May 10, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
In chapters 2 and 3 of Climate of Contempt I describe the gap between folk wisdom about corporate dominance of the policymaking process and what empirical political science research says about that issue. That gap is fairly large. As a general matter, well-resourced...
May 5, 2024 | Blog, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
In chapter 4 of Climate of Contempt I explore the way competition from social media and advocacy journalism has crowded out – and changed – traditional journalism. And I use this blog to point out examples of the kind of incomplete picture of the politics and the...
May 1, 2024 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Because my book is aimed at the climate coalition — and how misunderstanding of regulatory politics by some of its members slows energy transition policymaking — many of my examples of over-the-top online communication come from within that coalition. But...
Apr 25, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
Most plans to stabilize atmospheric carbon in time to avoid the worst effects of global warming rely heavily on rapid reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. We have the proven technologies that would allow us to do so relatively...
Apr 20, 2024 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
There is an old axiom (sometimes attributed to Carl Sandburg) that trial attorneys know: “When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law.” The 1990s courtroom/family drama “Picket Fences” featured a...
Apr 15, 2024 | Blog, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Let’s look at two April 2024 examples of misleading journalism. On April 12, 2024 the Daily Caller ran a piece entitled “Electricity Prices Have Risen Seven Times Faster Under Biden Than Trump.” It began with this: Electricity prices have experienced a significant...
