The dark implications of the "medium" climate scenario here seem to be the buried lede of this 🌎 report. We are on a very bad path. "We are unlikely to see +4C by 2100" is a bit like saying that the conveyor belt carrying you towards a blast furnace probably won't get you fully in today.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 2w ago

NEW – Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change ✍️ Written by @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/t2daZcD

On Monday I will talk on the subject "China and the War in the Middle East: Consequences for the Global Energy Economy" @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social

CSL Director Jeff Colgan was interviewed by Mother Jones on Trump's Venezuela oil deal. The winner of the deal "is not going to be the average American consumer... But it it is going to line the pockets of some American companies." Learn why in the interview! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's Venezuela deal helps his rich friends—and that's it

Some CEOs will make a fast buck. Gas prices won't change.

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Most Americans don't buy diesel directly, but the high costs of trucking and shipping goods have cost the average household over $350 since the beginning of the Iran War, according to CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker. Read more on the diesel impacts here: grist.org/economics/wh...

What the record-high cost of diesel means for you

Most Americans don't buy diesel, but the soaring costs of trucking and shipping goods have cost the average household $350.

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"There's a real national security advantage to having an electrified economy that isn't so vulnerable to the ups and downs of the global oil market," said CSL Director Jeff Colgan to Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/0809202...

As Hostilities Flare and Oil Prices Spike, U.S. Consumers Pay at the Pump - Inside Climate News

Experts say President Trump’s rollback of climate policy is leaving consumers more vulnerable to price shocks and pollution.

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The $100B in added fuel costs for American households from the Iran War is roughly the same as the federal government's annual spending on SNAP. Read more on CSL's findings and and the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in this Huffpost article. www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...

This 1 Number Explains Why Trump's Approval Rating Is So Horrendous

Higher prices for gasoline and diesel fuel have soured Americans on the war and helped drive Trump’s approval rating into the toilet.

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As gas prices in the US hit a national high over Labor Day weekend, so did CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker: $100B in extra energy costs for Americans since the start of the war. See how the Independent is featuring the Tracker's data in this recent article. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Iran War is costing Americans $100B in extra energy costs

Gas prices in the US hit a national high over Labor Day weekend

independent.co.uk

$763. That's how much the average US household has spent extra on energy since February 28th. Read more on the numbers from the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in this recent Al Jazeera article. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

How US consumers spent an additional $100bn on fuel due to war on Iran

The average US household has spent $763 extra on fuel in six months, as the US-Israel war on Iran pushes up fuel costs.

aljazeera.com

The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker continues to gain attention as the estimated amount Americans have spent on extra gasoline and diesel costs surpassed $100 billion this Labor Day weekend. Check out this Axios article featuring the Tracker! www.axios.com/2026/09/07/i...

Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumers

The average cost burden is more than $760 per household.

axios.com

Denmark produced 109% of electricity consumption by wind alone yesterday. It could have been more if we had more capacity to store and export. Instead we had to shut down turbines. Numbers below from WindEurope

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Check out CSL Director Jeff Colgan's interview with CNN on how the Iran War is raising energy costs for consumers! @cnn.com @jeffcolgan.bsky.social

"As consumers, Americans are paying higher prices [for] gasoline and diesel," says CSL Director Jeff Colgan in this recent Financial Times article. High costs are impacting Trump's popularity ahead of the midterms. www.ft.com/content/6972...

Donald Trump summons US refiners as Iran war pushes up fuel prices

President to hold White House meeting on Tuesday as high living costs sap his popularity ahead of midterm elections

ft.com

Americans have had to pay an extra $95 BILLION for gasoline and diesel since President Trump decided to attack Iran on February 28, 2026. A war that hurts the global economy, undermines US power, creates hardship for working class, and helps the Iranian regime stay.🛢️🇺🇸 iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Hi @gavinnewsom.bsky.social! Do you really want your legacy to be taking money away from school kids for air conditioning during heat waves to hand it to a fossil fuel company that made $1.8 billion in profit last year? Extend CalSHAPE. Cool the schools. It’s really not that complicated.

I am on the environmental politics committee and also happy to chat at APSA!

Andrew Trexler@atrexler.com · 3w ago

UW-Madison Poli Sci has THREE searches for TT assistant professors: Environmental politics: go.wisc.edu/1gk366 Chinese politics: go.wisc.edu/847082 American political thought: go.wisc.edu/lfwg6o I am not on any of the search committees, but happy to chat about the dept/UW/Madison/etc at APSA!

Big congratulations to @sarahcolbourn.bsky.social for receiving the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching! This award recognizes Sarah for her amazing work in the course 'Politics of Climate Change.' Well deserved, Sarah! 🎊

Wow. "25 of the 38 organizations (66%) supporting Exxon and Suncor have documented financial ties to fossil fuel defendants, the broader fossil fuel industry, or climate denial foundations and dark-money networks" consumerwatchdog.org/energy/new-r...

New Report Exposes Fossil Fuel-Backed Network Flooding Supreme Court with Briefs Seeking to Shield Oil & Gas Companies in Climate Deception Case

Investigation identifies coordinated fossil fuel funding behind most industry-supporting briefs and raises new questions about Justice Samuel Alito's…

consumerwatchdog.org

This summer's heat has drawn attention to the impact of climate change on the home insurance market. Less clear is if individuals experiencing these changes change their opinions or behaviors in response. I investigate in a new working paper (osf.io/preprints/so... : (1/n)

And we're back! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

Correspondent, The Economics of a Warming World

New York, NY

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7. @madisoncondon.bsky.social calls for giving the public real-time and long-term info about how specific towns and regions can anticipate and prepare for climate harms. Make Science Useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Stand Up a National Climate Service

Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.

rooseveltinstitute.org

Pleased to be cited in @theguardian.com Editorial on what the state's role should be in India's green growth: "The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance | Editorial

Editorial: The world’s most populous country needs state-generated demand to industrialise, decarbonise and avoid China’s overcapacity trap

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Hard not to see the cancellation of 3 high-transmission electricity corridors, at a time when USA desperately needs more electricity supply, as an idiotic own-goal. 🌍🔌 (Hegemonic suicide, as @sbmitche.bsky.social @thunen.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social would say)

Energy Secretary Announces Cancellation of Three Proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will not move forward with designating the three proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors previous...

energy.gov

NEW: A record 29% cars sold globally this year will be electric Meanwhile... China is exporting more E.V.s than the U.S. exports cars of any kind Latest w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social → www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lucky the Voinovich School is a Project ECHO Hub, enabling us to offer Building Resilience for Older Adults in a Changing Environment. Series starts in Sept and will help unpack the new challenges (and opportunities) in building resilience in an older and warmer world www.ohio.edu/news/2026/08...

Helping state’s older adults deal with extreme weather the focus of latest free Project ECHO seminars hosted by OHIO’s Voinovich School

How Ohio’s rapidly aging population can better cope with heat waves, flooding and increasingly severe storms is the subject of a new six-part Project ECHO webinar series starting in September.

ohio.edu

The #SustainableED team's first publication is out in @pnas.org. We document the scale of potential pollutant & carcinogen exposure across US K12 schools. 8% of all schools are within a few blocks of EPA registered hazard sites. Exposure risk is highly inequitable. 🧵

The Guardian featured the CSL Iran War Energy Cost Tracker in its newsletter on the impact of Trump's Iran policies on rising costs for Americans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

First Thing: Soaring oil profits from US-Iran conflict drive calls for windfall tax

Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump’s policies raise costs for Americans

theguardian.com

CSL Director Jeff Colgan talks to Huffpost about CSL's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker and how much the war is costing American households. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...

‘It Hits A Nerve’: This Number Reveals How Much Americans Are Paying For Trump’s War With Iran

The Trump administration’s invasion of Iran has cost the typical U.S. household several hundred dollars in added fuel costs. The tab grows every day.

huffpost.com

Brown just opened a cluster hire for two tenure-track positions in Education Policy. Come join our vibrant community of scholars at @brownedudept.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! apply.interfolio.com/190527 Please help spread the word.

CSL Director Jeff Colgan talks to the FT about the ongoing fossil fuel costs of the Iran war. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

US diesel prices overtake Biden-era average in blow to Trump

Cost for fuel that powers industrial America set to remain elevated even as crude falls

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