Balance Of Forces | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Green Army | Non-Aligned | Blue Army | |
| Command and Control Finance, Logistics and Supply | |||
| Governments | Countries who have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol (192) [Note 1] | Countries who have signed not ratified (1) or who have not signed (3) the Kyoto Protocol [Note 1] | Countries that have withdrawn (1) [Note 1] |
| Non-Government Organizations | Environmental International Development | ||
| Regulated Industries | Renewable Energy Nuclear Energy Efficiency |
Fossil fuels Chemical Tobacco Mining Fishing | |
Research and Development | |||
| Scientific Bodies [Note 2] | Free market think tanks [Note 3] | ||
| Climate Researchers | 97% | 3% | |
| Synthesis Reports | IPCC US Global Change Research Program Arctic Climate Impact Assessment | ||
| National Academies of Science | 32 | ||
| General Science | 8 | ||
| Earth Sciences | 8 | 5 [Note 4] | |
| Meteorology and Oceanography | 6 | 1 [Note 5] | |
| Paleoclimatology | 2 | ||
| Biology and Life Sciences | 7 | ||
| Human Health | 7 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 5 | ||
Communications | |||
| Media Hubs | News Corporation | ||
| Network Hubs | Consensus Websites | Contrarian Websites | |
Field Operations | |||
| Industry front organisations, spokespersons and "white coats". [Note 3] | |||
| Washington Lobbyists [Note 8] | Renewables (138) | Fossil Fuels (2,672) | |
| Foot soldiers and insurgents | Tea Party (Mayer, 2010) | ||
Notes
- Wikipedia. List of Kyoto Protocol signatories, 7 July 2017.
Signed and ratified: 192 parties.
Signed but not intending to ratify: United States.
Former parties: Canada renounced the convention effective 15 December 2012.
UNFCCC members but not signatories: Andorra, Palestine, South Sudan. - Wikipedia (2011):
Since 2007, when the American Association of Petroleum Geologists released a revised statement, no scientific body of national or international standing rejects the findings of human-induced effects on climate change. - Exxon Secrets
- Wikipedia (2011):
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
American Geological Institute
American Institute of Professional Geologists
Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences
Geological Society of Australia - Wikipedia (2011):
American Association of State Climatologists - Goodell, Jeff. As the World Burns, Rolling Stone Politics, 6 January 2010.
[According] to the Center for Public Integrity, the number of lobbyists devoted to climate change had soared by more than fivefold since 2003, to a total of 2810 — or five lobbyists for every lawmaker in Washington. …
Only 138 of the lobbyists were pushing for alternative energy — the rest were heavily weighted toward the old fossil-fuel mafia, most of whom oppose tough carbon caps.
Reference
- Mayer, Jane, 2010. Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama, The New Yorker, 30 August.
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Integrative Complexity
Philip Tetlock (1954) [Annenberg University Professorm University of Pennsylvania]:
[This study used] the integrative complexity coding system to analyze confidential interviews with 89 members of the British House of Commons.
The primary goal was to explore the interrelation between cognitive style and political ideology in this elite political sample.
Results indicate that moderate socialists interpreted policy issues in more integratively complex or multidimensional terms than did moderate conservatives who, in turn, interpreted issues in more complex terms than extreme conservatives and extreme socialists. …
These relations between integrative complexity and political ideology remained significant after controlling for a variety of belief and attitudinal variables.
(Cognitive style and political belief systems in the British House of Commons, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46(2), 365-375, 1984)
Right-Wing Authoritarianism
Right-wing authoritarianism … is defined by three attitudinal and behavioral clusters which correlate together:
- Authoritarian submission — a high degree of submissiveness to the authorities who are perceived to be established and legitimate in the society in which one lives.
- Authoritarian aggression — a general aggressiveness directed against deviants, outgroups, and other people that are perceived to be targets according to established authorities.
- Conventionalism — a high degree of adherence to the traditions and social norms that are perceived to be endorsed by society and its established authorities, and a belief that others in one's society should also be required to adhere to these norms.
… The "right wing" in right-wing authoritarianism does not necessarily refer to someone's politics, but to psychological preferences and personality.
It means that the person tends to follow the established conventions and authorities in society.
In theory, the authorities could have either right-wing or left-wing political views.
Milton Rokeach's dogmatism scale was an early attempt to measure pure authoritarianism, whether left or right.
The scale was carefully designed to measure "closed mindedness" without regard to ideology.
Nevertheless, researchers found that it correlated with British political conservativism. …
There have been a number of other attempts to identify "left-wing authoritarians" in the United States and Canada.
These would be people who submit to leftist authorities, are highly conventional to liberal viewpoints, and are aggressive to people who oppose left-wing ideology.
These attempts have failed because measures of authoritarianism always correlate at least slightly with the right.
There are certainly extremists across the political spectrum, but most psychologists now believe that authoritarianism is a predominantly right-wing phenomenon.
Although authoritarians in North America generally support conservative political parties, this finding must be considered in a historical and cultural context.
For example, during the Cold War, authoritarians in the United States were usually anti-communist, whereas in the Soviet Union, authoritarians generally supported the Communist Party and were opposed to capitalism.
Thus, authoritarians generally favor the established ways and oppose social and political change.
(Wikipedia, 8 September 2011)
Integrative Complexity
Integrative complexity … refers to the degree to which thinking and reasoning involve the recognition and integration of multiple perspectives and possibilities and their interrelated contingencies. …
Integrative complexity is a measure of the intellectual style used by individuals or groups in processing information, problem-solving, and decision making.
Complexity looks at the structure of one's thoughts, while ignoring the contents.
[Integrative] complexity has two components: …
- Differentiation refers to the perception of different dimensions when considering an issue.
- Integration refers to the recognition of cognitive connections among differentiated dimensions or perspectives.
(Wikipedia, 5 November 2011)
