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You don't know me... but i unfortunately know a lot about climate denial, propaganda and rightwing disinformation

Screenshot of Ruy Teixeira's bio, identifying him as a senior fellow at the big tobacco/oil backed AEI
Karl Bode referring to Ezra Klein's praise of Elon Musk in 2026 as "very kara swisher 2023" and then noting that anyone who thinks Elon actually designs stuff now is "an absolute fucking dipshit" while David Roberts calls out the "dipshit singularity" contained in a Roger Pielke Jr. oped published by the freepress
Post where John Stossel is advertising for a full time producer for his videos, with two thumbs up like "who's two thumbs and all the dirty money in the world yet no one can stand to work with me despite it?
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washingtonpost.com How Trump can buy some global climate sanity for less than $2 million Bjorn Lomborg ~1 minute Democracy Dies in Darkness Opinion The IPCC’s rigor keeps a lid on alarmism. The U.S. is needed to make sure that doesn’t change. February 4, 2026 at 6:15 a.m. ESTJust now
The Simpsons: FOX turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually I didn't even notice
Anti-trans propaganda on FoxNew's home page, pretending to protect women while ignoring the biggest child sex story ever
OUR PANEL INCLUDED… Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Ken Caldeira, senior scientist emeritus at the Carnegie Institution for Science and visiting scholar at Stanford University | Kate Marvel, research physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Holly Jean Buck, associate professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo | Kim Cobb, climate scientist and director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | Jennifer Wilcox, chemical engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania and former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Michael Greenstone, economist and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago | Solomon Hsiang, professor of global environmental policy at Stanford University | Chris Bataille, global fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy | Danny Cullenward, senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania | J. Mijin Cha, environmental studies professor at UC Santa Cruz and fellow at Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute | Lynne Kiesling, director of the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics at Northwestern University | Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources | Emily Grubert, sustainable energy policy professor at the University of Notre Dame | Jon Norman, president of Hydrostor | Chris Creed, managing
“‘Climate.’ Literally the word climate, I would just get rid of it completely,” one venture capitalist told us. “I would love to see people not use 'climate change' as a predominant way to talk to people about a global challenge like this,” seconded a former Washington official. “And who knows what a ‘greenhouse gas emission’ is in the real world?” A lobbyist agreed: “Climate change, unfortunately, has become too politicized … I’d rather talk about decarbonization than climate change.”
Screenshot of RealClearEnergy editorial: " Why the U.S. Senate Must Soon Pass the SPEED Act and the MRCA of 2025 By The Editors January 07, 2026"
What’s the angle here? Attempting to grow support among the people they most heavily pollute? A word in one of their other ads hints at it, blaming “restrictions” for increasing costs and reducing access to energy. Other players are even less subtle. While some U.S. Democratic party darlings are pushing to reform permitting policies like the US’s National Environmental Policy Act, (one of the few tools frontline communities have to challenge polluters) billionaires and fossil fuel advertisers are also pushing the exact same line. What a wacky coincidence! Energy Citizens, a Big Oil advertising front group profiled in peer-reviewed papers and CAAD reports alike, has this LinkedIn ad copy: “Energy projects can get caught up in the courtroom for years. Permitting reform will help power our energy future.” (No telling how long until the American Petroleum Institute gets Billy Bob Thorton to say as much in Landman…) Big Oil’s lobby groups are singing the same tune, with the American Exploration & Production Council claiming in a LinkedIn ad that “permitting reform unleashes American-made energy.” And the CEOs themselves are in on it, with methane giant Williams’ (see past CLL for more) CEO Chad Zamarin making it clear that they want to gut NEPA, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling and positioning methane gas as the “solution.” So if you hear people – especially people who aren’t your usual climate deniers – arguing that we need to scrap the last remaining protections frontline communities have, supposedly to speed up renewables, ask them why they’re doing the fossil fuel industry’s advertising for them.
Henry didn’t ask a single question about coal’s impact on the climate, or even on public health. She just argued about electricity rates, which was why lawyers representing Walmart, the state’s hospitals, and a coalition of industrial users that included a factory owned by Koch Industries all echoed her arguments. Beyond Coal’s lawyers are ​“not burning bras. They’re fighting dollar for dollar,” an attorney for the hospitals told me. ​“They’ve become masters at bringing financial arguments to environmental questions.” Sure enough, later in 2015 the state’s rate-setting commission rejected OG&E’s costly plan to upgrade the coal plant. But that did not turn out to be the end of the saga. Oklahoma’s then–Attorney General Scott Pruitt — a Republican fossil-fuel booster who would go on to lead the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first term — appealed the ruling, even though he was supposed to be advocating for lower rates for Oklahoma residents. Under intense pressure, the all-Republican commission reversed its decision. So Henry appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and in 2018, she won the case. But it didn’t matter, because OG&E went ahead with the coal upgrades, and the commission eventually approved massive rate increases to pay for them. It’s not fun to spend years on a case, win on the merits, then lose anyway. “That’s just reality,” Henry said. ​“You still have to keep fighting.” In Ohio, the utility FirstEnergy bribed legislators to pass a bill forcing customers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars propping up two aging coal plants — and even after the scandal erupted in 2020, the subsidies continued until this summer. Now Trump is threatening to prevent any coal plants from retiring; his order invoking an imaginary ​“energy emergency” to keep that clunky Michigan plant in operation is costing ratepayers millions of dollars per day.
Exploring the potential of alternative fuels one incinerate corpse at a time. BP beyond petroleum
The Bigger Picture (As I Understand It) Looking at actual usage, the Third Way memo reads less like an audit of Democrats’ language and more like a list of terms Republicans tell us Democrats are saying. The data show that many of these phrases barely exist in constituent communications, and when they do, Republicans are often the ones writing them either to lampoon Democrats or to spotlight them as proof of “wokeness.”
A list of Third Way's Big Oil, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Business funders, from: https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/01/13535/centrist-third-way-funded-corporate-interests-attacks-sanders-iowa
Screenshot of some sycophant praising xAI for "custom goon companions" https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1958593187116904502
Screenshot of guardian headline: Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amid the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US
Screenshot of text from CNN story: “I just made a list of who do I think are the true, honest scientists,” Wright said. “I made a list of about a dozen of them that I thought were very senior and very well respected. I called the top five, and everyone said yes.”
Screenshot of headline at "climate.news" by S. D. Wells claiming "CLIMATE CULT ORGANIZATION OAS says global warming is about to burn up earth and anyone who disagrees must be CENSORED 100 PERCENT" https://climate.news/2025-07-08-oas-says-global-warming-about-to-burn-earth.html
Image of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's face on a cool cartoon sword-wielding hero from: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/13/democrat-senator-claims-fossil-fuel-industry-is-undercutting-weather-forecasting/
As you may remember, back in May, we suggested "maybe Flanakin’s just enjoying his easy job at CFACT a little too much" because his writing was so, like, you know, out there, dude. After all, and please bear with us for a moment here because this is going somewhere, he even "mixed the metaphors of the Hookah-smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland with Puff, the Magic Dragon." Then on top of those fun if muddled drug references, he "claimed 'Europeans may be rejecting the EV kool-aid','' and we noted “that metaphor was about a racist mass murder and not the LSD-laced electric kool-aid that we suspected Flanakin may have over-indulged in" a few months before. That's because in a prior February post, Flanakin combined AI concerns with EV fearmongering and a forced "Age of Aquarius" metaphor, and it seemed as though perhaps "it'd been written [by AI] in the style of an author who ate so much acid in the 70s that he's still tripping." And now, as though he read that criticism and decided to lean into it with a brain-melting batch of Kool-Aid-flavored EV disinfo, Flanakin's latest RealClearEnergy op-ed is headlined "The EV Kool-Aid Acid Test." Once again, he digs into the groovy vibes of the '60s to try and make yet another repetition of anti-EV disinfo seem new and fresh and interesting. According to Flanakin, the fact that the CEO of General Motors said, "Once you've experienced an EV … you're in" is similar to how "In his 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, author Tom Wolfe portrayed Ken Kesey as a man seeing [sic] to create a new religion… a new society based on psychedelic transcendence." Flanakin follows that logical leap from an oh-so-timely reference serving as his introductory news peg with fifteen paragraphs of standard anti-EV disinformation, before apparently remembering what the headline of the ramble, and tacking on "Kool-Aid, anyone?" to the end. …Yes? Or whatever it is you're having, Duggan, we'll take a double!
CFACT funding from DonorsTrust, ExxonMobil, Koch, and other rightwing billionaires and polluters.
" Chris Martz July 9, 2025 Over the weekend, Sam Zeff, a reporter for KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR affiliate, told me over X that "you wasted your money on your degree."" https://freebeacon.com/policy/im-a-young-meteorologist-who-questioned-the-idea-of-man-made-climate-change-the-climate-zealots-wanted-me-punished-silenced-and-expelled/
Screenshot from Xitter in which a self-proclaimed "honest broker" complains about being cancelled while quote-tweeting a racist. https://x.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1940387456853115337
A stupid whiny Media Research Center blog post complaining about conservatives not being invited on late night TV shows. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/07/01/study-late-night-comedy-shows-begin-2025-99-percent-guests-being
Alex Epstein saying "ChatGPT is the greatest learning tool I've ever discovered" in response to research showing ChatGPT is bad for your brain
Summary of Findings These are some of our most important takeaways from investigating Google’s climate claims. We will expand on each in the sections that follow. • Google’s aggressive investment in Generative AI and its infrastructure is a major factor behind its climate failings. Google’s Scope 2 emissions5 , which measure the emissions from energy that Google purchases to power its data centers, have increased by 820% since 2010. • Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in three “scopes.” Scope 1, which covers direct emissions from Google’s own facilities (not from purchased energy) and vehicles,6 Scope 2, which covers indirect emissions primarily from purchased electricity (i.e., energy to power Google’s data centers), and Scope 3, which covers indirect emissions from other sources such as suppliers, use of consumer devices, and business travel. Scope 1— which accounts for less than 0.31% of Google’s reported total emissions 7 —is the only emissions metric for which Google has achieved an actual decrease since its 2019 base year. • Google’s reported total greenhouse gas emissions increased 1,515% from 2010 to 2024 according to the company’s own published data.8 In real terms, Google released 21.9 million metric tons more emissions in 2024 than it did 14 years ago. That’s like adding 4.7 million cars (for context, San Diego County, the country’s fifth largest metro area, has 2.2 million registered cars) to U.S. roads in one year.9 In 2018, the methodology Google used to calculate Scope 3 emissions changed, but they did not release adjusted figures for the prior years. • Google’s claim that it can achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 relies heavily on speculative technologies, particularly nuclear power, which remains dangerous and toxic – and which experts agree and Google itself admits has been scaling too slowly to make a difference in time. We found that the company is unlikely to achieve any emissions reductions by 2030. • Google-owned platforms spread li…
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David Koch worked tirelessly, over decades, to jettison from office any moderate Republicans who proposed to regulate greenhouse gases. In 2009, for example, a South Carolina Republican, Representative Bob Inglis, proposed a carbon tax bill. Koch Industries stopped funding his campaign, donated heavily to a primary opponent named Trey Gowdy and helped organize teams of Tea Party activists who traveled to town hall meetings to protest against Mr. Inglis. Some of the town hall meetings devolved into angry affairs, where Mr. Inglis couldn’t make himself heard above the shouting. Mr. Inglis lost re-election, and his defeat sent a message to other Republicans: Koch’s orthodoxy on climate rules could not be violated.
Recommendations to States 54. Priority, comprehensive, coherent action on the fossil fuel phaseout within this decade is necessary to ensure a liveable future for all, as an urgent precondition for a just transition and for effective human rights protection in the context of current planetary crises. 55. While decarbonization continues to be essential, coupled with detoxification of any decarbonization technology, 155 it must be accompanied by the defossilization of our economies with a view to: (a) Prioritizing the phaseout of fossil fuel production and of the use of fossil fuels, as the main cause of climate change; (b) Overcoming “carbon tunnel vision”, to prevent biodiversity loss and toxic pollution from the fossil fuels life cycle, which cause further human rights harm and worsen climate impacts on those in vulnerable situations; (c) Preventing fossil fuel lock-in through plastics and petrochemicals production, which would continue to harm the climate system;156 (d) Reckoning with the impacts of the “playbook” and the six-decade delay in taking effective climate action, and widespread disinformation; (e) Transforming economic models in the light of co-benefits for the protection of planetary and human health, which are a precondition for the protection of all human rights
A/HRC/59/42 GE.2506866 19 73. States should: (a) Inform the public about the fossil fuel industry’s deliberate contributions to the planetary crises and about their human rights impacts over decades; (b) Ensure that accurate, science-based information is made available to the public on defossilization plans, including the underlying economic and technological assumptions, fossil fuel subsidies inventories, emissions embedded in fossil fuel exports, and plans for the decommissioning of infrastructure; (c) Avoid loopholes in responsible decommissioning,190 and require independent verification of defossilization and decommissioning plans, and of their implementation; (d) Ban fossil fuel advertisements, promotion and sponsorship, including cross-border advertising; (e) Ensure access to comprehensive education on the human rights risks of fossil fuels, and on the benefits of fossil fuel-free production, consumption and lifestyles; 191 (f) Prohibit lobbying by the fossil fuel industry; (g) Require private financial institutions and universities to disclose publicly, including on social media, funding amounts, durations and any conditions from the fossil fuel industry; (h) Criminalize misinformation and misrepresentation (greenwashing) by the fossil fuel industry, including failure to disclose corporate lobbying activities or to provide remedies for harm; (i) Criminalize media and advertising firms for amplifying disinformation and misinformation by fossil fuel companies; (j) Criminalize attacks against environmental human rights defenders, including from judicial harassment tactics,192 in addition to enhancing environmental human rights defenders’ protection and access to justice and effective remedies.193
Ben Shapiro being mad that he wasn't "allowed" to opine on how attractive a child was. (Screenshot of: https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-goes-to-gaza Greta Goes To Gaza What Thunberg is doing is actually part of a gigantic propaganda effort. By Ben Shapiro • Jun 4, 2025 DailyWire.com • Greta Goes To Gaza You recall Greta Thunberg when she was a not-particularly-cute child, and we weren’t allowed to make jokes about her not being particularly cute because she was a child. Well, now she’s 22 years old, so I can say whatever the hell I want about her: She is an obnoxious brat. She was always obnoxious.)
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She was right. Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received these emails, according to KICLEI, the group behind them, whose name mimics the international environmental network ICLEI. Screenshots of KICLEI’s internal database show the email addresses of local officials nationwide. An investigation by Canada’s National Observer has now traced the digital infrastructure behind KICLEI’s campaign: a custom AI chatbot designed to express fears about United Nations control using moderate, civic language — messaging that is now shaping real decisions in town halls across Canada. At least 14 municipal halls have received KICLEI presentations, with Thorold, Ont., already voting to withdraw from Canada’s flagship municipal net-zero scheme, Partners for Climate Protection. This month, Lethbridge, Alberta, voted to cut its governmental emissions reduction target in half. These decisions followed receipt by the town councillors of letters, presentations and reports from KICLEI members. Some of these materials contain misinformation, according to three climate scientists interviewed by Canada's National Observer.
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The most eye-popping example of this from newsletter land recently came by way of Michael Shellenberger, a long-time flak who anointed himself a "leading investigative journalist" after writing...one tweet thread as part of the Twitter Files "investigation." In his zeal to defend his new patron from the "censorship industrial complex," Shellenberger used his newsletter and large social media following to attack Musk's critics far and wide. In a post he wrote for his newsletter, Public, and later submitted to Congress as official testimony, Shellenberger and a colleague wrote an entire profile about Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing Ahmed of being a spy while also confusing him for a convicted child sexual predator with a somewhat similar name (Imran Ahmad Khan). The mistake was raised to Shellenberger multiple times, including by Ahmed himself who raised it publicly shortly after the piece was published, and left unchanged on his website for more than a year (not to mention submitted to Congress as a matter of record) until Jesse Singal pointed it out in his newsletter late last year. If The New York Times did such a thing, it would be sued for defamation and would have to prove that it took the necessary steps to avoid such a mistake and that it corrected the mistake as soon as it was raised. In other words, they would have to prove that they were not engaging in—my favorite legal term of all time—"actual malice." This is important for a few reasons. First, there's the obvious fact that being able to peddle falsehoods to millions of people with impunity is not great, nor is having zero recourse if someone blatantly defames you.
Screenahit of Google search for "Koch spending less politics" showing the Koch claims to do less political spending contrasted with later reports of breaking election spending records
https://x.com/pwrhungry/status/1922774240727794095 Robert Bryce @pwrhungry · 13h Reposting this for the 2nd time: @Tortoise , a UK media outlet, is claiming there’s too much free speech, & thus it’s tacitly endorsing censorship for people who don’t toe the line on the official climate narrative including me, @RogerPielkeJr @BjornLomborg @AlexEpstein @jordanbpeterson and more than 200 others. @jeevanvasagar @ObserverUK My latest, on another platform which must not be named:
Screenshot of contrasting headlines confused about East and West, from: https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/02/opinion-eastern-european-outage-shows-weakness-of-renewable-energy-chris-talgo/ and https://www.westernjournal.com/western-europe-literally-returning-dark-ages/
"But when I listen to A.O.C. and Sanders, I don’t hear them solving for the future. So much of what they are about is lazily bashing billionaires, along with defending Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from the Trump-Elon Musk chain saw. Please, save all of that."
Graph showing majorities of Americans support climate justice groups, from: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/climate-change-american-mind-politics-policy-fall-2024.pdf
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A screenshot of my feed, showing a Tesla protest poster quote-tweeted by someone posting about a local Tesla protest, directly below Charlie Warzel noting that Musk's vulnerability is his companies. Posts here: https://bsky.app/profile/plusgreg.bsky.social/post/3ljsmbnz63s22 https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3ljsmlxy7qk2r
SUPPLY CHAIN OF LIES THAT DELAY AND UNDERMINE CLIMATE ACTION Brazilian journalist and founder of FALA Thais Lazzeri then offered a tantalizing idea: could the thirtieth annual UN climate negotiations “COP30 go viral in Brazil?” before immediately recalibrating expectations: “Yeah, but probably not the way we need it to be” because “lies spread 70% faster on social media than the truth.” www.caad.info contact@caad.info Still, Lazzeri offered, “we have solutions,” to what she’s termed “the supply chain of lies that delays and undermines climate action,” the enablers of the industry, “ the professional disinformers” and corporations “gaining influence, money and power.” For what? “to disturb the idea of reality.” Because while climate impacts may alert the public to the need for climate action, lies and conspiracy theories spread by Big Tech offer up other, non-climate explanations. “Last year we had in Brazil a massive flood,” Lazzeri explained, “and one of the most shared pieces of content was about Madonna.” Yes, that Madonna, the pop super-star. Supposedly, per the conspiracy theory, “Madonna created a ritual and made the rain.” And of course, “this is not possible,” but that’s the point, it’s “changing the reality impacting people.” Even in Portuguese language social media, climate disinformation is an incredibly widespread problem, mentioning one researcher’s finding of “6 million pieces of climate disinformation during a year. Just in Brazil. Just in Portuguese.”
FACT CHECKING IS FREE SPEECH, AND GEN-AI “A PERPETUAL, SELF-POWERING BULLSHIT MACHINE” In response to a question regarding “claims from people like Michael Schellenberger, that ‘fact checking is actually censorship’,” Imran was emphatic that “Fact checking is the fair and free, open exchange of ideas. That's what fact checking is. It is free speech!” “No one has a duty to distribute you,” he continued, “and even further, no one has a duty to put an ad on you spouting off to camera about how the climate isn't changing and the Martians are coming. I mean, it's just ridiculous.” Another attendee asked about generative AI, which is “a real problem,” according to Ahmed, because “it's reduced the marginal cost of each additional message to each additional person to 0. So the actual cost to the producer of disinformation for distributing something to a billion people is not that you have to print a billion leaflets, and then you have to go and get them to people. It reduces everything to 0.” He then put it another way, positing that if “we're in the nuclear age of disinformation, Generative AI turns this into the thermonuclear age, because what it does is it reduces the marginal cost of the production of a piece of content to 0. And theoretically, what you can do is connect the two up so Generative AI can be producing disinformation narratives, seeding them onto social media, then reviewing what works best, with whom, and then using that to refine the pitch. And so you have a perpetual, self-powering bullshit machine.”
Screenshot of linked report: BIG TECH PLAYBOOK: DENY, DEFLECT, DELAY, THROW DOLLARS Next, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Imran Ahmed, took the mic, explaining: “Historically big tech's playbook has been, deny, deflect, delay. And then, if that doesn't work, throw dollars at it. It's been bad before; it's getting worse.” Ahmed pointed to Meta’s “shifting to a community Notes standard, which is what Mark Zuckerberg has talked about is disastrous.” However, CCDH “did a study of X’s community notes last year. We found that 74% of even accurate community notes are not shown to users. We showed that the misleading posts, the posts that had to be corrected, the post itself got 13 times more views than the community notes, because they benefit from the algorithmic amplification…the way that disinformation attracts engagement. It therefore gets amplification in the algorithm. It shoots around the world. And the truth is on its tiny little legs trying to catch up.” Ahmed is no radical political activist. He has worked “closely with people who don't have any political position at all,” such as “the parents who've lost their children because of eating disorders and self-harm content online.” So, Imran emphasized, this isn't about partisanship-“this is about fundamental decency, and what you make a buck from.” “If you want to make a buck from repeatedly telling a 13 year old girl that she's too fat, and she should go on a 500 calorie a day diet,” Ahmed continued, “I don't think that's progressive or conservative. I just think you're an asshole.” “And people shouldn't do business with you, and governments should have the ability to intervene on behalf of their public,” he said, “to protect the public from disinformation, from weaponized, accelerated disinformation at a scale we've never seen before, which fundamentally destabilizes our communities, our democracy, and our mental and physical health.”
Screenshot of linked writeup: GOT DISINFO? “MORE CALCULATED, MORE DELIBERATE, MORE INTENTIONAL.” Challenging the “big oil” framework, Jennifer Jacquet explained how “our ambition has been shaped by the industry backlash and disinformation around the role of meat in climate change,” using as an example the “Beyond Beef” campaign in the 1990s that “urged Americans in 1992 to cut their beef consumption in half by 50%.” In response, the beef industry launched a full scale attack, “attacking the book that it was based on, the book tour, they took out ads, they created campaigns, they talked about how the American cattlemen is an environmentalist,” Jacquet recounted, before dropping the bombshell implication that “they have the ‘Got Milk?’ campaign that comes out that same year.” Now, “Our greatest ambition, at least in the United States, is Meatless Monday. It's no longer 50%. It's 1/7th. So in the face of a bigger and bigger crisis, we have diminished our ambition on how to address this problem” said Jacquet. Yet the science remains: “we really can't reach one and a half or 2 degrees without addressing food system impacts.” But since the early 1990s, the industry has been “discouraging any changes to personal dietary choices,” something that’s “really important” because it means “the climate activist community can sort of retool and reconsider in light that this might actually not be a bottom up effect,” or an organic reaction, Jacquet warned. “This might not be … how Americans are designed, but it's something more calculated, more deliberate, more intentional.”
Facebook post from Anthony Watts Up With That, a political cartoon in which "DOGE" is on the ax from the scene in The Shining where a homicidal maniac is trying to murder his family. In this version, Dems are the wife to be murdered. from: https://www.facebook.com/anthony.watts.chico/posts/pfbid0Zro1qNi9zEstTdqwrv1iDWXZiQ2yQaDNfhsg52sYsXJLAKznbPKTkHckbpddpmh1l
The fourth pillar, making the U.S. the world’s AI capital, is something Zeldin said is important to position the U.S. better on the world stage, particularly when it comes to confronting China. “As far as AI, the United States of America should be the AI capital of the world,” Zeldin said. “There are some people in America who are scared of AI and they want us to go slower. That is absolutely not an option. The slower America goes in this race to become the AI capital of the world the more certainty and risk exists that nations like China are going to eat our lunch. President Trump has made it clear going back to his first term and even in video clips from many, many years before he ever ran for office that he has zero tolerance whatsoever to have a nation like China ever eat our lunch. We have to become the AI capital of the world, and we have to do it better, smarter, and quicker than nations like China.”
Zeldin and his team are exclusively announcing this new initiative — titled “Powering the Great American Comeback” — here on Breitbart News. The initiative has five major pillars. The first is pushing for “Clean Air, Land, and Water for Every American.” The second is to “Restore American Energy Dominance,” and the third is for “Permitting Reform, Cooperative Federalism, and Cross-Agency Partnership.” The fourth pillar is to “Make the United States the Artificial Intelligence Capital of the World,” and the fifth is “Protecting and Bringing Back American Auto Jobs.”
Key findings from the memo: Climate disinformation from Tenet Media’s accounts and associated content creators had over 23.5 million views and over 1 million individual engagements. Climate content from the allegedly Russia-funded operation is indistinguishable from other far-right and fossil-fuel backed disinformation, from standard denial, slur-laced attacks on intersectional climate, race and LGBTQ+ advocacy efforts, to COVID-19 and related conspiracy theories, to internal US policy debates on gas stoves. X/Twitter was the most prominent platform for this content, with over 19 million views, 290,000 likes and 144,000 retweets. YouTube allowed and still allows for the monetization of Tenet-associated content on their platform, even after Tenet’s connection to the Russian influence operation was revealed. Climate disinformation on YouTube from Tenet-associated content creators had nearly 4 million views in the past year.
Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing Authors: Angus Lyall orcid logo (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) , Mark Ortiz orcid logo (Penn State University) , Emily Billo orcid logo (Florida State University) Share: 𝕏 A- A+ Dyslexia Abstract The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scientific research and data that facilitate fossil fuel exploration, production, and distribution. Critical researchers seldom trace fossil fuels and, in turn, the climate crisis to the publishing corporations that they generally rely upon to distribute their own research. We argue that corporate publishers produce the invisibility of their connections to fossil fuels through changing practices of greenwashing both in the public sphere and within firms. We detail marketing and management practices in the case of the largest science publisher in the world: Elsevier. On the one hand, we examine evolving forms of green marketing. On the other hand, building on recent calls for political ecologies of labor, we highlight the proliferation of 'greenwashing rituals' within the firm – i.e., performative, management-sponsored dialogues and actions regarding climate change. We suggest that researchers continue to expand frameworks for critiquing the fossil fuel industry to include auxiliary industries such as corporate publishing. Keywords: fossil fuels, greenwashing, labor, ritual, climate change, corporate publishers How to Cite: Lyall, A., Ortiz, M. & Billo, E., (2025) “Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6276. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.6276
Conservative environmental leader: @mattgaetz Congressman Gaetz introduced the Green Real Deal with @Citiz4Solutions and has been an outspoken advocate for conservative climate change reform. #EarthDay2020 7:43 PM · Apr 22, 2020
If you've spent any time in far-right digital spaces, like Jake Tapper and ourselves, you'd immediately recognize the phrase. If you're Jewish, you may have gotten hatemail with it, as according to RationalWiki "clown world" is "an alt-right, neo-Nazi propaganda meme and dog whistle" that "first appeared on 4chan" (but also on reddit and elsewhere) and is "utilized by the alt-right effort to obfuscate racism and hate with seemingly innocuous memes in the form of mockery toward postmodernism." Per RightWingWatch, "the phrase 'clown world' and accompanying emojis unify far-right social media users in their exasperation over an imagined state of collapse in the Western hemisphere that they largely blame on immigrants and minority groups." Is Danielle Butcher a neo-Nazi? Or is she just using one of their favorite phrases and emoji combos? Either way, we can see here how the far-right alternative media harms even those rightwingers attempting to appeal to more centrist audiences.
Instead, it looks like they had to resort to paying The Washington Times to run their op-eds as a huge sponsored content advertising section, which is a beefed up version of the 'op-ads' disinformation tactic Exxon used for decades. The American Conservation Coalition (Jay Faison's neo-nazi dog whistling fake youth-aimed coalition), assembled a quadruple-bylined piece making the "all-of-the-above" energy pitch that they apparently have to pay people to believe is a change from GOP precedent and not keeping with the party's 2016 platform, or the Koch network in 2015, the GOP in 2011, or the GOP in 2009, or both Presidential candidates in 2008, or or basically every president since 1973. But hey, who needs history when you have a slogan to push, and the money to buy an advertising supplement! And keeping with the GOP tradition they pretend to cast off, the article is packed full of disinformation. "Realistic environmentalists know that fossil fuels aren’t going away tomorrow," they write, creating a strawman to knock down, as though anyone anywhere were literally calling for an immediate eradication of fossil fuels. But apparently fossil fuels are needed "to fuel economic vibrancy," a made-up phrase with no meaning, "and a better quality of life," which is simply false. As explained in Amy Westervelt's debunking of pro-fossil fuel propaganda, IPCC lead author Dr. Julia Steinberger has said plainly, "We do not rely on fossil fuels for improvements in our living standards.”
Once upon a time (2015), North Carolina electronics millionaire Jay Faison sold his business and used $165 million to start the ClearPath Foundation. Ever since, there has been a steady stream of stories claiming that Republicans are dropping their (electorally toxic) climate denial, and they all bear the fingerprints of Faison's funding. What they don't show, however, is any actual progress in getting Republicans to change their pro-polluter, fossil-fuel-loving policies. Because, as they've admitted for anyone who cares to remember, this is only a change in rhetoric, to mask that they're just trying to "double down" on Trumpian energy policies supporting the fossil fuel industry at the climate's expense.