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The Grip of Culture: The Social Psychology of Climate Catastrophism
by Andy West My book ‘The Grip of Culture’, subtitled ‘The social psychology of climate change catastrophism’, is now published. “Climate change catastrophism is a cultural disease haunting Western society. Andy West’s excellent study of this problem explains the different … Continue reading
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The ‘Holy Grail’ of social predictors of public attitudes toward climate change
by Andy West A single social predictor for international attitudes to climate change renders the current literature obsolete.
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Climate bookshelf 2023
by Judith Curry 2023 was a banner year for the publication of interesting climate-related books. Some excellent books for Xmas stockings, providing scientific insights, policy sanity and optimism for the 21st century.
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Public ClimateBall
by Andy West Although a game played on a relatively tiny stage, ClimateBall™ points to fundamental processes, which across the vastly larger global public stage and involving billions of meme transactions annually, have caused the emergence of a cultural belief-system … Continue reading
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Cultural motivations for wind and solar renewables deployment
by Andy West “For me the question now is, now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we going to keep letting them destroy it?”. – Michael Schellenberger
Posted in Energy
Can religiosity predict cultural climate beliefs?
by Andy West Probing the relationship between religiosity globally, and cultural beliefs in the narrative of imminent / certain global climate catastrophe: Post 1 of 3.
Posted in Sociology of science
Culturally-determined response to climate change: Part III
by Andy West Climate change affirmative responses to all survey questions are culturally determined, and across National Publics related to religiousity. Cultural attitudes inappropriately push climate policy.
Posted in Sociology of science
Apparent Paradoxes in the relationship of Climate ‘Concerns, Skepticism, Activism, and Priority’, explained by Religiosity
by Andy West Explores the contrast between Allied and Core belief in the culture of climate catastrophe, and the relationships of these plus religiosity to Climate Change Activism (XR and Children’s Strikes for Climate). Post 2 of 3.
Posted in Sociology of science
Interview: Climate Change – A Different Perspective with Judith Curry
by Judith Curry My recent interview on the Strong and Free podcast.
Child prophets and proselytizers of climate catastrophe
by Andy West The role of children in the culture of climate catastrophism
Posted in Communication, Sociology of science
The catastrophe narrative
by Andy West A narrative propagated by emotive engagement, not veracity.
Posted in Communication, Sociology of science
CAGW: a ‘snarl’ word?
The term ‘CAGW’ has both appropriate and inappropriate usage.
Posted in Communication
Innate Skepticism
by Andy West On the origin of public skepticism and its entanglement with science.
Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science
The Denialism Frame
by Andy West An inadequately testable and inappropriate framing.
Posted in Scientific method, Skeptics
Climate culture
by Andy West A frequent topic at Climate Etc. is the ‘consensus.’ An argument is presented here that the climate consensus is as much about culture as it is about climate science.
Posted in Consensus, Sociology of science
A key admission regarding climate memes
by Andy West Lewandowsky and Oreskes raise the prospect that via the agency of memes, the climate Consensus with its high certainty of danger, could be a socially generated artifact and not a scientific fact.
Posted in Communication, Consensus, Sociology of science
‘Climate culture’ versus ‘knowing disbelief’
by Andy West Climate culture versus knowing disbelief.
Posted in Sociology of science
Climate psychology’s consensus bias
by Andy West Climate psychologists have for years now puzzled over public inaction on climate change and also what makes skeptics tick (or sick), apparently making little progress on these issues.
Posted in Consensus
We are all confident idiots
by Judith Curry Stumbling through all our cognitive clutter just to recognize a true “I don’t know” may not constitute failure as much as it does an enviable success, a crucial signpost that shows us we are traveling in the … Continue reading
Posted in Sociology of science, Uncertainty
Contradiction on emotional bias in the climate domain
by Andy West Emotions and messaging about climate change.
Posted in Communication, Consensus, Sociology of science
State of the blog discussion thread
by Judith Curry After almost four years of blogging at Climate Etc., its time for some reflection
Posted in Sociology of science
CAGW memeplex
by Andy West The hypothesis for a single, simple, scientific explanation underlying the entire complex social phenomenon of CAGW.
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