Jan 15, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
There is ever-more misinformation and fakery on the Internet every day. We learned recently that a large percentage of political accounts posting on X are fake, and the fake accounts tilt toward the ideological right.[1] Facebook has become littered with completely...
Oct 25, 2025 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
It is no secret that the fragmentation of our media environment along ideological lines is undermining scientific literacy and belief and scientific truths. We have seen this in climate and energy policy for decades. But today it is even more pronounced in public...
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...
Nov 30, 2024 | Blog, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
This is a relatively famous New Yorker cartoon by Jason Katzenstein, depicting a generalization about male/female rhetorical styles. But it might as well be illustrating the way social and ideological media “democratize” (read: “devalue”)...
Nov 5, 2024 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Whatever the outcome of today’s voting, we will learn something from it. And I will post some reactions to specific races and what they signify for stronger climate policy on 11/10 and succeeding days. It is likely that around 70 million Americans (or more) will...
