PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made:

1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups
2. which incubate fake experts
3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks'
4. which get blurbed by politicians
5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media.

Voila!

www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...

On the flipside to this, I'm sure it's just a coincidence that lists of the UK's nicest places to live all seem to show vibrant walkable town centres with not a car in sight? archive.ph/3pSug

Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn ‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say

Great @olliemilman.bsky.social + @dharna.bsky.social piece feat @patrickgaley.bsky.social and others

“So long as governments continue to rely on fossil fuels in energy systems, their constituents will be hostage to the whims of autocrats"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

AI chatbots share climate disinformation to susceptible users AI chatbots' personalised answers risk inflaming conspiracy and misinformation, as investigation shows climate disinformation shared to sceptic user personas

A new investigation from @globalwitness.org finds that AI chatbots’ personalised answers risk inflaming climate conspiracy and misinformation, with disinformation and known denialists recommended to users modelled as conspiratorial user personas.

British multi millionaire émigrés to an Islamic authoritarian petrochemical state funding a propaganda channel that tells its audience Britain is becoming an authoritarian Islamic state and petrol cars shouldn’t be banned. 🤔

Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world

"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social

#NYT

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

No oil peak until 2035, even under stated policies (pink line). No gas peak in sight. Grim stuff

"A fire-sale of the world's rainforests, with big banks profiting from the ashes."

Banks and asset managers have made $26 billion in income from financing deforesting companies since the Paris Agreement: new @globalwitness.org investigation reveals.

Full report out today 👇

This should be a fairly simple political concept to understand. But it's one UK Labour seems intent on ignoring until it's too late.

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The clearest take yet on why relatively small, top-down organised protests against immigration are currently dominating UK political discourse right now.

Am hoping democracy about the name is not standing in for democracy about how it will be structured

Microplastics are everywhere. Here's why that matters to big oil New research into how microplastics are affecting us is concerning scientists, but the oil and gas industry is relying on plastics for growth.

There is now 50% more plastic in all of our brains than was there 8 years ago, thanks largely to Big Oil.

With demand for oil slowing the industry is betting big on creating more plastic, everywhere.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/m...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence.

"In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

(Bloomberg Green): Hedge funds are betting against oil stocks and winding back shorts on solar in a reversal of positions that dominated their energy strategies over the past four years.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Netanyahu announces plan to take over Gaza City in further escalation Proposal that needs to be approved by full cabinet would mean sending Israeli ground troops into remaining territory

War crimes, genocide, forced famine, displacement and now ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Keir Starmer - who once called himself a human rights lawyer - should know that platitudes aren't enough when the UK is still exporting weapons helping cause these horrors.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The US oil industry is facing huge liabilities for environmental damage and that bill keeps getting higher as we learn more about the damage they are doing (e.g PFAS, radioactivity, leaking injection wells, etc)

Add more to the list.

Scott Westerfeld @ScottWesterfeld Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. 11:27 AM · Mar 21, 2014

shame on me for missing the 10yr anniversary of the best climate social posts ever

By @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social -->

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

“We have long criticised UK terrorism law for being excessively broad and vaguely worded and a threat to freedom of expression. This video documents one aspect of exactly the kind of thing we were warning about.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Paris Marx on why tech feels increasingly at the center of geopolitical fights:

"Now more than ever, we need to challenge the domination of US tech and the power it gives an increasingly belligerent United States."

Change in UK emissions for key sectors (2023-2024) Shows aviation had the largest increase in emissions at +9% with surface transport on -2%

Looking at progress in emissions reductions from 2023 to 24, the aviation sector is setting off alarm bells:

"... aviation now contributes a greater share of total UK emissions than the entire electricity supply sector. Continued emissions growth in this sector could put future targets at risk."

"If killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?"

Sally Rooney on the absurdity of UK Labour reserving its fiercest sanctions for those speaking out against genocide, rather than those most responsible.

The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media? From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion.

"Old fashioned print media is in decline everywhere but in the mind of the nation’s political class. The result is that our leaders are getting a very warped sense of what the average voter thinks, reads and cares about."

One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.

A German court has dismissed a case brought by a Peruvian farmer and mountain guide against the fossil fuel giant RWE.

Amid the dismissal, the court confirmed something momentous: private companies can be held liable for their share in causing climate damages.

theconversation.com/one-lawsuit-...