#climatedenial — Public Fediverse posts

My personnal feeling is more like:
- first they went for climate-scientists #climatedenial
- then secondly they went for scientists and historians, it was at the beginning of COVID19

Journalists helped to complete the job

Then they continued, because it worked: Journalists are NOT scientists

Cartoonjournaal 4 september 2026:

'Geen droogtecrisis meer...'

#watertekort #droogte #klimaatverandering #hitte #ontkenning #DrogeOgen #ClimateChange #WaterShortage #ClimateDenial #drought #cartoonjournaal #humor #ScienceCommunication

Cartoonjournaal 4 september 2026:

'Geen droogtecrisis meer...'

#watertekort #droogte #klimaatverandering #hitte #ontkenning #DrogeOgen #ClimateChange #WaterShortage #ClimateDenial #drought #cartoonjournaal #humor #ScienceCommunication

Cartoonjournaal 4 september 2026:

'Geen droogtecrisis meer...'

#watertekort #droogte #klimaatverandering #hitte #ontkenning #DrogeOgen #ClimateChange #WaterShortage #ClimateDenial #drought #cartoonjournaal #humor #ScienceCommunication

Cartoonjournaal 4 september 2026:

'Geen droogtecrisis meer...'

#watertekort #droogte #klimaatverandering #hitte #ontkenning #DrogeOgen #ClimateChange #WaterShortage #ClimateDenial #drought #cartoonjournaal #humor #ScienceCommunication

Cartoonjournaal 4 september 2026:

'Geen droogtecrisis meer...'

#watertekort #droogte #klimaatverandering #hitte #ontkenning #DrogeOgen #ClimateChange #WaterShortage #ClimateDenial #drought #cartoonjournaal #humor #ScienceCommunication

Modifié:

"On en revient au grand classique du Rassemblement National: c'est sujet, verbe, immigration, talibans verts, alarmistes punitifs, preneur d'otage, fainéants"

#climatedenial
#rassemblementnational #pipeau #trumpesque #clowns
#criseadolescence #agemental #immaturité #gnagnagnignagnagna

Modifié:

"On en revient au grand classique du Rassemblement National: c'est sujet, verbe, immigration, talibans verts, alarmistes punitifs, preneur d'otage, fainéants"

#climatedenial
#rassemblementnational #pipeau #trumpesque #clowns
#criseadolescence #agemental #immaturité #gnagnagnignagnagna

I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

#Heatwave
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/gb-news-talk-tv-heatwaves-climate-change

I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

#Heatwave
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/gb-news-talk-tv-heatwaves-climate-change

I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

#Heatwave
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/gb-news-talk-tv-heatwaves-climate-change

I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

#Heatwave
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/gb-news-talk-tv-heatwaves-climate-change

I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

#Heatwave
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/gb-news-talk-tv-heatwaves-climate-change

Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of #ClimateScience funded by the #FossilFuel industry, adding to growing understanding of #BigOil ’s knowledge of #ClimateChange . Fossil fuel industry sponsored climate science in 1954.

February 1, 2024, Rebecca John

Excerpt: "Unknown until now, however, is the fact that Keeling’s earliest research into carbon dioxide across the western U.S. was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry via a private foundation — and that in 1954 this foundation was informed of the potential impact of manmade carbon dioxide emissions on both the climate and human civilization.

"Newly discovered documents affirm that the #automobile and #petroleum industries funded early climate science #Keeling conducted at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) between 1954 and 1956. Records show that 'oil and auto companies' sponsored the scientist’s research via an organization called the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, formed in 1953 to tackle Los Angeles’s infamous smog. American Motors, #Chrysler, #Ford, and #GeneralMotors were among 18 automotive companies that gave money to the foundation.

"A 1959 internal U.S. Public Health Service memo also identifies the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute ( #API ) and the #WesternOilAndGasAssociation — the oldest petroleum trade association in the U.S., which is now known as the #WesternStatesPetroleumAssociation — as 'major contributors to the funds of the Air Pollution Foundation.' Its Board of Trustees included top-level representatives from the Southern California Gas Company, the Southern California Edison Co., Chrysler, General Motors, and Union Oil (now #Chevron).

"And from mid-1955, these trustees were also appraised of research projects by a seven-man 'technical advisory committee,' which included a senior official from API as well as scientists from the Richfield Oil Corporation (now #BP ) and #Chrysler.

"With the discovery of these Air Pollution Foundation documents, it is now possible to date the earliest sponsorship of climate science by the fossil fuel industry to 1954, approximately a quarter of a century before Exxon’s internal research program of the late 1970s. These new documents provide important evidence that the fossil fuel industry has been intricately connected to climate science from its earliest beginnings — not only as a driver of the greenhouse effect behind climate change, but also as a contributor to the scientific discoveries that would transform our understanding of humanity’s relationship with the Earth and its atmosphere. "

Read more:
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/02/02/big-oil-knew-about-climate-change-far-earlier-than-we-thought/

#ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
#Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
#MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
#GlobalWarming #FossilFools #BigOilAndGas

The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning (/Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti)

https://piefed.social/c/europe@feddit.org/p/2274960/the-bizarre-debate-over-europes-air-conditioning-prof-gio-giordano-scarciotti

An Inconvenient Moment for an Extreme Global Heat Wave

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/an-inconvenient-moment-for-an-extreme-global-heat-wave

Tommaso Piazza reviews Gabriele Contessa's book Science Denial in SERRC, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/06/12/a-review-of-gabriele-contessas-science-denial-tommaso-piazza/

An eralier review was by Maya Goldenberg, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/04/29/science-denial-post-trust-and-epistemic-blame-a-review-of-contessas-science-denial-maya-goldenberg/

#science #tiede #denial #scienceDenial #epistemology #socialScience #climateDenial #pseudoscience #postTruth #truth #misinformation #trust #motivatedInquiry #evidence #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #harm #egoism #collectiveResponsibility #society #futures #planetEarth #resistance #belief #ideology #epistemicSecurity #psychology #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #filosofia

Hey, it's that time of year for my seasonal poem A Christmas Peril. When I originally wrote this, in 2008, it seemed to many people that it expressed a distant possibility, but was a cute fairy tale.

Even then, also in 2008, I had done some back of the envelope calculations that suggested to me the possibility that human civilization could be wiped out, perhaps even humanity could go extinct, as early as 2035. But I didn't expect any one would believe it.

Now, less than twenty years later, I feel almost embarrassed circulating it because I hope most people can easily see how it pales against the stark and aggressive reality that the Climate Crisis is.

As for 2035? Well, I hope we have at least that long, but I'm a little worried we don't. Acceleration is a weird thing. Civilization may seem solid, but there are things that could happen (crop failures are the one I'm looking to) that could cause everything to unravel really quickly.

Maybe I should be updating my poem. But, for now, this is what I have to offer. Please read it if you haven't, and share it with family and friends as part of your holiday season. Mastodon boosts count as part of that, if you're of a mind to. :)

Happy holidays, everyone. The Climate Crisis isn't a very happy thought, but it underscores the importance of savoring civilization, stability, family, and friends while you can. I'd like to be wrong. But I wouldn't bet money on it.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/A-Christmas-Peril.html

The poem is available in three languages (English, Spanish, and Portuguese) with several audio tracks.

#Christmas #AChristmasPeril #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #poem #ice #SeaIce #arctic #Santa #elves #Writing #WritingCommunity #coal #holidays #HolidayTraditions #PolarBears #Spanish #Portuguese #poesia

@primonatura

Expressing targets in absolute terms is an improvement over the gameable ways of expressing things we have now

But 2050 is unreasonably far away. Civilization could have collapsed by then, or sooner. There is no safe speed to apply needed changes. Any timeline that is not "now, immediately, without delay" risks politicians saying it's deferable or not their job, or saying that whatever unmetered thing they do in the interim, no matter how feeble, is all that's required to set up future success.

Plus some other nations will not do their part. It matters for everyone to. But everyone must overachieve hugely to cover others' failures.

We need governments to just say "now, highest priority, all hands on deck, all other considerations secondary". Talk of far off dates, with paced action, is just so much spinning of fairy tales and will get us all killed.

#climate #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction #politics #ClimateTargets #ClimateTimelines #carbon

Seeing this "But I had a few people after that say, thank you so much for speaking out. And I was grateful that the message got through, but I couldn’t help but wish that those people had actually said something in the moment, because I was looking into a sea of faces who were hostile and didn’t want to hear the science."
and recalling some incidents of protest etc
I am thinking that more of us should learn how not to sit 'there' stunned, but work out how to speak up for right. It's hard because our socialisations kicks in and our anxiety has us thinking slowly -all the more reason to have mentally (at least) rehearsed how to do better...
https://www.naturahoy.com/2024/07/the-problem-is-not-that-young-people-are-eco-anxious-its-that-people-in-positions-of-power-are-not-activist-clover-hogan/
#bystander #protest #ClimateDenial

Seeing this "But I had a few people after that say, thank you so much for speaking out. And I was grateful that the message got through, but I couldn’t help but wish that those people had actually said something in the moment, because I was looking into a sea of faces who were hostile and didn’t want to hear the science."
and recalling some incidents of protest etc
I am thinking that more of us should learn how not to sit 'there' stunned, but work out how to speak up for right. It's hard because our socialisations kicks in and our anxiety has us thinking slowly -all the more reason to have mentally (at least) rehearsed how to do better...
https://www.naturahoy.com/2024/07/the-problem-is-not-that-young-people-are-eco-anxious-its-that-people-in-positions-of-power-are-not-activist-clover-hogan/
#bystander #protest #ClimateDenial

An excellent, if deeply depressing, read: a beautifully compassionate interview by George Monbiot of a prolific conspiracy theorist in an attempt to understand what makes them tick.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/04/youre-going-to-call-me-a-holocaust-denier-now-are-you-george-monbiot-comes-face-to-face-with-his-local-conspiracy-theorist

#ConspiracyTheories #ClimateDenial #Antivaxx #ScienceDenial #CovidDenial #Neoliberalism #GeorgeMonbiot