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2025-09-06 18:10:17

Very interesting looking paper: In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
sciencedirect.com/science/arti
Hopefully someone wil…

Frequency per page of selected terms related to key mitigation strategies in the six full reports of IPCC Working Group III published between 1992 and 2022. The data highlights the overwhelming dominance of the term “technology”, particularly in the third and fourth assessment reports (2001 and 2007), where it peaked at over 1.5 mentions per page. In contrast, demand-side concepts such as “lifestyle”, “behavioural change”, and “sufficiency” remained marginal until a notable increase in the 2022…