In a new Editorial, the editors of PLOS Climate's Policy & Governance section call for transparent, equitable, and impactful research on climate policy and governance

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Delighted to share this agenda setting piece, co-authored w/ @lisgilmore.bsky.social, @profangelhsu.bsky.social, Florian Egli, Anjal Prakash, Anamika Barua. We present challenges + opportunities #climatepolicy #governance #transparency #equity #impact @asupubaffairs.bsky.social @woods.stanford.edu

Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change Cambridge Core - Climatology and Climate Change - Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change

Excited to share our new book! Rebel groups can play key roles in addressing environmental and climate related challenges. w/ @dfjung.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social & Leo Gentil Fernandes

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Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" across biogeophysical and social phenomena muddles its meaning, and its use can conceal the multidimensional complexity of processes th...

The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" can conceal the complexity of processes that can drive rapid change in the climate.

"Climate change will surprise us, but so-called 'tipping points' may lead us astray," by @bobkopp.net, @lisgilmore.bsky.social, and Rachael Shwom.

Tax expenditures as tools for state-level climate action in the U.S.

🔓: With federal US #climatepolicy in flux, state #taxincentives could play a bigger role. Yet, they remain limited in scope & focused on #energy. To drive real impact, they must be better integrated into broader fiscal policy, find @lisgilmore.bsky.social @tstclair.bsky.social @carleton.ca @nyu.edu

Meet PLOS Climate Section Editor Desiree Rose - Latitude In this blog post, we speak to Desiree Rose, PLOS Climate Section Editor for Adaptation. Could you tell us a bit about…

"The response to climate change requires a “whole-of-society” approach... For such a collaboration to be effective, everyone must have free access to a robust body of climate research that can inform sound decision-making."
-PLOS Climate Section Editor Desiree Rose

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March 2025 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

And that's it! The whole magazine issue is here. You should subscribe to the @thebulletin.org so you can read it all now, but I'll reshare these articles as they become freely available to all, and hope to continue the convo with future web articles

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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

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While the US administration may not believe in climate change, armed rebel groups do! We show that rebels are engaging in climate governance with implications for local to international climate action. @kgcunnin.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social @daniellejung @leonardogentil

Update: the NIST report, from *twenty* years ago, was called "Factors Affecting U.S. Production Decisions: Why are There No Volume Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturers in the United States?" and it's no longer available www.greencarcongress.com/2005/09/why_...

Update 2: my back hurts

Sounds like a good research question :).

This is a well written and convincing critique of the 'tipping point' framing by @bobkopp.net, @lisgilmore.bsky.social, et al, and I recommend you read it (if you haven't)

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Open version: rdcu.be/d3HKC

We acknowledge that there are definitions which include positive feedbacks. We argue in our paper that it is frequently applied to such a wide range of phenomena - many of which do not have these characteristics - such that calling it is framing is accurate.

Tipping point framings can lead to political paralysis. This video highlights that it may also favour overly technocratic responses.

Understanding abrupt changes in the climate system matters. Negotiation and participatory democracy for just and equitable responses matters as much, if not more.

‘Tipping points’ cause confusion, not clarity A focus on climate ‘tipping points’ — moments of abrupt and irreversible shifts in the Earth system, such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest — isn’t helpful, argues an interdisciplinary group of ten researchers that includes climate scientists, science communicators and environmental sociologists. The issues involved are important to study, but the framing is too abstract and frightening to trigger useful action, and not rigorous enough to inform policy, they argue. They recommend that scientists avoid using the idea as a scholarly tool and instead consider it “a fuzzy, boundary-spanning concept akin to ‘sustainability’”. Nature Climate Change | 27 min read

In yesterday's Nature Briefing, we considered a Perspective by @lisgilmore.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and colleagues about the use of the climate ‘tipping point’ framing. An interesting read! #ScienceSky 🧪 us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵