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joakimkulin.bsky.social
Associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden | Political sociologist mainly studying public opinion on climate change and climate policy. But also welfare state, immigration, political polarization, and rightwing populism.
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🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024

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The meme I didn't know I needed

submitted 90 days ago • 1006 comments

PLOS Climate is now on Bluesky! Please give us a follow for new research and other updates from our journal community! @plosclimate.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to see my study on climate whataboutism, rightwing populism, and climate policy opposition published in Environmental Politics (@environmentalpol.bsky.social), where I show that whataboutism mediates the effect of nationalism on climate policy attitudes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 98 days ago • 10 comments

Too bad we don't just think of ourselves as citizens of an ocean planet. 🌏

submitted 92 days ago • 10 comments

Climate whataboutism discourses ('what about China?') resonate strongly with nationalists and right-wing populists The irony is that climate delay means countries get left behind in the new industrial revolution, and become more vulnerable to impacts Nationalists working to weaken their nations

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating study that shows "a strong and consistent relationship between nationalist attitudes and the extent to which people think that their own country should not act on climate change unless others do so".

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

New article by Joakim Kulin. Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

Happy to see my study on climate whataboutism, rightwing populism, and climate policy opposition published in Environmental Politics (@environmentalpol.bsky.social), where I show that whataboutism mediates the effect of nationalism on climate policy attitudes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 98 days ago • 10 comments

New study in PLOS Climate: ”Rightwing populist attitudes and public support for climate policies in Western Europe”; if you are interested in what drives rightwing populists into their extreme positions on climate action, read this: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

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Had some new studies published recently. One is about how key political trustwortiness dimensions translate into public support for climate policy, showing that perceptions about politicians’ competence matter far more than those about integrity (e.g. corruption). iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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NEW: Top coral scientist says the only way to save dying reefs is "a rapid phase out of fossil fuels" "No amount of tinkering with corals—attempting to make so-called super corals—is going to save the world’s coral reefs"

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A study in Nature reports new projections that suggest that the global economy could experience an average income reduction of 19% by 2049. The models shed further light on the potential consequences of unrestrained carbon emissions. go.nature.com/3Q7lIlo 🧪

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”Countries are falling behind on almost every policy required to cut greenhouse gas emissions, despite progress on renewable energy and the uptake of electric vehicles. This failure makes the prospect of holding global temperatures to 1.5C above preindustrial levels even more remote…”

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The Production Gap Report 2023 is out now! It finds governments plan on producing more than *twice* the fossil fuels in 2030 than the 1.5ºC limit allows. Produced in partnership with SEI, @e3g.bsky.social, IISD and UNEP. Get the report: climateanalytics.org/publications...

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“Just five rich global north countries are responsible for the majority (51%) of planned new oil and gas extraction to 2050: the US, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK. These countries have the responsibility to move first to phase out fossil fuel production.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 477 days ago • 15 comments

Hi everyone, I’m relatively new here but I hope to find other people doing social science research on climate change. I mostly do research focusing on beliefs, attitudes and behaviors related to climate change and climate policy. Below are a few of my (not so) recently published studies.

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This was a fascinating read. For all the research we do, these historical watershed moments are almost unresearchable, as it is insurmountably diffucult to ascertain such course of events a century+ ago. But sure seems convenient for fossil fuel interests that this solar power pioneer was stymied.

submitted 504 days ago • 1 comment