On Billionaires and Bullies

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...

Advertorials, Influence, and Guilt By Association

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...

The Speech, The Censure, The Rebuttal … and the energy transition

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...

How to Support the Energy Transition in Difficult Times

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,...

Don’t watch, read

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...

Why my political predictions could be wrong #3 – Young people will save us.

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...