This is the new climate obstruction. It doesn’t loudly deny climate change. It simply ignores it, while convincing people that every solution is more corrupt, dangerous, and destructive than the fossil fuels it would replace.
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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Loved this article - @alexhannaford.com robustly and with current climate social science-aligned insights addresses issues I grappled with in my dissertation: - infrastructure harm - distinctions b/w fossil fuel vs renewable permitting opposition - policy influence @emorwee.bsky.social
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d agoFantastic @alexhannaford.com piece here at @emorwee.bsky.social's Heated - profiling an anti-solar influencer. This is SUCH a common story: a project planned near someone rich, influential, or both and that person gets radicalised against all wind, all solar, all batteries etc
As of today, thanks to @markvmd.bsky.social, I'm no longer calling methane "so-called natural gas" or "fracked gas." Instead, I'm calling it "asthma gas" because 13% of children's asthma in the US is attributable to its use in gas stoves. bsky.app/profile/maib... @docsforclimate.bsky.social
How Big Oil and Gas created the fraud of “clean” natural gas | Center for Climate Integrity
A new CCI investigation exposes how the oil and gas industry knew about the climate harms of methane yet promoted natural gas as a climate solution
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Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · last wk.Asthma gas! A boffo (& truthful) renaming of an inherently dangerous product. Nearly 13% of childhood asthma in the US is a byproduct of so-called "natural" (aka "fracked") gas stoves in American kitchens. Switching to induction stoves improves health: www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S221...
Don’t love that the reporting for this ‘yet another summer with wildfire smoke from halfway across the country’ article mentions climate 0 times & ends on ‘watch for beautiful sunsets!’ We didn’t have enormous wildfires every summer a decade ago; this (aggregate) is bc of climate change @wbur.org
TJ@cirquedusoulay.bsky.social · 3w agoso we just have to get used to wildfire smoke every summer from now on, huh. neat. www.wbur.org/news/2026/07...
Sounds like climate litigation is scaring Exxon
Emily Sanders@emdashsanders.bsky.social · 4w agoIn case you missed it: Exxon's executive counsel is leaving the company to join the U.S. DOJ's newly renamed Energy & Natural Resources division, which lists blocking climate lawsuits against oil and gas majors as a priority. 🫠🫠
Agh please, someone reporting on this study ask social scientists about the social and ethical concerns, not the other heavily invested solar geoengineering proponents! Again, the known, scientific, cost-effective answer to how we stop increasing global temps is to stop burning fossil fuels!
Andrea Thompson@andreatweather.bsky.social · 4w agoA new study asks if, instead of using solar geoengineering on the whole planet, could we use it to blunt El Nino? Turns out theoretically, yes, but practically, not so much. 🧪
Yikes, probably should have talked to a social scientist about a climate tech story where the main concern raised by climate scientists is a social science issue? The only proven solution to climate change is stopping fossil fuel use
WIRED@wired.com · 4w agoAs worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts. www.wired.com/story/dimmin...
this is an excellent op-ed describing production & consumption subsidies for fossil fuels from govs the results of fossil fuel influence in policymaking are that we're paying multiple times over to cause public harm, then paying for externalized burdens of local pollution & global climate change
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · last mo.Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
It makes sense that plastic would use the same disinfo tactics as oil; plastics ARE oil Great overview of what plastic industry disinfo looks like
CAAD_Coalition@caadcoalition.bsky.social · last mo.@ciel.org’s new brief traces how the plastics industry has borrowed Big Oil’s PR and disinformation tactics to delay real solutions and protect its business model.
FF subsidies are preventing us from accessing the local health benefits of renewables while exposing us all to extreme heat, fire, flooding,etc FFs have offloaded their costs at every stage of the lifecycle onto the public & govs codify this with “energy access/consumer protection” subsidies to FFs
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last mo.Meanwhile ...
Excited to share a paper from my dissertation with a panel on fossil industry obstruction #POLLEN2026 tomorrow! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
you're telling me we don't have to roll back our hard-fought climate policies to have affordable energy in the 2020s??? someone tell the democrats' consultants
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last mo.Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
It’s a choice that NYT is running a big Claude ad in the middle of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ‘s new piece arguing that Dems could have unity by messaging data center hate
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoGift link @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the political level of data centers Winning political strategies can be as simple as pick something that harms people and be against it and then pick something that helps people and be for it. People HATE data centers so…
And another example. Who’s selling the fossil fuels = affordability narrative to state dems? This is transparently foolish in 2026 $4B could build a lot of clean energy infrastructure for Californians 🫠
Todd Woody@toddwoody.bsky.social · 2mo agoBreaking: California becomes the latest blue state to retreat on climate goals amid affordability concerns as regulators Friday evening voted to revamp its landmark carbon market to ease costs to the oil industry with $4 billion in incentives. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What is up with all the backsliding on good climate policies in Democratic states? CA,+MA about to make huge cuts to MassSave efficiency funds,+NYS kneecapping the landmark CLCPA Gifts to utilities at ratepayer expense? Looks like a lot of gas industry entrenchment. Why are Dems doing this now?
Leah Stokes@leahstokes.bsky.social · 2mo agoCalifornia could hand over $200 million meant to cool kids’ classrooms to utilities. That money was promised to schools through CalSHAPE — a program Gov. Newsom helped create. With heat waves in winter, kids need cool classrooms. My latest in @latimes.com
@governor.ny.gov climate realism is knowing that adding fossil fuel infrastructure instead of renewables is causing unnecessary death and breaking NYS law
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4mo agoMeanwhile the Dem governor of NYS —which has roughly the same GDP as the nation state of Canada—is busy gutting our state climate law, doing the gas industry’s bidding, deepening fossil fuel dependency, and calling herself a climate realist. @governor.ny.gov
reminds me of the new piece by Desai et al @ how carbon majors promote renewables bc they're trying to prevent climate action link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action - Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied the role of fossil fuels in climate destabilization. Recently, however, they have advanced nuanced messages to delay climate action and policy. As the climate crisis worsens and calls to phase out fossil fuels intensify, research into the industry has revealed pervasive “greenwashing” and a discrepancy between external messaging on renewable energy and internal operational positions. Corporate annual reports, which are public-facing communications, offer insights into how companies align their internal strategy with their external messaging. Based on a textual analysis of the annual reports of four of the largest fossil fuel companies (ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and TotalEnergies), this research compares how companies have adapted their communication strategies about renewable energy between 2016 and 2022. Results The study reveals that each company focuses on different renewable energy technologies and highlights a variety of positive and negative messages about renewable energy. Since 2016, positive messaging about renewable energy has increased, including narratives on economic benefits, sustainable development, climate action, and strategic business benefits. Negative messaging, including mentions of variable energy intensity, potential business risks, and reductions in companies’ renewable energy businesses, constitutes a small yet consistent part of the communications. This combination of sentiments highlights the benefits of renewable energy while simultaneously undermining the positives with nuanced and negative messages about renewable energy. By promoting fossil fuels as a partner to renewable energy, corporate messages link renewable energy to fossil fuels, reinforcing discourses that slow down the energy transition and expand fossil fuel production with renewable energy development. Conclusions Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, the annual reports of fossil fuel companies consistently employed a communication strategy of mixed-sentiment messages that link renewable energy to fossil fuels, particularly fossil gas (i.e., commonly known as natural gas). In this way, companies created and employed doublespeak and delay tactics, obscuring the need to phase out fossil fuels to achieve global climate and sustainability goals.
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Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 4mo agoExxon claimed biofuels were an amazing climate solution. Big shocker: Its internal scientists knew better. Great reporting by @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/business/ene...
I enjoyed talking about the unsurprising hypocrisy of this admin saying the US needs to harm whales to be energy independent while cutting investments in renewable energy that don't harm whales with @mariagallucci.bsky.social
Canary Media Inc.@canarymedia.com · 4mo agoThe Trump administration used whale welfare as an excuse to sideline offshore wind. Then it killed whale protections to boost fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf.
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
"Even if you produce more oil than you consume, you still pay the same global price for oil everyone else pays & thus still suffer from supply constrictions & high prices." This basic, elementary fact -- global energy markets 101 -- refutes basically the entire GOP energy policy & worldview.
Here's a headline that seems to describe this activity more appropriately: Dept. of Interior bribes oil company $1B from taxpayer coffers to stop wind power electrek.co/2026/03/23/d... @elektrek.bsky.social
Dept. of Interior bribes oil company $1B from taxpayer coffers to stop wind power
The Dept. of the Interior pledged $1 billion to a French oil company to stop developing wind, and to increase costly, deadly methane instead.
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Mark Z. Jacobson@mzjacobson.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is about as sick as it gets. Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms. In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children. A major throughline of the Trump administration.
Richard Tofel@dicktofel.bsky.social · 5mo agoJust out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
New article out in Antipode today about fossil violence through the US state (pre-Trump 2): how gas pipeline construction was violence by a gas company and US gov decisionmakers against the communities along the pipeline route onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“The Actual Harm Was Worse Than What Was Being Recorded”: Accounts of State Violence and Elite Capture in Fossil Energy Infrastructure Construction in a Sacrifice Zone
Construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 42-in. diameter, 303-mile fracked gas pipeline through Appalachia, was mandated by the US Congress in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The ....
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The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues. This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness. I am ashamed to be American today. 2/2
A++ greenwashing for fossil fuels by @nytimes.com. WTAF. Especially infuriating to give American Petroleum Institute the last word after an interview with brilliant writer and climate activist @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social — whom I highly recommend you read and listen too! NYT, get it together.
Seeing this shared on the same day that @chanda.blacksky.app shared an article about a drop in non-fiction readership makes me wonder whether there's some push to convince researchers/journalists not to do deep dives
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5mo agoMy entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it. Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
"how could we possibly afford a just transition"
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5mo agoPreliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
good thing we've stopped federally subsidizing residential renewables & started a third gulf war while approving loads of new data centers, what could go wrong
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5mo agoA deeply underreported story. I know so many people struggling to pay their electric bills
Amory Lovins has entered the chat: "Today’s AI mania rhymes: Gas and nuclear vendors that can’t beat energy efficiency and renewables in competitive markets are leveraging hype into mandates and subsidies to rescue their losers." www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
AI: Does not compute
Building fossil-fuel infrastructure to power data centers is a poor bet. Renewables are by far the cheaper, faster choice.
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