Fig 1.
Interconnections among fossil energy, plastics, and agrichemicals.
All three sectors overlap in resource inputs from petroleum and fossil gas extraction and processing. Each pair of sectors is also mutually reinforcing through production, distribution, and consumption.
Table 1.
Twitter accounts of major oil and gas, plastics, and agrichemical organizations.
Fig 2.
Our mixed methods approach and key terms for each type of analysis are detailed in the two branches of network analysis and text analysis.
Fig 3.
Discourses of climate obstruction.
This framework integrates two frameworks to characterize discourses of climate obstruction (adapted from Lamb et al., 2020 and Cook, 2020). Each quadrant shows examples of the four categories of discourses in each framework.
Table 2.
Tweet references by sector.
Table 3.
Total Twitter network statistics.
Fig 4.
Twitter mention networks among fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical organizations.
This figure presents an overall view of the network not grouped by sector. All nodes have a degree centrality equal to or larger than 2. There are 284 nodes (8.34%) and 639 edges (16.99%) visible in this visualization. Nodes are sized by degree centrality such that a larger node indicates a bigger value of degree centrality.
Table 4.
Mentions and rank among organizations of interest.
Fig 5.
This figure shows how many Twitter handles are mentioned by actors in multiple hydrocarbon-based sectors to highlight the extent of shared connections not only within but across sectors. The 407 nodes in this graphic were mentioned at least three times and are connected to at least two nodes. Green edges show connections to fossil energy, red edges show connections to plastics, and blue edges show connections to agrichemicals.
Table 5.
Industries of Twitter handles mentioned 3+ times by 2 or more hydrocarbon organizations.
Fig 6.
Organizational priorities in tweets.
This figure conceptually maps the themes discussed in section 4.3 broken down by whether they appear in all topics, in some topics, or across all sectors.
Fig 7.
Example discourses of climate obstruction in petrochemical derivative and fuel organization tweets.