Gregor Semieniuk
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UMass Amherst | Political economy of the low-carbon transition, energy and resources in economic growth and development, inequality | Views are my own
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No, it's still wrong. The rate of *temperature* increase has not decreased, in fact it has gone up. The rate of warming of past decade is about twice that between 80s and 2010. As for the argument that we have made progress with regards postulated end-of-century warming, I'm just too tired...
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No, it's still wrong. The rate of *temperature* increase has not decreased, in fact it has gone up. The rate of warming of past decade is about twice that between 80s and 2010. As for the argument that we have made progress with regards postulated end-of-century warming, I'm just too tired...
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But windfall profits flow upward: in 2022, half of record fossil-fuel profits went to the richest 1%; only 1% reached the bottom half.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
But windfall profits flow upward: in 2022, half of record fossil-fuel profits went to the richest 1%; only 1% reached the bottom half.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
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November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thanks for your interest, this paper is published open access and is online here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality
The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thanks for your interest, this paper is published open access and is online here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Even more of a case for a carbon tax on investment income:
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Even more of a case for a carbon tax on investment income:
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Policy relevance: Excess profit taxes could make fossil fuel profits less volatile in the low-carbon transition. Revenues could finance investments or alleviate inflation impacts: taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715.
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Policy relevance: Excess profit taxes could make fossil fuel profits less volatile in the low-carbon transition. Revenues could finance investments or alleviate inflation impacts: taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715.
Fossil fuel profits also sharply increase inflation inequality.
Incremental 2022 fossil fuel profits over 2021 compensate several percent of 2022 inflation for the richest groups (triangles and squares), dwarfing differences in inflation due to differing consumption baskets (disks). 10/
Incremental 2022 fossil fuel profits over 2021 compensate several percent of 2022 inflation for the richest groups (triangles and squares), dwarfing differences in inflation due to differing consumption baskets (disks). 10/
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fossil fuel profits also sharply increase inflation inequality.
Incremental 2022 fossil fuel profits over 2021 compensate several percent of 2022 inflation for the richest groups (triangles and squares), dwarfing differences in inflation due to differing consumption baskets (disks). 10/
Incremental 2022 fossil fuel profits over 2021 compensate several percent of 2022 inflation for the richest groups (triangles and squares), dwarfing differences in inflation due to differing consumption baskets (disks). 10/