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Michael L. Ross
@profmichaelross.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at UCLA. I study the politics of fossil fuels, climate change, and democracy. Used to be @michaelross7 on twitter. Aspiring potter.

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Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com · 21d
Last week’s bills are important steps in California’s contribution to fighting climate change. But the inclusion of oil-industry handouts in bills like SB 237 was a raw deal we didn’t need to make.

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Newsom Signs Climate, Energy Bills Charting State Course Through Perilous ‘Mid-Transition’ | KQED
California has been at the forefront of bold climate policy. Now, the state is one of the first to face a messy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
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Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com · 27d
I hate to disagree with you @michaelwara.bsky.social but this was a raw deal. Unnecessary given projected refinery capacity (see below, based on CEC data), not to mention the minimal relationship between in-state production and gas prices.

Let’s call this bill what it is: a deal with the devil
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Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com · Sep 10
UPDATE: vote pushed from today’s session, so there’s still time to contact your reps!!

If you live in California, text “SIGN PLRZYJ” to 50409
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Michael L. Ross @profmichaelross.bsky.social · Aug 25
These attacks show that you’re making a difference. Hang in there and keep up the great work.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25
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

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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25
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

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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · Aug 19
Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 21
Recommended read: A @ForeignAffairs essay by two US professors argued that, as the US’s energy exports have grown, it has “begun to behave more like a classic petrostate”.

📝 @profmichaelross.bsky.social‬ and @‪erikvoeten.bsky.social‬
Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Jun 17
IEA: Oil still on track to peak by 2030; oil for fuel to peak in 2027

"annual growth slows…to just a trickle over the next several years, with a small decline expected in 2030, based on today’s policy settings and market trends"

Here are some of the most striking charts 🧵
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Michael L. Ross @profmichaelross.bsky.social · Jun 14
When @erikvoeten.bsky.social and I first wrote in 2016 about "petrostates," we thought of places like Venezuela, Iran, Russia, Libya, and Iraq that "actively defy global norms, invade neighboring countries, (and) flout human rights." I never imagined the US would join this list.
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Jun 12
I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Jun 12
I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
www.foreignaffairs.com
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 3
🚨 WP w/ @acalacino.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social

It’s been a turbulent decade of globalization backlash. Populist projects wanna take back control everywhere.

Focusing on the case of oil and Brexit, we offer a story of the danger of this narrative and concrete merits of multilateralism: 🧵
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws: Brexit and Oil Spills in the North Sea" by Anthony Calacino, Federica Genovese, Hayley Pring (University of Oxford)
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Michael L. Ross @profmichaelross.bsky.social · May 14
We’re grateful that @natclimate.nature.com is featuring a project that the three of us worked so hard on and believe in so deeply!
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Michael L. Ross @profmichaelross.bsky.social · Apr 26
I’m so sorry, Jeff, this is just terrible, for you, your lab, and everything we’re working for.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Mar 19
Congo’s Tshisikedi working with Blackstone’s Eric Prince to entice Trump into blood mineral trap

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Exclusive | War-Torn Congo Has a Deal for Trump: Kick Out Rebels, Get Minerals
The country’s president offered a deal that would give the U.S. access to key minerals in return for a security pact that helps defeat the powerful M23 rebel force.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Mar 10
New from me - is it possible we are actually at peak populism? This post is an exercise in working through a scenario - I may very well be wrong. But also, outside of America, I think something is shifting. Because of America. 1/n

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Twilight of the Populists?
Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism
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MethaneHunter @txsharon.bsky.social · Mar 8
We now have visual evidence of intense pollution from every stage of the #LNG supply chain, from the hole in the ground, to the export terminal, to the regasification import terminal (as bad as it sounds), to the power plant. It's astonishing to see, even for me.

narrated youtu.be/eyh4pcpBt7o?...
The Methane Emissions of the LNG Lifecycle
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Jan 31
Can a cap-and-trade system work in the US? What does a Trump administration really mean for climate politics? @profmichaelross.bsky.social answers these questions and more in @worldpolitics.bsky.social The Storied Teller. wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...
To Tax or Not to Tax
In the January 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1) issue of World Politics, Michael L. Ross, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at the Uni...
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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Jan 28
Starting with the final article in the January issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social, have a read of Michael L. Ross' book review article, "The New Political Economy of Climate Change." @profmichaelross.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Demonstrator with a sign that reads "We can't recycle wasted time" at a protest against climate change, photo credit: Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Michael L. Ross @profmichaelross.bsky.social · Nov 28
awww...thanks Paasha!
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