Timmons Roberts
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#ClimateChange Social Scientist @BrownUniversity and @ClimateSSN, collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. RTs=/=endorse
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https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jr17 17-09-2011 13:09:12
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Here we are again. Why Democrats are so quiet about climate change right now. As Ed Maibach sed “A lot of candidates and officeholders..are needlessly timid about talking about climate change..it tends to alienate...who aren’t very likely to support” wapo.st/4dweNvL
Climate Obstruction Across Europe from Oxford University Press has arrived in print! Order your print copy in hardcover or paperback: bit.ly/oup-coae. This sweeping review of climate obstruction is also available #OpenAccess along with chapter summaries here: bit.ly/coae2024
Skeptics claim countries can't run on mostly solar+wind, let alone 100% #WindWaterSolar Tokelau ran on 94% solar+wind in 2022 7 countries ran on 100% #WWS 12 on 98.4-100% 18 on 90-100% 24 on 83-100% 39 on 70-100% 49 on 60-100% 64 on 50-100% web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… IRENA International Energy Agency
There's a piece going around arguing that climate disinformation isn't a serious obstacle to climate action. IMO it rests on several incorrect premises, so I wrote a response. If you saw Holly Jean Buck's piece, I hope you'll take a look at this, too. 1/19 jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…
Some key points in here. The biggest problem facing offshore wind energy isn’t broken blades. It’s public opinion. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/09/04/the… via Rhode Island Current
Critical and groundbreaking research on fossil fuel ties in higher education & the university-fossil fuel partnerships that obstruct climate action from CSSN scholars S. Hiltner, Emily Eaton, Noel Healy, Andy Scerri, Jennie C. Stephens and Geoffrey Supran wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wc…