BCCN Campus Climate News

1. Why We Do This Work: Monsoon, Spain, Green Steel
2. TWO Shiny New Resources from BCCN
3. Chancellor Lyons Testifies in Congress (yesterday)
4. UC Class Action v. Trump - 1st Ruling
5. Berkeley Earth: June 2025 3rd hottest in global record
6. New paper: Why is AC Use Adoption Accelerating in Mexico?
7. Amidst the Federal budget crisis, What About Our State?
8. When Warnings Never Cease Can We Still Trust Our Instincts?
9. Campus Spotlight: Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI)
10. The Last Class at the Elmwood on College Ave
1. Why We Do This Work: 
2. TWO Shiny New Resources from BCCN
See the new and much-improved BCCN Unofficial Climate Class Guide for Fall 2025. Thanks to Sarah Kathryn Ravellette! At the same time, check out our 17 new Berkeley Climate Maps showing faculty, staff, and projects for 17 hot climate topics. In both cases, send your adds or edits to bruceriordan@berkeley.edu.
3. Chancellor Lyons Testifies in Congress (yesterday)
Here is the 3 hour+ session on Tuesday featuring leaders of Berkeley, Georgetown, and CUNY plus a former official from the Office of Civil Rights, Dept. of Education. STARTS AT :20 MARK.
4. UC Class Action v. Trump - 1st Ruling
The class action lawsuit organized by Berkeley Law leaders — UC researchers vs. the Trump administration — has received its first ruling. Here is the 62-page opinion, quite good summer reading as well as the LA Times news story.
5. Berkeley Earth: June 2025 3rd hottest in global record
Berkeley Earth’s excellent monthly briefing for June is available now. Great graphics and clear explanations — see the webinar recording here or get the slides and key points here. Includes record sea surface temps in the western Mediterranean and what that may mean for Europe this summer.
6. New paper: Why is AC Use Adoption Accelerating in Mexico?
New working paper from Berkeley’s Lucas Davis and Paul Gertler (Energy Institute @Haas) revisiting a 2010 prediction on AC in Mexico that was significantly low. Find out why. 
7. Amidst the Federal budget crisis, What About Our State?
Join Next 10 for the interactive “California Budget Challenge” this Thursday 7/17 at 11 am via Zoom. Learn about the 2025-26 final state budget, look at options that were considered, vote, and craft your own budget.
8. When Warnings Never Cease Can We Still Trust Our Instincts?
Marika Landau-Wells (Political Science) explores fear and decision-making — with great implications for climate — in her current book project "Seeking Security: Threat Perception and Policy-Making in a Dangerous World.” The J-School’s Anne Brice breaks it down nicely in the UCOP News.
9. Campus Spotlight: Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI)
Led by Director Peidong Yang and a large inter-disciplinary team, ENSI, in partnership with LBNL, investigates nature’s ways of managing energy at the nanoscale to help us develop real breakthroughs in how we generate, store and use energy. Great stuff!
10. The Last Class at the Elmwood on College Ave
The wonderful documentary on Robert Reich facing the official end of his Berkeley teaching career is at the Elmwood through at least July 24. Check here for listings. 

"This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings."

— Berkeley resident Joanna Macy


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