📢BIG NEWS📢

@EndClimtSilence has teamed up with @DataProgress to poll voters about their attitudes to climate media coverage.

Did previous findings replicate?

✨YES✨

💥Americans want to hear about the #ClimateCrisis in the broadcast news!💥

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS FOLLOW CLIMATE CHANGE CLOSELY IN THE NEWS💥

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE NEWS MEDIA TO CONNECT CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTRME WEATHER EVENTS💥

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💥AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF VOTERS WANT TO HEAR IF CLIMATE CHANGE IS WORSENING AN EXTREME WEATHER EVENT💥

79% OF DEMOCRATS
68% OF INDEPENDENTS
66% OF REPUBLICANS

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE NEWS SOURCES THAT CONNECT CLIMATE CHANGE TO EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS💥

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE NEWS SOURCES THAT PROVIDE MORE STORIES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE💥

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To give voters the information they need to make decisions in an increasingly chaotic world, the media must cover the #ClimateCrisis with the accuracy and urgency it deserves. They can feel confident that it is not only the right thing to do, but also what voters want.

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Read the full @DataProgress blog post, a collab by me and the lovely and brilliant @x3Marcela_ & @danielledeis. 💚

#EndClimateSilence

dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/9/17…

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More from @DoctorVive

Jul 9
I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @SearchlightInst memo telling Dems not to talk about #ClimateChange.

LOTS of surprises there!

The first one: swing voters like environmental groups & the clean-energy industry.

More don't like oil and gas than do.

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Most swing voters think the top issue for Dems is not climate change, but LGBTQ rights, followed by healthcare and prices.

For these voters climate change seems as important to the party as abortion and jobs.

So not a referendum issue, by any means.

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Most swing voters think that the Democratic party is from somewhat to completely "in step" with them on climate change.

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Jul 9
I'm excited to announce that I've restarted the @EndClimtSilence newsletter with a post on the main climate-communications opportunity I see in this difficult political moment: associating Trump's deep unpopularity with his support for coal, oil, and gas development.

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When we have focused on fossil fuels—in the Beyond Coal campaign, via divestment, in pipeline fights, or under #KeepItInTheGround—coal, oil, & gas have been called polluting, toxic, the greatest source of emissions, and profoundly unjust.

And they are all of those things!

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But at the same time, fossil fuels have tended to retain their *cultural* associations with many things Americans like: industry, manufacturing, prosperity, modernity.

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Read 16 tweets
Apr 27
IT. IS. HAPPENING.

China's State Counsel has announced that provinces will be graded on their efforts to peak emissions before 2030.

"Authorities ranked as making unsatisfactory progress ... could be subject to disciplinary processes if issues aren’t rectified." 💥

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In The Language of Climate Politics, I wrote about how this accountability was enacted in the 2021 "1+N Documents," China's whole-of government, whole-of-society policy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060.

👇

This is the implementation of this provision in real time.

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As happy as I am by that China (or any nation) might actually create a net-zero economy in time to halt warming at a relatively survivable level, I am also worried that the authoritarian country who controls key global supply chains seems likely to get there first.

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Read 7 tweets
Sep 5, 2025
Devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.

I mean, whew!

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This is a perfect description of Abundance punditry.

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Screenshot from here:

nybooks.com/articles/2025/…
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Apr 16, 2025
I wrote about Chinese climate policy. And I said that Trump's gutting of US climate science and governance is a gift to China.

Why?

Because China has already enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world.

Yes, really.

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Here is the article — thanks to @NoemaMag for giving me so much space to make my argument.



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@NoemaMag What is China's climate policy? Called the “1+N” framework, it's an all-of-government, all-of-society blueprint for the country’s decarbonization. Its foundational documents were enacted in 2021.

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Apr 8, 2025
This is really important.

🚨Do NOT talk about solar geoengineering as a climate "solution."🚨

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As people start to panic—and as others advance the next phase of the fossil-fuel agenda—we're now seeing a lot of talk about the need to research solar geoengineering (SG).

Fine. I actually agree that SG should be researched systematically.

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But what that research needs to establish is precisely whether solar geoengineering is or is not a solution: if and how much it cools the planet and whether its dangers (or "trade-offs," if you're disingenuous) will allow for deployment or not.

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