Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2

(SC)2 is a hub for critical social science research on climate @UCBerkeley. Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, climate policy research.

[Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 @SC2_Collab]

We researched @AOC and @BernieSanders’s Green New Bill. It’s stunning. 240k new jobs a year, cutting carbon by equivalent of 1.2 million cars, health benefits like cutting asthma in NYCHA by up to 20%

Our first big partnership w @DataProgress + @McHargCenter

(More soon 😈)

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

It’s happening. Today @AOC and @BernieSanders are launching the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act. It’s good.

Over at @DataProgress we researched the bill, our first big collab w @SC2_Collab and @McHargCenter. It would slash carbon and inequality

https://t.co/uBgLg7stRN

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Hard to believe I’m even writing this.

Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

Not peer-reviewed yet, but if it is then we are in the deepest of deep sh*t

Warming of almost half a degree C a decade and a 0.5 to 1C rise possible within the next decade

https://t.co/Cw2W0sHlsw

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

@phenomenalworld has a new magazine on AMERICAN POWER. I read these two fantastic pieces. Learned about how narratives of US decline have paradoxically fueled imperial expansion and also about the multiple forms, opportunities & contradictions of China- global South relations

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

There are decent arguments for permitting reform across energy types under the next admin, along w complimentary policies (national transmission authorities, GIP tools, etc). Zero reason to cave on data center moratorium without a Sanders-like framework of public ownership.

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Now is a key moment to go much deeper on what effective public ownership means. I dont think the goal is to twin tech CEOs w whoever is president. I’d love to see more thought on arm’s length majority ownership of big AI, w big ideas for democratic oversight

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Thrilled to share our latest at @cplusci: "Greening Public Housing to Lower Costs, Make Homes Healthier, and Spur Market Transformation."

Yes, public housing can accomplish brilliant things—improving living conditions while fighting climate change.

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

It’s interesting to compare hysterical anti-RCP 8.5 discourse to a sober account of the scientific process (linked). Critics allege politically compromised science but… don’t actually engage the scientific process. They cosplay science to punch green.

https://t.co/u8ZeBprbv1

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

The warming projections that freaked the world out then are all now effectively baked in. Things could get much worse from there. RCP8.5 has not looked plausible as an emissions future for some time — as I wrote in 2019, and again in 2022 — but we are far from out of the woods.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

…an examination of the different worlds we’d be living in if warming was limited to 1.5 degrees, on the one hand, and 2 degrees, on the other. Both were optimistic targets. On present trajectories we are heading well above the higher of the two. Which is to say:…

[molly taft @mollytaft]

wrote this about karen hao's water error and the panic over data center water use back in december and i still stand by this

[American Prestige @AmPrestigePod]

.@triofrancos on how U.S. oil and gas production works as a strategic shield for American foreign policy, insulating the United States from some of the energy shocks it helps create.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

The most intense surge of climate alarm in recent history — school strikes and XR, Green New Deal and “twelve years to save the world” — followed not from science involving RCP8.5 but the UN’s Special Report on 1.5 Degrees. This was not a worst case scenario report but…

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

In the months leading up to a potentially devastating El Niño, “very serious” ppl are playing culture wars w climate science to… make themselves feel good??

This discourse doesn’t really matter to the world, except for revealing the vapid nihilism of the indulgence.

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

This entire meme is a fantasy. RCP 8.5 was a worst case scenario that animated some stories. It’s now thankfully avoided. It was never the basis dor Sunrise, GND, etc. Meanwhile, projections on current policies put us around 2.5C to 3C warming, which would be pretty catastrophic.

[Elise Joshi @EliseJoshi]

this is gonna be fun. come through on thursday!

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Fighting heat islands can be beautiful. Trees are great, but we can do even more. Here's a street in Granada, Spain. Zohran should do stuff like this all over NYC.

This is the "upstairs" counterpart to parklets, bike lanes, and other livable streets stuff at ground level.

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Might be time to add a massive investment in public media to the progressive agenda

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Curious what it means to say society wants “true abundance” when the vast majority of ppl are intensely opposed to new data centers, despite the “abundance” crowd mostly supporting those. “Abundance” was a fun word but at this point it’s meaningless and confusing. Let it go.

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

Seattle, Santa Cruz and Irvine: the book tour for EXTRACTION is coming your way.

5/19 UW-Seattle book talk followed by evening event @ElliottBayBooks
5/20 World Affairs Council - Seattle
5/21 University of California Santa Cruz w/ @its_mccarthy
5/27 Talk at @Social_Ecology

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Green is good, actually.

And if YIMBYs could successfully make upzoning into a “pro-housing” agenda everyone had to respond to, we can certainly do the same w “pro-green,” aka saving the planet while improving working class life. Will take a while, be hard, etc. But worth it.