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AI, Energy and Climate: Dan Loehr: Can LLM’s Help in the Fight Against Climate Change? Mar 20, 2025

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Large language models are some of the most rapidly-adopted products in human history and are transforming workflows, education and much more. Can LLMs help in the fight against climate change? What risks do they create for the climate change challenge? Georgetown Professor Dan Loehr joins David Sandalow to discuss the role that LLMs can play in reducing emissions and helping adapt to climate change.

AI, Energy and Climate is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap -- https://www.icef.go.jp/roadmap and transitiondigital.org/ai-climate-roadmap.

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The DSR Daily for March 20: Trump to Shut Down Department of Education Mar 20, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Thursday, we break down Trump preparing to dismantle the DOE, DHS detaining a Georgetown University academic, plans for a militarized border in New Mexico, and more.

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The Daily Blast: Trump’s Fury at Canada Boils Over on Fox—and Polls Now Show a Backlash Mar 20, 2025

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It’s growing harder to shrug off President Trump’s deranged threats toward Canada. In a new Fox News interview, Trump snarled angrily that Canada is “meant” to be a 51st state, explicitly speaking the language of imperialism. Meanwhile, Trump is adopting a very credulous line toward Vladimir Putin in the Russia-Ukraine peace talks. This comes as a surprising new poll shows that American opinion is shifting against a soft line on Russia, even as other polling shows public rejection of Trump’s anti-Canada stance. We talked to The Bulwark’s William Saletan, who has a good piece arguing that Trump’s views of Canada and Ukraine are connected. He explains how Trump is now adopting the same view of Canada that Putin has of Ukraine, and argues that the public may be turning against Trump on both fronts.

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Crisis Counseling with DSR Mar 19, 2025

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Wow, things are not good. As the Trump administration and DOGE continue their crackdown, we have to ask: is this finally a constitutional crisis? Rosa Brooks and Kori Schake join David Rothkopf to break down the DOGE attempt to shut down USIP and why our country’s future is looking darker.

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The DSR Daily for March 19: Judge Rules Against USAID Shutdown Mar 19, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Wednesday, we discuss a judge ruling against Elon Musk and DOGE, Chief Justice Roberts pushing back against Trump and MAGA, a lift on the ban on ‘segregated facilities,’ and more.

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The Daily Blast: Fox Anchor Suddenly Panics About Trump Economy as Brutal New Poll Hits Mar 19, 2025

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Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo has suddenly emerged as a leading voice sounding loud alarms about President Trump’s tariffs and the devastating impact they could have on the economy—even though she works for a MAGA propaganda network. On Tuesday, Bartiromo lost patience with a Trump official, and walked through all the reasons why business leaders are unhappy with Trump’s tariff threats. Other Fox personalities have followed suit. Meanwhile, a new NBC poll finds terrible numbers for Trump on the economy. Yet he’s forging ahead with his tariffs and rarely bothers talking about the economy anymore. We talked to Media Matters’ Matt Gertz, a close observer of Fox coverage, about the deeper reasons for Fox’s discontent—and why it’s alla sign that Trump’s project is more fragile than you might think.

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The DSR Daily for March 18: Judge Challenges Admin Over Deportations Mar 18, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Tuesday, we break down a judge challenging the administration’s recent deportation flights, Israeli strikes killing hundreds in Gaza, a midwife’s arrest for providing abortions in Texas, and more.

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The Daily Blast: “Chilling”: Trump Press Sec Hints Darkly at More Lawlessness to Come Mar 18, 2025

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President Trump’s lawlessness is escalating. First he angrily tweeted that his predecessor’s pardons of January 6 committee members are invalid, while threatening to prosecute them. Meanwhile, the Trump administration appears to have violated a court order in deporting some Venezuelans. And his border czar flatly declared that the administration is set to ignore what judges say. At Monday’s briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt spun madly about all this, but her lack of clarity strongly hinted that Trump is on the precipice of a new level of lawbreaking. We talked to legal scholar Matthew Seligman, a skilled decoder of complicated legal messes. He explains why Trump’s latest moves are “chilling”—and why Leavitt’s ambiguity is only cause to anticipate more lawlessness, not less.

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AI, Energy and Climate: Bill Brown: Are Data Centers the Killer App for Clean Tech? Mar 17, 2025

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Bill Brown started two clean tech unicorns -- private companies worth more than $1 billion. Today he thinks data centers could be the "killer app" for cleantech, driving demand for clean energy. He also believes that managing data centers like power plants can introduce big new efficiencies. Join host David Sandalow as he and Brown discuss these and other ideas at the intersection of data centers and clean tech.

AI, Energy and Climate is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

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The DSR Daily for March 17: Trump and Putin to Meet on Ukraine Mar 17, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Monday, we discuss Trump and Putin holding Ukraine talks on Tuesday, US strikes on Houthi leadership in Yemen, the Trump administration seemingly ignoring court orders against deportations, and more.

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