Timmons Roberts
@timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Climate change social scientist. Collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. Director, @ClimateSSN.bsky.social And @climatedevlab.bsky.social www.climatedevlab.brown.edu CSSN.org personal account; reskeets NE endorsement
I was on this Amicus to SCOTUS too—never done that before! Time to get off the bench.
Stephan Lewandowsky@lewan.uk · yesterdayProud to have been part of this submission to SCOTUS to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their decade-long disinformation about climate change. With @naomioreskes.bsky.social @geoffreysupran.bsky.social and others www.ucs.org/about/news/a...
"Strategy plans, policy documents, corporate communications..to the federal government..show that Koch’s political operation is attempting to shape and help implement a U.S. AI technology agenda, which could ultimately profit Koch’s traditional oil and gas business" www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
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"This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.” --European Central Bank senior official "Duh" --Me www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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"Legitimate concerns were often inflated into sweeping conclusions with shaky evidence" so damaging to our implementing the transition we desperately need to save a stable climate system heated.world/p/the-influe...
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?
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“The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore,” the French Geneva mission said in response. “Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it." “#AmericaAlone,” it added. I agree. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US diplomats stage UN walkout after France criticizes human rights record under Trump
France had also intervened after Trump administration had opposed the reappointment of UN human rights chief
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Trump Administration Abandons Fight Against Wind Energy as Clean Energy Output Surges - Inside Climate News
The clean energy sector is showing resilience despite challenges thrown at it by a hostile White House, a recent report found. A string of legal victories has further dampened the Trump administration...
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“Essentially, the sand battery technology operates as something akin to a giant thermos with heat-storing material” Lots of cheap safe locallly-sourced examples like this, such as industrial kiln bricks used the same way.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 2w agoPornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
“Ultimately, the administration’s efforts to censor scientific consensus will not only fail, but be viewed as a shameful chapter in this nation’s history.” Amen Chris Marchesano @csldf.org www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump threatens National Academies with debarment. Here's what it is.
The president invoked an obscure process to review the institution's federal grants over what he says is "climate fraud."
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1/ If you’re trying to understand why Governor McKee is rolling back Rhode Island’s clean energy agenda, pay attention to one name inside the administration: Reily Connaughton. He’s become one of the key voices shaping the governor’s budget, energy, and climate policy.
Nancy Lavin@nancyklavin.bsky.social · 2w agoIn declaring a state of emergency over rising energy prices, Gov. McKee simultaneously declared war on the environmental groups, lawmakers and state regulators who he alleges are standing in the way of relief for struggling families. rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/07/23/r...
This is phenomenal reporting, @corbinhiar.bsky.social Depth, context, clear writing. The stakes are so high as oil and coal interests attack scientists and the @nationalacademies.org This panel’s work is fundamental to our understanding. Report is out now. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report
An emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the fossil fuel industry. Billions of dollars are at stake.
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This is a big deal. www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/h...
How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas
A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.
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37 years ago I was researching for my doctorate in the Brazilian Amazon. It was the same story--the town I studied was surrounded by mines like this. There will be wildcat "garimpeiro" miners as long as the price of gold is high, but the government can't support www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining
The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land
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The climate crisis is fueling an onslaught of dirty air, and it's making our communities sick. As the first and only lung doctor in Congress, I know we can't separate climate policy from public health. The climate crisis is a public health emergency.
Wildfire Updates: Smoke Pushes Air Quality to Dangerous Levels for Millions
Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires is choking a vast stretch of the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Officials encouraged residents, including in New York, to stay indoors.
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A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
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Eventually, the oil companies that gave us this climate emergency will be held accountable. Right?
Climatologist49@climatologist49.bsky.social · 3w agoSmoke forecast for tomorrow afternoon. Seems lovely.
“We think Exxon and their allies’ conduct was the most consequential corporate deception of all time”.. This shows how low they'll go to stop accountability for their actions, knowingly destabilizing our climate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics: ‘on the edge of our seats’
Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers
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Hats off to Travis Coan and Ranadheer Malla who led on this important project. One thing AI is actually useful for is categorizing huge numbers of pieces of text. Here we scraped Congressional speeches to see what's being claimed on climate. Denial << Delay www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Here they come, #Europe, watch out. 'The goal when it comes to companies that support climate-focused investing, he went on, “is to torture them psychologically until they stop doing it.” ' www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/l...
Leonard Leo's Anti-Climate Network Makes a European Debut
Leo-linked operatives were among a who's who of the international right that gathered for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in June.
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Thank you @reed.senate.gov & @whitehouse.senate.gov for voting against this bill that included a provision to merge U.S. & Israeli militaries (section 219) & would have fueled Trump's immoral, illegal & useless war on Iran. We need affordable housing, food & healthcare, not another endless war. ☮️
elizabeth@kat223.bsky.social · 3w ago
If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3w agoHISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY
Distributed solar helped New England electric customers save at least $130 million in wholesale energy costs during the heat event between June 28 and July 4. 28%-43% of daily costs were avoided by the distributed solar in the region. www.mainepublic.org/climate/2026... #energysky
Rooftop solar eases New England's electric demand in heat wave
Solar panels on homes and businesses helped feed the regional electric grid as demand for cooling climbed.
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"golf courses and suburban sprawl take up far more acreage than solar does." oh also: "About 40% of [corn] is used to make ethanol, most of which is blended into gasoline. Corn ethanol biofuels require about 30 times the land per unit of energy as solar" www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
In Ohio, solar is no big threat to farmland
Fears over farmland loss have fueled arguments against renewables in Ohio — but golf courses and suburban sprawl take up far more acreage than solar does.
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Oops! Utility "boasted that it had “mobilized dozens of industry associations, businesses, labor organizations, and community partners to submit public comments” Metadata shows they fed them talking points. Great sleuthing by @energyandpolicy.org energyandpolicy.org/maryland-gas...
Maryland PSC delays key Future of Gas rule after utility-linked opposition campaign
Under utility pressure, Chair Kumar Barve’s Commission put off action ending line extension allowances - subsidies that shift the cost of new gas hookups onto existing customers.
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So many important details in here of how SPN think tanks connect and influence policy energyandpolicy.org/man-who-kill...
‘Man who killed offshore wind’ now pushing fossil fuels and nuclear for Koch-funded Mackinac Center in Michigan
David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...
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Trump Administration Abandons Fight Against Wind Energy as Clean Energy Output Surges - Inside Climate News
The clean energy sector is showing resilience despite challenges thrown at it by a hostile White House, a recent report found. A string of legal victories has further dampened the Trump administration...
insideclimatenews.org
Congratulations to @timmonsroberts.bsky.social and colleagues for this wonderful book and for ensuring everyone can read it for free. Everyone has the right to know how fuel fuel CEOs, lobbyists, and spin doctors have deceived us and gambled with our lives and all life on earth out of sheer greed.
Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment
Abstract. Climate obstruction involves intentional actions and efforts to slow or block policies on climate change that are commensurate with the current s
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"A 2014 law..blocked over 3.3 GW of utility-scale [wind] projects... "Gov. Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 52, which lets counties ban new solar projects [but] doesn’t let counties ban power plants that use fossil fuels or nuclear power. Why oh why, Ohio? www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Ohio has blocked a lot of wind and solar. Its residents pay the price.
The clean energy projects thwarted by state lawmakers could have gone a long way toward meeting spiking energy demand, lowering bills, and eliminating…
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