Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR
Jeff Colgan
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Our ongoing national embarrassment . . .
Hmm I think we'll have a strong El Nino this year.
CSL salutes Brown University's latest step toward carbon neutrality, a major investment in the building heating system that enables electrification of the whole system in the future. Campus GHG already -75% compared to 2018. Keep up the good work, Brown U!
today.brown.edu/announcement...
Great news. Way to go @brown.edu! And thanks to the folks at @brown-ibes.bsky.social who helped make it happen.
Electric car sales in the UK were up 34% year-on-year in May, while sales of petrol and diesel cars fell.
EVs reached a market share of 27%.
With EVs costing less than half as much as petrols to drive, now is the time for manufacturers to push EV sales harder, not to row back.
#r4today
CSL Director @jeffcolgan.bsky.social talks to Newsweek about the fossil fuel costs of the US-Israel conflict with Iran
www.newsweek.com/100-days-of-...
China's $18 billion for solar subsidies is less than 1/3 of the extra $55 billion that Americans have spent on gas and diesel due to high prices from Trump's war in Iran. USA is wasting its resources on fossil energy. And the waste keeps rising: iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
@adamtooze.bsky.social
Strawberry Picking
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith
c. 1900
So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.
Iran war impact: "ABB is lobbying EU policymakers to accelerate electrification, industrial efficiency and decarbonisation, saying it is the fastest way to make the bloc more competitive."
www.ft.com/content/c7d9... Europe risks ‘mass unemployment’ without reform, warns ABB boss
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Dan Grey
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Canadian Paintings
Climate Solutions Lab
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!
Climate Solutions Lab
Jo Wolff
Sarah Boon
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.'
@adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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As Brown moves toward a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, the University will take a major step toward decarbonization and energy resiliency by creating a modern, sustainable thermal energy system on its College Hill campus.
Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle
Following a milestone 75% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, the University will establish a new campus heating network that reduces emissions and dramatically increases efficiency and resiliency.
