Friday is the deadline to submit abstracts to the political economy of climate change and the environment pre-APSA mini-conference. Please submit and encourage others to submit! web.sas.upenn.edu/pece2024/
Excited that @cwarshaw and my new paper is out @NatureComms. We develop a holistic measure of state climate policy regimes and show that state climate policy is helping to reduce CO2 emissions, but current state efforts aren’t enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
We use the the dbmm package in R (@devincaughey and Tomoya Sasaki) to create our index. Always a pleasure working with Chris, and grateful to the fantastic energy policy scholars on whose work we build!
DC folks: My friend @dlangenkamp’s wife was tragically killed in a bike accident in DC. She worked @ State Dept & they’d been evacuated from Ukraine.
Dan has a ride planned for DC bike safety. Please retweet so he can reach the goal of 1000 riders.
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Our brand new campaign #CutMethaneEU has just launched, exposing footage of invisible methane pollution all over Europe.
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What type of "global weirding" convinces people they've personally experienced the impacts of climate change? In the US, only hot dry days shows a significant correlation with people's opinions on this. Read our new study: authors.elsevier.com/a/1coMK… (free to the first 50 readers)
This generous gift will help excellent students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in the policy areas they’re passionate about, without accruing crippling debt. Fantastic news for @McCourtSchool washingtonpost.com/education…
Had a great time chatting with the @TILclimate folks from @ClimateMIT about Americans' views of climate change and how they influence--and are influenced by--politics. Includes lots of discussion of @YaleClimateComm data tilclimate.simplecast.com/ep…
I want to be careful in how I say this because obviously you can't just break into the Capitol and desecrate offices and hit police officers with pipes. People should be arrested. But I don't think they should be our focus.
This letter was co-authored by myself and @johncarey03755. Political scientists who would like to be added to the document should email their name, title, and institution to psopenletter@gmail.com from their work account.
Donald Trump should be removed from office immediately - he is unwilling or unable to fulfill his oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
An open letter from 200 political scientists (and counting):
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Paper alert! Forthcoming in @Global_Policy. Beyond Carbon Pricing: Tax Reform is Climate Policy. Pre-publication version available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…. THREAD