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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"To be quite honest, this is a seriously concerning outlook." When @weatherwest.bsky.social says he's seriously concerned, you would be wise to listen. At least, read this 🧵⬇️

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the US alone, developers are planning a >6X increase in data center capacity (from our current 62 GW to more than 387 GW!) including some of the biggest fossil fuel plants in the US to power them. cleanview.co/data-centers... That will use as much water as 6 New York Cities or 54 million people.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"When I made the movie, and in the year or two afterwards, pretty much everyone treated me like I was crazy, I was overreacting. And that's not really the case anymore." @ghostpanther.bsky.social talks disasters, climate, and Hollywood in Pakistan's Express Tribune tribune.com.pk/story/263292...

ET: Ever since that movie, things in the US have only gotten worse in terms of the climate crisis. Have you had any luck in bringing people along in terms of at least your circles in Hollywood?

McKay: You know, it's both sad and positive, because for the most part, no. I've learned a lot about the mind-altering effects of privilege, money, and ego. But then there have been people, and whenever they step up, it's kind of like a mini miracle. So, there are people that are waking up.

When I made the movie, and in the year or two afterwards, pretty much everyone treated me like I was crazy, I was overreacting. And that's not really the case anymore. Now, all that really matters is who is being active.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tonight at Littlefield NYC! Come stay alive with Julio Torres, Usama Siddiquee, Stuart Goldsmith, Dylan Adler and Zach Schiffman! littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_... #climateweeknyc

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Real comment on Instagram: "Why is the first time I'm fully understanding what El Niño is... because of an explanation from Girthmasterr?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-4...

Captioned screengrabs of video with adult entertainer Girthmasterr:
I know what I'm packing is big
But El Niño is bigger [Headline: Meteorologist warns record-breaking El Niño puts winter in 'uncharted territory']
I don't think you be able to handle it baby, even if you think you can

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, we're firmly (but proudly) in the "we'll try literally anything" stage of the climate emergency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qT...

Captioned screen grabs of adult entertainer Lily Phillips:
I'm Lily Phillips and the world is obsessed with my body count
But my personal record is only 1,113 in 14 hours
Big Oil f***s more people every day than I could in a lifetime.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lily Phillips is adult entertainer who rose to fame for sleeping with 100 men in a day. Then she topped that. So why is "she* out here exposing the truth about Big Oil's pollution while most news media and elected leaders are still silent or worse? Because somebody has to do it, ffs.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everybody's doing it. It's not weird if you do it. Actually it's weirder if you don't. 😉

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But hey, at least world leaders set a goal they didn't remotely try to keep, eh? www.news.com.au/news/uns-sta...

Article screenshot
Headline: "UN’s stark warning: Planet on track to blow past 1.5C limit"

A shocking new UN report warns the world is set to smash through the safety limit nations promised to hold a decade ago, and it’s now “inevitable” within just a few years.

Georgia Palgan
3 min read
September 2, 2026 - 12:24PM

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But here's the thing: We didn't make Headline Newds because "gee wiz, nobody cares the world is burning." People care. But we've been buried under decades of Big Oil's BS and media + government corruption. That's what we have to cut through. Funny enough, this article forgot to mention all that 🫠

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In Maricopa County, Arizona, which has put in place systems to more accurately count heat deaths, the number of people murdered by Big Oil's extreme heat now averages TWENTY SEVEN TIMES more than the number murdered by murder: 413 to 15.

CDC estimates an average of 413 people die from extreme heat in Maricopa County, AZ.

Which is greater than NPR's model estimate of 168

Graph of Maricopa County Homicides 5 year trend.

15 in 2025. A 5 year high of 29 in 2022.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals & corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths… across the US, fossil fuel companies could be prosecuted for every type of homicide short of 1st degree murder" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths
David Arkush & Donald Braman

Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths. Fossil fuel companies learned decades ago that what they produced, marketed, and sold would generate “globally catastrophic” climate change. Rather than alert the public and curtail their operations, they worked to deceive the public about these harms and prevent regulation of their lethal conduct. They funded efforts to call sound science into doubt and confuse their shareholders, consumers, and regulators. They poured money into campaigns to elect or install judges, legislators, and executive officials hostile to any litigation, regulation, or competition that might limit their profits. Today, the climate change that they forecast has already killed thousands of people in the United States, and it is expected to become increasingly lethal for the foreseeable future. Given the extreme lethality of fossil fuel companies’ conduct and their longstanding awareness of the catastrophic consequences, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted? In answering these questions, this Article makes several contributions to our understanding of criminal law and the role it could play in combating crimes committed at a massive scale. It describes the doctrinal and social predicates of homicide prosecutions where multiple corporate actors have engaged in conduct that endangers much or all of the public. **The Article finds that in jurisdictions across the United States, fossil fuel companies could be prosecuted for every type of homicide short of first degree murder,** a charge it does not evaluate. It also concludes that prosecutions could offer highly effective remedies and that prosecutors should be motivated to seek them.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When climate urgency and truth breaks through to people who wouldn't otherwise see it in our corrupt, f*d up information ecosystem 🤤

captioned still images of OnlyFans star Aaliyah Yasin:
It's making me horny
thinking about it
we can make
climate change sexy.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The question isn’t “why is Lily Phillips talking about climate change?” It’s “why isn’t the media?” and “why isn’t everybody?” and “why did Big Oil spend billions to lie about it for decades?” and “why are elected leaders still protecting Big Oil instead of us?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEy1...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Flooding is likely to be a major issue." Because, on top record high sea levels, high tides, and big waves... El Niño erodes beaches by an average of 30 meters, reducing the buffer in front of waves and increasing impacts on shore.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"We're expecting the highest sea levels ever recorded on the California Coast." Dr. Mark Merrifield of @scrippsocean.bsky.social explains why El Niño 2026 will be a perfect storm for coastal flooding impacts.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Also stunning: Loss and death from Big Oil's wildfire smoke has NOT been included in estimates of the costs of climate damages... ...but the cost of Big Oil's wildfire smoke is so massive, it exceeds estimates of ALL OTHER climate damages combined.

But I think there’s an even bigger lesson here. Ten years ago, virtually no one talked about wildfire smoke as a serious climate impact. According to climate economists I surveyed on Bluesky, it is not really included in economic damage estimates of climate change. It turns out to be pretty costly, as Meyer described:

How costly? “When monetized,” a group of Stanford and Princeton economists wrote in Nature last year, in the first major study on the topic, “the climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the U.S.A.”

You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This smoke frequency graphic is like one of those vision test charts. Can you see the recent, major spike in Big Oil's costly and lethal air pollution? No? Ok, your vision is blocked by a Big Oil paycheck. Graphic by @andrewdessler.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/smoke-gets...

Wildfire smoke frequency by year graphic by @andrewdessler.com https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes

Starting in 2017, there is a major increase in the severity of wildfire smoke across the contiguous US.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just this week, just in the US, we've seen massive fires, a vicious heat dome, treacherous surf, and flooding effecting millions. And there's a lot more to come as El Niño grows. We've now sent more than 4,400 letters urging Governors and state leaders to prepare. Send a letter: elninowarning.com

But the scale and threat of this coming warming event is simply too large to ignore in the name of business/politics as usual.

States, cities, and counties should be immediately:

- reinforcing river banks and lakes against all time high cresting numbers
- increasing funding for fire fighting and rescue
- running geological tests on populated hillsides
- bolstering power grids
- building more tornado shelters, cooling and high ground centers
- increasing life guards and warning systems for beaches
- informing citizens of potentially life threatening increased risk

Instead the signatories of this cry for action see mostly silence and inaction.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In some places, Big Oil is now murdering more people than all other murders combined. The question is: Will prosecutors keep letting them get away with it.

Finally, there’s involuntary manslaughter – the crime of recklessly causing (or, in many states, substantially contributing to) the death of another person. Clearly, climate-caused deaths are accelerating – a recent analysis found that extreme heat from climate change may have caused more than 20,000 deaths in Europe last month alone. Already, there are victims and survivors who are connecting the dots to big oil. Earlier this month, a Washington state court ruled that a lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry for the wrongful death of the plaintiff’s mother in a climate-induced heatwave will proceed toward discovery and trial. Prosecutors could follow suit and begin charging big oil companies in relation to the climate disasters that are, in some instances, taking the lives of more of their constituents than are being lost to traditional homicides.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Climate scientists pulled off something extraordinary... In any kind of rational world we would be hailing them as heroes and very much listening to them about what we should be doing now. Of course where we are is that climate scientists are reviled." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-t...

In fact, the story that somehow has not become standard is that climate scientists pulled off something that was extraordinary in intellectual terms. They got the basic outlines of what was coming and in many ways even the numbers on what was coming right decades in advance. In any kind of rational world we would be hailing them as heroes and very much listening to them about what we should be doing now.

Of course where we are is that climate scientists are reviled.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"The scale and threat of this coming warming event is simply too large to ignore in the name of business/politics as usual." This open letter is in print today in USA Today, and newspapers across the country:

Open letter text. Read it at elninowarning.com

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"By the early 2020s, the average annual acres burned had nearly tripled compared to the 1990s...climate change can account for as much as 80% of the burned area in the Western United States between 1992 and 2020." www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yep. 6,500 square miles of Canada are on fire right now (an area larger than Connecticut) and most people have probably heard diddly squat about it. fireradar.ca/active-wildf...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Some monsters are real" - @climatecasino.net climatecasino.substack.com/p/some-monst...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Buckle up, world: "The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."

Chart: "150 years of El Niños, then this"

"The multi-model median for the event’s peak (measured as detrended sea surface temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific) currently stands at 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record of 2.75C set in 2015-16. For context, the gap between the strongest and the fifth strongest El Niño of the past 150 years is only about 0.5C. The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

But how could that be? Global warming danger, damages, and temperature are skyrocketing... so surely the media coverage is, too? Oh... got it. 🫠 www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

Media Matters chart: "Corporate broadcast TV news coverage of climate change decreased again in 2025."

Minutes of coverage:
2025: 505
2024: 771
2023: 1,032
2022: 1,374

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As we head into a five-alarm, red-alert, holy-shit El Niño global heating event, most Americans aren't hearing jack. Just 39% hear about global warming in the news — down 19% since 2023. And even fewer from social media and IRL conversations. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

YALE chart: "The Proportion of Americans who hear about global warming has decreased in recent years."

39% of Americans hear about global warming in the media at least once a month - vs 57% in 2023 years ago.

24% of Americans hear about global warming at least once a month on social media.

17% of Americans people they know talking about global warming at least once a month.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

... and the majority of the US currently breathing in the smoke from these fires.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is what decades of unchecked heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution looks like: A ridiculous amount of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming under Red Flag Warning, multiple fires burning over 250,000 acres across the Southwest, a state of Emergency declared in Utah and Colorado...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Probably just for the Christmas card list... A shady, Big-Oil backed effort is "collecting hundred of emails and other documents" to smear and intimidate the 15 scientists conducting a report that could expose the damage cost of fossil fuel pollution in *individual* extreme weather catastrophes.

The scientific strides stand to send shock waves through the energy sector. The studies are sporadically being used to help build climate liability cases against oil and gas companies. But lawyers, scientists and insurers expect them to increasingly appear in court filings.

The commercial stakes are enormous. A 2022 analysis from a financial industry forum found that fossil fuel companies could face cumulative losses of “over $100 billion in the most severe litigation outcome,” citing data from the consulting company Verisk Analytics. Since then, more than a dozen new climate liability cases have been filed, including one lawsuit that is seeking more than $51.5 billion in compensation related to a deadly heat wave.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

BTS! Our brilliant team of (human) animators have started building out the world of No Cows Needed 🐄 ❌ 😍 Help us finish the film to share the magic of Precision Fermentation and the opportunity to move away from destructive animal agriculture: www.gofundme.com/no-cows-needed

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Another milestone: Solar beats gas in Asia for the first (and last) time. It's growing fast (up 70% from May 2024 to May 2026) but still barely scratching the surface: The 197 TWh of solar that Asia generated in May is just 4 seconds worth of the sun's energy 🤯 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sol...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Fossil fuels account for about 75% of all heat-trapping pollution. Agriculture and land use changes are most of the other 25%. About 15-20% is just from meat and dairy (land use for grazing, land use and pollution for growing feed, methane released by the animals.) These are just the facts 🤷‍♂️.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our croplands produce enough calories to feed 14.5 billion people! BUT 40% of the calories go to livestock — who produce just 5% of our calories, while making 15% of all planet-heating pollution. drawdown.org/insights/we-... Precision fermentation lets us change the math, and feed more people.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Precision fermentation could radically transform our food system — without radically transforming what foods we eat. That's why we're teaming up with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to make a short film about it, and we need your help to make it happen. ⬇️🐄❌ www.gofundme.com/f/no-cows-ne...

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Case in point: Even Pew apparently does not understand that "environmentally friendly" behaviors should focus on cutting heat trapping pollution, eg: Electrification/switching to clean energy, using less plastic, eating plant-based, and supporting elected leaders who will use laws to cut pollution.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This why eating plant-based is the biggest thing we can do as individuals to cut heat-trapping pollution. Livestock production accounts for 30% of all super planet-heating methane pollution. Bananas!

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Fact: Kids who live in neighborhoods with more electric vehicles have fewer asthma attacks than kids who live in neighborhoods with more gas cars that fart out toxic air.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Oil & Gas = "The fuel that starts wars," and "exposes us to increasing residential electricity rates and riskier grid conditions" Clean Energy = "what real freedom looks like – and it’s all within our grasp." - TEXAS Congressman Loyd Doggett (He represents Austin, but still, eat it Exxon)

Before another war is waged, and American defense budgets doubled, now is the time to double down on what will make us truly secure and independent. Transitioning off the fuels that start wars, and transitioning on to the energies that are decentralized, infinite and available in every community and country on this planet: that’s what real freedom looks like – and it’s all within our grasp.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"'It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity,' researchers have written about the event."

Might similar consequences unfold today?

“Simultaneous multiyear droughts similar to those in the 1870s could happen again,” Singh said. “What is different now is that our atmosphere and oceans are substantially warmer than they were in the 1870s, which means the associated extremes could be more extreme.”

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

...because a handful of greedy Big Oil d*cks decided they'd rather cook the entire world than make slightly less money on solar and wind energy. "Climate change is costing U.S. households hundreds of dollars a year" mitsloan.mit.edu/press/why-cl...

Expenses from natural disasters are often harder for households to avoid. In recent years, inflation-adjusted billion-dollar weather disasters have risen sharply, with costs reaching about $1,500 per capita in 2023 and 2024. Disasters have been linked to over 2,500 deaths in the last five years.

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