Climate Timeline

John Tyndall 1850s identiﬁed the greenhouse effect in a laboratory (conﬁrming John Fourier’s 1824 discovery)

Svante Arrhenius 1890s calculated that emissions from human industry could cause a global warmi ng

Guy S. Callendar 1930s found levels of carbon dioxide are climbing and raising global temperature No.1: The Climate Timeline 1960-2014 v.3 15 October 2014 1960 – 2014 timeline Roger Revelle 1950s Mapping Climate Communication Second IPCC report detects signature of demonstrated that C02 levels had Third IPCC report states that global Fourth IPCC report warns that serious effects Climate Change: International Energy Agency U.S. National Academy of Sciences conference human-caused greenhouse effect warming, warming, unprecedented since end of warming have become evident and that increased due to the use of fossil fuels Intergovernmental A Summary of the Science report warns of 6º warming . The Charney Report declares that serious warming is likely of last ice age, is "very likely," with the cost of reducing emissions would be far COP9 The Royal Society (UK) 2011 RIO+20 scientific ‘The Causes of Climate Change’ by the National Research Council in the coming century. possible severe surprises. Effective less than the damage they will cause if not in Boulder, USA -1965 predicts that doubling CO2 will lead to Panel on Climate end of debate among all but a few Milan reduced. US National Academy warns of Earth Charles Keeling 1960s 3ºC warming. USA - 1979 RIO COP4 scientists. April 2014 is the first measured C02 fluctuation in the events United Nations international Change (IPCC) Bueonos Aires 2003 political assaults on scientists 2010 highest ever yearly Summit month in human history with Nobel Peace Prize awarded 2010 average carbon dioxide atmosphere and annual maximum founded November 1988 st,1990 (FAR) nd,1995 (SAR) COP2 rd,2001 (TAR) COP11 th,2007(AR4) increase in global emissions - 5.9% 2013/14 (AR5) scientific conference at Villach 1 2 3 4 2012 5th, level in Earth’s atmosphere value steadily rising. The World Climate Conference Earth 1998 to Al Gore and the IPCC Austria, produces first scientific consensus on global warming Montreal COP18 at 400 ppm produces declaration and appeal to world to Geneva 2007 COP15 COP17 NOAA established prevent man-made changes in cliamte. 1985 First IPCC report says the COP3 2005 COP12 China overtakes USA COP16 Doha USA - 1970 Geneva 1979 Earth has been warming and Summit 1996 COP7 as world's largest CO2 Durban The World Conference on the Changing future warming seems likely. COP5 Nairobi Copenhagen Cancun COP20 COP1 Marrakech COP8 emitter 2007 2011 2012 Atmosphere: Implications for Security Kyoto Bonn COP6 COP10 2006 2010 Toronto meeting of climate scientists 1992 New Delhi Lima Berlin La Hague 2001 COP13 COP14 Copenhagen conference fails COP19 call for a 20% reduction of global CO2 1997 1999 2002 Buenos Aires Kyoto treaty goes into effect, signed by all major Nicholas Stern claims 2009 2014 emissions by the year 2005. June 1988 1995 2000 2004 industrial nations except US and Australia - 2005 Bali Poznan his report underestimated to negotiate binding agreements. Warsaw wide-spread US Environmental Protection Agency the gravity of climate change UK government US Republican Canadian UK government Obama political Stern 2008 dismantles the majority eliminates government makes dramatic cuts media coverage United Nations Framework deletes section on climate change 2007 100,000 people march in the streets Climate 2013 William Nierenberg’s report Climate Protection Act Canadian government creates the of Copenhagen and hold their own Sustainable the House Committee cuts over 2000 in the Environment from a report after the Bush administration’s Review Development on Global Warming scientific jobs Agency (1,700 jobs events for National Academy of Sciences claims directs EPA and State to prepare "junk science" Kyoto Protocol Representative Gleneagles People’s Climate Assembly, joined by Plan Lyndon Johnson 1972 United Nations Global Warming James Hansen Convention on Climate Change Climate Change Plan attempts to manipulate scientific consensus. Canadian The Stern Review on the Commission 2011 and silences lost) effects of climate change will be negligible policy options for climate change hearing in Congress First major global climate change treaty (1997) for Canada Joe Barton attacks government Economics of Climate Change 100s of U.N. delegates. President Obama releases message to Congress USA - 1983 USA - 1987 USA -1995 US House Passes 2011 scientists Conference on the Research Act (UNFCCC) established 1992 mandatory targets on greenhouse-gas emissions with view climate scientist withdraws claims that climate change is the Climate Action Plan Climate Summit on climate change - 1965 Senator James Inhofe, Chairman of Senate The Climate Change Act the "American Clean USA - 1980 testifies to Congress The principal negotiating forum for global climate to reduce emissions at least 5% below existing 1990 levels Michael Mann G8 from Kyoto "the greatest market failure the !!! including increased use of in New York in preperation Human Environment 23 June 1988 with twelves hearings in Senate and European Union adopts target Committee on the Environment and Public Works, UK government becomes the Energy and Security US house of Representatives votes 184-240 against accepting the following resolution: issues charged with the task of preventing "dangerous in the commitment period 2008 to 2012. Bush administration abandons Leak of Republican strategist Frank Luntz memo: world has ever seen". UK - 2006 renewable energy and carbon for COP 21 in Paris, 2015. the House on climate change during this period Berlin Mandate of a maximum 2°C rise in delivers an speech on the Senate floor where he first to set binding targets Act" (2009) - later “the scientific finding of the Environmental Protection Agency that climate change is occuring, anthropogenic interference with the climate system" US Senate rejects Kyoto in advance with the Kyoto Protocol and ousts ”make the lack of scientific certainty pollution restrictions for power September 2014 Stockholm calls for emission targets average global temperatures 911 a primary issue in the debate" describes climate change as a 'hoax'. to reduce emission defeated in Senate is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks to public heath and welfare” plants. June 25, 2013 from developed countries Byrd-Hagel resolution, in 95-0 unanimous vote. IPCC Chair Robert Watson 300% increase in climate change lobbyist in the USA (2005 - 2009) - with $90m expenditure 2008 The Copenhagen Accord April 2011 350 ppm in 1988 1996 2003 !!! !!! !!! !!! World Development Movement Friends of the Earth Bolivia’s chief climate negotiator !!! Tar Sands Action: 1,253 protestors CREDO Pledge of Resistance International Treaty to Protect 'Largest-ever' Third World Network Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) Buenos Aires Declaration on the 1st of many Climate Camps in the UK and then globally (2006) 350.org Global World People's Conference on Climate !!! climate science founded London 1970 founded. London 1971 Albuquerque Declaration WTO meeting in Seattle 1st Climate Justice Summit 2002 Bali Principles growth of the climate protests at !!! Angelica Navarro delivers speech arrested at the White House - 2011 Idle No More over 75,000 vow to commit civil the Sacred. Indigenous action climate-change founded. Malaysia 1984 founded 1989 !!! Ethical Dimension of Climate Change mass mobilization of the Day of Action by IEN sent to COP4 - 1998 shut down by activists 1999 in La Hague (2000) justice movement G8 Gleneagles Rising Tide North America Climate Justice Now! !!! on climate debt at the UN Change and the Rights of Mother Earth !!! Indigenous movement disobedience if the Keystone XL on tar sands extraction - 2013 march in NYC David Suzuki Foundation founded 1990 of Climate Justice (BADEDCC) launched at COP10 (2004) Transition Towns climate justice movement2009 Greenpeace Scotland 2005 founded, UK 2006 !!! + Europe founded (2006) founded in Bali (2007) 30,000 gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia - 2010 !!! Occupy movement - 2011 2012 pipeline is approved - 2013 attended by an climate justice World Wildlife Fund (WWF) founded. Vancouver 1970 To Really Save the Planet, Stop Going Green This Changes Everything: estimated 300k to founded Switzerland 1961 The Heat is On Billy Parish and others found Naomi Oreskes‘ paper in by Mike Tidwell rejecting green consumerism Capitalism vs. The Climate 400k people - and Time Magazine names Toyota introduces Prius Newsweek: "The Truth About UK Feed-in tarriffs for The Merchants of Doubt Climate for Cities Ross Gelbspan’s book describes fossil the Energy Action Coalition, Science on the scientific USA Today proclaim: The Inconvenient Truth Vanity Fair: by Naomi Klein 2014 marchs in cities First Earth Day 1970 The Endangered Earth' in Japan (1997) first mass- Denial" cover story, leads to less solar installations by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway started 1993 fuel industry organizing to prevent a organizing youth on climate issues consensus on climate change “The debate is over: the globe is warming” Academy Award winning documentary film The Green Issue around the world ecological modernization Man of the Year market electric hybrid car contrarian media outside Fox News approved - 2008 documents the climate contrarian movement mobilization of the political response to climate change USA - 2003 2004 re-energizes the climate movement - 2006 Hopenhagen 2010 climate movement EU Emissions trading launches UN global marketing campaign at Copenhagen, Business Environmental Ex-UK Prime Miniter Margaret Thatcher backtracks on her climate advocacy, Clean Development Mechanism opens The rise of ‘responsibilitization’ discourse wherein responsibility for climate change neoliberalism UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the first major leader to call for action. NAFTA signed into law 1993. Nafta has a dramatic impact The first carbon emissions trading aligns climate objectives with corporate advertising. Post Rio+20: The United Nations Environment Programe (UNEP) promotes a version calling climate activism a "marvelous excuse for supra-national socialism" A key mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol is considered at an individual level rather than at the level where decisions are She delivers a speech at the United Nations and calls for a treaty on climate change by on global trade and emissions. Emissions rise 1% a year in 1990s and then Leadership Council scheme (EU) implemented. 2005 Hopenhagend becomes a symbol of the corporate of the "green economy" where economic valuation processes are to be used to prove the privatisation + deregulation 1992 and states that the ‘ 1989 founded 1998 mobilization of uncertainty discourse and praises President George W. Bush for rejecting Kyoto (2003). 2006 made regarding regulation for polluting industry, i.e. government policy. value of ecosystem services, including climate services, to industry and politicians. discourses protocols must be binding’. surge to 3.4% a year growth between 2000-2008. “media portrayals of uncertainty have potential to distract as well as capture of the climate debate. climate contrarian trends impede substantive efforts to reduce GHG emissions as the reduction changing ownership structure of news sources disinvestment in news reporting, investigative journalism and science journalism 25% cut in news industry workforce since 2001 ‘bias’ as ‘balance’, i.e. the false balance of science vs. opinion / ideology, loss of 2/3 US newspapers with science sections in 2 decades churnalism 2008 - CNN cuts entire science and technology budget in 2008 supporting the consolidation of media conforming to the journalistic norm of ‘balance’ and conflict. Boykoff 2011 { US President George H.W. Bush states: “Those who think we are powerless to do anything about of uncertainty has long been framed as a prerequisite for political and contrarian agenda { increasing corporate power the 'greenhouse effect' are forgetting about the 'White House effect’” (1990). Over the following years policy progress” (Boykoff, 2011, pg.64). The Great Global the White House blocks progress on UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). 2 Climategate Marshall Institute publishes Warming Swindle No Climate Tax CO is Green States of Fear “Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.” campaign excerpts from e-mails stolen from Climate Change: H9 contrarian Global Warming: What Does Exxon and other fossil fuel interests fund groups to challenge the science Channel 4 (UK) documentary campaign climate scientists fuel public skepticism Coal industry funded Information Council on the Environment (ICE) launchs a $500,000 campaign aiming to by Michael Crichton. A novel disinformation campaign created by The Competitive Enterprise Institute Trick or Treat? (CNN) the Science Tell Us? "reposition global warming as theory (not fact)” Donors Trust behind climate change. One of thes groups, the Global Climate Science Team formally criticized by Ofcom, Alaska Gov. Sarah Las Vegas by Jastrow, Seitz and writes a “Draft Global Climate Science Communications Plan” which states: A Skeptical Environmentalist that argues that global warming UK broadcasting regulatory founded in 1999. growth of the Palin campaigns 1st International Conference events and anti-regulation industry lobbying Nierenberg. 1989 The Greening of Planet Earth “Victory will be achieved when…average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) is a scam created by environmentalists Leipzig agency. 2007 Funding contrarian Bjorn Lomborg - 2001. A book which claims that contrarian movement for US presidency on Climate Change hosted H4 video produced by Western Fuels argues that more carbon dioxide will be uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of to gain planetary control is popular with Declaration (revised) H3 Heartland Institute billboard campaign (2012) The Keeling Curve contrarian organizations. responding to climate change is not supported with the slogan “ by Heartland Institute in NYC NewYork Chicago H5 contestion of scientific consensus beneficial to humanity. The video is popular with politicians in Washington. 1991 the “conventional wisdom...”. by adequate scientific data. by contrarians in Washington and widely SEPP project opposing the global warming The Global Warming Petition The Keeling Curve plots the carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since 1958 strategies The industry lobby group used to dismiss climate change. Drill, baby, drill’ H1 strategies 2005 revised contrarian petition also known 2008 H2 Washington Syndey H6 astroturfing + deceptive disinformation Global Climate Science & Environmental as the Oregon Petition organized 1st Nongovernmental International { George C. Marshall Institute Leipzig Declaration Manhattan Declaration on Climate Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) Washington H7 in 1989 and again in 2007 390 Coalition Policy Project (SEPP) Change by the International Climate 2st NIPCC 3rd NIPCC 4th NIPCC 5th NIPCC founded by Nierenberg, Seitz and Jastrow (1984) SEPP project opposing the global warming - 1995 report published yearly since 2010. Chicago H8 is founded. 1989 founded by Fred Singer - 1990 Science Coalition report report Munich report report 380

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320 Carbon dioxide concentration (ppmv) The Climate Timeline explores the history of climate How to read this poster Legend Discourse Colour Coding Discourses Media Monitoring: World Newspaper Coverage Media Monitoring: 2000-2014 World Newspaper Coverage of ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Global Warming’ Peak coverage in 2009 Apr Jul Oct communication. The work illustrates the temporal growth of Events are situated within five discursive streams and colour This timeline contextualizes events within these impacts will become increasingly discourses in order to explore tensions 5) Climate contrarians have ideological of Climate Change or Global Warming 310 Katrina 5 times larger than 2000 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Sandy 2013/14 (AR5) A research group led by Max Boykoff monitors fifty sources across various climate discourses by mapping historical processes and coded accordingly. To compare media coverage with events, 5th, IPCC report climate contrarian five discourses. Discourses are shared ways expensive, difficult and even impossible to between this discourse and the neoliberal motives behind their critiques of various 3rd peak 4th peak events that have lead to different ways of communicating and follow graph at the bottom right to events directly above. The COP15 understanding the world and framing mitigate if action is not taken to dramatically discourse (as described in the "Theorizing dimensions of climate science and the policies twenty-five countries in seven different regions around the world. European Copenhagen 2007 COP conference* neoliberalism understanding climate change. Events are color-coded according legends display icons and colours used in the timelines. problems. They provide the basic terms for reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Discursive Confusion" section of the Poster directed at lowering emissions. Typically We record the number of times the terms ‘climate change’ or heat wave This poster is the first of a series created for the ecological modernization to the communicative function they serve within five discourses: other conference** analysis, and also define what is understood Summary Report). contrarians challenge what they see as a false ‘global warming‘ have been used in these sources and publish the Mapping Climate Communication project by: as common sense and legitimate knowledge. 2) Climate justice movements see climate consensus in climate science. This discourse is results monthly online. Prior to 2004 a much smaller sample of climate contrarian (red), neoliberalism (dark blue), ecological This timeline is the first of a series of posters in the Mapping !!! event climate justice 200 2nd peak promoted by conservative think tanks, data is available. Details are available on the project website: Dr. Joanna Boehnert modernization (light blue), climate justice (green) and climate Climate Communication project. Information on the climate science The discourses represent positions on change as an ethical problem wherein the 4) Neoliberalism: Herein environmental 1st peak book / report climate change motivated by science (or not) greatest impacts are felt by those least considerations are subordinated to bloggers, media outlets, fossil fuel lobbyists, http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/research/media_coverage/index.html CIRES Visiting Research Fellow science itself (grey/black). The timeline also displays how events methodology, theory and references for this work are available in media have influenced media coverage from the year 2000. The media in the Poster Summary Report published online 15 October and ideology. Mapping discursive positions responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. macroeconomic policy “imperatives”. public relations personnel and some politi- Center for Science and Technology Policy Research newspaper / magazine coverage Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences monitoring graph displays media peaks and dips which correspond 2014. This project was completed by Dr. Joanna Boehnert during is a means of exploring different assump- Advocates demand radical changes to reduce Neoliberalism is an ideology that is charac- cians, often with financial support from the movie / TV show / video University of Colorado Boulder to the events in the timeline directly above. This poster provides an a visiting fellowship at the Center for Science and Technology tions and perspectives behind various ways emissions while also addressing issues of terized by privatization, deregulation, fossil fuel industry. The radical position, Media Monitoring Legend 150 overview of the major events in climate communication history as Policy Research at the Cooperative Institute for Research in advertising campaign of communicating climate change. The five social justice and equity. The radical position financialization and austerity. Neoliberal promoted by fossil fuel interests and support- [email protected] well as the forces that obscure and denigrate climate science and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. discourses are described briefly below and in holds that capitalism can never deliver governance simultaneously rolls-back ing think tanks, seeks to continue unrestrained Middle East [email protected] movement climate policy. Mapping a wide variety of activities and events the The views presented in this work and any mistakes are the more detail in the Poster Summary Report. sustainable levels of emission, since this responsibilities of the state and rolls-out use of the Earth’s fossil fuel reserves regard- Posters can be downloaded with the Poster Summary Report. work serves to clarify the relationship between science, media, author‘s alone. meteorological event economic model will always prioritize the market conforming regulatory incursions less of the consequences to the climate. Africa Available 15 October 2014 on this website: policy, civil society and the ideological factors that influence the 1) Climate science: This discourse needs of the market over those of the natural (Peck, 2010). In practice, neoliberalism seeks milestone 100 http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com ways in which climate change is communicated. emerges from physics, chemistry, atmos- world. New ways of organizing social rela- to mask these dynamics by presenting itself The contarian movement is not the only Oceania act / mandate / protocol pheric sciences and the earth sciences. The tions and the political economy must be as environmentally conscientious while discourse stalling action on climate change. trend or strategy 97% consensus within science (Cook et al., created to respond to climate change. avoiding action to reduce net greenhouse Neoliberal modes of governance and ideolo- 2013; Anderegg et al. 2000) is that warming gas emissions. Despite the green rhetoric gies have profound impact on both climate South America declaration of the atmosphere and ocean system is 3) Ecological modernization holds that there is a symbiosis between this and the policy and public understand of climate 50 key statement or speech unequivocal, associated impacts are occur- climate change can be addressed within the contrarian discourse, since the lack of change. Theorizing the impact of neoliberalism North America ring at rates unprecedented in the historical current capitalist system and that low emis- regulation enables corporate power grabs on climate policy and communication is key CENTER FOR founding of a new record and that these changes are predomi- sions and economic benefits can be achieved and weakens capacities in the public sphere to understanding of why emissions con- organization Europe SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY nately due to human influence. Climate with market mechanisms, clean energy and to regulate and monitor polluting industrial tinue to rise despite the significant work & change presents severe risks to civilization other innovative solutions to climate change. activities. by the climate science community and the * COP: Conference of the Parties, yearly United Nations conference POLICY RESEARCH ** including H1, H2, etc.: Heartland Institute’s contrarian conference and to the non-human natural world and This category subsumes a variety of green environmental movement over four decades. Asia 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 1. government Mapping Climate Communication No2, Network of Actors: USA, UK and Canadian Based Institutions, Organizations and Individuals Version 2.3, 13 October 2014 2. intergovernmental neoliberalism climate organization Sarah Palin 3. Senator James Inhofe USA assocation National Center for Public Policy Research contrarian USA 4. Mercatus Center / Center for Market scientific Processes Inc USA research The Chamber Americn Enterprise Institute for Public Forbes Scaife Affiliated International Policy Research 5. of Commerce USA Foundations USA media The Department The House USA of Defense and the Senate American Government 6. American Government NGO / charity World Business Koch Affiliated Foundations BP 7. Council for Sustainable USA Exxon research Development (WBCSD) Heritage institute International Foundation Mobil USA FOX 8. website News or blog UK Coalition USA The Donor's Economist Government Canadian Trust 9. The World Bank UK USA contrarian International Government organization

CO2 IS George C. Marshall Green Inc. 10. Media Institute (GMI) USA contrarian USA Research blog Center USA Global Warming.org 11. The Wall No Frakking USA CNN Consensus individual USA / International Street Journal USA The the reference frame Committee for a Christopher Constructive Tomorrow USA Monkton Climate Depot 12. Daily USA UK Science and corporation Mail Public Policy Tom Nelson The low Internet presence high Internet presence The Telegraph UK Institute USA Shell UK Breakthrough UK ICECAP Sandbag Washington USA Institute Climate UK Climate Audit Legend: Actor Types and Internet Influence: Coded Circle Nodes Campaign Post USA Roger USA Pielke Jr. UK New USA York Roy Spencer Bishop Hill The White House USA Heartland Institute How to Read this Map American Government Post USA USA JunkScience Center for the Study This poster illustrates discursive positions and relationships between prominent USA Americans of Carbon Dioxide Steward Brand American institutions, organizations and individuals participating in climate communication in and Global Change USA James for Prosperity Petroleum Los Angeles Times USA USA the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom*. Actors mapped here include: USA The Times Delingpole American Association UK Institute UK John Coleman of Petroleum Geologists USA 1) governments USA Manhattan Institute (AAPG) 2) intergovernment organizations (IGOS) Frank Luntz The Sun for Policy Research USA Brendan O'Neill USA 3) science research institutions UK Watts Up USA UK National Mining Association 4) media organizations With That Competitive USA Lou Dobbs Nigel USA Enterprise 5) non-governmental organizations / charities (NGOs) USA Lawson Institute Robert Jastrow USA 6) associations and societies UK USA The Lynde and Harry 7) climate research institutes + think tanks Rush Limbaugh Piers Morgan Federation for American Climate etc. Global Warming USA Cato Bradley Freedom Fred Singer 8) websites / blogs USA Coal Energy and Security Atlas Economic USA Reason Foundation Judith Curry Policy Foundation Institute Foundation Works USA 9) contrarian blogs USA UK Research Foundation USA USA USA USA ecological 10) contrarian organizations 11) individuals 12) corporations modernization Actors are situated on the framework within five discursive realms: climate science, ecological modernization, neoliberalism, climate contrarianism and NYTimes climate justice. Nodes are color-coded according to where they are situated on + DOT Earth this discursive framework. The four corners are extreme positions relative to USA Today USA BBC discursive norms that currently reproduce the status quo, i.e. unsustainable USA UK / interntional development with severe risks associated with accelerated climate change. Andy Resources for the The twelve types types of actors listed above are coded by circumference lines. Revkin Future (RFF) USA USA Internet traffic is coded by the width of circumference lines. Each node has six Connect variables: Environmental for Climate International 1) name The Climate Protection Group (TCG) 2) physical location (Canada, USA, UK or an international organization operating in these countries) Agency International 3) discursive position: location on framework + colour USA The Nature 4) relative influence: size of the circle Climate Conservancy 5) type of actor: circle circumference line (see legend) UNEP Disclosure Al jazeera (TNC) 6) Internet traffic: width of circle circumference line (see legend) Standards Environmental Sierra Club United Nations International International USA Board Defense Fund Position on map, size and circumference lines are based on the data in the tables Environment Program (CDSB) (EDF) UK USA at the bottom of the poster, but are also relative to other local nodes (see the brief methodology section below). NCAR Hunter National Climate Lovins Al Gore USA International Union Atmospheric Research USA National Worldwatch USA for Conservation Resource Institute of Nature Discourses Defense USA IUCN - International Discourses are shared ways understanding the 3) Ecological modernization holds that climate Council Climate The Guardian world. Discourses are also concepts that frame a change can be addressed within the current capital- Reality (NRDC) UK / USA problem. They provide the basic terms for analysis ist system and that low emissions and economic NASA Project USA Conservation USA and define what is understood as common sense benefits can be achieved with market mechanisms, + Global Climate Change Clinton International Foundation USA and legitimate knowledge. The five discourses clean energy and other innovative solutions to USA Grist climate.nasa.gov Nicholas Stern USA USA presented on this poster represent positions on climate change. This broad discourse is supported UNFCCC UK Fiona Harvey climate change motivated by science (or not) by the vast majority of actors in the central part of UN Framework Convention UK NOAA on Climate Change World Wide Fund and ideology. Mapping discursive positions is the framework (blue, green and grey). a means of understanding the similarities and American Chatham + CIRES Kate Treehugger differences between various ways of under- 4) Neoliberalism: Herein environmental House Sheppard for Nature National Oceanic and Geophysical Nature USA Oxfam Internaional UK standing climate change. This map breaks considerations are subordinated to macroeconom- Atmospheric Adminstration Union (AGU) USA + The Cooperative Institute for USA Climate WWF climate discourses into five positions: ic policy “imperatives”. Neoliberalism is an Research in Environmental Sciences Desk International TckTckTck ideology that is characterized by privatization, USA USA Forum International Center for Climate 1) Climate science: This discourse emerges and Energy Solutions Red Cross for the deregulation, financialization and austerity. (C2ES) Red Crescent from physics, chemistry, atmospheric sciences and Neoliberal governance simultaneously rolls-back Kevin USA Climate Centre Future Trenberth (RCCC) UK 350.org the earth sciences. The 97% consensus within responsibilities of the state and rolls-out market Waleed Abdalati USA American Sustainable International International science (Cook et al., 2013; Anderegg et al. 2000) conforming regulatory incursions (Peck, 2010). In Meterological Jonathan The Climate Prosperity Citizens Operation is that warming of the atmosphere and ocean practice, neoliberalism seeks to mask these Society (AMS) Canada Porritt World Climate Coalition Noah Rainforest Katherine UK USA Climate Resources Lobby UK UK Action system is unequivocal, associated impacts are dynamics by presenting itself as environmentally Hayhoe Institute (WRI) USA Network USA New Scientist Global USA occurring at rates unprecedented in the historical conscientious while avoiding action to reduce net Institute Center for USA Transition Towns International USA Climate International Bill MicKibben record and that these changes are predominately greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the green Adaptation Environmental USA Network Earthwatch UK / International due to human influence. Climate change presents rhetoric there is a symbiosis between this and the Partnership Law (CIEL) UK USA RAND Institute severe risks to civilization and to the non-human contrarian discourse, since the lack of regulation Climate James corporation USA USA Friends of Campaign natural world and these impacts will become enables corporate power grabs and weakens Hansen Van Jones USA Global Canopy Green UK USA Greenpeace Center for increasingly expensive, difficult and even impossi- capacities in the public sphere. Union of Concerned Programme Alliance International the Earth Alternative (GCP) - UK UK ble to mitigate if action is not taken to dramatical- American Association FOE new economic Technology Scientists (UCS) UK for the Advancement International International foundation Post Carbon ly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 5) Climate contrarian have ideological World Meteorological Global Tim Jackson The Natural Step of Science (AAAS) UK UK Insititute International George motives behind their critiques of various dimen- USA Footprint Pembina USA Organization (WMO) Jeremy Monbiot World Institute 2) Climate justice movements see climate sions of climate science and the policies International Network Leggett UK USA Canada Development Peterson Institute UK Climate change as an ethical problem wherein the greatest directed at lowering emissions. Typically Communciation Green Economics Movement for International Institute for UK impacts are felt by those least responsible for contrarians challenge what they see as a false USA Institute (GEI) Climate Economics European USA Princeton LeoDiCaprio UK greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates demand consensus in climate science. This discourse is Environmental ETC Group Central Tamsin Environmental USA COIN USA Policy (IEEP) Canada radical changes in modes of governance to reduce promoted by conservative think tanks, climate Tyndall Centre Edwards Institute (PEI) UK Tim Gavin UK USA DeChristopher emissions while also addressing issues of social skeptic bloggers, media outlets, fossil fuel for Climate Change Schmidt Michael IPCC Real International Institute The Green Party USA Mann Yale justice and equity. The radical position holds that lobbyists, public relations personnel and some Research Climate USA for Environment and Naomi Oreskes Yale Climate International Earth First! Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Stanford Woods Climate UK USA USA & Energy Institute International capitalism can never deliver sustainable levels of politicians, often with financial support from the International Development (IIED) Institute for the Project UK USA Overseas Smartmeme Rising Tide Peter Bob Ward Environment USA PLATFORM Industrial Workers of emission, since this economic model will always fossil fuel industry. The radical position, promot- Ken Development David Suzuki Democracy UK USA/UK Gleick Uk USA the World Environmental Institute (ODI) prioritize the needs of the market over those of the ed by fossil fuel interests and supporting think The Michael Caldeira USA Foundation Unionist Caucus USA Center for Science UK Canada Naomi Klein Oppenheimer Center for Clean Purdue Climate Bioneers Now! Canada natural world. Thus new ways of organizing social tanks, seeks to continue unrestrained use of the Royal USA and Technology USA Caroline Lucas Air Policy (CCAP) Brookings Change Research Climate Policy Research UK La Via relations and the political economy must be Earth’s fossil fuel reserves regardless of the Society USA Center (PCCRC) Action Jonathan Dana USA Institution E3G Third Generation Indigenous UK USA USA Network Campesina created to effectively respond to climate change. consequences to the climate. Overpeck Nuccitelli Max Boykoff Environmentalism Environmental International USA UK Institute for Nafeez Ahmed International Network MIT Center for UK Public Policy The Council (CAN-I) International Skeptical Energy & Environmental UK/International Climate Woods Hole Research (IPPR) Robert D. Science of Canadians Strategies Policy Research (CEEPR) UK Bullard Climate International UK Research Center USA Canada STEPS Clayton CENTER FOR Climate Eric Tar Sands Justice Methodology Met Office (WHRC) Belfer Center Centre Institute of International Thomas SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Carbon Progress Holthaus USA UK The Earth Blockade Now & International Institute for Muller The method is described in the Poster Summary Hadley Centre USA for Science and USA International Brief Institute Sustainable POLICY RESEARCH UK International Affairs USA and European Report along with the theory of this map, info- UK Global Development climate USA Affairs (IIEA) UCLA Institute of the The Corner House Adaptation Ireland / International (IISD) - Canada UK Oil Change rmation about metrics associated with the actors, Institute International Environmental Environment and Sustainability Intl USA Franke James reflections and references. Colors, positions, size DeSmog blog USA Communication Association CANADA science USA, Canada + UK (IECA) climate justice of the circles and Internet influence reflect data collected (some of which is in the tables). Since different types of actors are associated with Framework mapping climate communication perspectives and discourses: neoliberalism, ecological modernization, climate contrarians, climate science and climate justice different metrics, it was necessary to make many subjective judgments about the relative impor- actor name location type metric no.1 Alexa rank Twitter actor name location type metric no.1 Alexa rank Twitter actor name location type TTmap/or members Alexa Twitter actor name location type TTmap or revenue Twitter actor name location type TTmap rating (or revenue) Alexa Twitter actor name location type TTrating/members/revenue Alexa Twitter actor name location type metric 1 Alexa Twitter actor name location type metric 1 Twitter actor name location type metric 1 Twitter Metrics used in these tables and on the map tance of various ways of measuring impact and IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Int. 2 UN affliliation 144,002 14,000 Tamsin Edwards UK 11 - - 4,000 TckTckTck Int 6 450 NGO orgs 498,609 33,000 Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) UK 7 72 2,186 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Int. 7+5 101+/$229 USA only 34,381 1,450,000 PLATFORM UK 5 £364,338 low 9,100 Van Jones USA 11 n/a n/a 17,000 JunkScience USA 9.1 161,314 4,700 Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc USA 10a $6,128,425 15,000 No. type size - metric 1 Internet presence** UNFCCC - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Int. 2 UN affliliation 119,601 110,000 Peter Gleick USA 11 - - 13,400 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature Int. 6 1,200 orgs 128,517 44,800 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) UK 7 101+ 37,000 Worldwatch Institute USA 7+5 6 ($2.3m) 212,832 15,500 Greenpeace International Int. 5 $48m (USA only) 11,588 1,100,000 Franke James CAN 11 n/a n/a 9,700 Science and Public Policy Institute UK 9.1 1,478,474 - Mercatus Center / Center for Market Processes USA 10a $8,075,737 18,000 the influence of a wide range of institutions, UNEP - United Nations Environment Progra m Int. 2 UN affliliation 65,414 255,000 James Hansen USA 11 - - - Connect4Climate Int 6 (funded by WB) 1m+ (low) 160,000 Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) IRL 7 24 5,586 Yale Climate & Energy Institute + Env. Studies @YaleE360 USA 7 101+ 18,900 59,000 350.org Int. 5 $5.2m 125,250 198,000 Tim Jackson UK 11 n/a n/a 1,600 Roy Spencer USA 9.1 81,086 - National Mining Association USA 10a $16,558,296 n/a 1 government population no metric World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Int. 2 191 member states 103,427 12,000 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs USA 7 101+ 1,633 840 Yale Climate Project USA 7 n/a 5,691 19,000 new economic foundation UK 5 £3.1m 254,093 39,900 Jeremy Leggett UK 11 n/a n/a 12,000 Katherine Hayhoe Can 11 - - 9,300 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) UK 7 15 18,400 the reference frame USA 9.1 852,499 - National Center for Public Policy Research Inc. USA 10a $12,424,796 n/a 2 intergovernmental org no numerical metric Internet presence organizations, media outlets and individuals. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) + CIRES USA 3 $5,400 million + 1,049 298,000 Michael Mann USA 11 - - 20,500 Brookings Institution USA 7 78 26,859 120,000 International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Can. 7 90 145 Green Alliance UK 7 £1m 3m+ 17,000 Smartmeme USA 5 - 2m 5,000 Caroline Lucas UK 11 n/a n/a 90,000 GlobalWarming.org USA 9.1 657,220 - Reason Foundation USA 10a $7,196,010 n/a The poster is part of a series of three posters mapping National Climate Atmospheric Research (NCAR) USA 3 $173.9m 47,682 13,000 Dana Nuccitelli USA 11 - - 3,500 Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) USA 7 22 4m (v.low) 1,197 MIT Center for Energy &Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) USA 7 101+ - Forum for the Future UK 7 £4.4 m + 310,568 26,000 Earth First! + @efjournal Int. 6 no public data 282,403 6,300 George Monbiot UK 11 n/a n/a 101,000 Climate etc. (Judith Curry) USA 9.1 98,568 2,700 Media Research Center Inc USA 10a $12,631,050 77,000 3 science research funding / revenue Internet presence poster is an interpretation of this data based on Environmental Protection Agency USA 3 $8,200m 6,726 228,000 Jonathan Overpeck USA 11 - - 1,900 Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) USA 7 16 448,455 4,996 Overseas Development Institute (ODI) UK 7 77 50,000 Steward Brand USA 11 - - - Transition Towns Network Int 6 no public data 259,525 14,600 Bill McKibben USA 11 n/a n/a 130,000 Climate Depot USA 9 61,021 Alexa 5,400 Americans for Prosperity USA 10a $22,089,095 n/a 4 journal / media circulation or audience Internet presence many complex factors. climate communication created by: NASA's Global Climate Change website (climate.nasa.gov) USA 3 $17,700m 1,364 114,000 Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) USA 7 94 2m (low) 2,140 Al Gore USA 11 - 984,963 2,700,000 Rising Tide North America / UK USA/UK 6 no public data 3,912,193 7,100 Global Warming Policy Foundation UK 10a £362,000 n/a Michael Oppenheimer USA 11 - - 1,300 Pembina Institute Can. 7 85 12,800 Naomi Oreskes USA 11 n/a n/a 1,500 American Petroleum Institute USA 10c $181,236,577 7,900 5 NGO / charity funding / revenue Internet presence Met Office Hadley Centre UK 3 £204.9m 4,627 220,000 Gavin Schmidt USA 11 - - 5,500 Center for Science and Technology Policy Research USA 7 101+ 10,772 233 Peterson Institute for International Economics USA 7 58 9,935 Fiona Harvey UK 11 n/a n/a 12,000 The Green Party UK/International UK 6 18,567 members (UK) 464,885 6,740 Kate Sheppard USA 11 n/a n/a 54,000 Donor's Trust USA 10b $20,608,269 n/a Institute for Energy Research USA 10 n/a n/a Dr. Joanna Boehnert Tyndall Centre UK 3 - 2,641,608 11,000 Kevin Trenberth USA 11 - - - Center for Alternative Technology UK 7+5 n/a 410,266 13,700 Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) USA 7 101+ 235 Hunter Lovins USA 11 - - 8,500 The Climate Coalition UK 6 100 member orgs 1,117,382 13,600 Clayton ThomasMuller Can. 11 n/a n/a 6,000 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) USA 10c 36,000 members 11,000 Senator James Inhofe USA 11 n/a 20,000 6 association no. of members Internet presence New Scientist Int. 4 86.5k 7,528 86,500 The World Bank Int. 1 - 4,694 831,000 The Corner House UK 7+5 n/a - - Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) USA 7 101+ 104 Roger Pielke Jr. USA 11 - - 4,800 Indigenous Environmental Network USA 6 - - 4,000 The Chamber of Commerce - American Government USA 1 $198,586,150 n/a n/a Scaife Affiliated Foundations USA 10b $5,005,000 n/a Frank Luntz USA 11 n/a n/a 7 research institute ThinkTankMap ranking*** Internet presence * Limitations of this Poster: Scope CIRES Visiting Research Fellow The Guardian UK 4 90m (on-line) 139 6,500,000 The White House - American Government USA 1 318m 3,831 5,200,000 Chatham House UK 7 42 147,726 70,000 RAND corporation USA 7 45 60,900 Jonathan Porritt UK 11 n/a n/a - The Council of Canadians Can. 6 $5m CAN 842,471 14,700 The Wall Street Journal USA 4 2.37m (daily) 248 5,000,000 Christopher Monkton UK 11 n/a n/a Koch Affiliated Foundations USA 10b $1,469,050 n/a 8 website / blog Alexa rank Internet presence Center for Science and Technology Policy Research NYTimes + DOT EARTH USA 4 2.3m (Sunday) 123 13m +35.8k Department of Defense - American Government USA 1 318m 24,461 570,000 Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) Uk 7 101+ 2m 4,750 Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCCC) Int. 7 49 674 Andy Revkin USA 11 - - 61,300 Int. Environmental Communication Ass (IECA) Int. 6 - - 700 FOX News USA 4 844 k 182 (high) 4,200,000 The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation USA 10b $4,610,000 n/a Nigel Lawson UK 11 n/a 20,000 This poster illustrates organizations and individuals active in the United Nature USA 4 424k readers 3,623 741,000 The House and the Senate - American Government USA 1 318m 11,528 - Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) UK 7 88 - 1022 Resources for the Future (RFF) USA 7 8 2,457 Nicholas Stern UK 11 - - - Industrial Workers of the World Env. Unionist Caucus Int. 6 - - 800 New York Post USA 4 500k 919 655,000 Atlas Economic Research Foundation USA 10a $6,102,160 n/a Brendan O'Neill UK 11 n/a n/a 9 contrarian blog Alexa rank Internet presence States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The map neglects work done in Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Climate Institute USA 7 13 1.4m 300 Tar Sands Blockade USA 6 - - 16,000 James Delingpole UK 11 n/a 20,900 American Meterological Society (AMS) USA 6 14,000 members 148,418 1,000 The Canadian Government CAN. 1 34m 546 - Sandbag Climate Campaign UK 7 19 3,143 Bob Ward UK 11 n/a n/a 5,000 The Times (UK) UK 4 393k (daily) 5,182 246,000 Heritage Foundation USA 10a $78,253,864 n/a 10 contrarian org funding / revenue Internet presence the rest of the world, often with a greater focus on climate justice and a University of Colorado Boulder American Geophysical Union (AGU) USA 6 62,812 members 146,407 24,800 Climate Strategies UK 7 87 8m (v.low) 1911 Democracy Now! USA 4 360k viewers + 1k+stations 15,782 329,000 Oil Change International Int. 6 - - 4,000 Robert Jastrow USA 11 n/a n/a UK Government - the coalition UK 1 63m 1,619 - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment USA 7 101+ 1,649 Forbes Int. 4 6m readers 151 (high) 3,500,000 Heartland Institute USA 10a $5,973,500 n/a much smaller contrarian position. I regret that within this project I could Union of Concerned Scientists Int 6 90,000 members 130,977 21,000 USA Today USA 4 1.6m (daily) 291 1,000,000 Clinton Foundation USA 7 101+ 101,459 411,000 STEPS Centre UK 7 101+ 2,464 Al jazeera Int. 4 260m 1,249 2,000,000 Bioneers USA 6 - - 14,900 The Telegraph (UK) UK 4 514k (daily) 214 609,000 Americn Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research USA 10a $52,524,255 n/a Rush Limbaugh USA 11 n/a 424,000 11 individual no metric Internet presence American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) USA 6 126,995 members 96,732 25,500 BBC UK 4 388m 142 22,000,000 Conservation International USA 7 31+ $132m/yr 139,785 8,100 Sustainable Prosperity Can. 7 21 1,615 Grist USA 4 800k direct reach/month 20,419 160,000 Citizens Climate Lobby USA 6 530,489 9,000 The Daily Mail (UK) UK 4 1.6m (daily) 90 (v.high) 696,000 George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) USA 10a $539,438 n/a Fred Singer USA 11 n/a n/a 12 corporation revenue revenue 2013 Internet presence only realistically map organizations that I already knew or where I could e: [email protected] The Royal Society UK 6 1,430 fellows 281,184 75,000 CNN USA 4 495k 63 13,000,000 David Suzuki Foundation Can. 7 101+ 122,931 106,000 The Climate Group (TCG) Int. 7 68 61,000 Climate Campaign UK 5 no public data low 4,300 ETC Group Can. 7+5 $705,00 revenue 951,974 839 The Sun (UK) UK 4 2m (daily) 4,122 606,000 CO2 is Green Inc. USA 10a $355,000 n/a Lou Dobbs USA 11 n/a 89,000 read the language. It was also impossible to review work from all the e: [email protected] Climate Progress USA 8 - 3,577 82,000 Washington Post USA 4 671k (Sunday) 284 3,800,000 E3G Third Generation Environmentalism UK 7 70 4,438 The Earth Institute USA 7 101+ 66,000 Operation Noah UK 5 no public data 26,665 637 Post Carbon Institute USA 7+5 $968,209 479,747 11,300 Watts Up With That USA 9.1 140,000 visitors/month 9,422 11,000 Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow USA 10a $2,850,747 n/a John Coleman USA 11 n/a n/a ** Internet presence is based on Alexa rating and Twitter followers (if applicable) actors on this map so in some cases an actor may be slightly misplaced on Climate Desk USA 8 - 591,712 57,000 The Economist UK 4 209k 1,588 5,000,000 Earthwatch Institute USA 7 101 + 8m/yr 414,134 8,034 The Natural Step Int. 7 101+ 4,175 Via Campesina International Int. 5 2,000,000 members - 5,700 Nafeez Ahmed UK 11 n/a n/a 55,000 Climate Audit USA 9.2 19,000 visitors/month 128,880 - Cato Institute USA 10a $40,410,727 221,000 Piers Morgan USA 11 n/a 4,200,000 the framework. If you feel that this map misrepresents your organization Posters can be downloaded with the Poster Summary Report Skeptical Science int. 8 - 71,922 9,400 National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) USA 5 $123m 54,509 143,000 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) USA 7 37 + $149/yr 107,227 81,200 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Int. 7 86 336,000 Friends of the Earth (FOE) Int. 5 $6.1m (USA only) 150,973 102,000 Max Boykoff USA 11 n/a n/a 1,500 Bishop Hill USA 9.1 n/a 90,935 2,300 Sarah Palin USA 11 n/a 1,100,000 *** The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) ranking of global climate Freedom Works (Citizens for a Sound Economy) USA 10a $9,250,240 204,000 or person, I will take all comments into account on possible following Real Climate USA 8 - 177,707 4,300 The Breakthrough Institute USA 5 not published 608,919 6,496 Global Adaptation Institute USA 7 83 - - UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability UK 7 101+ 2,017 COIN UK 5 no public data - 876 Robert D. Bullard USA 11 n/a n/a 7,800 ICECAP USA 9.1 14,000 visitors/month 278,810 - Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change USA 10a n/a n/a Exxon Mobile Int. 12 $420bn (2013) 102,000 change think tanks. The methodology is published on their website: www.thinktankmap.org. (available 15 October 2014) on this website: Climate Central USA 8 - 61,754 13,900 Climate Reality Project USA 5 $7.8m 226,765 168,000 Global Canopy Programme (GCP) UK 7 59 8m (v. low) 1,519 Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) USA 7 1 1,168 Climate Justice Now! Int. 5 730 organizational members (2010) - 403 Leonardo DiCaprio USA 11 n/a n/a 11,000,000 Tom Nelson USA 9.1 n/a 509,427 - Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security USA 10a $3,405,722 n/a Shell Int. 12 $451bn 248,000 versions. My apologies to all relevant actors who are not on this map. DeSmog blog USA 8 - 132,208 12,500 Climate Communciation USA 5 n/a low 4,400 Global Climate Adaptation Partnership UK 7 39 9m - World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Int. 7 79 8,975 Carbon Brief UK 5 no public data 345,414 12,600 Tim DeChristopher USA 11 n/a n/a 8,200 No Frakking Consensus USA 9.1 n/a 672,027 - Competitive Enterprise Institute USA 10a $4,247,228 n/a BP Int. 12 $396bn 95,000 ****References will be published on Poster Summary Report (September 2014). Obviously there are practical limits to what one map can document. http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com Waleed Abdalati USA 11 - - - Sierra Club USA 5 $104m + 53.6m 38,439 126,000 Global Footprint Network USA 7 36 247,399 8,130 World Resources Institute (WRI) USA 7 81 85,200 Rainforest Action Network USA 5 $4,360,948 396,432 39,900 Naomi Klein Can. 11 n/a n/a 224,000 *9.1, 9.2, 10a, 10b, 10c will be explained in the Poster Summary Report *9.1, 9.2, 10a, 10b, 10c will be explained in the Poster Summary Report *9.1, 9.2, 10a, 10b, 10c will be explained in the Poster Summary Report Ken Caldeira USA 11 - - 6,000 Oxfam Int. 5 $65m(US) +£367m (UK) 61,704 568,000 Green Economics Institute (GEI) UK 7 101+ 7m - Worldwatch Institute USA 7+5 6 ($2.3m) 15,500 World Development Movement UK 5 £1,041,262 471,007 22,200 Eric Holthaus USA 11 n/a n/a 12,000