Essays about: "climate sceptics"

Found 4 essays containing the words climate sceptics.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. 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

4. 3. Climate sceptics and climate believers : climate change beliefs and intergroup perceptions in a Swedish context

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Tinela Selaru; [2018]
   Keywords : climate change; climate change sceptics; climate debate; intergroup perceptions; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The climate change debate in Sweden seems to be settled with most societal stakeholders accepting the climate science tenets and supporting climate action. However, a closer look will reveal that even Sweden hosts a community of sceptics who question the causes, consequences of climate change and the need for expansive mitigation action. READ MORE

5. 4. Cultural Cognition and Climate Change: Communicating climate science across potential divides in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Jamieson Bray; [2015]
   Keywords : Sustainable Development; Climate Change; Scepticism; Cultural Cognition; Risk Perception; Ideological Predispositions;

   Abstract : Human civilization is failing in the fight to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and limit the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Whilst there are likely numerous reasons for this inertia, societal risk perception plays a fundamental role in influencing the speed and effectiveness of political and social action to address climate change. READ MORE