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Andrew Jorgenson

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Professor & Director of Climate & Society Lab @ UBC. Journal Editor. sociology.ubc.ca/profile/andrew-jor… www.climateandsocietylab.com online.ucpress.edu/socdev

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This report by Levi Martin is both smart and fair in laying huge and justified criticisms on Rubin’s highly problematic report. I’ve said sociology does have a lot of problems, but it was a total sham for Washington U and Vanderbilt leaders to pay Rubin for this joke. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So fucked yet so predictable.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@cplusc.bsky.social is hiring again! We're looking for someone to join our operations team. This role will be critical to implementing some big changes we're aiming to make that will allow us to be even more effective winning transformative climate+economic policy. climateandcommunity.org/careers/
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Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute
Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute
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Sociological Forum @soc-forum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
📣Globalizing Political Economy Conference 2026 at UBC this week! Check out the post below from Editorial Board member @akjorgenson.bsky.social
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Feeling pretty great about how the program turned out for our conference on Global Political Economy here at UBC next week. It is still totally OK to attend if you are a non-presenter. Just drop me an email 🙂. Sorry, it isn't hybrid. www.climateandsocietylab.com/hosted-spons...
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Climate & Society Lab - Globalizing Political Economy Conference 2026
With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the newly formed Global Political Economy Netw...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Feeling pretty great about how the program turned out for our conference on Global Political Economy here at UBC next week. It is still totally OK to attend if you are a non-presenter. Just drop me an email 🙂. Sorry, it isn't hybrid. www.climateandsocietylab.com/hosted-spons...
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Climate & Society Lab - Globalizing Political Economy Conference 2026
With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the newly formed Global Political Economy Netw...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Reducing inequality can help tackle the climate crisis | CCPA
New research shows that reducing inequality can have significant positive effects on emissions—a finding that should guide policymakers working on these issues
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Reducing inequality can help tackle the climate crisis | CCPA
New research shows that reducing inequality can have significant positive effects on emissions—a finding that should guide policymakers working on these issues
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Our little buddy, just across the street from our driveway.
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Huge congrats to my dear friend and longtime collaborator Brett Clark for his designation as Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah. So well deserved!!
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New article out today, open access: "Reducing inequality is not antithetical to solving the climate crisis: An analysis of disposable income shares and carbon emissions for Canada's provinces" doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...
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Redirecting
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process. We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management at USC
Learn more about applying for Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management at USC
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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 19/03/2026
🪖🌍How does militarization drive climate change? @akjorgenson.bsky.social explores how military power fuels global carbon emissions—from national growth patterns to U.S. defense spending and outsourced pollution. 🔗https://ires.ubc.ca/october-16-2025-ires-faculty-seminar-with-dr-andrew-jorgenson/
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A Not‐So‐Just Transition? Examining the Effects of Coal Sector Decline on Life Expectancy in U.S. Counties onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Not‐So‐Just Transition? Examining the Effects of Coal Sector Decline on Life Expectancy in U.S. Counties
Driven by climate and energy policy priorities in national and global contexts, coal phase-out is expected to improve public health outcomes by reducing human exposure to air, water, and soil polluti....
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New paper out today in PLOS Climate with lead author Taekyeong Goh: "G-2 and the climate crisis: How global exports to China and the U.S. drive carbon emissions, 2000–2022" doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
MUST READ for anyone thinking about which climate actions are most likely to be successful! @r-thombs.bsky.social and @akjorgenson.bsky.social analyze which types of climate policies are most effective at decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Does stringent climate policy decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions?
Abstract. A foundational question in environmental sociology is whether economic growth can be sufficiently decoupled from greenhouse gas emissions. Schola
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
New article in American Sociological Review, coauthored with Grant, Longhofer, and Vasi. We theorize about and empirically demonstrate how affective polarization is shaping the climate crisis, with a focus on CO2 emissions from power plants throughout the world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
New article in American Sociological Review, coauthored with Grant, Longhofer, and Vasi. We theorize about and empirically demonstrate how affective polarization is shaping the climate crisis, with a focus on CO2 emissions from power plants throughout the world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Crise climatique : la facture cachée des inégalités de revenu
Les inégalités socioéconomiques et la crise cli
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Labor's share of income, income inequality, and CO2 emissions in the world's electricity sector
Scholarly interest in the link between income inequality and the climate crisis often centers on environmental “winners” and “losers” and on how socia…
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🌍 Global Scholars: Abstract Submissions Due Nov 1! ⏱️ Summer 2026 Conference on Globalizing Political Economy @ University of British Columbia. Travel Funds Available! Details Here: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🌍 Global Scholars: Abstract Submissions Due Nov 1! ⏱️ Summer 2026 Conference on Globalizing Political Economy @ University of British Columbia. Travel Funds Available! Details Here: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The clock is ticking! Submit your abstract today for this global social science conference at UBC! Travel funds available!
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Global Social Scientists 🌍! Just 15 Days till Abstracts are Due for the Summer 2026 Conference on Globalizing Political Economy at UBC 📆! Travel Support Available! Details Here: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73. #globalization #sociology #politicalscience #economics #geography #politicaleconomy #globalstudies
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Global Social Scientists 🌍! Just 15 Days till Abstracts are Due for the Summer 2026 Conference on Globalizing Political Economy at UBC 📆! Travel Support Available! Details Here: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73. #globalization #sociology #politicalscience #economics #geography #politicaleconomy #globalstudies
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Only a little more than two weeks till abstracts are due! Please spread the word. If you do any form of global social science you don’t want to miss this conference.
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨🚨Conference Alert! Abstract Submissions Due Soon!🚨🚨 “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", Happening July 2026, University of British Columbia. Open to all Topics Within a GPE Framework. Lots of Travel Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨🚨Conference Alert! Abstract Submissions Due Soon!🚨🚨 “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", Happening July 2026, University of British Columbia. Open to all Topics Within a GPE Framework. Lots of Travel Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Submissions Due Soon! "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", July 2026, University of British Columbia. Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73 #politicaleconomy #sociology #globalpoliticaleconomy #globalization #internationalpoliticaleconomy
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Submissions Due Soon! "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", July 2026, University of British Columbia. Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73 #politicaleconomy #sociology #globalpoliticaleconomy #globalization #internationalpoliticaleconomy
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A superb and nuanced analysis by @r-thombs.bsky.social. Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level? url: academic.oup.com/socpro/artic...
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Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level?
ABSTRACT. Whether and how trade impacts carbon emissions in Global North nations like the United States (U.S.) remains contested. Prior analyses focus on n
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A superb and nuanced analysis by @r-thombs.bsky.social. Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level? url: academic.oup.com/socpro/artic...
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Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level?
ABSTRACT. Whether and how trade impacts carbon emissions in Global North nations like the United States (U.S.) remains contested. Prior analyses focus on n
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Food Policy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Colleagues, please help spread the word and submit an abstract! The Global Political Economy Network is a super welcoming and dynamic scholarly community with great breadth and depth. And visiting Vancouver in the summer is not too shabby either. Travel support is available!
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Conference Alert! Submit an Abstract & Spread the Word! "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", July 2026, University of British Columbia. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73 #politicaleconomy #sociology #globalpoliticaleconomy #climatecrisis #globalinequality
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
At long last, I can post my team's summer project: applied modules to teach how ML/AI tools are changing social science and humanities research: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/ Highlights: LegalBERT to analyze anti/pro-immigrant sentiment in 19th c. BC law: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/d... 🧵1
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Praxis - Embedding Driven Text Analysis of Crease’s Stance Towards Chinese Immigrants
This notebook aims to demonstrate how machine learning can assist with historical and other humanity research.
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Call For Papers!: "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", a conference at University of British Columbia from July 21-23, 2026. Please share with faculty and grad students! Details here: www.climateandsocietylab.com/call-for-pap...
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Call For Papers!: "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", a conference at University of British Columbia from July 21-23, 2026. Please share with faculty and grad students! Details here: www.climateandsocietylab.com/call-for-pap...
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Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/09/2025
I have a new preprint, with Mike Vandenbergh and @eithorpe.bsky.social examining the wild uncertainties in estimates of the environmental footprint of large language models and discussing the implications for climate policy. 🔌💡 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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The Energy and Environmental Footprint of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create major economic and social benefits but also to rapidly escalate electricity demand and its associated e
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Joakim Kulin @joakimkulin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Happy to see this study published in @environmentalpol.bsky.social Vol 34, Issue 6. In it, I show how rightwing populists, especially those holding nationalist attitudes, consistently employ climate delay discourses (here whataboutism) to justify climate inaction. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition
In the evolving discourse on climate change, the phenomenon of ‘whataboutism’ has emerged as a pervasive rhetorical strategy to deflect responsibility for the emissions of one’s own country by shif...
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/06/2025
New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
Two graphs from the paper. 

The left graph shows US net greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022. The official EPA estimates decline fairly steadily from 6.6 gigatonnes per year in 2005 to 5.5 in 2022 (17% below 2005 levels), largely reflecting natural gas displacing coal for electricity generation. The adjusted estimates, which reflect independent measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, end at 6.3 gigatonnes per year in 2022 (only 5% below 2005 levels).

The right graph shows 2022 emissions increasing linearly with the assumed global warming potential of methane. Climate scientists are divided on whether to use the 100-year GWP, 20-year GWP, or something in between. With methane warming impacts assessed via the 20-year GWP, the central 2022 emissions estimate is 7.9 gigatonnes per year - 20% *above* the EPA's official 2005 estimate.

Caption: Figure 1: Left: United States net greenhouse gas emissions over time. Right: Scaling of 2022 net emissions with methane’s GWP. After adjustment to reflect recent measurements of methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure, United States net emissions remain nearly as high as their 2005 level.
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