Michael L. Ross
profmichaelross.bsky.social
Michael L. Ross
@profmichaelross.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at UCLA. I study the politics of fossil fuels, climate change, and democracy. Used to be @michaelross7 on twitter. Aspiring potter.
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#COP30 final text “calls for efforts to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035.”

But the problem has never been amount of $$ committed; the problem has always been enforcement and actually getting money to communities that need it. So tripling basically nothing is still…. basically nothing.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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At #COP30 in Brazil, @governor.ca.gov Newsom is fighting back against Trumpism and the anti-climate global right-wing tide, showing the world that American climate leadership starts in California.

My thoughts for @npr.org @kcrw.com on Press Play wtih Madeleine Brand: www.kcrw.com/shows/press-...
The 100-year history of motels from architectural… | KCRW
Plus, what Gov. Gavin Newsom hopes to get out of the COP30 climate conference, Inspector General Max Huntsman on LA County jail conditions, and what to see (or skip) on TV this fall.
www.kcrw.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I hate to disagree with you @michaelwara.bsky.social but this was a raw deal. Unnecessary given projected refinery capacity (see below, based on CEC data), not to mention the minimal relationship between in-state production and gas prices.

Let’s call this bill what it is: a deal with the devil
September 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
These attacks show that you’re making a difference. Hang in there and keep up the great work.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Recommended read: A @ForeignAffairs essay by two US professors argued that, as the US’s energy exports have grown, it has “begun to behave more like a classic petrostate”.

📝 @profmichaelross.bsky.social‬ and @‪erikvoeten.bsky.social‬
Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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IEA: Oil still on track to peak by 2030; oil for fuel to peak in 2027

"annual growth slows…to just a trickle over the next several years, with a small decline expected in 2030, based on today’s policy settings and market trends"

Here are some of the most striking charts 🧵
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June 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
When @erikvoeten.bsky.social and I first wrote in 2016 about "petrostates," we thought of places like Venezuela, Iran, Russia, Libya, and Iraq that "actively defy global norms, invade neighboring countries, (and) flout human rights." I never imagined the US would join this list.
I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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🚨 WP w/ @acalacino.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social

It’s been a turbulent decade of globalization backlash. Populist projects wanna take back control everywhere.

Focusing on the case of oil and Brexit, we offer a story of the danger of this narrative and concrete merits of multilateralism: 🧵
June 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’re grateful that @natclimate.nature.com is featuring a project that the three of us worked so hard on and believe in so deeply!
May 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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UCLA political scientist @profmichaelross.bsky.social wrote long ago about how regimes and insurgencies use derivative claims over as-yet uncaptured resources to fund violence: what he dubbed "booty futures."

Saddened but unsurprised that the US may wade into these blackwaters.
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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New from me - is it possible we are actually at peak populism? This post is an exercise in working through a scenario - I may very well be wrong. But also, outside of America, I think something is shifting. Because of America. 1/n

benansell.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
Twilight of the Populists?
Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism
benansell.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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We now have visual evidence of intense pollution from every stage of the #LNG supply chain, from the hole in the ground, to the export terminal, to the regasification import terminal (as bad as it sounds), to the power plant. It's astonishing to see, even for me.

narrated youtu.be/eyh4pcpBt7o?...
The Methane Emissions of the LNG Lifecycle
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
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March 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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For a thumbnail of @profmichaelross.bsky.social new @worldpolitics.bsky.social review essay on climate, see 👇🏾
February 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Can a cap-and-trade system work in the US? What does a Trump administration really mean for climate politics? @profmichaelross.bsky.social answers these questions and more in @worldpolitics.bsky.social The Storied Teller. wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...
To Tax or Not to Tax
In the January 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1) issue of World Politics, Michael L. Ross, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at the Uni...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Starting with the final article in the January issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social, have a read of Michael L. Ross' book review article, "The New Political Economy of Climate Change." @profmichaelross.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
January 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM