Leah Stokes

@leahstokes.bsky.social

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Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com

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Leah Cardamore Stokes is a Canadian-American political scientist specializing in environmental policy. She is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, Stokes is a senior policy consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America. She also hosts the climate change podcast A Matter of Degrees. Her research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, and the politics of energy and environmental policy in the United States. .. more

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · Jan 15

It's official: I'm writing a book. Should be out early fall 2026. Thrilled to be working with MIT Press.

Book announcement for "The Carbon Wave."

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 17h

Sleepy Don.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

when the tryptophan hits

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 17h

lol yes I had the same thought

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

when the tryptophan hits

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 18h

OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 18h

Yay CBC

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 19h

Lol

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h

Got one in 2020, got the heat-pump hot water heater this spring (after the really unpleasant death of my gas water heater), and I'm one stove away from the all-electric mostly-run-on-renewables home of my dreams. Pretty sure it'll be Copper's glorious induction stove. copperhome.com/products/cha...

Charlie - battery-equipped induction range

The world's first energy storage equipped induction electric range. We are accepting reservations for the 2025 edition of Charlie ranges. Your reservation deposit is fully refundable at any time.The p...

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The 2035 Initiative at UCSB @the2035initiative.bsky.social · 23h

Join us on 12/16 for a deep dive into one of the most immediate, practical opportunities to cut industrial climate pollution in the U.S. — electrifying low and medium temperature process heat!

Register here: bit.ly/industrial-e...
@leahstokes.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 4d

Trump keeps propping up expensive, unreliable coal plants and your energy bills keep rising.

Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...

How Trump’s Coal Plant Obsession is Making Energy More Expensive

Coal plants are dirty, expensive, and unreliable. President Trump is determined to keep them open anyway. Here's how the rest of us are paying the price.

www.lcv.org

ence morse @ence.bsky.social · 5d

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 6d

Wow I'm so glad we have unbiased AI. What a blessing to humanity.

Reposted by Stéphane Hallegatte, Nancy Knowlton, Gernot Wagner , and 2 more Stéphane Hallegatte, Nancy Knowlton, Gernot Wagner, Dana R. Fisher, Leah Stokes

Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com · 8d

You know #Geothermal has at last made the <> when @newyorker.com runs a long read!

Brilliant reporting by Rivka Galchen with quotes from @leahstokes.bsky.social @gwagner.com @timlatimer.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy

It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.

www.newyorker.com

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 9d

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 10d

Truly the worst guy!

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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 10d

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 11d

Bahahahaha. ONE CAN DREAM!!!

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 12d

Here's a bright spot: today there's a ribbon cutting at UC Irvine, which is opening up the first all electric hospital in America! Awesome!
www.ucihealth.org/about-us/new...

UCI Health making history with nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital | UCI Health | Orange County, CA

UCI Health is poised to make history this December when it opens UCI Health ― Irvine, the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital. Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health General Services, spoke ...

www.ucihealth.org

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 12d

Seems like our President is having A GREAT DAY! Check out the top read articles.