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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 6h

This, of course, is what it looks like when a political party cares deeply about whales, and is definitely not just doing the bidding of the fossil fuel industry in blocking offshore-wind development.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 15h

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9h

*dette?

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9h

Taler du om den her?

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9h

Copenhagen ugly?? Nå det kender jeg ikke 😂

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9h

Ok good to hear! I've been Sweden-shamed on the past lol

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9h

From Seneca to Solnit? Girl, if it were me I would die happy 🤣

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 15h

Ha so I guess Denmark is really beautiful? 🤣

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 15h

Tak skal du have!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 15h

🇸🇪 ❤️

I loved speaking at the University of Lund today!

(Thank you to @wimcarton.bsky.social for the invitation!)

Sweden is very beautiful (although I probably shouldn't say that in public in case I lose my Danish credibility).

Loved meeting @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social in person, finally, too 💚

Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 17h

Lyssnade på en mycket bra presentation av @doctorvive.bsky.social idag, om hennes bok "The language of climate politics". Rekommenderad läsning!

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16h

Climate change is so much more than “+2°C”, higher peaking heat, etc. it’s about continent scale ecosystems shifting to find rain, water & snow, which is a water battery that reduces maximum flows & preserves water for summer. Why do people think 🇨🇦 burns every year now? It’s because it has dried out

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
"Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”?

Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”?

Is the science of climate change “settled”?

Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”?

Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”?

Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts?

Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them?

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information.

So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing.

Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over.

A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor.

If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world.

These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate.

When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance.

However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati…

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our
@EmilyYoffe
:

https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 6, 2023
Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by
@PatrickTBrown31
.

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
From thefp.com
Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 5, 2023
"Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.

Here’s how it works."

@PatrickTBrown31
with a must-read piece:

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 22h

Those folks are just the flatterers of the status quo. Easiest climate job in the world!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I would bet $500 that one reason for the narrative that the climate movement is dead is that so many climate people have left X. Journalists work very hard but they are also lazy and STILL look to X to figure out what to pay attention to.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I would support a campaign to get them off X, but no such campaign exists. So they are staying and not hearing 1) many important voices and 2) a chorus singing harmonies about climate change.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

The critical presence is policymakers, lobbyists, and journalists. THEY are the people who have power to drive policy and whose exodus will kill X, but they are not leaving.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

It's not zero return. I know that what I'm saying over there about Abundance is being heard by at least some policymakers because they've told me. Using tweets that have gotten "no engagement."

Furthermore, WE are not the critical presence. We have next to zero power. 1/2

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. Still hoping you can reply to this! Maybe it got buried?

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, one thing I wanted to ask you is: are there any studies into carcinogenic effects that *don't* give test animals large does of the substance they're testing? I thought that was how all those studies worked — but I honestly don't know!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

fair

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

fair

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Disagree. The good people leaving did not make the national and international policymakers or the journalists leave. Our leaving influences nobody. And information about Gaza is better on X.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla in Denmark 🤣

A photo of a Danish Tesla parker on the street in Copenhagen.

A photo of the same Tesla, close up, w the Danish license plate and a sticker that says, in English, "I bought this before we knew Elton was crazy."

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, I'm going to have to read your reply tomorrow. I'm in Denmark at the moment, and it's actually past midnight here...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, one thing I wanted to ask you is: are there any studies into carcinogenic effects that *don't* give test animals large does of the substance they're testing? I thought that was how all those studies worked — but I honestly don't know!

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