USA Today: Can Pope Francis shift climate politics?
For a September 17 article at USA Today, I spoke with Traci Watson about the potential political impact of Pope Francis’ visit on political debate over climate change — MCN Pope Francis wants you to turn off the A/C. That’s one of the implications of Francis’ extraordinary recent statement about the environment, which firmly blames…
Pope Francis: climate advocate, reframing the debate
Warning of “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem,” Pope Francis in an encyclical to be released this week (and already leaked) calls for aggressive action to combat climate change and other environmental problems. In the special papal letter addressed to the world community, Pope Francis is expected to emphasize the deep moral imperative for rich countries…
Social sciences are best hope for ending debates over climate change
-Guest post by Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan. Reposted with permission from The Conversation US. Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown described Senator Ted Cruz as unfit to run for office because of his “direct falsification of the existing scientific data” on climate change. Cruz fired back that “global warming alarmists” like Brown “ridicule and…
Our partisan brains: The psychology of why liberals and conservatives deny science
By Erik C Nisbet, The Ohio State University and R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University Senator Inhofe (R-Okla.) pitched a snowball on the floor of the United States Senate last month. This was his way of disputing that 2014 was the warmest year on earth and that human-caused climate change is happening. Inhofe’s beliefs…
