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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 · 06/02/2025

Thank you for all your brilliant work Alex, so sorry to hear about this, but can't wait to see what you do next.

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

7/n: Following up to announce another postdoc in the Climate Accountability Lab at UMiami, 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

6/n: More to come...watch this space!

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

5/n: Senior Software Engineer: Using computational social science to investigate climate narratives & social networks (same job description as postdoc but different pay grade depending on experience & qualifications). More info and application form here: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

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Sr. Software Engineer - Computational Social Science in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Information Technology at University of Miami

Apply for Sr. Software Engineer - Computational Social Science job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Information Technology at University of Miami

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

3/n: PhD #2: Using mixed methods to investigate the corporate capture of academic research and government agencies by fossil fuel interests. More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...

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

2/n: PhD #1: Using computational social science to investigate climate change discourse on social media. More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...

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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

14/n: Our paper also encourages our colleagues "to go further than research": “to communicate their findings widely, to advocate for the policy implications of their work, and to support others in doing so.” It's heartening that hundreds have already begun to do so ⬇️:

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

13/n: To be clear, we are not impugning the integrity of individual scholars. As I told The Guardian's Dharna Noor, “Our intention is to protect scientific integrity. We want to warn scholars & uni leaders that they can be pawns in a propaganda scheme." www.theguardian.com/business/art...

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University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firms

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

12/n: One of our coauthors, Emily Eaton, had to go so far as to take her own university *to court* to (successfully) compel her university to disclose its fossil fuel funders.

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

11/n: “Universities’ widespread lack of transparency on funding ties, amounts, and contract details” between themselves & fossil fuel companies is a major obstacle to tackling this problem, our study finds. “The academic integrity of higher education is at risk.”

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

10/n: University leaders, for their part, have mostly failed to recognize, much less mitigate, this massive, multi-decadal elephant in the room. In many cases, they have done the opposite, actively soliciting & encouraging fossil fuel donations.

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

9/n: Out of ~14,000 peer-reviewed articles about sponsorship and conflicts of interest, we found only SEVEN mentioning fossil fuels. Our paper is therefore also a call to action for scholars to “engage urgently” in a new research agenda focused on fossil fuel ties to academia.

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

8/n: “Nothing close to [the] concern or scrutiny or reform [that public health scientists have applied to tobacco or pharma funding] has been applied by climate & energy experts to oil industry funding," I told Miranda Green at Floodlight News/Louisiana Illuminator. lailluminator.com/2024/09/05/c...

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Colleges with fossil fuel funding can become 'vehicle of climate obstruction,' study finds • Louisiana Illuminator

For decades, fossil fuel companies have donated millions of dollars to colleges — resulting in conflicts of interest for their researchers.

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

7/n: Interestingly, we found that NGOs & students have been raising the alarm on this since at least 2003. Despite this, and despite the glaring historical parallels to the tactics of tobacco, pharma, & junk food industries, academic studies are only just starting to catch up.

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

6/n: "Fossil fuel companies have embedded themselves in unis across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and beyond," we conclude. This grants Big Oil substantial material & reputational benefits, incl. favorable research, training & recruitment, & the cred & public trust of academia.

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

5/n: Or as my coauthor Jennie Stephens told @desmog.bsky.social's Geoff Dembicki, "When you pull it all together, you realize how pervasive a strategy this has been."

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

4/n: As I told the @financialtimes.com's Amanda Chu, “Everything that’s been done so far by researchers on this indicates an emerging consensus that this is a really serious & significant problem that needs to be taken a lot more seriously." www.ft.com/content/d0b6...

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University ties to fossil fuel industry face growing scrutiny

A new study raises concerns over the oil and gas industry’s influence on higher education

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

3/n: Our study uncovers hundreds of real or apparent conflicts of interest for researchers & unis, with oil & gas companies funding climate & energy research, sitting on uni governing boards, endowing academic posts, sponsoring scholarships & lectures, advising curricula, & more.

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

2/n: This is the first literature review of fossil fuel industry influence in higher education. My colleagues Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton, Noel Healy, Andrew Scerri, Jennie Stephens, and I analyzed every known English-language academic & white paper report on the topic thru 2023.

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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

2/n: Thanks also to The Guardian's @dharna.bsky.social for her excellent reporting on this. As Kert Davies told her, politicians are "doing the [oil] industry’s work for them." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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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

2/n: For a summary of our findings, see here: x.com/geoffreysupr...

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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

2/n: I, @naomioreskes.bsky.social et al. have published overwhelming evidence of Big Oil's Big Tobacco-style efforts to individualise responsibility for the climate crisis, but to my knowledge, this is the first explicit, smoking gun industry statement of that strategy. twitter.com/GeoffreySupr...

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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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