Rebecca John
@rebeccajohn.bsky.social
Investigative climate reporter, writer and award-winning documentary film maker. Freelance. Lead author, The Fraud of "Clean" Natural Gas (July 2026) for Center for Climate Integrity.
Where does the term ‘natural’ gas come from? What do we need to know about Methane? Should reporters ask politicians about their climate voting records? Listen to KALW’s Your Call with me and my co-author @rebeleber.bsky.social to find out more
How big oil manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas
A new report reveals that oil and gas companies knew by the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while peddling the myth of "clean" natural gas.
kalw.org
So this comes out on the week when Paks Nuclear Power Station has to be turned off because there's no water left in the River Danube Great job everyone
Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones.bsky.social · 13h agoHere is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation
Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation
Smoke will cover half the US today from the devastating Pacific NW fires. Here’s where we stand: 2.4 Million Acres burned in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho - 16X the size of #Chicago. 700 structures lost. Countless lives changed forever. One unsustainably warming planet. 🌍 #smoke #fire #spokane
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2d agoThe wildfires in the Pacific NW are incredibly sad and devastating. We have to face the fact that a warming climate is unsustainable. As you can see, fires in the Pacific NW are getting much larger in recent decades. The largest fires (100K acres+) have increased by 10-15X since the 1980s. 1/
Must read from Jillian Ambrose & @dpcarrington.bsky.social: “Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fueled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayRevealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
“They lived in harmony in that way with the forest. They made clearings, but not too big to change the ecological systems. Despite their huge numbers, they never converted the rainforest into savanna.” Fascinating article on new archeological discoveries in the Amazon.
Uncovered, the Amazonian civilisation comparable to ancient Greece
A vast network of monuments, roads and ceremonial sites has been found beneath the canopy of the rainforest
thetimes.com
In the early 1960s cigarette companies blamed lung cancer on: animal fats, coffee, lack of sleep, nervousness and divorce. Definitely not the tobacco.
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2d ago🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
In the early 1960s cigarette companies blamed lung cancer on: animal facts, coffee, lack of sleep, nervousness and divorce. Definitely not the tobacco.
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2d ago🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
"More than half of people globally said they were more worried about climate change now than last year, and four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change."
The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
We break down the results of Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, representing 87 percent of the global population.
climatepromise.undp.org
This 1985 lecture that @desmog.com has uncovered, "Lecture to Shell" from James Lovelock is well worth reading in relation to wildfires etc. Ignoring Gaia could convince her to, "...show her displeasure...where we are no longer a favored species." 🔌💡 www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Shell Lecture Sept 1985, James E. Lovelock
documentcloud.org
What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
The fossil fuel industry lied to us. For decades, they’ve peddled the myth that “natural” gas is "clean" to pad their bottom line. @climateintegrity.org's new report rips the mask off: climateintegrity.org/projects/nat...
How a 1996 study on methane emissions from natural gas—published by the gas industry in partnership with the U.S. EPA—allowed the oil and gas industry to fend off emissions regulations, cement the myth of “clean” natural gas, and pave the way for the 2000s fracking boom. 👀
Remember this week when the editor of the Telegraph said we need to adapt to a European lifestyle because climate change is inevitable? That would be: cowering indoors in shadow as fear lays panting in the white hot street, fleeing fires for our lives www.politico.eu/article/spai...
Spain, France, UK warn megafires show climate change is ‘threatening our way of life’
In joint statements, the three countries reaffirmed their commitment to fighting global warming.
politico.eu
When FOIA documents reveal a hidden truth ... Brief explainer on how Big Gas ducked concerns about its methane emissions to sell gas as a 'climate solution.' Our gas dependent world was not inevitable. This study is one of the key building blocks.
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 6d agoHow a 1996 study on methane emissions from natural gas—published by the gas industry in partnership with the U.S. EPA—allowed the oil and gas industry to fend off emissions regulations, cement the myth of “clean” natural gas, and pave the way for the 2000s fracking boom. 👀
FIRE ALARMS: In 1987, Big Oil and Gas (BP and the American Gas Association) co-sponsored a bipartisan climate conference where attendees were warned that rising CO2 emissions from fossil fuels would increase the risk of forest fires. Other industry participants also included Exxon.
Our major new investigation is out today packed full of revelations about the oil and gas industry’s decades-long deception over natural gas. We show how big oil and gas created the myth of “clean” natural gas before deceptively marketing it as a climate solution. @climateintegrity.org
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Shell posts second-highest profits ever as traders cash in on Iran disruption
UK oil major says earnings have surged even as its gas production fell sharply because of Middle East war
giftarticle.ft.com
Rebecca John@rebeccajohn.bsky.social · last wk.As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
desmog.com
Additionally, the UK and French governments have also issued a similar statement on climate change: "[We] call on all countries to intensify their efforts to tackle its causes while boosting resilience to its effects" www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/presse-et...
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
ted.com
This report is intense and demonstrates how narratives of denialism were deliberatedly advanced by Shell. I do not like this idea of a World shaped by heroes and villains but sadly the influx of character caricatures makes it difficult to imagine reality in any other way.
Rebecca John@rebeccajohn.bsky.social · last wk.As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
Historians have a duty to teach about the lengthy, determined efforts by the oil industry to thwart our understanding of climate change despite knowing better. Nothing better encapsulates what the oil industry is like the proof that they knowingly endangered all life on Earth to protect themselves.
Rebecca John@rebeccajohn.bsky.social · last wk.Overloading Earth with pollution could cause a “disaster global in scale” warned James Lovelock in a "Shell Lecture" from 1985 I discovered researching this piece. Better to show “respect proper to a living planet” than live "where we are no longer a favored species.” Prescient words hit hard now.
Overloading Earth with pollution could cause a “disaster global in scale” warned James Lovelock in a "Shell Lecture" from 1985 I discovered researching this piece. Better to show “respect proper to a living planet” than live "where we are no longer a favored species.” Prescient words hit hard now.
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
desmog.com
As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
desmog.com
Half of England declared in drought after heatwaves
Half of England declared in drought after heatwaves
Second summer drought in two years is ‘exceptionally serious’, says Environment Agency
giftarticle.ft.com
"We talk regularly about Big Oil, but it would probably make more sense to at least occasionally refer to it as Big Gas," writes @billmckibben.bsky.social in this vivid description of the natural / fossil / methane gas deception that draws on our new report from @climateintegrity.org
Bloated and Gassy
Trump's...energy policy, and what it's going to cost us all
billmckibben.substack.com
This is such a cool article. It says sharks are also older than Saturn's rings and the North Star www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...
Sharks Are Older Than Trees, Which Seems Wrong
They were around before everything from Saturn’s rings to flowering plants to the literal North Star.
popularmechanics.com