @prof-b-t.bsky.social) to discuss our chapter in the recent @cssn.org volume, 'Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment':
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
S14, Ep9 | Climate Obstruction at the Subnational (Local) Level
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Great joining @amywestervelt.bsky.social (along with colleague and co-author @prof-b-t.bsky.social) to discuss our chapter in the recent @cssn.org volume, 'Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment':
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...