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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/10/2025

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

WOW. The FBI is investigating an Exxon lobbyist for allegedly orchestrating the hacking & leaking of emails of 500+ environmentalists & their funders, colleagues & families in an ongoing effort to discredit lawsuits against the company for its climate deceit. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say

The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Another job posting from the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami just dropped, this one in the psychology of climate change communication and psychological inoculation against misinformation... More info and application form here: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

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Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami

Apply for Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami

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Steve Horn (he/him/his) @steveahorn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

NEW #EnvHist via Last Chance Alliance: Western States Petroleum Assoc front groups spent nearly $32M in CA on influence spending over past 10 years since its slide deck exposing the groups it funds leaked to media, $18M in of it from Chevron (63% of total) lastchancealliance.org/decadeofdela...

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A Decade of Deception: WSPA’s Web Leaked Front Groups - Last Chance Alliance

A decade ago, the anti-fracking movement expanded across California communities as advocates pushed the state to meet its reputation as a global climate

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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you missed this 🧵 on the "Koch & Climate Obstruction" report I wrote with Robert Brulle @climatessn.bsky.social, please read and share! It unpacks what what Koch knew, and what Koch said. Now, here's are new 🧵 on what Koch DID, starting with historic material from the 1990's.

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Koch and Climate Obstruction

This interim report, by Connor Gibson and Robert J. Brulle, is a result of ongoing historical research into the efforts by Koch, Inc. and its orbit organizations to obstruct climate […]

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Connor Gibson @grassrootbeer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

NEW REPORT 🧵: Here's what Koch seemed to *know* about climate science, using documents from the 1970's, 80's and 90's vs what Koch *said* about climate science, and what Koch *did* to fight climate mitigation. From Brown University Climate Social Science Network: cssn.org/koch-and-cli...

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Koch and Climate Obstruction

This interim report, by Connor Gibson and Robert J. Brulle, is a result of ongoing historical research into the efforts by Koch, Inc. and its orbit organizations to obstruct climate […]

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"We, the undersigned...call on governments worldwide to take immediate and decisive action to address this crisis" of climate disinformation. Honoured to be a co-signatory on this open letter, thanks to @caadcoalition.bsky.social for coordinating.

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In other news, the oily chucklefucks that designed Trump1.0's EPA transition have published their top10 wishlist for round 2.

A Top 10 wishlist from big oil mouthpieces, starting with revoking the Paris Climate "treaty" (it's an agreement) and the endangerment finding. Full text pdf for downlaod at their source: https://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Trump-Energy-Actions_FINAL.pdf

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

🚨No better day to announce the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami is hiring for 4 new positions in computational social science (2xPhD, Postdoc, Software Engineer) to investigate disinformation & propaganda. Come help shape climate accountability for the next four years. ⬇️ 1/n

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

NEW: In WIREs Climate Change today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows fossil fuel companies have systematically infiltrated academia, threatening to bias research and undermine meaningful climate action. THREAD. 📄 Open access: bit.ly/FossilFUniv

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Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda

A growing research agenda: Timeline of the cumulative number of news articles (black, left axis), white paper reports (red, right axis), and peer-reviewed and academic publications (green, right axis....

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

"PR firms & media companies have been aiding & abetting fossil fuel propagandists for decades & today’s speech [by the UN Secretary General] puts them on notice like never before" - Thx to BBC News for having me on to discuss António Guterres's call to ban fossil fuel ads. x.com/GeoffreySupr...

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Banning or boycotting fossil-fuel ads would "hit oil companies where it hurts" by "removing one of the key cogs in Big Oil's climate denial & delay machine" - My take to The Guardian's @dharna.bsky.social on the UN Secretary General's call to ban fossil fuel ads. www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

RIGHT NOW: US Senate Budget Committee formally refers its 3-year investigation of Big Oil's "continuing pattern of...knowingly & misleading the public" on climate change to Department of Justice. "The complaint writes itself," says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Senate Budget Committee Press Conference

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 07/05/2024

The fossil fuel industry's "discourses of delay," as @geoffreysupran.bsky.social calls them here -- www.americanprogress.org/article/thes... -- were front and center at this most recent talk.

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Column: Here's what Exxon's CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis

After decades of climate denial and delay, the company is still putting oil and gas first.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Didn’t expect to be invited to Congress to testify as an expert witness about Big Oil’s climate deceit only for a Senator to ask me if I'd call him a “sick f*ck” based on a Tweet I’d never seen 😂. Thanks to HEATED's @emorwee.bsky.social for setting the record straight: heated.world/p/gop-senato...

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GOP Senator accidentally creates amazing ad for climate activists

Senator John Kennedy’s profanity-laden rant at Wednesday’s Senate hearing is now being used against him.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Honored & excited to be testifying to Congress next Wed at the Senate Budget Committee's hearing on "Denial, Disinformation, & Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change", w/ Rep Jamie Raskin & lawyer Sharon Eubanks: www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/den...

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Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Delighted to hear my paper w/ @rahmstorf.bsky.social & @naomioreskes.bsky.social, which showed Exxon predicted global warming w/ breathtaking accuracy years before it attacked climate science & scientists, was the second most talked-about climate article of 2023! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...

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Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2023 - Carbon Brief

Using Altmetric data, Carbon Brief has compiled a list of the 25 most talked-about climate-related papers that were published in 2023.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Media coverage of COP28 has been largely positive. But the conference's Decision text is a masterclass in greenwashing. What does that tell us about the language of climate politics? My latest in The New Republic. #Greensky #Energysky newrepublic.com/article/1776...

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Language Wars Could Decide the Climate Fight

COP28 embraced linguistic ambiguity for the purpose of petrostate propaganda. But climate advocates can also use that to their advantage.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

For the first time in its 28-year history, a UN climate agreement uses the F-words: Fossil Fuels. COP28’s oil tanker-size loopholes notwithstanding, how did we get here? Our 2017 @sciam piece sums up the confluence of forces that have finally named the elephant in the room:

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

As we (rightly) celebrate the first ever UN climate pact to recognise the role of fossil fuels, just a reminder that fossil fuel interests have known that their products could cause dangerous global heating since before UN climate talks even began three decades ago.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then a global pact calls for "transitioning away from fossil fuels"... ...then they fight you some more.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

OPEC's leaked goal to “proactively reject any [#COP28] text...that targets...fossil fuels, rather than emissions” is, I think, the first *explicit* admission of Big Oil's strategy to shift climate responsibility from supply/fossil fuels to demand/emissions. 1/n www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Opec rails against fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 in leaked letters

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Fixation on only phasing out "unabated" fossil fuels by some politicians & oil interests at COP28 is reminiscent of Big Oil's history of "appropriating wonky scientific language" to confuse debate & "greenwash their image" - My take to @nytimes.com's Manuela Andreoni: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/c...

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What Does ‘Unabated’ Mean, Anyway?

A fierce debate at the global climate talks.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

"It’s really important not to beat around the bush...[this] is literally Big Oil & mainstream media collaborating in PR campaigns for the industry" - My take on how Big Media is helping Big Oil do its climate bidding. 1/n www.thenation.com/article/envi...

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How the Media Greenwashes the Fossil Fuel Industry

Many of the world's most reputable publications use their credibility to sell advertorials that protect polluters and confuse readers.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

There are 2,456 fossil fuel representatives at this year's UN climate talks, and there have been at least 7,200 of them (ultra conservative estimate) over the past 20 years. Nuf said. heated.world/p/its-offici...

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It’s official: COP28 has more fossil fuel lobbyists than ever

There are 2,456 fossil fuel interests at this year's U.N. climate summit, nearly four times more than any past year, according to a new analysis.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

1989 Exxon internal strategy memo: "Increase emphasis on costs/political realities" of addressing climate change. 2023 COP28 President: Addressing climate change by phasing out fossil fuels will "take the world back into caves".

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

"Exxon’s attendance [at #COP28] is part of Big Oil's decades of efforts to infiltrate and corrupt attempts by policymakers to meaningfully address the climate crisis" - My take in @financialtimes.com on Exxon CEO's absurd comments at UN climate talks today. 1/n www.ft.com/content/2217...

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UN climate talks have focused on renewable energy for too long, Exxon chief says

Darren Woods tells FT that oil and gas major has a role to play in reducing emissions

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Fun final class of the semester today!: Popcorn 🍿, Ribena 🥤, & my friend & favourite climate comedian in the whole world Rollie Williams Zooming in to talk about his incredible climate storytelling on @climatetown.bsky.social, trying to “find the peanut butter to put on pills of information”.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

UK's net zero minister adopts identical climate change talking points to Big Oil & US Republicans, saying: “I don’t think supply is the key driver – it is demand" AND "There is nothing fundamentally wrong w/ oil & gas...emissions are the problem" 1/n www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Oil and gas ‘not the problem’ for climate, says UK’s net zero minister

Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Damning new leaked docs & whistleblowers show McKinsey is "best understood as possibly the most powerful oil & gas consulting firm on the planet posturing as a sustainability firm, advising polluting clients on any opportunity to preserve the status quo." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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McKinsey & Company pushes fossil fuel interests as advisor to UN climate talks, whistleblowers say

The world's top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN's COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining effor...

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

So great to have climate journalist extraordinaire @amywestervelt.bsky.social join our class and department seminar today here at @MiamiRosenstiel to talk about the Standard Oil octopus, “a big tent full of clowns”, and much more! Thx for visiting, Amy!

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

🚨 New investigation & 🧵 Oxy built the world's largest carbon-capture plant by capacity in 2010. It never operated at more than a third of its capacity. In 2022, Oxy quietly sold it for a fraction of the price. Story with Natasha White & Kevin Crowley. Free to read:

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An Oil Giant Quietly Ditched the World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Plant

Occidental Petroleum is leading the global charge to vastly expand the use of technologies that suck up carbon dioxide. The failure of company’s biggest-ever bet shows the challenges ahead.

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Blimey, today @nytimes.com released a "British-Irish Dialect Quiz", & it worked shockingly well for me! It put my English somewhere between Southampton, Reading, & Cambridge...I was born in Reading, grew up in Southampton, & went to uni in Cambridge 🤯 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

"The climate movement is waking up to the need for an edgier message" - I talk to @theguardian.bsky.social's @dharna.bsky.social about how climate advocates are fighting fire with fire, using satire to counter Big Oil propaganda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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Halloween-themed climate campaign aims to show horrors of methane gas

Gas Leaks advocacy group’s ad resembling horror movie trailer is latest in broader push to counter fossil fuel industry messaging

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Big Oil's new "potentially game-ending" strategy to kill climate lawsuits is to argue it had "no duty to warn" because climate science was "'open and obvious' for decades.” Sadly, I and @naomioreskes.bsky.social predicted this defence in our 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric. 1/n

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

WOW, how wonderful to hear that MIT chemist Moungi Bawendi was today co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery & synthesis of quantum dots"! Not every day you get to say your coauthor & former PhD thesis committee member has won a Nobel! news.mit.edu/2023/mit-che...

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MIT chemist Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023. He will share the prize with Louis Brus of Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov of Nanoc...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2023

Insane flooding across NYC - streets, buses, even the LGA terminal are underwater - just one week after #ClimateWeekNYC. The science is clear: this is climate change loading the weather dice against us, making extreme rainfall more frequent and more dangerous.

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Flooding in New York: ‘Life-Threatening Rainfall Event’ in New York as City Combats Flooding

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and urged people to stay off roads during what one official described as “the wettest day we’ve had since Hurricane Ida.”

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/09/2023

A Tufton St guide to "honest debate" on net-zero (aka how Civitas got embarrassingly wrong numbers into Sun, Mail, Times & Express) 1) Send to lobby journos, not specialists 2) Get Tufton St chums to write supportive comment 3) Trust editors to take crazy numbers at face value

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 25/09/2023

On The Climate Brink, @hausfath.bsky.social shows exactly how hot this summer has been. It's staggering. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin...

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Visualizing a summer of extremes in 7 charts

The past four months of 2023 have shattered all prior records by a truly staggering margin

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Just as my class is learning how Edelman PR firm pioneered Big Oil & Tobacco propaganda, excellent reporting by DeSmog exposes how Edelman enabled a UAE oil baron to lead this year's UN climate talks. One detail particularly hit home for me...1/n www.desmog.com/2023/09/13/e...

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American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference

With three months to go until the COP28 United Nations climate talks begin in Dubai, critics have stepped up their condemnation of the decision to put Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s ...

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

The doublespeak and scaremongering in Rishi Sunak's watering down of UK climate policies is breathtaking. "The proposal [that never existed] to make you change your diet and harm British farmers by taxing meat? I've scrapped it." www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

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'You're making claims that aren't true': Sunak pressed on scrapping 'meat tax' proposal – audio

Rishi Sunak insisted the UK is on track to meet its net zero target by 2050 despite watering down green policies

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Last week, hours before CA sued Exxon for its decades of climate deception, the Wall Street Journal released explosive new documents further exposing Exxon's history of deceit. IMHO they tell a slightly different, even more damning story than the one being reported. 1/n www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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WSJ News Exclusive | Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Damn, California sues Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and American Petroleum Institute for their decades of climate deception and damages. *One-in-four* Americans are now represented in climate accountability lawsuits, says Fossil Free Media's Jamie Henn. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/b...

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California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception

Launching one of the most prominent climate lawsuits in the nation, the state claims Exxon, Shell, BP and others misled the public and seeks creation of a special fund to pay for recovery.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/09/2023

"One player is going to die,” a tennis player warned during his US Open match yesterday in brutally hot conditions 😱 My newsletter this week focuses on climate change is impacting sports, and how sports can be a positive force for climate advocacy and change. (Written before I saw that quote!)

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It's kickoff time

Sports, climate change, and how you can step up to the plate

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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

It's moving to see influencers signal open-mindedness & respect for climate protests: - Conductor Vladimir Jurowski tells audience he will only play once they let protestors speak. - Tennis superstar Coco Gauff responds by saying "moments like this are history defining". 1/n

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