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Record W4416616726 · doi:10.1075/msw.25017.gro

‘Climate cults’ and ‘climate sins’

2025· article· en· W4416616726 on OpenAlexaffabout
Elise Stickles

Bibliographic record

VenueMetaphor and the Social World · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion, Ecology, and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphorClimate changeSkepticismIdeologyFrame (networking)Politics

Abstract

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Abstract Climate change is frequently discussed by political figures and journalists that have divergent views on the validity of climate change; metaphor is often used to frame climate change and portray a particular stance on the issue. Religion metaphors used to invalidate the veracity of climate change have been documented in the United Kingdom and the United States ( Atanasova & Koteyko, 2017 ; Woods et al., 2012 ), however, our data indicates that specific Religion metaphors are also used to validate climate change. We address: (1) Which Religion metaphors are used to frame climate change as a valid issue, or as a fraudulent secular ‘religion’; (2) How these metaphors instantiate a specific ideological stance; (3) Patterns of metaphor use by climate change skeptics and climate change advocates. Our findings show that different Religion metaphors are used to frame climate change by conservatives and liberals in the United States and Canada. Through our analysis, we clarify how the Religion frame is used to make divergent arguments concerning climate change.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.773
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.320 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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