Essays about: "climate scepticism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words climate scepticism.

1. 1. CLIMATE SCEPTICISM AND THE POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT : A case study of the Sweden Democrats

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Elinor Appelberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Climate Scepticism; Climate Policy; Sweden Democrats; Sweden; Populist Radical Right; Right Wing Populism; Climate Change.;

   Abstract : Literature on climate policy of political parties’ points to an emerging congruence between populist radical right parties and scepticism toward climate change and climate policy. This thesis explores this nexus via a case study of the Sweden Democrats (SD) climate policy over a period of twelve years (2010-2022). READ MORE

3. 2. Coal Mine Closures, Climate Change Scepticism and Elections: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Mining Employment Shocks on U.S. Elections

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Ross Murdoch; [2020]
   Keywords : Mining; Unemployment; Climate Change; Political Science; Elections;

   Abstract : Averting the worst effects of climate change requires large reductions in coal mining employment. The political impacts of coal mine closures have not been quantitatively studied. READ MORE

4. 3. Climate action or climate scepticism? : A study on how Scandinavian populist radical right parties approaches the climate issue in their manifestos

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Joanna Toll; [2020]
   Keywords : Radical right-wing populism; Populist radical right parties; Scandinavia; Sweden Democrats; Danish People’s Party; Progress Party; climate measure; climate sceptics; climate scepticism;

   Abstract : This thesis examines and explains how the three Scandinavian populist radical right parties, the Sweden Democrats, the Danish People’s Party and the Progress Party approaches the climate issue in their latest manifesto, and how it has changed over a period of ten years. By means of a content analysis and categorisations of climate scepticism, climate omission and climate measures, this thesis finds explicit evidence of climate scepticism in the Progress Party whereas there is no such evidence for the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People’s Party completely omits the issue. READ MORE

5. 4. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTITUDE AND KNOWLEDGE GAIN THROUGH REPEATED RETRIEVAL

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Elinor Wennerholm; Angelica Rylander Viksell; [2020]
   Keywords : repeated retrieval; attitudes; climate change; cognitive science; psychology; upprepad återhämtning; klimatförändringar; attityder; kognitionsvetenskap; psykologi;

   Abstract : This study examines how attitudes in middle age individuals affect information processing regarding factual information by using the method repeated retrieval. The study consisted of a questionnaire to establish participants environmental attitudes. READ MORE

6. 5. Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Ida-Maria Chvostek; [2019]
   Keywords : United States of America; conservative think tanks; critical metaphor analysis; IPCC; framing;

   Abstract : This study examined the metaphors used in contemporary American conservative discourse between October 2018 and March 2019, focusing on material published by conservative think tanks (CTTs) and tweets made by Republican senators in relation to climate change. For the CTTs, a domain-specific corpus (36,388 words) was compiled and a smaller corpus (3967 words) was assembled based on 135 tweets. READ MORE