Climate Delay News Today

113 articles in 48 journals by 674 contributing authors Physical science of climate change, effects

Biased and defamatory. These two words describe EcoRI writer Mary Lhowes’ portrayal of Green Oceans President Lisa Quattrocki Knight’s September 19th presentation on wind industry …

The Town Council, yet again, told a crowd of more than 100 people who turned out Thursday night for a workshop about SouthCoast Wind that there was no current proposal or contract for the town to …

In our government/NGO section this week, Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab report Discourses of Climate Delay in the Campaign Against Offshore Wind: A Case Study from Rhode Island applies earlier work by Lamb (Discourses of Climate Delay) and Cook (FLICC taxonomy) to put the bright lights on a organization attempting to fossilize energy supplies, finding archetypal examples of both systems littering that organizations rhetoric :

The fossil fuel industry and some governments are claiming methane gas can help reduce emissions. It can’t.

Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like global warming is caused by the sun, temperature has changed naturally in the past or other planets are warming too are examined to see what the science really says.

This blog post combines extracts from articles published by our German language partner website klimafakten.de, one from September 2020 and another from January 2021. Itll be the start of a series of blog posts looking more closely at the various discourses of climate delay, an insidious way to keep delaying action to combat climate change now that outright climate science denial seems to be waning.