Apr 20, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Climate of Contempt bemoans the way ideological and social media encourages and supercharges the human instinct to make attribution errors in politics. These errors involve a number of logical fallacies I describe in the book, and they often take the form of assigning...
Apr 12, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
As a couple of billionaires (or one billionaire and one pretender) run roughshod over legal standards and democratic norms, it reinforces the suspicion that economic elites get the policies that they want at the expense of the public interest. Folk wisdom says that he...
Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The national GOP has taken a fairly sharp turn against green energy in the last few years, suggesting that persuading GOP politicians to support a lower-carbon energy future is unlikely in the near term. Instead, it looks like the only near term path to stronger...
Mar 10, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Predictably, the second Trump Administration has ramped up its gaslighting and destruction of liberal democratic norms and institutions. Its attack on climate science – indeed, most of the government’s science capability — is more direct this time. It...
Mar 1, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Like much of the rest of the country, the ERCOT region of Texas is projecting massive growth in electricity demand, driven mostly (though not exclusively*) by new data servers. The servers are part of the tech sector race to provide (power-hungry) A.I. services to the...
Feb 20, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Every once in a while, on a whim, I decide to assemble all of the stories in my energy news feed from a single month regarding local opposition to energy transition projects — new wind farms, solar farms, transmission lines, nuclear plants, hydrogen plants,...
