Feb 10, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The poet Robert Burns once wrote, “Be merry, I advise. But as we be merry, may we also be wise.” As Republicans aim to roll back climate policy progress it is increasingly difficult for the climate coalition to be merry. The fire hose of frightening news...
Jan 25, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
As Donald Trump takes a wrecking ball to policies designed to advance the energy transition, Democrats struggle to make sense of today’s politics. Two stories in my energy news feed illustrate that confusion. One quotes climate activists lamenting Joe...
Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
One source of frustration for the climate coalition – and the ideological left more generally – is the amount of money and coordinated effort that the ideological right has put into political and ideological persuasion over the last four decades. Chapter 4 of my book...
Dec 5, 2024 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Note: This is the third in a series of posts auditing the political analysis (and corresponding prescription) in Climate of Contempt. The first two were here and here.] Longtime denizens of #Climate and #Energy social media communities will be familiar with the...
Nov 25, 2024 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Slogans, acronyms, and memes rise and fall quickly on social media. I recently saw that the term “FAFO” was trending on Twitter. Not knowing what it was I clicked on it. Though none of the posts using the acronym defined it, it became evident pretty quickly that it...
Nov 11, 2024 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[This is the second of two posts exploring what (if anything) we can learn about energy politics from the results of the November election. After this I will return to regular posting at regular intervals. — DS] ——- In September I speculated about how each...
