Leah Stokes

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Prof climate + energy policy UCSB, Fellow Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Advises Rewiring America, Alum @MIT @Columbia @UofT, Hosts "A Matter of Degrees," Cuts carbon pollution!
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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Massachusetts' House must act and pass a bold climate bill. The Senate has already sent over a strong package. It's time for the MA House to step up on climate. What's at stake? Clean buildings, electricity, cars + more. SHORT THREAD! apnews.com/article/m...

Massachusetts Senate approves bill to expand reliance on renewable energyapnews.com The Massachusetts Senate approved a bill Tuesday aimed at expanding the adoption of renewable energy.

The Senate bill includes: - Basic safeguards to ensure more money isn't dumped into outdated gas infrastructure - Requirements that big clean energy projects are permitted within 15 months - Money to help folks buy EVs and install chargers malegislature.gov/Pr...

The Senate plan includes assessments of gas infrastructure. Do we really need it? The MA House needs to recognize that gas lines are dangerous and blow up homes. The state can move towards electricity and geothermal to heat and cool buildings. www.cnn.com/2019/09/...

Merrimack Valley gas explosions were caused by weak management, poor oversight, NTSB says | CNNwww.cnn.com Last September, 18-year-old Leonel Rondon died after a series of fires and gas explosions rocked three towns in Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley.

It's not just the Supreme Court that's corrupt. Today, in Louisiana, another radical Trump appointed judge decided that dirty LNG projects should go forward, even if they poison Americans. A corrupt legal system benefits fossil fuel corporations. www.nytimes.com/2024...

Judge Orders Biden Administration to Resume Permits for Gas Exportswww.nytimes.com President Biden had paused new natural gas export terminals to assess their effects on the climate, economy and national security. A federal judge disagreed.

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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

California middle schoolers were sick of roasting during heat waves. So they organized to install a heat pump at their school... and won! The California school bond likely on the ballot this fall should be funding heat pumps, not gas furnaces. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Adults doubted us. We found a way to shrink emissions at our middle school anywaywww.theguardian.com Heating and cooling our school had a huge energy cost. So we successfully researched, planned and proposed a heat pump on campus

Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be. Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents showwww.theguardian.com Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak

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Pay taxes. Raise taxes higher. Organize labor unions and give them money. Fund local community groups and religious congregations that build social capital so politicians will be pressured to respond to people's needs. Fund and organize local political party orgs. Fund left-of-center media orgs.

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@leahstokes.bsky.social spoke with CBS News about the stakes of the 2024 election & the importance of asking the candidates their plans to combat climate change. Listen now: www.cbsnews.com/video/where-...

Where Biden, Trump stand on climate change as U.N. sounds "red alert"www.cbsnews.com 2024 could be the hottest year ever, according to a new prediction from the U.N.'s weather agency. Leah Stokes, associate professor of environmental politics at the University of California, Santa Bar...

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Dr. T. Flo

Hey lady! ♥️

What's the best recent book on meditation and neuroscience?

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My husband is reading a really interesting book about activist burn out, and basically every chapter that looks at specific historical activists shows that being unable to acknowledge even minor victories leads to burn out and depression.

I think some people are afraid of good news because they think it inevitably leads to complacency. like any hint of good must mean there is no need for Better. but…endless bad news doesn’t lead to Better either. it leads to exhaustion.

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Research from @leahstokes.bsky.social & colleagues found that Members of Congress don’t actually know what their constituents want. Everyone calling their offices & telling them, “I live in your district, I vote in every election, & [issue] is important to me” helps. www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/o...

Opinion | Congress Has No Clue What Americans Want (Published 2018)www.nytimes.com People in the U.S. House and Senate have wildly inaccurate perceptions of our opinions and preferences.

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New paper dropping this week from us: what if we electrified every dang transit bus in these United States

Yessssss

Rewiring America is hiring!⚡ We're looking for two dynamic leaders to join us as Senior Policy Managers in Western Regional Policy (apply.workable.com/j/27F528FC6D/) and Eastern Regional Policy (apply.workable.com/j/48947DBA68/). Apply now; can’t wait to work with you!

Senior Manager, Western Regional Policy - Rewiring Americaapply.workable.com Full-time; Exempt; Remote (ideally located in Colorado, California, Washington, or Oregon)About Rewiring AmericaRewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our h...

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I’m a bad person

I love it.

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Ed Yong

What a beautiful essay! Thank you for sharing.

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We should be shocked (a) that this exists, (b) that the former president is amplifying it, and (c) that the former president's amplification isn't even a big news story. Last year an armed, dangerous man showed up at Obama's house after Trump posted the address www.axios.com/2023/07/05/t...

This is the image. I dunno, it strikes me that Presidents who deploy the visual stylings of snuff films for their campaign events are perhaps dangerous to democracy. But have you heard that Joe Biden is old?

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Justin Mikulka

Exactly.

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Charles Louis Richter

Horrific

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Costa Samaras

But like what would we do with ourselves if we didn't just fight with each other on the Internet???

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Rob Pegoraro

Great stuff! Glad the talk was helpful.

My segment on CBS News last night. Listen to what Trump is saying. He says he wants to be a “dictator on day one to drill, drill, drill.” We cannot afford to have an arsonist in the White House — let alone a dictator. The climate stakes of the Presidential election could not be higher.

Where Biden, Trump stand on climate change as U.N. soundswww.youtube.com 2024 could be the hottest year ever, according to a new prediction from the U.N.'s weather agency. Leah Stokes, associate professor of environmental politics...

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Bike lanes in cities don't hurt businesses—not by taking away parking spaces, not by limiting customers. I read the more than 30 studies and reports on this that have come out since the mid 1980s, and that's what the data shows.

I read all the studies on the economic impact of bike lanes. Here's what I learned.www.businessinsider.com Research proves that bike lanes are good for business. So why do so many stores and restaurants still oppose them?