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Making up the facts about climate change?
Upton Sinclair said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Let’s just try to understand a fairly straightforward question. I don’t...
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On the science and politics of climate change
Mike Hulme, author of the splendid Why We Disagree about Climate Change, has written a very measured op-ed about the theft of his emails from the University of East Anglia and the relationship between...
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Stewart Brand: Four sides to climate change – but which four?
Stewart Brand (whom, incidentally, we have to thank for the ‘whole earth’ photo at the Fourcultures masthead) wrote an op-ed recently in which he identified four types of climate change talk, based on...
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Warmer is better!
Well into the Twentieth Century the slate industry of North Wales was the world’s largest. It roofed the buildings of the world and left a huge scar on the beautiful landscape of what is now the...
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“People tend to conform their factual beliefs to ones that are consistent...
…according to law professor Don Braman, that is. NPR has an interview with members of the Cultural Cognition Project, who have been demonstrating experimentally that people’s climate change beliefs are...
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Culture and the Science of Climate Change
George Monbiot at the Guardian has finally begun to take account of Cultural Theory as a possible explanation for why people either believe or ‘refuse’ to believe in climate change. He cites an article...
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Climate, Cultural Theory and the Myths of Nature
A nice article by Howard Silverman of People & Place on the links between climate change, cultural theory and the myths of nature identified by the Resilience Alliance. http://bit.ly/959Dmp
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The more things change…
Image via Wikipedia A theory of change requires a set of assumptions about the status quo. These assumptions often go unnoticed and unquestioned. Sentences that include the words always and never are...
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It matters who presents the message
Who would you trust to tell you what the risks are? Research from the Cultural Cognition project suggests the cultural identity of the presenter matters significantly to the public reception of a...
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Experts and Cultural Cognition
Dan Kahan‘s blog at the Cultural Cognition Project makes some conjectures about whether experts think in similar ways to non-experts. Specifically he wonders whether experts exhibit the kinds of...
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A Simple Primer on Cultural Cognition
A Simple Primer on Cultural Cognition The New Republic has a short summary of the cultural cognition project: how to talk to climate change deniers. Those who ‘deny’ climate change aren’t mad, deluded...
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To pursuade more people about climate change we need a greater diversity of argument
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