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Published: March 19, 2026 20:17

"Working the refs" is a longstanding strategy of the Republicans and right-wing groups. It has worked beautifully. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 19, 2026 17:10

In a preprint, researchers from Princeton, Hong Kong U, & WRI find that the form of carbon removal called "bioenergy w carbon capture & storage," or BECCS, is "likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture." …

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Published: March 19, 2026 15:30

Next week I’m giving a keynote at the European Climate Accountability Network about the ways that liberals normalize authoritarian (climate) propaganda, and I would like to use this as an example, if that’s ok with @sevier.io! It’s just too perfect. …

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Published: March 19, 2026 14:27

If you've wondered whether the techno-optimist contingent of the climate coalition ever really cared about climate change, you might consider that, nearly to a one, they've pivoted from decarbonization to working on providing power to "hyperscalers" (which…

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Published: March 19, 2026 11:56

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Published: March 18, 2026 17:00

The effects of moderation Yglesias points to are only “estimated,” and the claim that persuadable voters like Democrats who promote fossil fuels is contradicted by this *actual* polling from Pew — which Yglesias continues to ignore, of course. [contains…

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Published: March 18, 2026 15:33

Fossil-fuel interests have been promising to make coal and methane gas “green”‘using carbon capture and storage for nearly twenty years — at least since the Obama administration. But they never do it. And why? Because it cannot be done. [contains quote…

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Published: March 18, 2026 15:29

Bezos’ “climate fund” used to promote CDR (technological carbon dioxide removal). Now it promotes AI. But this has been the trajectory of the entire CDR field, practically. Just following the investments… …

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Published: March 18, 2026 12:20

The journal Perspectives on Politics has invited me to do a Critical Dialogue on this book—where I both review Morris and respond to her review of The Language of Climate Politics. That should be out on an academic timescale 😁. But the Morris is…

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Published: March 18, 2026 02:26

Ok @mattyglesias.bsky.social you’ve got to stop lying about this. The majority of independents DO NOT WANT more fossil fuels. What they DO want is more solar, wind, and nuclear. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2026 17:27

Record-breaking, horrific wildfires in Nebraska. Not under control. It is March.

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Published: March 17, 2026 16:45

I'm sorry, I know it sucks. I know nobody likes to think about it. But this is why Democrats must advance climate communications & policy strategies: What we're living through IS a climate regime—and nobody will ever reform its abuses without…

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Published: March 17, 2026 16:30

Fossil capital throwing its weight behind authoritarians is a reaction to the democratic power of the global climate movement 2017-2022. Remember: over those years everyone discovered that carbon-dioxide removal is hard, so for fossil capital global…

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Published: March 17, 2026 16:13

the President "wants to go secure that [oil]" CALLED IT [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2026 16:04

indeed. and visa versa. now more than ever. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2026 13:50

Wait, @whitehouse.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov, didn’t the Trumpkins promise not to do this when “permitting reform” talks started again? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2026 13:48

Let’s be honest. People don’t talk to each other about climate change because it feels bad to do so — quite aside from pluralistic ignorance about how much other people care or individual helplessness relative to the power of fossil capital. That’s where…

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Published: March 16, 2026 13:16

As much as I love all the discourse about clean energy enabling "energy security," "energy independence," "national autonomy," etc, I think also that this language worryingly remains in the right-wing frame of facing military & economic threats. And that…

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Published: March 16, 2026 13:03

"Climate Change is likely to increase human exposure to high temperatures, leading to sleep loss, [which] may impair intellectual & cognitive performance ... the associated economic costs linked to sleep erosion & potential intellectual decline are…

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Published: March 16, 2026 11:24

Did you know that one of the most impactful things you can do is call your elected representatives and tell them that your support relies on their doing [x] (or not doing [y])? These calls are logged. They matter! [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: March 15, 2026 21:15

Anyone in New York on Monday, March 30th? Can you take some time between 11:30 - 1:00 to protest on 3rd Ave outside Hochul's office? Great! Join me and Climate Families NYC in demanding that Hochul not gut New York State's climate law! Sign up below👇 …

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Published: March 15, 2026 13:22

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Published: March 15, 2026 13:11

Trump is apparently trying to set up a situation where the US controls all the world’s major oil reserves. That’s why they’re saying the Iran war will end to “energy independence.” And that’s why Trump keeps referring to Canada as “the 51st state,” by…

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Published: March 14, 2026 14:26

What strikes me about this political era is how our public institutions — academic, legal, corporate, media — are normalizing the Trump regime — and how easy it is for them to do so, since the regime is just the inevitable, maximalist version of governance…

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Published: March 14, 2026 01:32

🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social …

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Published: March 13, 2026 18:56

This scheme will be profitable only if everyone becomes so dumb that Chat-GPT, that error-prone suck-up, actually becomes the better option. And that’s what the push for AI in schools is about: making sure people no longer know anything, least of all how…

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Published: March 12, 2026 17:26

speaking of that word “we,” I’m re-upping this, which remains true https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/who-is-we-causing-climate-change.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 12, 2026 15:00

What's happening to the global economy because the Strait of Hormuz is closed provides all the proof you need that there is no "decoupling" the economy from the material conditions of the planet. We're embedded in the environment, folks. There is no…

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Published: March 12, 2026 13:40

There is no climate policy that both the US Oil and Gas Association and the Trump Administration want. Come on, people. Don't be dumb about permitting reform. …

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Published: March 12, 2026 11:48

So according to @nickkristof.bsky.social, Trump regime is considering using American troops to secure this very island. And of course they’re doing that. Because this is a war meant to expand America’s control over the fossil-fuel system. That’s what…

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Published: March 11, 2026 21:04

1) belly breathing 2) dinner parties 3) this fuzzy girl 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2026 12:05

The role the New York Times is to report the news — and to normalize the horrors of the Trump administration. 2 days ago: the Trump regime vaporizes a poisonous cloud of oil over Tehran. Today: the Times 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2026 02:25

What’s that? Permitting reform is a climate policy, you say?

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Published: March 10, 2026 21:04

Yes, AI prose fails soon after three or four sentences. And here's an explanation from a computer scientist about why: LLMs smooth out all the concrete texture—the surprising metaphors, the narrative examples—in favor of "semantic ablation," or a bland…

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Published: March 9, 2026 19:12

This article is filled with juicy anecdotes but I want the data about which party receives the most money from billionaires and by how much. My hunch that it’s the GOP — by a lot. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 9, 2026 12:41

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds…

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Published: March 8, 2026 14:30

Reading the Rebecca Solnit interview and … I can’t actually believe that DAVID MARCHESE said the below? Maybe there is hope to shift the climate narrative in the centrist press?

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Published: March 8, 2026 14:08

For the cheap seats, in the back: any policy that is supported by the American Petroleum Institute is not a climate policy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]