New piece in @truthout on some recently revealed documents showing just how much companies like Exxon knew about climate, and just how much they lied. truthout.org/articles/new...

New Documents Expose Exxon’s Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence

A paper from 1992 shows the oil company anticipating how the melting of Arctic ice sheets could impact its bottom line.

truthout.org

After listening to oral arguments in Suncor v. Boulder just now, I hope someone will give Justice Kavanaugh my @yalelawjournal.bsky.social Essay on the case. It provides a detailed history of Ouellette & the other precedents invoked in Suncor. These cases do not say what Justice Kavanaugh asserted.

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Corporate capture of universities is happening and has been happening. How do we use collective organizing to protect academic integrity? See CSSN scholar’s publication out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States

Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…

sciencedirect.com

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Grateful to receive Salem State University's 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award. Particularly meaningful as a university-wide award that is student-nominated and faculty peer-reviewed. Thanks to my students and the selection committee.

An exciting event to look out for this weekend at the energy transition conference in Colombia. The event will feature experts on climate obstruction, and will offer strategies for a just energy transition. See the link for more information and how to attend!

Guy Edwards@guywhedwards.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Únete a nuestro diálogo en la Universidad del Magdalena organizado por @cssn.org y el OIMC sobre los actores en Argentina, Brasil y Colombia que obstaculizan la transición energética y conversa con expertos que están trabajando para enfrentarlos. #MásAlláDeLosCombustiblesFósiles 🧵

Researchers find that 98% of recent environmental claims by major meat and dairy companies can be characterized as greenwashing. See M. Bach, L. Loy, @katharinemach.bsky.social, S. Shukla McDermid, and J. Jacquet's full study below. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies

Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...

journals.plos.org

Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest: reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...

“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business”

The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.

reckoningscience.org

This is a very fun conversation with #AlexStrathdee about writing, my books, and how being an author became a dangerous trade: Here's the link to your episode: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2K7e...

BTB176: The $100,000+ Book That Exposed How Truth Gets Twisted - Inside Merchants of Doubt with Author Naomi Oreskes

Podcast Episode · Before The Bestseller · April 6 · 31m

podcasts.apple.com

NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.

This Australian Senate inquiry is important not just for that country--it's really about the problem we face of information pollution and paid influence around the world. Our @cssn.org research, assessment volumes, and testimony featured prominently Major kudos to @senatorsurfer.bsky.social et al

Dr Jeremy Walker@jeremywalker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today’s news on the world first🦘🇦🇺Senate inquiry on global 🪨⛽️🛢️ dark money organisation, methods & actors pumping out anti-climate/clean energy disinfo. Chair @senatorsurfer.bsky.social did us all a service. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

What's going on with claims about #climate science and solutions in the #USCongress? Here's our analysis of trends over three decades using the most sophisticated framework yet. An exciting collaboration of three research teams on three continents. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Large language model reveals an increase in climate contrarian speech in the United States Congress - Communications Sustainability

Congressional opposition to climate policies has grown in the United States, and Republicans are approximately twelve times more likely than Democrats to make contrarian claims, according to an analys...

nature.com

Our big study is just up. www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/who-s-o...

Who’s Obstructing Climate Action in the Rhode Island Legislature?

Prompted by the lack of climate action in the Rhode Island legislature since the Act on Climate passed in 2021, student and staff researchers in the Climate and Development Lab looked into some key qu...

climatedevlab.brown.edu

This is the most important development in the fight for a liveable planet in DECADES, and it comes out at just the right time to enable us to put spotlight and pressure on climate obstruction at the COP30 in Brazil. BRAVO TIMMONS AND CSSN COLLEAGUES!!!!! 🤩🌍🤩

Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · last yr.

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

cssn.org

Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · last yr.

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

Recently I joined PIIE's Policy for the Planet, where host Monica de Bolle and I discussed how attacks on climate science contribute to polarization and the demonization of science, and how to combat these trends. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: policyfortheplanet.com/how-to-comba...

Policy for the Planet: How to combat disinformation on climate science (Episode 18)

In the age of the Internet, artificial intelligence, social media, and instant access to knowledge, disinformation has become a challenge in public discourse on climate change. Naomi Oreskes (Harvard ...

policyfortheplanet.com

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

nytimes.com

Huh, so I guess they haven't all fled the state

Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe

Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.

bostonglobe.com

I'm really happy to have been a part of this, with @marydwillis.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social and a whole bunch of other people that aren't on here yet (sorry if you are and I can't find you!) academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

Scientists’ warning on fossil fuels

Abstract. The evidence is clear that fossil fuels—and the fossil fuel industry and its enablers—are driving a multitude of interlinked crises that jeopardi

academic.oup.com

Not to make everything about fossil fuels, but plastics are literally✨fossil fuels ✨

Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2y ago

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

Out in @natureenergy.bsky.social, with Esther Shears and Jared Finnegan www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're going to be at AAG in Detroit, join us and @blackgeographies.bsky.social for Happy Hour on Tuesday at the Elephant Room from 6-8, right after the BGSG keynote! Drink tickets available while they last!

"This suggests that integrating certain carbon-centric policies into a wider program of social, economic, and democratic reforms would achieve decarbonization more effectively than carbon-centric policies alone" - @drnoelhealy.bsky.social & @fergusgreen.bsky.social

How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal

Recent proposals in the US and elsewhere aim to tackle climate change and socioeconomic inequalities together through a Green New Deal (GND). GND prop…

sciencedirect.com

fossil fuels & climate change are the leading preventable cause of death worldwide.

Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 2y ago

New research shows more than 1.5 million people die each year from air pollution caused by wildfires: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... This supports my thesis that fossil fuels & climate change are the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. @lshtm.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

Check out our Cities@Tufts Podcasts and Videos! Hear @lorettaclees.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @norton.bsky.social @drnoelhealy.bsky.social @tamikabutler.bsky.social @sarameerow.bsky.social @ianguelovski.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social and more! www.shareable.net/cities-tufts/

Cities@Tufts Colloquium

Shareable and Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning co-present this ongoing free lecture series hosted by professor Shareable and Tufts University co-present Citie...

shareable.net