Apr 25, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / #5] ——- As of Monday I will have taught my last class as a tenured professor, and I will be considered “retired” as of May 1. I will continue to do some teaching at UT-Austin, but it feels...
Nov 20, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The 2025 elections put some wind in Democrats’ sails. What they portend for stronger climate policy isn’t clear just yet, since the winners focused on energy affordability first and foremost. Meanwhile, for those of us who seek stronger climate policy,...
Mar 12, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Part 1 of this post explained why the key to recovering the importance of truth in policymaking rests with voters. This second part addresses a subject I cover in chapter 6 of Climate of Contempt: namely, how to go about breaking the spell that the propaganda machine...
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 5, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
I note in Appendix G to Climate of Contempt the reaction of one of my manuscript reviewers to my assertion that the internet distorts the policy thinking of people in both parties. The reviewer wrote that the book reads “too much as if it’s a both sides issue.” That...
