I talked with my colleague Chris Rea @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social about the state of the green transition in the year 2025. Led to a great conversation, give it a listen. cc: @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social player.captivate.fm/episode/dc10...

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

In case Ezra Douthglesias is looking for things that voters support far more than the six pet issues with yellow check marks around which to organize the Abundance of Popularism Agenda:

Blue Jays Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe 2025

Go Blue Jays! 🇨🇦

Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.

Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.

What a day for Bill Gates to announce climate change is no big deal. 🌎 🤷‍♂️

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Insurance now makes up 20% of today's mortgage payment -- up from 8% in the 2000s.

No TAs. Down the line, fewer professors. We are going to do less, with less, & the things we will still do will inevitably decline in quality. 400 person lectures with only multiple choice questions on exams & no discussion sections. We will get what we (don't) pay for: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I submitted an abstract for @epssnet.bsky.social 2026. I wasn't a regular at EPSA but I admire what @stefwalter.bsky.social and others are doing to build EPSS into a great new org for political science. Let's support them. See you in Belfast!

How bout them Blue Jays?? 🇨🇦

34. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning, it'll all come from the sun anyway by 2030. Solar generation times and seasons match airconditioning demand pretty well, which is good news for really hot countries as well.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Providence RI showing up. #NoKings

Not good, Canadians.

Glad that Brown and others rejected this proposal and hope that more universities will do the same, like Dartmouth, Arizona, Kansas, and WUSTL.

New open-access book out on energy transitions in the Global South! We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

1/ New rare earth restrictions mark escalation in China’s weaponization of interdependence — adopting US extraterritorial permission structures. This is not just an export ban but regulated how global firms use Chinese equipment and material. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.

In my book Partial Hegemony, I wrote about the Oil-For-Security deals that the USA has extended to petrostates in the Persian Gulf for decades. Any state threatening those petrostates, even Israel, risks American ire.

Delighted and proud to share CSL affiliate @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social has a new book out! Available on open access climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Hey #Toronto climate peeps! Come learn about the future of global #climate politics at my book launch at @utoronto.ca. Featuring fierce all female panel with @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir (MacKenzie Investments), moderated by Jill English (CBC). #COP30 #GreenSky. Free event! Tasty treats!

Great new piece on China's climate ambitions, or lack thereof, by @jeremywallace.bsky.social heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

USA shooting itself in the foot.

The reliably great Henry Farrell nails it again. You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Academics! Take comfort. However badly your academic year is going, it's still probably going better than Bill Belichick's.

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

China has exported $120 billion in green technology for the year-to-date. The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, has only sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad.

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

You know what wind turbines never do? Explode. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

“What provides India greater freedom of choice and sovereignty? Locking into hydrocarbon coalitions or doubling down on…a green electro-state track? How India chooses to address this question will shape the destiny of its 1.4 billion citizens—& the world" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...

Don't sleep on this politically-targeted abuse of power. 🌎🔌💡 Energy Dept. Cancels Hundreds of Clean-Energy Projects, Mostly in Blue States www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/c...

'You must not give up. You must do your bit.' The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. In one of her final interviews she explained why her mission never faltered: on.ft.com/4gScCW4

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

The great @kschake.bsky.social does not mince words about what Trump and Hegseth did yesterday in that packed auditorium.

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🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Descent into fascism.

So much of our news is devoted to questions like "are vaccines good" and "is climate change real?" that there's no oxygen left to talk about how well the government is (not) doing at, you know, governing. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

It was an honor to visit @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social to share my new book #CorporationsAtClimateCrossroads today! Thank you @jenniferhadden.bsky.social and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social at @climatesollab.bsky.social for hosting me. I very much enjoyed engaging with the Brown Watson School community!

Xi's new NDC calls for only 7-10% ghg reductions by 2035. This is deeply disappointing, more consistent with 3 degrees C of warming than 2.5, let alone 2 or 1.5. Of course Trump is worse and this is still directionally correct, but this is pathetic for the state that wants to be the climate leader.

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

You did this to yourself, Disney.

Keep in mind that this is taken from a Disney production, one that just this week won an Emmy. It may sound vaguely apropos. youtu.be/KYnE2Mxayco?...

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.