An analysis of tweets from three major U.S. sectors — fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture — shows coordinated messaging to reinforce fossil-fuel reliance by denying the science and delaying change. CSSN members and grant recipients Alaina Kinol, Yutong Si, John Kinol, Jennie C. Stephens propose a discourse of climate obstruction framework.
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Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries
Image Credit: Kinol, Si, Kinol, and Stephens