🚨 New from @theguardian.com: More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows.
Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy.

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

Michael Mann & Peter Hotez have faced threats for confronting disinfo– and they’re fighting back

“We choose to do battle against the forces of darkness, fighting back against a malevolent movement...that uses antiscientific disinformation as its preferred weapon.”

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🚫 Stockholm joins The Hague in banning fossil fuel advertising from public spaces, sending a powerful signal that cities can lead on climate action.

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🔎 The hidden advertising industry contracts driving climate disinformation.

Nayantara Dutta from Clean Creatives explains how advertising and PR agencies shape campaigns for oil and gas companies, distorting the facts and manipulating public opinion.

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💡 After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

A new report confirms the cause was a voltage surge, not renewables. Yet polling shows 70% of respondents in Spain believed at least one of the false narratives about the outage.

via @npr.org

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🚨 Make Europe Regress Again? Anti-Democratic Parties Copy US Climate Denial

The latest edition of CAAD's Data Monitor explores how anti-democratic parties in Europe are echoing US climate denial strategies.

🇦🇺 Australia's climate progress is under threat as media and political attacks on emissions targets follow the classic obstruction playbook

“This is straight out of the climate obstruction playbook.” said Professor Christian Downie

🛢️ A new report by @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social has found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among Trump's latest agency nominees & appointees, putting polluter interests in charge of US energy & environmental policy.

Learn more via @insideclimatenews.org

💡 Join the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) on 22 Oct at 16:00 BST to explore findings from their 2025 Expert Survey, which captures the views of 438 researchers from 76 countries on the health of the global information environment.

🌐 Climate scientists are fighting back against censorship by building public hubs to ensure climate facts can’t be erased.

“It’s unbelievable…We were literally forced to word search our own website & take down articles because they didn’t want to read the word ‘equity’ “

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently proposed a rule that would eliminate requirements for measuring and reporting carbon emissions for most US industries, including fossil fuel producers and refiners. UCS’s Laura Peterson explains why this proposal could backfire, harming both people and business.

This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good

🌪️ Research from @counterhate.com has found that Meta, X, and YouTube are actively enabling and profiting from the spread of false information during catastrophic weather events, putting lives at risk and hindering emergency responses.

🏥 Earlier this year, @docsforclimate.bsky.social brought together experts to tackle climate misinformation at their Our Planet, Our Health convention.

Watch the panel featuring CAAD's Comms co-chair Phil Newell, Investigative Reporter Mario Ariza & Dr. Elizabeth White.

President Macron in his speech on Germany‘s reunification today:

“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”

🚨 New episode from @drilledmedia.bsky.social: The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction.

@aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social join @amywestervelt.bsky.social to discuss why understanding the media’s role in blocking climate action is crucial to solving the crisis.

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Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

❌ Inside the viral lies that spread climate confusion
Misleading WhatsApp groups and political sound bites aren’t just nonsense – they’re putting Latino communities in danger during floods, fires, and storms.

For years, agencies have said they can’t afford to walk away from fossil fuel contracts. The truth? No one knew just how much those contracts were really worth, so we did the research 👉 Enter: The Off Ramp Report and our FFIRE Index🔥

When the UN Secretary-General is calling out PR firms for blocking action on climate change, we need to do something. My latest in @theconversation.com on PR firms and climate misinformation in Australia.

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What do leading experts think about the health of the global information environment?

Join IPIE on 22nd October for a discussion of its annual Expert Survey, reflecting the views of 438 researchers from 76 countries.

Register here ⬇️

🗳️ New polling from @globalwitness, @amnestyuk.bsky.social & @ipsosgroup.bsky.social has found strong public support for greater climate action and corporate accountability across 10 EU countries.

Read the analysis in full: buff.ly/2rRPd82

🚨 New from @ucs.org: Who Wrote the Trump Administration’s Flawed Climate Report? Meet the Architects of Disinformation .

Kathy Mulvey explores the authors' industry connections and why the science they produced was so deeply flawed. buff.ly/NdLDUdB