Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
This month’s energy transition worries focus on AI servers and what energy sources will power them, the details of subsidizing clean hydrogen production, and how much damage the Trump Administration will do to the energy transition. In the heat of policy or...
Jan 1, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
“America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without; for I see clearly that the combined foreign world could not beat her down. But the savage, wolfish parties alarm me. Owning no law but their own will, more and more...
Dec 10, 2024 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
As Democrats point fingers of blame for the November election results at each other and all manner of other villains, one consistent bogeyman for the progressive wing of the party over the years has been “corporations.” So perhaps it is worth thinking...
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 15, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
While we anxiously awaiting the inevitable MAGA assault on climate policy progress and the regulatory state, it doesn’t do much good to react to or comment on it until it actually takes shape. So let me distract you with another observation about a type of...
Nov 9, 2024 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[NOTE: This is the first of two posts about taking care when drawing political lessons from the election results. The second will appear here on 11/11. — DS] ———- When Democrats lose elections it is common to see immediate, impulsive “takes”...
