“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business” The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.

Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest:
reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...

BTB176: The $100,000+ Book That Exposed How Truth Gets Twisted - Inside Merchants of Doubt with Author Naomi Oreskes Podcast Episode · Before The Bestseller · April 6 · 31m

This is a very fun conversation with #AlexStrathdee about writing, my books, and how being an author became a dangerous trade:
Here's the link to your episode:
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2K7e...

NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative

In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.

This Australian Senate inquiry is important not just for that country--it's really about the problem we face of information pollution and paid influence around the world.

Our @cssn.org research, assessment volumes, and testimony featured prominently

Major kudos to @senatorsurfer.bsky.social et al

Large language model reveals an increase in climate contrarian speech in the United States Congress - Communications Sustainability Congressional opposition to climate policies has grown in the United States, and Republicans are approximately twelve times more likely than Democrats to make contrarian claims, according to an analys...

What's going on with claims about #climate science and solutions in the #USCongress?

Here's our analysis of trends over three decades using the most sophisticated framework yet. An exciting collaboration of three research teams on three continents.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Who’s Obstructing Climate Action in the Rhode Island Legislature? Prompted by the lack of climate action in the Rhode Island legislature since the Act on Climate passed in 2021, student and staff researchers in the Climate and Development Lab looked into some key qu...

Our big study is just up.

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/who-s-o...

This is the most important development in the fight for a liveable planet in DECADES, and it comes out at just the right time to enable us to put spotlight and pressure on climate obstruction at the COP30 in Brazil.
BRAVO TIMMONS AND CSSN COLLEAGUES!!!!! 🤩🌍🤩

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:

cssn.org/news-researc...

Policy for the Planet: How to combat disinformation on climate science (Episode 18) In the age of the Internet, artificial intelligence, social media, and instant access to knowledge, disinformation has become a challenge in public discourse on climate change. Naomi Oreskes (Harvard ...

Recently I joined PIIE's Policy for the Planet, where host Monica de Bolle and I discussed how attacks on climate science contribute to polarization and the demonization of science, and how to combat these trends. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: policyfortheplanet.com/how-to-comba...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

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

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...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.

Huh, so I guess they haven't all fled the state

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Scientists’ warning on fossil fuels Abstract. The evidence is clear that fossil fuels—and the fossil fuel industry and its enablers—are driving a multitude of interlinked crises that jeopardi

I'm really happy to have been a part of this, with @marydwillis.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social and a whole bunch of other people that aren't on here yet (sorry if you are and I can't find you!) academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target. A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.

Coal-funded agitators harass the professors who craft legal theories that help sue fossil-fuel companies over climate damage; “This is a tactic designed to dissuade people from working on important climate policies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages A lawsuit by pipeline giant Energy Transfer claimed Greenpeace had played a major, costly role in protests nearly a decade ago. Greenpeace has said a loss could put it out of business.

We are deep in a war on activism and political speech www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.

"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investiga...

🔴 NEW 🔴

The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU.

📝 @desmog.bsky.social report 👇🏻

This is just one example of how the fossil fuel industry helps fund policing.

We wrote about this in 2020: littlesis.org/news/fossil-...

@ninalakhani.bsky.social at @theguardian.com did some great reporting on this: t.co/7PPPnYIbBy

Not to make everything about fossil fuels, but plastics are literally✨fossil fuels ✨

🚨🚨 New Paper🚨🚨

As promised yesterday, here is a draft (non-cite) version of my new paper, 'Digitizing the Fisc', onthe constitutional implication of Trump's BFS-DOGE takeover.

rohangrey.net/files/Grey-D...

law review editors please email rohan@rohangrey.net. It's late but worth the wait!

Out in @natureenergy.bsky.social, with Esther Shears and Jared Finnegan www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An incredibly rudimentary happy hour flier for Tuesday March 25 at the Elephant Room in Detroit during the AAG conference.

If you're going to be at AAG in Detroit, join us and @blackgeographies.bsky.social for Happy Hour on Tuesday at the Elephant Room from 6-8, right after the BGSG keynote! Drink tickets available while they last!

How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal Recent proposals in the US and elsewhere aim to tackle climate change and socioeconomic inequalities together through a Green New Deal (GND). GND prop…

"This suggests that integrating certain carbon-centric policies into a wider program of social, economic, and democratic reforms would achieve decarbonization more effectively than carbon-centric policies alone" - @drnoelhealy.bsky.social & @fergusgreen.bsky.social

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams A top Justice official said New York Mayor Eric Adams should not have to face trial given his reelection campaign and the fight against crime and illegal immigration.

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions.

We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...