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Mar 27, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read Read on X
A number of @ideas_idees -affiliated associations have CANCELLED their Annual Conferences planned for Congress 2020.

I understand and respect these hard decisions, and sympathize with the rationale….
@esaccanada has taken a different path, however, and as president of the association I’m compelled to explain WHY we saw opportunities for enhanced inclusion in the virtual alternative, and HOW we plan to tackle some of the problems identified by our fellow associations:
1/ ESAC's in its 3rd year of experimenting with hybrid-live virtual conferencing (a project we originally launched to reduce our carbon footprint). 10% of participants scheduled for Congress 2020 were ALREADY participating virtually, so going 100% virtual is an extension of that.
2/In our explorations of low-carbon conferencing we've found they EXPAND accessibility. Compared to live conferences, digital SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES barriers to participation for lower income individuals or others unable to travel for any reason. Example: estsjournal.org/index.php/ests…
3/ Associations have rightly raised concerns about participants being preoccupied with unexpected childcare or other responsibilities during the pandemic. As someone who’s now part-time homeschooling 3 children I definitely share this concern (and I'll be challenged by this...);
4/However, at our planning meeting it became clear that some participants WELCOME the opportunity to present their research. A majority of ESAC participants are either grad students or early career, and some are concerned about how cancelations might impact their trajectories.
5/One thing we’ve done is limit the timeframe and # of sessions held during each conference day. One benefit of the format proposed by @ideas_idees is that sessions are recorded (so participants can log in later to watch a missed session).
6/We will emphasize that presentations can be ‘informal research talks’ if preferred. The ESAC community is small, collegial and friendly (and so I’m hoping that when my toddler inevitably video-bombs my presentation, my colleagues will be understanding of the circumstances!).
7/Further, we have reduced the ESAC Conference Registration fee to… wait for it… ZERO DOLLARS. For everyone. And we are grateful to @ideas_idees for lowering their fees by more than 50%.
8/ ESAC remains committed to the Congress theme and goal of “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism”. We still plan to kick things off with a keynote by Guy Williams of Detroiters for Environmental Justice (this'll be ‘OPEN’ for anyone in the world).
9/Many of our submitted abstracts deal with themes relating to reconciliation, Indigenous-Settler relations, and environmental justice in Canada. We hope numerous sessions at the conference will tackle questions of environmental justice, which intersects with the Congress theme.
10/ Ultimately, when this pandemic is over, @esaccanada hopes the discussion about how to make Congress truly INCLUSIVE and genuinely SUSTAINABLE will continue. Frankly, returning to 'business as usual' at Congress 2021 would not be thus. Thanks for hearing me out.

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Feb 16
Here's the abridged story of how NEOLIBERALISM became dominant (as I understand it). This is also a story with CLIMATE implications.

I draw on works by Harvey, Klein, Helleiner, Ruggie, and others.

(Keen to hear amendments, additions, critiques from fellow political economists)
1) It's 1944 and the soon-to-be victors of WWII gather at Bretton Woods to design the Post-War global economy. They develop an international monetary system largely seeking stability; one that fosters cooperation and prosperity through international trade and growth.
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2) This model of 'embedded liberalism' sought a balance between what was seen as volatile laissez-faire market capitalism on one hand, and protectionist (even authoritarian) state interventionism on the other. In domestic terms, it lent itself to Keynesian 'demand-side' policies. Image
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Feb 14
1. Speaking of tipping points: I believe the world has recently tipped into the early stages of one of the most profound transformations humanity has ever endured. It will take place over the next 50 years or so.

🧵on this fascinating and terrifying time to be alive!
2. The transformation is being ushered in by major demographic, technological, and ecological changes. These are mutually-reinforcing in some ways, making the transformation feel lightning fast (in human terms). The late 21st Century will look fundamentally different from today.
3. First, two demographic shifts which are profoundly consequential: i) Global population will for the first time in human history peak and *trend* downward (the rate of growth already peaked years ago) ii) the shift from a mostly-rural to mostly-urban population continues.
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Feb 6
OK, let’s talk about the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect…

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2/ It is well known that cities warm more than surrounding rural areas. As the IPCC recently wrote in AR6: “Urban areas experience air temperatures that can be SEVERAL DEGREES Celsius warmer than surrounding areas, especially during the night” Image
3/ UHI is thus a serious problem because it amplifies the impacts of a warmer climate for people living in cities. The world is becoming more urbanized, and so UHI is going to be affecting more people and a greater share of all people. Image
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A blast of extreme cold air has plunged deep into central North America. Some places have set record cold temperatures. It turns out there’s a bit of a scientific debate about whether these types of cold snaps can be linked to… *global warming*

🧵on what the science says… Image
The general idea is that melting sea ice within the warming Arctic is causing instability in the jet stream, resulting in large Rossby waves which during the winter season can push frigid Arctic air deep into areas where they wouldn’t in a more stable climate…
The idea really gained traction after this 2012 paper came out, titled “Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes”: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Oct 6, 2023
This year’s insane heat has coincided with (perhaps driven?) a bit of a wedge between two leading “climate urgency science narratives”…
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On one side there are what we might call “the traditionalists”. These folks emphasize how this heat falls within the boundaries of how we would expect the Earth system to behave given the historical trajectory of fossil Carbon emissions, combined with an El Niño transition year.
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On the other hand we have what we might call the “accelerationists”. These folks emphasize the role of an aerosol termination shock and imply that what we are seeing is something new, more extreme than what models expected.
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Sep 23, 2023
I see the "livestock CH4 is/is not the same as fossil CH4" debate has resurfaced again🙄

Y'all! This is very well studied. Here's a thread on the science.

First tho, both these claims are untrue:
- livestock and fossil CH4 are the same
- livestock CH4 doesn't warm the planet
1) A molecule of CH4 emitted by an animal and from a fossil fuel project are very, very similar: One Carbon atom, four Hydrogen atoms. But they are not identical. We know this because they have slightly different carbon isotopic signatures.
doi.org/10.1029/2021GB…
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2) *While in the atmosphere* the biogenic and fossil CH4 have the same warming influence on the planet, regardless of their isotopic signature. The molecules absorb various wavelengths of solar radiation, just like other key greenhouse gases. Image
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