May 2, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
This is the second in a series of posts discussing new books that address what we know, and don’t know, about today’s energy and climate politics. You can find the explanatory introduction to this series here. Today we focus on rural resistance to the...
May 1, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
A Texas faculty friend who worries about our political descent keeps asking me “So, how does it end?” He shares my sense that today’s assault on our liberal democratic institutions is more than a swing of the pendulum to the political right. It...
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...
