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Climate journo; Forbes Senior Contributor; Consultant. Host of the Climate Futures webcast from the University of Oxford. Tips/leads: vitruvius.09 on Signal. https://climatelaundry.substack.com/
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Big court win: judge rules Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP and others must face claims by Puerto Rican towns in a RICO case alleging the companies engaged in a coordinated, decades-long deception campaign to conceal the true dangers of fossil fuel consumption. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Join us at this discussion webinar on Monday! Details below. I’ll be speaking about my new book, climate change and links to ongoing epidemic injustice. #ClimateColoniality #geosky

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Heat pump sales declined significantly last year in most European countries. Without policy reform Europe will not be able to deliver 60m heat pumps by 2030 - the ambition of RepowerEU. We know which policies work - see our heat pump policy toolkit here: www.raponline.org/toolkit/heat...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Saturday vibing.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

An interesting example of how fossil fuel industry PR and big media complicity have created a Human Centipede of propaganda that dominates the public information space.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Leaving to Hangzhou/China for upcoming @ipcc.bsky.social plenary session. Deeply troubling to read that the contracts of the US WGIII technical support unit at @thenasaearth.bsky.social were terminated. Weakening the science will not make the climate emergency fade away www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Back to the future: digital gunboat diplomacy. It’s good the US doesn’t control lots of universally used digital software and hardware.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

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Excellent truth-telling from @dechant.bsky.social: “Now we have a better idea why Occidental was keen to pick up the pricey [carbon capture] technology: They want to use it to pump more oil.” Same as it ever was… techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/t...

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The US Department of Defense states that climate change is "woke". Be on the lookout for future releases branding gravity as "communist".

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Such a valuable thread on the critical role of the US federal government in every aspect of research and design, and the cascading benefits that flow from that support - which is now being wiped out.

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People are asking "how on Earth is this happening?" One thesis is that this is a symptom of our news media's blanket normalisation of what is taking place in the US right now, coupled to politicians' ongoing exposure to X.

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To clarify, UK politicians are looking at what's happening in Washington DC right now and saying "that is good, we should do that"

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happy friday! just leaving this here...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Welp, so much for the much-vaunted "Musk v. Bannon" showdown.

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The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.

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Two Republicans have introduced a bill to remove the US from the United Nations.

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Elon Musk's AI platform has been retrained to generate a "both sides" response to whether climate change is a threat. One is the view of science, while the other is fossil fuel industry waffle.

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In its speed, severity, and sheer scope, the first month of the second Trump administration has been a completely unprecedented assault on US science. Story w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social, @maxkozlov.bsky.social, and Jeff Tollefson: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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In today's Gift Link from a Beautiful Angel, here's a recent Bloomberg piece on what happens when libertarian douchebags actually try to build a society:

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If you're near Norwich, here is your opportunity to enjoy Scotland's preeminent climate funnyman.

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