This article makes me mad. US college grads-one of the most privileged groups in world history-describe being so anxious about climate change that most don't think kids are feasible or ethical. The common thread is taking sustainability classes. What the hell are we teaching??🧵

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1833878175119544595

Yes, we should be teaching that climate change is real and its impacts are here and will accelerate. We should also be teaching the incredible progress in clean tech and adaptation. Sources:
2/ rmi.org/the-renewable-…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In light of the recent discussion on here about academic affirmative action in faculty hiring (re: David Austin Walsh), it's time to move on from the question of "is it happening" (it is) and talk about "is it right/legal/etc." 1/

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1795383999399129171

For example, in Nov. 2022, I asked our Dean at a faculty senate meeting what fraction of hires in the last 2-3 years were from FDAP (i.e. the Faculty Diversity Action Plan, our DEI hiring program, which has since been rebranded). His answer: over 90%. From the public minutes: 2/

Climate change policies lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or with social justice policies.

That's the headline finding of our new paper, led by @RenaeEMarshall, with @Prof_SEAnderson, @LaithAlShawaf, & Leaf Van Boven.
THREAD 1/ link.springer.com/article/10.100…
We conducted an experiment with a nationally representative sample of 2,521 US adults. Some were asked to rate their support for climate policies alone; others saw climate policies paired with one of four types of other policies. All policies were based on real recent proposals2/

📢New @csef_cuboulder report on climate change opinion and recent presidential elections. 📢

We find that climate-conscious voters are ~2/3 of voters; they strongly prefer Democrats; & climate change opinion probably cost Trump the 2020 election. 1/ doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…




Our report first reviews opinion polling evidence on climate change, with two main findings: (i) climate-conscious voters represent a ~2:1 majority & prefer the Democrats, & (ii) most voters of all stripes do *not* rank climate change as their top issue (over the economy, etc) 2/

As one of the experts who was consulted on @willmacaskill's What We Owe the Future (but did not respond to @xriskology's request), I feel a duty to respond to this, as parts of this piece are misleading in ways that make me suspect this tweet might be misleading too. THREAD 1/

https://twitter.com/BulletinAtomic/status/1595140565091467295

First, to the charge that we weren't told what we were reviewing: I can't speak for the other experts consulted (which includes many highly regarded scientists like @hausfath), but it was very clear to me that I was being asked to review a chapter of What We Owe the Future. 2/

"Even at schools that boast robust protections for student speech, there is an increasing problem of students being too uncomfortable to actually operate under the protections they've been given."
reason.com/2022/09/08/alm…

@CUBoulder undergrads: We hear you and want to help. 1/ Our Reducing Polarization Dialog series is returning this year, with a twist. In addition to monthly Zoom dialogs (open to campus and the community broadly), we will also have 1-2-per-semester in-person events, some of which will be aimed specifically at undergrads. 2/

.@RenaeEMarshall and I have a new op-ed in @ArcDigi, arguing that recent federal bills--including the IRA, despite its unipartisan passage--show a new bipartisan playbook is emerging, similar to the one our research identified at the state level.
arcdigital.media/p/a-bipartisan… We argue that the @ACC_National's Climate Commitment also follows this playbook. theclimatecommitment.com
HT @ChrisBarnardDL @BenjiBacker @karlymatthews_

In case you missed it over the holidays, quick thread on our new Nature Human Behaviour paper: "Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns".
nature.com/articles/s4156…
Excellent summaries by @CUBoulder and UCSB:
colorado.edu/today/2021/11/…
news.ucsb.edu/2021/020471/sl… 1/ Economic growth in rich countries has been on a gradual downward slide for the past 50 years. Middle-income countries may have just passed a similar peak. (See excellent recent article by @Noahpinion on the 'middle income trap' in China: noahpinion.substack.com/p/is-chinas-ca…) 2/

Although I think Twitter is not a good place to have some of these convos (listening to Twitter is how we got here), I want to make a quick comment on the @DorianAbbot de-platforming, since I think standing up for people you know personally when they're smeared is important. 1/ Dorian is a guy who in his spare time teaches night school to formerly incarcerated people and serves meals to the homeless. 2/

New preprint:

"Most plausible 2005-2040 emissions scenarios project less than 2.5 degrees C of warming by 2100", by @RogerPielkeJr, myself, & @jritch

osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/ Our previous paper measured how fossil-fuel CO2 emission growth rates in IPCC baseline scenarios diverged from observations (2005-2020) and IEA projections (2020-2040).
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… 2/