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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷

Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!

Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws" paper by Calacino, Genovese and Pring:

Globalization has led to various forms of international integration whose effect on environmental behavior has been a long-standing source of debate. Yet, in recent years, there has been a growing backlash against international institutions, in part motivated by the will of taking back control of national borders. Focusing on the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, this paper explores the effects of this type of backlash on firms' environmental standards. Despite being defined as a sovereignist project to enhance state power and national regulatory oversight, we argue that Brexit caused immediate suboptimal environmental outcomes. Specifically, Brexit created policy misalignment, pushing the UK regulators into a capacity vacuum. This led to a transition period of impunity for polluting firms, further catalyzed by accelerating market changes, which led firms with lower environmental compliance to sort into the market. We test our theory with evidence from the oil sector's offshore rigs in the North Sea between 2015 and 2023. A grid-cell analysis of satellite-detected oil spills compares firm behavior in the United Kingdom, European Union, and Norwegian jurisdictions. We first find that, after Brexit, UK waters experienced significantly less environmental protection compared to the EU and Norway. Additionally, we show that the environmental damages following Brexit are not associated to a decrease of UK public salience for environmental protection, but by a new ecosystem of firms that were allowed to reap short-term profits from Brexit.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 5d

Having to footnote limited data is a modest inconvenience in the grand scheme of all the bad happening right now in the US. But also, this sort of thing underscores how much science is being undermined right now.

Foot note in a draft "Earlier data exist, but downloads were interrupted by the 2025 U.S. government shutdown."

Service Unavailable screenshot of NASA website.

NEO NASA website showing banner that says "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. We sincerely regret the inconvenience.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.”

More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 15d

Action Alert: APSA members are invited to urge Congress to take action in support of international education and federal science funding. Take action here: buff.ly/FlaOWyg and buff.ly/AlQ8CTm

Take Action for International Education!

I just took action to increase funding for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays! Join me and take action here.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13d

Critics slam renewables for land use but ignore fossil fuels' huge impact.

Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS.

My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 13d

Especially as the wind energy sector in the UK might be closing in on 60k people right now.

Also funny how the narrative is about jobs, while the Labour government also pursues AI strategies, which might lead to major job losses? Is it about jobs?

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13d

i know this does not strictly mean more or new gas and oil licenses, but the optics of this move from a climate policy credibility standpoint are bad…

H/t @acalacino.bsky.social

Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge

Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15d

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site).

But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 19d

"Soon, the only comedian left on TV will be Karoline Leavitt" - Andy Borowitz

#Kimmel #JimmyKimmel

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 19d

I was also shocked to see this. Hard not to read it as the university endorsing ChatGPT at all levels of university work, regardless of the ethical or PR implications.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 19d

Sadly, I think it's more than just a bug in the system. The system itself is bugging.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 21d

Big DWW piece in NYT today. Again this sad progression away from collective responsibility and commitment to each other is presented as inevitable. It was not, and is not. 1/x

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

www.nytimes.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24d

What does the EU’s new deforestation regulation mean for sourcing coffee, soy, cocoa, palm oil, and more? And what role can journalists play in monitoring its rollout?

Find out on September 15, 2025 at 7:30pm UTC in our upcoming webinar.

RSVP: forms.gle/zUDCqj8bx7B6...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 27d

"27 years of prison for Bolsonaro"

This is justice for democracy, but also, justice for all those this coward attacked while in office. This is far from the end of the radical right in Brazil, but this seriously gives me hope.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 27d

The US should take notes from Brazil on how to defend democracy.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27d

Bolsonaro guilty of plotting a military coup.

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 28d

That's a pretty good reason to skip APSA - Congrats to you both!!

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks! In addition to what Federica said, we also think there is some missing data due to our underlying data source. We don't think the pattern would fundamentally change, but we are working at including more sources.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, Mike! Hope to see you around APSA!

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28d

Psyched for @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social to present our media paper at PECE/APSA!

Come for the giant dataframe of local news, geolocated monthly climate events and coal mines

Stay for the wealth of stories from recent 🇧🇷🇮🇩 fieldwork

Enrage about asset-based climate politics

Front slide of presentation of the “When the Tail Wags the Dog: Climate Exposure and News Media Behavior in the Global South” working paper by Ahrenshop Calacino Genovese and Pring

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 29d

5/5 if you're also going to APSA, hope to see you there! Always up for coffee ☕ and conference side quests.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 29d

4/5 then on Friday during APSA, I present work on the politics of climate adaptation with @cesarbmartinez.bsky.social. We study the electoral impact of a program in Mexico City meant to address water scarcity.

Abstract of article "Are policies that contribute to reducing climate vulnerability electorally advantageous? Political science has long studied the politics of carbon dioxide mitigation, but we know less about the political logic of climate impacts. As adaptation lies at the intersection of environmental, social, and disaster policy, its electoral effects are puzzling from a theoretical perspective. We address this gap by studying a program to improve the ability of households to withstand episodes of water scarcity in Mexico City, implemented between presidential cycles. In contrast to conventional forms of social policy, this intervention prioritizes building future resilience instead of immediate material benefits. We take advantage of the means-tested nature of the program to reduce imbalances between treated and control neighbors and estimate a difference-in-differences to evaluate its impact on electoral outcomes. We find that neighborhoods receiving this adaptation policy had, on average, higher levels of support for the party in charge of its implementation at the presidential and gubernatorial levels, compared to similar neighborhoods that did not receive the program. We also posit that reductions in reliance on inadequate water sources are a mechanism that explains this result. Our findings suggest that climate adaptation may be less contentious than mitigation, therefore giving politicians strong incentives to implement them. Moreover, we contribute to the climate politics literature by providing a theoretical framework to understand the political logic of adaptation action, regardless of its specific form or domain."

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 29d

3/5 we are really grateful to the Leverhulme Trust and the @cssn.org for funding our work on this. We have been able to do fieldwork where we spoke with coal miners, oil sector workers, and journalists in Brazil and Indonesia.

Photo of coal barges in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 29d

2/5 This map contains nearly 1 million articles geolocated to local newsrooms and likely audiences. Red = no climate reporting, blue = some climate reporting, yellow = high climate reporting. Also, we investigate how entrenched interests like fossil fuel companies try to to silence this reporting.

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