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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6h

Roger Pielke Jr spent years moaning about being "cancelled", and now he's just spending his days at a fossil-funded think tank directly attacking climate scientists, and he has a fascist dictatorship to help him out now too

So seriously gross

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Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
By Lesley Clark, Sara Schonhardt, Chelsea Harvey | 10/09/2025 06:22 AM EDT

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Friederike Otto.
Fossil fuel industry allies have launched a campaign against the inclusion of scientist Friederike Otto in the next United Nations climate review. They say her work to attribute extreme weather to human-caused global warming is bolstering climate lawsuits against oil companies. The First/Facebook | The First/Facebook

Critics of mainstream climate science and allies of the fossil fuel industry are taking aim at a prominent expert who’s helping coordinate the next United Nations review of global climate research, arguing that her work aims to bolster multibillion-dollar lawsuits against oil and gas companies.

In an August New York Post op-ed, Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, raised concerns about the appointment of Friederike Otto as a coordinating lead author for the seventh assessment report of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The criticism is aimed at extreme weather attribution, a popular field of research that studies whether and to what degree human-caused global warming has made an extreme weather event, such as a heat wave or heavy rain, more severe or likely to occur. Otto co-founded World Weather Attribution, which develops analyses showing climate’s role in extreme weather events.

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Attribution science has been cited in congressional hearings and included in legislation to highlight the links between extreme weather event…

UN Abandons Science and Hires Climate Change Zealots Who Damn the Facts
By Roger Pielke Jr.

New York Post

August 22, 2025

Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few.

But we live in a time when too many of these roles have become politicized.

President Trump recently fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency released a jobs report he did not like. Similarly, soon after his election, President Joe Biden fired the climate scientist leading the US National Climate Assessment and replaced her with a communications professional.

Not surprisingly, public confidence in medical and scientific institutions has dropped overall and become more partisan as politicians increasingly select experts to advise them based on their politics rather than their willingness to call things as they see them.

The ongoing politicization of scientific institutions is not limited to politicians or to the United States.

Now we’re seeing it in the organization tasked with periodically assessing climate science under the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which distills the thousands and thousands of research papers on climate change to help inform decision-makers on the nature of the problem and possibilities for response.

The IPCC is so important for clarifying what we know and don’t know about climate that I have testified before Congress that if it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it.

Last week, the IPCC announced its list of authors for its seventh assessment report, which is just getting underway and will take several years to produce.

One of its most important chapters is on extreme weather events — how they may have changed over time, and understanding the reasons for any identified changes.

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 6h

David Pope in Canberra Times

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 5h

Some of the clients of the lobbying firm the Prime Minister is currently the President of include:

Ampol Australia Petroleum P/L (fossil fuels)

Lion P/L (brewing, alcohol)

Pfizer Australia P/L (pharmaceuticals)

Serco Australia P/L (defence, immigration)

Responsible Wagering Aust (gambling)

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 7h

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 6h

When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 8h

Annoying machines? So annoying. But what gives Guardian Readers the pip? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Even more annoying machines? Guardian readers share their most frustrating technofoibles | First Dog on the Moon

Apple maps thinks people can drive through my backyard!

www.theguardian.com

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

First, as @andrewdessler.com recently explained, Table 12.2 is not about attribution at all, but about "emergence," when a signal that has been attributed to a cause "has shifted so much that the average value of some parameter is larger than the largest value in a pre-industrial climate."

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Emergence is all about the size of the influence. It means that the climate has shifted so much that the average value of some parameter is larger than the largest value in a
pre-industrial climate. In other words, you've emerged into a new climate.
Here is emergence in the example data set: [graph]

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

The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.

But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.

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CLIMATEWIRE
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking
disasters to global warming
By LESLEY CLARK, SARA SCHONHARDT, CHELSEA HARVEY | 10/09/2025
06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose
work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Table 12.12 | Emergence of CIDs in different time periods, as assessed in this section. The colour contesponds to the confidence of the region with the highest confidence: white cells indicate where evidence is lacking or the signal is not present, leading to overal bu confidence of an emerging signal.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 8h

I want to go back in time and box the ears of the GP who told my friend she was making up 'chronic fatigue syndrome' and just wanted attention. I wanted to do it then, too. I'll still want to do it in 10 years time.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 20h

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.

Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 22h

Today from @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @saraschonhardt.bsky.social + contribs from me:

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 9h

It's on brand for Australia to give a self-enriching grifter who enabled a drug-addicted narcissist and fraudster to become the world's richest person powers to review Australia's government R&D policy.

Where is Donald Horne when you need him?

$TSLAQ

3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 10h

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/qdnOZFWWrfXB...

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

getup.to

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 9h

Isn't this because Brereton still has to follow up the recommendations from the Afghanistan War Crimes Report?

fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 9h

Can't we just email this image to Roger and ask him where he self identifies?

‪fluids_guru‬
‪@fluidsguru.bsky.social‬
· 10/1/2024
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Peter du Toit
That article instantly makes me think of this
Schematic suggesting the IPCC lies to the conservative end of the PDF of professional opinion on the impacts of climate change
ALT

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‪fluids_guru‬
‪@fluidsguru.bsky.social‬
· 10/21/2023
h/t @mzedp@mas.to
An graph of annual anthropogenic emissions annoyed with key recommendations from the UNFCC and IPCC over the past 30 years
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‪fluids_guru‬
‪@fluidsguru.bsky.social‬
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I mean, cartoonists like
@kudelka.bsky.social
and
@aweldoncartoons.bsky.social
could figure out decades ago, why couldn't Alan?

Jon Kudelka’s seminal cartoon of a scientist standing behind an IPCC lectern at every AR cycle waiting for the world to listen. Published in 2013.
ALT

Scene at a Climate Change talks. Convener asks if anyone seconds the motion from the USA to suck this goddam planet dry and get the hell out to Venus or something? The Australian rep dutifully puts up their hand while the US and French delegates look aghast (including a double facepalm) while the USA delegate lies back with sunglasses.
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‪fluids_guru‬
‪@fluidsguru.bsky.social‬
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Captain Quoll
We will always have this Jon
Jon Kudelka’s seminal cartoon of a scientist standing behind an IPCC lectern at every AR cycle waiting for the world to listen
ALT

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‪fluids_guru‬
‪@fluidsguru.bsky.social‬
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David Ho
Don't forget this classic
PDF of predicted climate change impacts against the number of proponents, reminding people that most scientifically informed opinion on climate change is the impacts will be more catastrophic than the IPCC consensus, yet these expert opinions are considered unreasonable and not reported by the mainstream press
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‪fluids_guru‬
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Despite some political parties or banks (e.g. HSBC, Macquarie) attempting to tell you that Cl…

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MJ Today, worried about tomorrow @mjtoday470.bsky.social · 14h

Why the fuck does a parliamentary sports club require sponsors ? Just get the members to cover their own bloody costs like every other amateur club. These guys are paying for access no matter what weasel words Andy Turnbull uses.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 14h

An example of how insular and paranoid the halls of power in Canberra have become. This is the kind of thing that occurs in tin-pot authoritarian states.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19h

If you have any questions that you would like ask about Debt, Empire and the Future, you can post them here on Bsky, and we will pass them on to our guests.

Museum of Care @museumofcare.bsky.social · 19h

Livestreamed on the David Graeber Institute youtube channel, there will be a talk with our guests about Debt, Empire and the Future.

Come along and get your questions ready for the event!

October 17th.

Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 19h

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 22h

Today from @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @saraschonhardt.bsky.social + contribs from me:

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 1d

AI is being used to improve weather and climate prediction... But not in a make-you-dumber, planet-destroying, chatgpt kinda way.

New vid, ft. my best segue yet, here:

youtu.be/7gCbK1f0Zjc

Thanks to Kirstine Dale at the @metoffice.gov.uk for explaining how tech can enhance weather prediction ⛅

Is AI about to revolutionise weather & climate forecasting?

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

youtu.be

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

There is no point in appeasing Nazis. They can't be reasoned with. Because they're insane. You're going to have to fight them, sooner or later. And sooner is always better.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 1d

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 1d

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations every week shows new research by Climate Energy Finance. The rest of the world must learn from China's incredible doubling down on clean energy. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month

While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.

www.abc.net.au

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Rob Scott @robscottanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray is my Rutgers colleague. He is a scholar of anti-fascism. (My comments here are as a private citizen but I discuss my identity as a scholar and professor at Rutgers)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 1d

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray, who wrote a book about anti-fascism, got death threats from MAGA, and is fleeing to Spain with his wife and young children - yeah, he's Jewish.

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