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ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped
Court filings by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office include previously undisclosed documents, revealing new details about internal deliberations at the oil giant.#BigOil #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #denial #Exxon #ExxonMobil #fossilfuelindustry #globalwarming #Massachusetts #oilandgasindustry #suncor
New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil - Inside Climate News
https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/11216/ At G20 summit, US unravels power plant climate rules #CarbonEmissions #ClimateAlarmism #ClimateChange #Diplomacy #Diplomacy&InternationalRelations #DonaldTrump #EPA #FossilFuelIndustry #GreenhouseGas #InternationalRelations #JoeBiden #LeeZeldin #PowerPlants #PowerSector
This is rich. #FossilFuelCompanies blaming each other (as well as the NT govenment) for their own failures to clean up decommissionned wells. #Grifters blaming #other #Grifters for… check notes… #Grifting. What a bunch of *Scrooges*.
They blame the NT govt because it’s not cutting corners in cleaning up the mess left behind in the #TimorSea by #Woodside and the company it sold the delapidated assets to as they wrote the #Endeavour off their books at around 100% discount — #Grifting never stops.
And this is just **One** example of the industry’s absolute disregard for the #environment, their #SocialLicence and what they are legally required to do when retiring #wells. *Grifters* doesn’t half cover their despicable practices.
At least the NT Govt has seen fit to #Fine the industry as a whole to cover the clean up costs and perhaps try to teach the industry a lesson they will not forget. They shoud double the fine imo — it’s not as if the fossil fuel industry can’t afford it. Even doubling wouldn’t cover the damage done over the years.
#TaxGas #FossilFuelIndustry #MakeTheBastardPay #LeaveItInTheGound #EnvironmentalVandalism #StateCapture
https://www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-northern-endeavour-oil-vessel-cleanup-set-to-exceed-2b/
Time for accountability - The Carbon Impacts Tracer
"We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature"
"Last year, the world’s top court – the International Court of Justice – found fossil fuel production and expansion “may constitute an internationally wrongful act”, attributable to the nation where extraction is happening. The court recognised it was possible to establish a causal link between emissions and climate harms."
"For decades, fossil fuel producers have been able to extract oil, gas and coal and emit pollution to the atmosphere with virtual impunity – even as climate change worsens and damages mount."
"But we are entering a new era of accountability. Now that climate attribution science has come of age, it’s no longer possible to hide behind the argument that a new gasfield is just a drop in the ocean."
"We can now see just how much damage that drop will do to the climate, nature – and to us." >>
https://theconversation.com/we-can-finally-measure-the-damage-each-new-coal-gas-or-oil-project-will-do-to-people-and-nature-292128
#FossilFuels #GHG #FossilFuelIndustry #heatwaves #mortality #coal #NSW #harm #attribution #accountability
* "Carbon Impacts Tracer
can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production."
"One of the major challenges in climate litigation has been establishing a direct link between a government or a corporation’s actions and climate harms and suffering."
“Governments and corporations have argued their emissions are ‘just a drop in the ocean’ and too small to measure."
“But we can now refute this defence and show the emissions of any state or corporation can be tied to a global warming figure and then human and ecological harms. It is transformative.”
“Fossil fuel companies do not want people to be able to make that connection between their products and, say, deaths from heatwaves."
“But now the science is at the point where we can make those connections clearly. That is a story the industry does not want told.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/new-tool-directly-links-carbon-emissions-to-amount-of-environmental-and-economic-damage-caused
* The Carbon Impacts Tracer
https://carbonimpactstracer.com/#home
#FossilFuels #GHG #FossilFuelIndustry #heatwaves #mortality #coal #NSW #harm #attribution
What have polluting fossil fuel companies to do with the home of the koala?
Is Australia too poor to afford national parks?
What happens to conservation after a 'logging ban'?
* "The Great Koala National Park (GKNP) is planned to span 476,000 hectares running inland of Coffs Harbour, south to Kempsey and as far north as Grafton, and was a key promise from Labor during the 2023 state election."
"The NSW government plans on generating carbon credits by ending logging in 176,000ha of state forests set to become part of the GKNP." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-23/carbon-credits-key-to-understanding-future-nsw-national-parks/107142232
* After the end of logging comes the “forest thinning”and 'fuel breaks' logging ...
"As native forest logging ends in parts of Australia, governments and industry are turning to large-scale forest thinning as a tool to reduce bushfire risk..." >>
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/after-logging-bans-australia-turns-to-forest-thinning-does-it-reduce-fire-risk/
* Do 'fuel breaks' stack up for us and our forests? >>
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/do-fuel-breaks-stack-up-for-us-and-our-forests/
#biodiversity #FossilFuel #offsets #con #pollution #cashcow #NationalParks #GKNP #conservation #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #FossilFuelIndustry #extractivism #FuelBreak #logging #wildlife
* The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/17/trump-fossil-fuels-industry
* Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire
"As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider these resentments separately, this article interrogates their relationship through the concept of petro-masculinity, which appreciates the historic role of fossil fuel systems in buttressing white patriarchal rule. Petro-masculinity is helpful to understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene can augment desires for authoritarianism. The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics. Moreover, through a psycho-political reading of authoritarianism, I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble." >>
Daggett, C. (2018). Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818775817
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305829818775817
#FossilFuels #Oilgas #FossilFuelIndustry #climate #masculinity #manliness #identity #combustion #cars #PetroMasculinity #authoritarianism #governance #RealityDenial #energy #transition
https://www.laviezine.com/1633148/colorado-ranchers-speak-out-in-major-supreme-court-climate-case/ Colorado ranchers speak out in major Supreme Court climate case #cattle #city #ClimateChange #ColoradoRancher #ColoradoRiver #county #DROUGHT #FossilFuelIndustry #lawsuit #LeastSnow #LosAngeles #MajorOilCompany #State #USSupremeCourt #water #year
Colorado ranchers speak out in major Supreme Court climate case https://www.byteseu.com/2338582/ #cattle #city #ClimateChange #ColoradoRancher #ColoradoRiver #county #drought #environment #FossilFuelIndustry #lawsuit #LeastSnow #MajorOilCompany #state #USSupremeCourt #Water #year
Nepal crisis to bird flu: climate crisis is at odds with ‘social cohesion’
Back in the day, mainstream efforts to publicise climate change — think of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #bushfires #climateemergency #division #endangeredwildlife #Floods #fossilfuelindustry #Nepal #Politics #pollution #Science #SocialCohesion
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/877128/
Setting our world on fire as we stagger towards the flames.
* "This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly."
Tim Winton
"The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply unwelcome, experience, and season by season, our acquaintance with disorder and extremities deepens. In both hemispheres, wildfires rage right into our cities and incinerate entire neighbourhoods. Marine heatwaves are bleaching corals and cooking seagrasses on a global scale. This northern summer has brought temperatures most Europeans associate with the Australian desert. Heat events in Europe have paralysed whole countries, destroyed infrastructure and killed citizens in their thousands."
"There’s nothing accidental or inadvertent about what we’re all suffering through together. We’ve had enough time now and have sufficient expertise to understand that this is not a natural calamity. This is something that is being done to us. Knowingly. Which makes it a crime." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/aug/24/this-is-not-a-natural-calamity-it-is-being-done-to-us-knowingly
* Our habituation to horror and violence: Paul Virilio's concept of the "integral accident" refers to a global, systemic catastrophe triggered by instantaneous telecommunications and hyperconnected technologies, rather than a localized mechanical failure. >>
The Original Accident, Paul Virilio >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-original-accident--9780745636139
#FossilFuels #climate #progress #techne #IntegralAccident #ManMadeCollapse #habituation #experience #GlobalHeating #HotOcean #Heatwaves #ClimateFiasco #crime #ClimateCosts #FossilFuelIndustry #disasters #malpractice #denial #parrhesia #journalism #habitability #loss
Major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
"Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage."
"Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves."
"Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms were directly linked to fatal spells of hot weather for the first time by scientific analysis published last September. It found the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were each enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/aug/04/revealed-major-oil-firms-make-93bn-profits-amid-war-and-climate-crisis
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/rising-heat-kills-one-person-a-minute-worldwide-lancet-countdown
#FossilFuels #climate #heatwaves #ExtremeHeat #war #disasters #harm #ClimateCosts #mortality #destruction #FossilFuelIndustry
#Governments in the #EU will have a hard time explaining away why they still suck up to the #FossilFuelIndustry and weirdo #fascist #billionaires when all of us are directly impacted by the devastating impact of the #heatwaves suffocating #Europe right now that could have been prevented decades ago, and yet radical steps are still not taken today to address the issue.
American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences
“The Fire of Rome” by Hubert Robert (1785) depicts the Great Fire of Rome of 64 AD during…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #attacksonscience #ClimateCrisis #DonaldTrump #fossilfuelindustry #NationalAcademyofSciences
https://www.europesays.com/italy/35389/
The title explains why the #FossilFuelIndustry is so deathly afraid of #AttributionStudies and is deploying GOP winged monkeys and slimy legal orcs at battalion levels to assault investigators working the subject.
The finger of specific blame. It now exists.
@DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss On this episode of "As The World Burns".
#ClimateChange #FossilFuelIndustry #FossilFuels #FossilFools
Sound advice!
HOW TO SURVIVE THE GLOBAL HEATWAVE
🧃 Stay Hydrated
🍦 Treat yourself to an ice cream
✊🏼 Dismantle the #FossilFuelIndustry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small #capitalist class
👗 Loose fitting clothing
by RussellWarfield
#StayCool #ClimateChange #GlobalHeatwave #FossilFuels #Oiligarchy #Capitalism #ThePlanetIsBurning
Thanks to Trump’s Iran War Disaster, Fossil Fuel Industry to Enjoy $700 Billion Windfall in 2026
US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran may finally be reaching a close. But consumers and businesses around…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #350org #CA #Canada #fossilfuelindustry #Gasprices #Iranwar #renewableenergy #Science #StraitofHormuz #trumpadministration
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/746657/
Thanks to Trump’s Iran War Disaster, Fossil Fuel Industry to Enjoy $700 Billion Windfall in 2026
US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran may finally be reaching a close. But consumers and businesses around…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #350org #AU #Australia #fossilfuelindustry #GasPrices #iranwar #RENEWABLEENERGY #Science #straitofhormuz #TrumpAdministration
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/745829/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/542745/ Thanks to Trump’s Iran War Disaster, Fossil Fuel Industry to Enjoy $700 Billion Windfall in 2026 #350org #Éire #Environment #FossilFuelIndustry #GasPrices #IE #IRANWAR #Ireland #RenewableEnergy #Science #StraitOfHormuz #TrumpAdministration
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1035843/ Thanks to Trump’s Iran War Disaster, Fossil Fuel Industry to Enjoy $700 Billion Windfall in 2026 #350org #Environment #FossilFuelIndustry #GasPrices #IranWar #RenewableEnergy #Science #StraitOfHormuz #TrumpAdministration #UK #UnitedKingdom
Thanks to Trump’s Iran War Disaster, Fossil Fuel Industry to Enjoy $700 Billion Windfall in 2026
US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran may finally be reaching a close. But consumers and businesses around…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #350org #environment #fossilfuelindustry #GasPrices #IranWar #renewableenergy #Science #straitofhormuz #trumpadministration #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/646404/
RE: https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/116678848891070301
Neat facts & personal story leading to GREAT question:
“ More than a million jobs are in the green economy - I have one in domestic retrofit.
“Why would a country seek to destroy a sector worth £100 billion that improves all our lives? ”
#UKPol #mediaBias #fossilFuelIndustry #greenEconomy #politicalLobbying #corruption #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal/116680643861445245
Big industry lobbying should be made illegal.
The fossil fuel industry knew way back in 1968 just how dangerous gas and oil were to our climate. They quashed the study, and to this day they continue to lobby hard against any and all restrictions.
Capitalists will see us vanish off the face of the earth rather than face one bad quarterly report.
They knew. Way back in 1968 they knew!
A paper commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute was never published in a science journal because it spelled out just how dangerous the fossil fuel industry was to our climate.
#GlobalWarming #FossilFuelIndustry
https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-lawsuits-oil-industry-research
Mind boggling webinar on how the #FossilFuelIndustry helped to get Donald Trump elected and other plot schemes of fossil players. This reveals that neither the fossil industry, nor their elected marionette care about living conditions on earth. The panelists, in particular, discuss problems caused by #LNG and suggest actions we can take against it. #ClimateProtection
Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is ‘nonsenscial’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/trump-administration-pfas-drinking-water-regulation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#PFAS #FalseSolutions #WaterPollution - All from the #ChemicalIndustry using proven methods from the #FossilFuelIndustry #MerchantsOfDoubt
Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies
In the city where the Paris climate agreement was created, French oil major TotalEnergies is facing trial in…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #TotalEnergies #Climatelawsuits #fossilfuelindustry #lawsuit #Lawsuits #Oilandgasindustry #ParisJudicialCourt
https://www.europesays.com/france/22436/
Trump Pushes ‘Peace Pipelines’ to Boost Exports of Climate-Busting LNG to Europe
In the midst of a war in Iran and skyrocketing energy prices at home, the Trump administration is…
#Europe #EU #ChrisWright #DepartmentofEnergy #fossilfuelindustry #Liquefiednaturalgas #LNG #LNGexports #pipeline #Pipelines #Trumpadministration
https://www.europesays.com/europe/28882/
The United States is destroying itself - Rebecca Solnit
"Although there are far worse things about the utterly gratuitous and literally unjustified war on Iran, the fact that it burns through billions a day is striking, given that huge cuts are being made to environmental protection and national parks, and the forest service is being effectively sabotaged, while public lands are being offered up to fossil fuel companies and mining interests. The forest service headquarters are being moved across the country, which will probably cause many resignations, like the similar move of the Bureau of Land Management in Trump’s first term. More than 50 forest service research stations are being cut, meaning more loss of irreplaceable ongoing research, data, facilities and staff." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
The list rings a bell...
#destruction #environment #conservation #biodiversity #PublicLands #FossilFuelIndustry #FossilFuels #climate #NationalParks #forests #science #democracy #UltraWealthy #cutbacks #msm #extractivism #mining
„How have we come so perilously close to #climatecatastrophe, with spring temperatures in the Western United States already shattering records — and yet governments are spending over a trillion dollars a year subsidizing the #fossilfuelindustry and banks have channeled over $3 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement, while there are almost no funds to protect living ecosystems?“
The Global Energy Supply in a Decade ‘Is Not a World We’re Going to Recognize’
The United States’ war on Iran could fundamentally alter how countries consume and generate energy and hamper international…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #Energy #energytransition #fossilfuelindustry #Irán #MiddleEast #Oilandgasindustry #renewableenergy #Science #StraitofHormuz #war
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/590851/
Why we confronted #EricGujer `s NZZ:
As the fourth estate, the media bears the responsibility for reporting that holds the state and society to account. Democracy cannot function without independent, fact-based reporting.
Gujer’s newspaper has long since abandoned the foundations of fact-based discussion and media balance. It has thus become a danger to our country and our democracy. Without the #nzz people in this country would be better informed. But that’s not all.
Through its biased advocacy in favor of the #FossilFuelIndustry it is one of the main culprits behind #Switzerland ’s climate failure. It actively and deliberately supports the status quo and the #FossilFuels elites, thereby preventing any urgently needed #change to mitigate the life-threatening #ClimateCrisis .
Through its unscientific discourse of denial, trivialization, and diversion, the NZZ is an active #ClimateCriminal .
Don’t read NZZ if you want to be informed.
#dropkollektiv #neinzurzukunftnzz #climatedenial #civilrestistance #scientificfacts
Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest
Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.
How the Iran War Reveals the Extent of Fossil Fuel Propaganda
As oil prices continue to rise in the shadow of the war with Iran, Americans can expect the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #electricvehicles #Energyprices #evs #fossilfuelindustry #gasprices #gasolineprices #iran #Oil #oilandgasindustry #RenewableEnergy #Science #SheldonWhitehouse #StraitofHormuz #TrumpAdministration #war
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/536375/
Iran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says
The Iran war’s disruption to the global energy market should be a wake-up call for countries that continue…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #fossilfuel #fossilfuelindustry #Fossilfuels #Iran #Israel #Oilandgasindustry #SimonStiell #u.n. #U.N.FrameworkConventiononClimateChange #UNFCCC #UnitedNations #War
https://www.newsbeep.com/437807/
#EnvironmentalGroups sue #Trump’s #EPA over repeal of landmark #climate finding
Lawsuit from #health and #EnvironmentalJustice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’
Dharna Noor
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.10 EST
"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.
"Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the '#EndangermentFinding', which states that the buildup of heat-trapping #pollution in the atmosphere endangers #PublicHealth and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from #vehicles, #PowerPlants and other #industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis.
"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], #AmericanLungAssociation, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, the #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil [#NRDC], the #SierraClub and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations #CleanAirTaskForce and #Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, #LeeZeldin, as defendants.
" 'EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and #safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the #CleanAirAct,' said #GretchenGoldman, president and CEO at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, another one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 'This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-epa-environment-climate-lawsuit
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY
#USPol #ClimateChange #EPAFail #ClimateCrisis #GreenhouseGas #FossilFools #FossilFuelIndustry #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CorporatePolluters
Trump’s EPA Is Set to Scrap a Landmark Emissions Policy in Deregulatory Push
Among other things, the move would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming.
As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression in Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line
What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated with media complicity.
While we are inundated by news about outrageous behaviors of the US Regime's reckless cabinet clowns and their chief every day, let's not forget that the ultimate goal of Project2025 is to destroy #Democracy to enable the #FossilFuelIndustry to continue with their exploitative and toxic business practices that inevitably lead to the total pollution and likely destruction of our planet.
Apparently, ruling over the ruins of Earth is more important than keeping it habitable...
Vote as if your and the lives of your children depended on it!
#TheAmericanVotersDidThis #oilandgas #FossilLobby #FossilFuelLobby #TheyMustBeStopped #VoteLikeOurLivesDependOnIt
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
Trump’s Environmental Policy Is Determined to “Make America Poisoned Again”
Trump has taken a wrecking ball to environmental regulation. Who benefits?
..just think about these questions:
☆ if the moon is a natural phenomena, why does #FelonMusk spend his billions on going to mars, when the moon is much easier & cheaper to reach, mine & establish a colony on?
☆ why has the #FossilFuelIndustry not exploited the fuck out of #antarctica & scientists openly explored the continent whilst the rest of the globe is fair game?
☆ why is antarctica a no fly zone & do you need a permit to set foot there? ..
..just think about these questions:
☆ if the moon is a natural phenomena, why does #FelonMusk spend his billions on going to mars, when the moon is much easier & cheaper to reach, mine & establish a colony on?
☆ why has the #FossilFuelIndustry not exploited the fuck out of #antarctica & scientists openly explored the continent whilst the rest of the globe is fair game?
☆ why is antarctica a no fly zone & do you need a permit to set foot there?
☆ why is our history been hidden from us, & legitimate questions been answered with BS or dismissed?
☆ why did #NASA stop the #ApolloSpaceProgramme after the first moonlanding, whilst already having many follow-up manned expeditions planned?
and yes i know the official bs reasons.
The value of envisioning the worst-case of climate disruption
"The fact that there's a small number of companies that make an enormous amount of profit off endangering us and our future, and that actively, historically covered up that information, that should have a lot of people very pissed off." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/climate-fatalism-in-wake-of-climate-risk-report/105780598
Davidson, J. P. L., & Kemp, L. (2024). Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change. WIREs Climate Change, 15(2), e871. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.871
#FossilFuels #climate #ClimateDisruption #FossilFuelIndustry #collapse #narrative #inequality #hierarchy #empires #growth #SocietalCollapses #MilitaryIndustrialComplexes #governance #StateOfEmergency #StompReflex #extinction #ClimateAction
Bank CEOs Rake In Big Profits as Wall Street Ramps Up Fossil Fuel Financing
The 65 biggest banks committed $869 billion to firms expanding the fossil fuel industry last year, a new report says.
"In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water ... Despite being the world’s fifth-largest oil producer, Iraq experiences frequent daily power cuts ...
'Two years ago, there were families and fishermen everywhere,' Mustafa says, leaning out of the boat. 'You could hear laughter, the splash of fish. Today, there’s nothing.'"
#FYI #TED #TEDtalk #AlGore #fossilfuels #fossilfuelindustry #fossillobby #renewables #renewableenergy
via Dr. Peter Carter
Let's spread Al Gore's TED talk part about fossil fuels once more 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmECXIsg8G0
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse #ecocide #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #GreenhouseGases #polycrisis #KeepitInTheGround
This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
/web/20250529055300/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/approval-of-woodside-lng-project-gambles-with-ancient-heritage-for-short-term-gain
#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
Commentary: #Fires, #Hurricanes, #ExtremeWeather: The Media Misses the #ClimateLink
#Protesting the #FossilFuelIndustry and their political allies can help fix the narrative, and turn disasters into opportunities for #ClimateAction
by Margaret Klein Salamon, January 12, 2025
"Who is to blame for the #LosAngelesFires? For the destruction of #Asheville? The devastation of #Acapulco? If you listen to the mainstream media, you would get the impression that no one is truly responsible. These are framed as tragic but random events– acts of nature without clear cause or accountability. Even if articles do mention climate change, which they tend to bury toward the end, they won’t tell you the people and companies who caused these disasters in order to enrich themselves. And if you listen to right-wingers, you will get the mistaken impression that DEI, arson, and the Democratic Party caused these disasters.
"But here’s the truth: These mega-disasters are caused by the climate emergency, which has been caused by fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry has raked in obscene #profits for decades, while knowingly bringing down apocalypse onto the rest of us.
"We have the power to change the narrative. Imagine this: As fires rage through the city, a group of climate activists non-violently occupy the California State House in Sacramento. Or LA City Hall. Or Marathon Oil’s refinery in Los Angeles County. They would demand that fossil fuel companies pay for the damage they’re causing, and face criminal prosecution for the harm that they have inflicted.
Such a protest would be covered on front pages across the globe, shifting the narrative from passive victimhood to active accountability. This is an opportunity that the climate movement has yet to fully seize.
"The climate emergency is accelerating, and so is the frequency and scale of disasters. When these disasters occur, the eyes of the country and sometimes the world focus on the crisis and its fallout. This should be a tremendous learning opportunity for the public about the dangers of the climate emergency, but the media obscures the true cause of these events. While truthful headlines would report along the lines of, “The Climate Emergency Strikes Again,” the media continues to largely report these disasters as anomalous weather events.
"Activists have a unique role to play in these moments. By connecting fossil fuels to the damage we’re seeing — floods, fires, hurricanes — they can elevate the conversation and force the public to reckon with the reality of the climate emergency. Activists can also call for proactive policies: investments in renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels, and sustainable rebuilding efforts. The “Make Polluters Pay” demand, which New York State just passed after facing pressure from the New York climate movement, offers a compelling framework for justice in the wake of climate disasters. With millions or even billions of dollars in damage, justice demands that the culprits — fossil fuel companies who have knowingly warmed the atmosphere for decades — foot the bill.
"Disasters are opportunities to shape long-term policy change. Disasters create a unique moment when the public and politicians are more open to new ideas and transformative policy changes. Naomi Klein argued for the unique political opportunities that disasters open up in her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Activists can use this moment to demand not only immediate relief but also policies that challenge the fossil fuel industry’s grip on power.
"Climate Emergency Fund is dedicated to supporting the nonviolent disruptive activists who are pushing these important conversations forward, through raising money and making grants. We saw an example of how climate protest can determine the narrative around climate disaster by accident — we supported a protest of Burning Man. The protest wasn’t terribly successful until Burning Man flooded and became a mud pit. Stories about the disaster, which were quite widespread, harkened back to or were even framed around the protest. This made the coverage more climate-focused and more politically activating.
"In moments of crisis, we must demand that climate change be treated not just as an afterthought, but as the root cause of the disaster. It’s time to stop focusing exclusively on short-term relief and rebuilding the status-quo and start building towards a fossil-free, climate-resilient future.
"So when disaster strikes — as it will more and more in the coming years, first, make sure you and your loved ones are safe. Second, see if there is anyone in your immediate vicinity who needs your help. And third, join, or plan, a protest that shifts the narrative. Let’s make it clear: These are not random catastrophes — they are the consequences of the fossil-fueled climate emergency. And we can and must hold the culprits accountable."
Original article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/los-angeles-fires-climate-media-1235232654/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AGdIa
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