Ed Carr
US Center Director and Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute | Former Adaptation at STAP/GEF | CLA IPBES Transformative Change Assessment | LA IPCC AR6 WGII | Masters T&F All-American | Hopelessly realistic optimist
www.edwardrcarr.com
- Look, Miller is terrible and needs to face consequences. But let’s not elevate him to “architect.” Maybe “toddler placing with racist Lincoln Logs.” Which would still make him the brightest bulb on that very dim tree.
- Lots of scrambling today by the terrible regime. I want to argue that our goal should be to get Miller removed, that has to be the focus. Noem, Bovino, etc are all just middle managers. The architect of the terror regime is Miller. A thread: bsky.app/profile/simo...
- A little hope in Davos
- Back from an interesting and exhausting few days in Davos for the WEF meetings. I am still processing my first trip to this event, but in the meantime I did get some good media work in, such as this interview with We Don't Have Time: buff.ly/KYnSTi2 (no, I did not change my name to Eric)
- Reposted by Ed CarrThis Friday, Yves Zinngrebe @ufz.de joins us to ask how scientific insights inspire #transformative change for #biodiversity & #nature conservation. Join us online, or in person, followed by a drinks reception. Register to secure your place: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
- Reposted by Ed Carr@wedonthavetime.bsky.social interviewed US Centre Director @edwardrcarr.com at #Davos2026 about the barriers to transformative change and current #climate politics. 🎥 Watch the conversation: buff.ly/a5MVCNE @ipbes.net
- Every so often we need to look up from the daily outrage cycle and look at the larger patterns. Deleting climate datasets and degrading global assessments are not one-off actions. They are a program stripping evidence from policy and politics. We must resist this. www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
- Reposted by Ed Carr📅 TOMORROW: Join us in #Davos to discuss the role of data in accelerating environmental solutions. Catch our US Centre Director @edwardrcarr.com and Research Fellow Selorm Kugbega at the Climate Hub Davos. Register: buff.ly/yU8jYaB
- So long and thanks for all the fish
- Reposted by Ed Carr🌎 The US decision Wednesday to halt support for dozens of international bodies such as @ipcc.bsky.social and @ipbes.net does not change the strength of the US #ClimateChange and #biodiversity knowledge base, SEI US Centre Director @edwardrcarr.com says.
- Pith helmets for all my friends!
- I’m enjoying today’s football changing of the guard. Alabama getting wrecked by Indiana, Ohio State getting beaten by Miami. Turns out Texas Tech can’t actually purchase a playoff win. DeBoer is getting fired. Day is probably back on a hot seat a year after a title. Good times!
- Yeah, yeah, Oregon is in fact purchasing playoff wins. Well, Nike is purchasing playoff wins, anyway.
- The more I think about it, the more I realize Texas Tech - Oregon was a “pox on both your houses” kind of game
- They predicted the highly-wealthy would leave MA when it passed a millionaire’s tax (an additional 4% surcharge on income over $1 million. They did not leave. Economy did just great. We have revenue to fix stuff.
- As we head into the holidays, I’m asking for your support to help a scrappy community of experts reimagine the U.S. role in global conservation—any amount (even $1) helps show that conservation still matters. Learn more and donate: givebutter.com/AjRL9e.
- Pretty sure a 14% decline in approval is outside the margin of error. Way outside.
- lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
- The fact there are any empty seats at the ACC title game, let alone A LOT of seats, speaks to the cultural difference between the conference and the SEC/BIG10. #gohoos
- This seems like a really, really bad survey question. Unless it was sent only to people with about the same income, you were asking participants very different questions. $500 means very different things if you are making $200k or $30k.
- Basically, if looked at as a percentage of income, $500 to the former is the equivalent of $75 to the latter. Or turn it around: $500 to a $30k income is $3333 to a $200k income. You have to control for this in the sample and responses or the answers are trash.
- And I am not even getting into having folks work out how much they would save each month if they did not have to pay insurance premiums…
- Remember when FSU was trying to extort the ACC for more TV revenue…two years ago? I am still enjoying the schadenfreude.
- I said it was the differences in boards that shape different outcomes for universities that are being pressured by the administration. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
- It’s the boards. Sometimes it is the administration, but even when the administration screws up, it’s still the boards. Where you see capitulation, ask who is on the board and what motivates them… (As a fellow UVa alum, I share @ablum.bsky.social’s annoyance with the outcome there)
- I mean, if he wants to attack the Affordable Care Act from the left and go full single-payer…
- Once again, we have completely lost the thread on how a college education is supposed to work. It’s not major=>job, it’s major=>opportunity to learn critical thinking and expression=>job. Double majors do not produce double opportunities. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
- The continued failure to grab the narrative and make corrections that shift us away from simplistic “job ready” framings is a big part of why higher ed is struggling so mightily these days (and why many college administrations keep making very bad decisions about how to fix falling enrollments)
- Reposted by Ed Carrno pods, no casters.
- Billie, I help lead an organization that would make outstanding use of your money. Anyone know how to connect me to her people?
- I’m going to keep pointing out that outrage is the goal here. Bannon seeks to create a question about a third term, which will lessen Trump’s lame duck status. This rhetoric suggests his team is terrified. Reporting Bannon’s comments without pointing this out helps him drag out the admins power.
- The goal here is to minimize his lame duck status after the midterms (particularly if, as seems likely, R’s lose the house). There is no other reason to give this attention.
- Uh, I’m a sprinter deeply allergic to anything more than one lap, but 9:20 mile pace (for real, that is the passing pace for the 1.5 mile run) is *too slow* for my warmup cycle. I would pass you while stopping to do intermittent warmup exercises. A Team? This is the “D- but we’ll pass you” Team
- SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- The President lives and dies by the numbers. All his claims are about numbers. Suddenly, @nytimes.com is focused on content, not numbers? Seems like maybe the protest numbers are not things this administration wants us to hear. Sometimes you just have to report the numbers.
- Slightly happier with my alma mater. I’d be happier if they displayed some spine back when Jim Ryan was forced out.
- 1) It's pretty straightforward: stop trying to cut the ACA subsidy (a cut that will harm a huge number of people) and the government reopens. 2) It is challenging to take GOP concerns about any federal workers seriously after the past 10 months.
- As a former WGII LA, I endorse this.
- C’mon, y’all - post your favorite “demonic sexual Superbowl Halftime performance” for MTG.
