COP30 is next week and we can expect to see countries OBSTRUCTING effective policymaking! I’m excited to share this NEW policy brief on Obstruction in the UNFCCC from our @cssn.org working group Download here: cssn.org/cssn-primer-... @cop30brazil.bsky.social

A lack of media prevalence has led the public to think that they are in the minority for wanting climate action. The reality is that most ("roughly 80 to 89%") want their governments to do more. See @amywestervelt.bsky.social's piece in @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

This research provides a critical step in understanding the Atlas Network, and an important example of the scale and influence of disinformation campaigns.

Big Meat is following Big Oil’s playbook—funding science, shaping narratives, and deflecting blame. Chapter 4 of “Climate Obstruction” reveals how PR + media framing obscure corporate responsibility for emissions. Read: cssn.org/news-researc...

Excellent discussion of the animal ag industry and how it obstructs climate policy with @amywestervelt.bsky.social @profsecchi.bsky.social and Kathrin Lauber @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcastaddict.com/drilled/epis...

There is a case US leadership of Obstruction. The new CSSN volume reviews the evidence bsky.app/profile/cssn...

Coal, utilities, and transport firms use PR cover + front groups to block policy while appearing “part of the solution.” Chapter 3 of “Climate Obstruction” exposes how this network shapes rules, silences protest, and spreads false “energy poverty” narratives. Read: cssn.org/news-researc...

"Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task." See Andrew MacIntosh, CSSN Scholar Gregory Trencher et. al.'s recent commentary in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41....

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...

This was an interview based on our chapter on agriculture in the book "Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment". The ebook is open access and you can find it here, and @drilledmedia.bsky.social is doing a whole series of podcasts on the book, check it out! CC: @cssn.org

The Climate Obstruction in the IPCC and UNFCCC working group has published a briefing which can be found on our website here: cssn.org/cssn-primer-.... The brief introduces a typology of 14 obstruction tactics which we will watch for as the negotiations proceed through COP30.

See @skepticalscience.bsky.social's shout out on our book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment - skepticalscience.com/new-book-cli... The book is out now open access on our website here: cssn.org/news-researc...

What exactly is climate obstruction—and how does it differ from denial? Chapter 1 of “Climate Obstruction” explains in short: the science is clear—but powerful actors are slowing action. Read and download our book here: cssn.org/news-researc...

A story of Scotland's past fossil fuel capitalism, de-industrialization, and clean transitions. CSSN scholar @dominicmhinde.bsky.social brings us on a journey through the Highlands to uncover what a sustainable future can look like. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/domin...

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

Listen to @drilledmedia.bsky.social's newest podcast on how the coal, utilities and transportation obstruct climate policies - featuring experts Jen Schneider and Gregory Trencher. This episode is a companion to chapter 3 of our brand new book, available on our website. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Are fossil fuel companies really "part of the solution to the climate crisis" or "essential allies in the energy transition"? CSSN scholars Marcel Llavero-Pasquina and Antonio Bontempi investigate companies' stake in the transition in their new paper below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To order a physical copy and download our book, visit our site here: cssn.org/news-researc...

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

See the latest episode of @drilledmedia.bsky.social where authors of our upcoming book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment discuss the rise of rightwing populism and its relationship to climate resistance. The podcast can be found here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

In which Jesse Bryant explains the connection between accelerationism and climate politics, and why tf Joe Rogan is always talkin about the Kali Yuga www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9b...

Our submission draws on published research by @cssn.org scholars, including a forthcoming book on the topic entitled Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment to be published by Oxford University Press in October. global.oup.com/academic/pro... @anuregnet.bsky.social @anu-iceds.bsky.social

Experts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social @aronczyk.bsky.social and @johnfocook.bsky.social speak with @trackchangesmedia.bsky.social on the rising threat of climate disinformation in the media, solutions misinformation, and the attack on climate science and scientists themselves.

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Disinformation, false solutions, regulatory capture, oh my! See @drilledmedia.bsky.social's newly launched podcast series below where they dig into how obstructing actors use coordinated tactics across industry and policy to block the clean energy transition. drilled.media/investigatio...

New study from Carlos R.S. Milani, Janaina Pinto, and Arthur Facini on the organized obstruction observed in the Brazilian government and industries. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The lexicon used by climate misinformers has changed, and "‘New Denial’ is bent on condemning solutions to climate change and their supporters." Researchers found the most prevalent climate-related terms on Twitter/X from 2021-2023 and shared their results below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

CSSN Scholar, D. Rosenbloom states: "the paper develops a practical framework to assess whether near-term choices can build toward climate-aligned futures or whether they waste scarce time and resources on pathways that cannot go the distance." See new article below journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

See @kathymulvey.bsky.social's piece in @ucs.org. blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

Student research out of the @climatedevlab.bsky.social has sparked legal backlash from anti-wind groups. With offshore wind construction already at risk, attacks from groups like these threaten the possibility of meeting local climate goals. See the full article below, and the newly released report.

More evidence that utilities are a "pivotal player" in U.S. climate policy, with the Edison Electric Institute preferring EPA retain its authority to regulate power plants-- not for altruistic reasons but because of the "certainty" it provides their investors: (1/2) www.eenews.net/articles/ind...

UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics on.ft.com/3Ut4pNF | opinion

Wanna know more? Check out my book! Coming to a bookstore near you in early October! (Just in time for #COP30) press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Predictably, the national administration's policies and unconstrained load growth from data centers are leading to backsliding in corporate clean energy goals: (1/) www.eenews.net/articles/ari...

How does the social value of education contribute to partisanship within climate debates? Wetts: "political elites and interest groups attempting to delay climate action may... stok[e] opposition...among lower-education Americans through appeals to class-based resentment against cultural elites."

Michael DeBellis, George Gino, Aadarsh Balaji, and Jacob Gino use both Web Ontology Language (OWL) and LLM capability to organize and search climate obstruction research and data. See their preprint,"Using Retrieval Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graphs to Understand Climate Obstruction."

The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.

For the first time, the UN's International Court of Justice speaks on climate change. See ‪‪@karenzraick.bsky.social and Marlise Simons piece below. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...

Check out this podcast with CSSN member @guywhedwards.bsky.social!

How do far right parties frame solar power? How have their positions changed? What does this variation over time tell us about the motives of the far right's obstruction of solar? See @manesweisskircher.bsky.social and ‪@sabinedvolk.bsky.social‬'s piece below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When do we electrify, and when do we use hydrogen? See CSSN Scholar @christinahoicka.bsky.social and colleagues' paper that can tell us when hydrogen end-uses are appropriate, using a method that is applicable to other emerging technologies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking for your next summer read? Check out this list of new and notable titles by IBES scholars! From exploring environmental history to modeling climate futures, each book invites readers to reflect on the world around them and their role in shaping it.

CSSN Scholar Daniele Conversi commentates: "the Anthropocene has produced an overarching narrative which is potentially enabling in a world divided by nationalism and where science is fractured by disciplinary boundaries." See his article below. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Greenpeace's anti-SLAPP case against Energy Transfer in the EU started today. Meanwhile Greenpeace USA is appealing the $666 million ruling handed down in North Dakota in March. In @drilledmedia.bsky.social @alleenbrown.bsky.social w/the story ET tried to keep out of court drilled.media/news/slappd

🎉Happy to share that I recently won the Adam Weiler Award in the Social Sciences category gifted annually to Sussex PhD students who show the potential to make an outstanding impact with their work!!

“Despite overwhelming evidence of the interlinked, intergenerational, severe and widespread human rights impacts of the fossil fuel life cycle … these countries have and are still accruing enormous profits from fossil fuels, and are still not taking decisive action,” Elisa Morgera. bit.ly/40vBaNw

Russia attempts to create a non-Western climate coalition - will their strategy of shared carbon markets and emission trading (ETS) create an low-carbon future, or merely obstruct earnest efforts towards decarbonization? @climatestrategies.bsky.social reports. climatestrategies.org/publication/...

Important work by CSSN scholar @fgenovese.bsky.social and colleagues on the affect that locally-embedded fossil fuel interests have on climate reporting. Read the first draft below!

Job for social movements scholars, it would be great with someone interested in environmental/climate protests!

File under “the Italianization of Europe”, or how depriving conservative parties of moral compasses is detrimental for the public good