Last week’s bills are important steps in California’s contribution to fighting climate change. But the inclusion of oil-industry handouts in bills like SB 237 was a raw deal we didn’t need to make. My thoughts for @lauraklivans.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/science/1998...

On a new episode of A Matter of Degrees, the legendary @billmckibben.bsky.social joins the show to talk about the potential of solar power and to get inspired for @sundayofaction.bsky.social - a day of action to celebrate the power of clean energy! Tune in here: www.degreespod.com/episodes/the...

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/

An outbreak of sanity in TX. thehill.com/policy/energ...

CBC has projected a "liberal government" in Canada in which means it's time for my pedantic every four year gripe with Canadian media that you cannot project a government based on seat count until they cross the majority threshold.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Thinking about my mentor and friend Stephen Clarkson, who would be flabbergasted by "North American" politics now. But he'd feel vindicated by our 2011 book Dependent America?, which previewed how much US economic power and security depends on Canada and Mexico. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

We're hiring! We are a "think and do tank" aimed at confronting the climate crisis. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar in the politics of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation to support research on public responses to climate impacts and policies across the world: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02926

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not *legible*. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.

Truly utterly insane. A memory care facility!!

I'm sorry - they are really thinking about nominating another House Republican for an admin position (Graves to FAA???). I'm sure Johnson can pass a massive reconciliation bill in the first 100 days with a 216-215 house majority, easiest lift for a house speaker ever.

ICYMI (I first learned about this from @prof-b-t.bsky.social's feed): turns out a governor can't unilaterally undo the will of the legislature, in this case for Virginia to be part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): www.eenews.net/articles/cou...

Can't wait for my native New Brunswick (pop: 775k) to become the new Wyoming and get the same number of Dem Senators as California. Lol. 10 new Canadian states would be a terrific way to break the filibuster!

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free theonion.com/perky-canada...

Great thread on the insanity of the current moment

This seems like a savvy threat on California's part. Offers some market certainty for EV models in short-term while creating credible stakeholder pressure on Tesla/Musk

Mobilization against federal retrenchment creates unexpected political coalitions. A California EV tax credit that excludes Tesla is one such example. Will be interesting to see how much states spend and do that can only happen in opposition to federal inaction. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Fascinating dynamics at play here: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/c...

While the U.S. is signally a possible retreat on federal climate action, in China it's a different story. "The U.S. does not want to get into a table tennis game with China because that game the U.S. cannot win," says Li Shuo. + @jeremywallace.bsky.social + Alex Wang +Ye Huang More on @npr.org 🌏

Somebody started the type of academic papers meme so here’s my obligatory type of climate politics papers meme

Really excited to host @agazmararian.bsky.social and Helen Milner at UCSB Department of Political Science and @the2035initiative.bsky.social to workshop their book "Climate Fault Lines" and talk about future of climate politics domestically and internationally over two action-packed days.

Yes! Every time I tell people this, they are shocked. Most are under the impression that nothing has been done: and this literally feeds inaction. Our human bias towards bad news getting the most clicks and shares means that information that builds efficacy remains disproportionately unshared.

A short commentary on how valuable this dataset is for advocates and public opinion scholars: wrp.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/leaders.... The data is clear: global publics are really concerned about climate change and leaders around the world should heed these concerns!

Excited to see the LRF World Risk Poll release today. Using a module on the Gallup World Poll, this is one of the best datasets on global climate concern, covering 142 countries: wrp.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications.... A really terrific global resource on climate opinion.

Insightful conversation about what comes next for federal US climate policy. Well worth a listen!

Everything Alex said! This is SUCH a cool paper.

Important new report from my UCSB colleague @paasha.bsky.social through our 2035 Initiative here at UCSB. It tackles the problem of National Oil Companies (NOCs) head-on, and what to do about this massive group of fossil fuel producers.

Want to amplify this from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Thanks to her leadership, Bill McKibben, and others at @rewiringamerica.bsky.social, an idea that was originally criticized was eventually embraced. Now we have one of the most visible examples of industrial strategy supporting a clean economy. 🔌💡

Excited to share the results from a survey on consumer electrification preferences. Part of our 2035 Initiative here at UCSB in partnership with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

My quick explainer of the Biden-Xi meeting is up at Good Authority. Highly likely to be the only one out there that links to scholarship by Chen & Evers; Pearson, Rithmire, & Tsai, and Farrell & Newman. goodauthority.org/news/biden-x...

By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada. “I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou. Read more:

And finally as part of a really terrific campus-wide environmental justice hiring cluster - political science was lucky to land the incredible @cesarbmartinez.bsky.social :) - Environmental Studies is now searching for a Mellichamp Chair in Racial Environmental Justice. recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02558

Bren & Environmental Studies are hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor (Tenure Track) in Environmental Communication at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02609

More seriously, there are some cool jobs at UCSB this year! In political science, we are hiring in an Assistant Professor of Latino/a/x Politics (deadline: Nov 11): recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02592

Having abandoned posting on twitter months ago, having writing anxiety on the first post here, so might as well just rip the band-aid off and start an account with this generic low-quality content :P