Michael Roberts
@mikejrob.bsky.social
An economist who studies agriculture, climate change, energy, and sometimes other environmental and resource issues.
Blog: https://grainsgigawatts.substack.com
Blog: https://grainsgigawatts.substack.com
Economists: use your superior empirical skills to clarify the link between rising nitrates from ag and rising cancer rates in the corn belt and beyond
Lawyers: start filing class action lawsuits.
Lawyers: start filing class action lawsuits.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Economists: use your superior empirical skills to clarify the link between rising nitrates from ag and rising cancer rates in the corn belt and beyond
Lawyers: start filing class action lawsuits.
Lawyers: start filing class action lawsuits.
Do you really think renewables are driving up emissions?
Please think harder.
*If* this is true, it's not true by much, and it's because demand grew more than renewables. Possibly data centers.
Counting displaced transportation fuel from EVs could make emissions net negative.
You're a professor?
Please think harder.
*If* this is true, it's not true by much, and it's because demand grew more than renewables. Possibly data centers.
Counting displaced transportation fuel from EVs could make emissions net negative.
You're a professor?
September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Do you really think renewables are driving up emissions?
Please think harder.
*If* this is true, it's not true by much, and it's because demand grew more than renewables. Possibly data centers.
Counting displaced transportation fuel from EVs could make emissions net negative.
You're a professor?
Please think harder.
*If* this is true, it's not true by much, and it's because demand grew more than renewables. Possibly data centers.
Counting displaced transportation fuel from EVs could make emissions net negative.
You're a professor?
Very similar themes to work by @naomioreskes.bsky.social.
A revelation for me: how much Stanford University has been corrupted. I expect this is true in small ways at many institutions.
A revelation for me: how much Stanford University has been corrupted. I expect this is true in small ways at many institutions.
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Very similar themes to work by @naomioreskes.bsky.social.
A revelation for me: how much Stanford University has been corrupted. I expect this is true in small ways at many institutions.
A revelation for me: how much Stanford University has been corrupted. I expect this is true in small ways at many institutions.
The visceral feelings follow the private interest, a way to justify to yourself that you've sold your soul. Anger is the byproduct of the cognitive dissonance when this absurdity becomes extreme. Most everyone made fun of solar for decades, and today they look silly.
September 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The visceral feelings follow the private interest, a way to justify to yourself that you've sold your soul. Anger is the byproduct of the cognitive dissonance when this absurdity becomes extreme. Most everyone made fun of solar for decades, and today they look silly.