(SC)2 is a hub for critical social science research on climate @UCBerkeley. Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, climate policy research.
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We researched @AOC and @BernieSanders’s Green New Bill. It’s stunning. 240k new jobs a year, cutting carbon by equivalent of 1.2 million cars, health benefits like cutting asthma in NYCHA by up to 20%
Our first big partnership w @DataProgress @McHargCenter
(More soon 😈)
14 Nov 2019
It’s happening. Today @AOC and @BernieSanders are launching the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act. It’s good.
Over at @DataProgress we researched the bill, our first big collab w @SC2_Collab and @McHargCenter. It would slash carbon and inequality
huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sa…
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Jun 11
Jalen Brunson, an effective exponent of climate praxis
Jun 11
"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"
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The correct, main point of THAT guardian op-ed is that growth as such shouldn’t be a sacred cow. Rather, we should organize the econ around our main social goals, including a stable climate. We need to give up on Adam Smith’s *claim* that seeking profit always just works out. 1/2
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Why are so many cities choosing leftist mayors? @dwallacewells offers some good ideas. I'd add another: in cities, a chunk of the professional managerial class defected from neoliberalism to the left after 2008, amidst rising rents & various crises, incl climate disasters. 1/4
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May 31
Hard to believe I’m even writing this.
Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.
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Not peer-reviewed yet, but if it is then we are in the deepest of deep sh*t
Warming of almost half a degree C a decade and a 0.5 to 1C rise possible within the next decade
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@phenomenalworld has a new magazine on AMERICAN POWER. I read these two fantastic pieces. Learned about how narratives of US decline have paradoxically fueled imperial expansion and also about the multiple forms, opportunities & contradictions of China- global South relations
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There are decent arguments for permitting reform across energy types under the next admin, along w complimentary policies (national transmission authorities, GIP tools, etc). Zero reason to cave on data center moratorium without a Sanders-like framework of public ownership.
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Now is a key moment to go much deeper on what effective public ownership means. I dont think the goal is to twin tech CEOs w whoever is president. I’d love to see more thought on arm’s length majority ownership of big AI, w big ideas for democratic oversight
Love this sovereign wealth fund idea from Bernie. Good to see politicians putting forward bold ideas that meet the scale of the moment with AI.
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Thrilled to share our latest at @cplusci: "Greening Public Housing to Lower Costs, Make Homes Healthier, and Spur Market Transformation."
Yes, public housing can accomplish brilliant things—improving living conditions while fighting climate change.
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It’s interesting to compare hysterical anti-RCP 8.5 discourse to a sober account of the scientific process (linked). Critics allege politically compromised science but… don’t actually engage the scientific process. They cosplay science to punch green.
realclimate.org/index.php/ar…
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The warming projections that freaked the world out then are all now effectively baked in. Things could get much worse from there. RCP8.5 has not looked plausible as an emissions future for some time — as I wrote in 2019, and again in 2022 — but we are far from out of the woods.
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…an examination of the different worlds we’d be living in if warming was limited to 1.5 degrees, on the one hand, and 2 degrees, on the other. Both were optimistic targets. On present trajectories we are heading well above the higher of the two. Which is to say:…
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wrote this about karen hao's water error and the panic over data center water use back in december and i still stand by this
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.@triofrancos on how U.S. oil and gas production works as a strategic shield for American foreign policy, insulating the United States from some of the energy shocks it helps create.
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The most intense surge of climate alarm in recent history — school strikes and XR, Green New Deal and “twelve years to save the world” — followed not from science involving RCP8.5 but the UN’s Special Report on 1.5 Degrees. This was not a worst case scenario report but…
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In the months leading up to a potentially devastating El Niño, “very serious” ppl are playing culture wars w climate science to… make themselves feel good??
This discourse doesn’t really matter to the world, except for revealing the vapid nihilism of the indulgence.
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This entire meme is a fantasy. RCP 8.5 was a worst case scenario that animated some stories. It’s now thankfully avoided. It was never the basis dor Sunrise, GND, etc. Meanwhile, projections on current policies put us around 2.5C to 3C warming, which would be pretty catastrophic.
May 23
Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5.
“Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” vox.com/future-perfect/48948…
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May 22
this is gonna be fun. come through on thursday!
BREAKING: More Perfect University and @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani are hosting a Rental Ripoff Hearing *Student Edition* to hear from students, young people, and first-time renters about their living conditions and rent.
RSVP below to join us on Thursday⤵️
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Fighting heat islands can be beautiful. Trees are great, but we can do even more. Here's a street in Granada, Spain. Zohran should do stuff like this all over NYC.
This is the "upstairs" counterpart to parklets, bike lanes, and other livable streets stuff at ground level.
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Might be time to add a massive investment in public media to the progressive agenda
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