Narrative Based Evidence Making`
9 hours ago Kip Hansen 10 Comments
Opinion by Kip Hansen
This essay was inspired by a phrase used by Ted Nordhaus ( and here ) in his recent piece at The Breakthrough Journal titled: “The Worst Thing About the ‘Climate Crisis’ Is What It Does To Your Brain”. Nordhaus used the phrase in this context:
“Anyone looking for academic studies, NGO, or government sources to validate these [ Climate Crisis ] claims will, of course, easily find them, such has been the scale of narrative based evidence making over the last several decades, underwritten by billions of dollars annually in environmental philanthropy. But that literature is shot through with dubious methods, speculative modeling, and wild projections of ostensible correlations between natural climate variations and all sorts of highly overdetermined social outcomes far into the future …”).
Let me try to breakdown that phrase – narrative based evidence making –to create a clear definition of it.
Narrative: In its simplest form, a narrative is the telling of a story, or the story itself. A narrative is just that, neither good nor bad, it is just a way of talking/writing about something.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/04/narrative-based-evidence-making/
