On the one hand, Nova Scotia could pick up a lot of wind turbine equipment very cheap. On the other hand, this is a disaster for wind investment and investment certainty in general in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Some of these wins are too early to call. There are good trends in deforestation (e.g.) but the policies highlighted won't further that cause. But the renewables section. China's emissions decreasing. This is where real, tangible hope lies. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

We are very excited to announce the launch of Volume 2 of the Environmental Governance Lab's climate fiction zine We Did It!? Check it out! wedidit2050.ca

Steven Bernstein and @matthoffmann.bsky.social round us off with an attempt to think through stability and decarbonisation in general terms before we conclude. 12/

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

“Who’s running America’s foreign and defense policies? It’s not the president, at least not on most issues," Tom Nichols writes in the Atlantic Daily. "Decisions are being made at lower levels without much guidance from above.”

Senator @schatz.bsky.social post this over at the bad place and it’s important. This Big Bad Brutal Bill is worse than you can imagine. “This bill is a real piece of shit and it would be excellent if that's all anyone talked about for the next few days.”

Even cooler the reinforcing loop can turn the exact opposite way. The more the people take action, the more the people take action - read it through and see for yourself :)

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Authoritarians want you to feel isolated and alone, to feel like their vision of the world is the only one. That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

Toronto showing up for #NoTyrants protest

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

@uoft.bsky.social pay attention

Between fascism and climate change, the latter is definitely a greater threat to humanity. Fascists are liars, and they will always lose (but it might take a while). The problem with the fascist regime in the US is that it's actively undermining climate action, thereby exacerbating climate damage.

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

Happy Tuesday! How about an anti-Matt-Yglesias climate economics thread? I'll start by saying "material prosperity" is not opposed to "reasoning backwards" from temperature targets — doing what we must NOW to halt global heating at a safe level will INCREASE Americans' material prosperity. 1/n

"I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics,” Madeleine Pastinelli, president of the university professors’ union in the province of Quebec. #vote #never51

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Literally a conversation today about whether there are ICE facilities at Ottawa airport, who has jurisdiction on the post-clearance airside area, and whether the Canadian govt would get you back if you disappeared inside the US part of a Canadian airport. So it's going great here

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.

Courageous and powerful piece by @cathmckenna.bsky.social “I thought we had an alliance [with oil sands companies]. It turned out to be a sham.”

Mad Enough to Blog It™

and the potential for storytelling and climate fiction to help unlock transitions and transformation: wedidit2050.ca

Happy to see so many interesting folks on blue sky. Quick intro to my work/interests for new followers. Currently into the politics of decarbonization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great story from Danielle Venton on uninsured properties in California. www.npr.org/2024/11/08/n...

I’d be wary here. Thinking that Big oil will welcome climate regulation is a perennial dashed hope. They also tend to welcome climate regulation that doesn’t demand too much (or anything) of them. But I suppose almost any pushback on Trump from unexpected places is good right now

Happy to talk about how the role that civil society and non-governmental organizations have played in the climate regime has changed substantially over the past 20 years for this article in @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/protest/intr...

🚨 New Episode Coming Thursday! 🚨 Get ready for a powerful bonus episode of A Matter of Degrees dropping tomorrow, Nov 14th! Join myself & Adrian Deveny as we map out a plan for moving forward with the climate movement in the wake of the election.

Coined a phrase to express the feeling of enjoying weird warmth like we’ve had in Toronto this fall while simultaneously experiencing existential climate dread: sunxiety. www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...

Re-upping this for the morning crowd. Prompted by recent Guardian article (and multiple others) on frustrated climate (mostly natural) scientists. My essay on how some climate *social* scientists are doing theconversation.com/heres-how-cl...

Prompted by the recent Guardian article about climate scientists' fear for the future (the latest of this kind) I put together this essay based on my interviews with climate *social* scientists about how they're doing. It's a different and perhaps useful take. theconversation.com/heres-how-cl...

Record temps in Toronto yesterday. Sunny and 10 degrees today. We’re going to need an English word for a nice day that simultaneously triggers existential angst. I’m sure there’s one in German.

Who says our species' priorities aren't in order?

NEW blog from Patrick Devine-Wright and I on engaging the public around the shift to more local energy systems, and the role of social science in helping us do that. Many thanks to the Academy of Social Sciences for hosting.

Because of course it did. As with some COPs before, it is time to ask whether the benefits of having an agreement at the conclusion outweighs the costs that come from a consensus document that gets so watered down. Is it really better to have an outcome document without phase out of fossil fuels?

INSIGHT: Is 🇨🇦’s oil and gas sector walking the talk when it comes to reducing emissions? And does it line up with what’s needed to get to net zero? We added up the sector’s corporate commitments and took a closer look 🧵👇 440megatonnes.ca/insight/what...

‘Magical’ tech innovations a distraction from real solutions, climate experts warn