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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 3d

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 24d

Wild to publish thousands of words about why the world has 'soured on climate politics' and not mention at all a relentless fossil fuel campaign against action or the resurgence of far-right climate denial.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

www.nytimes.com

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 25d

📰 10 years ago TODAY 📰

@insideclimatenews.org published part 1 of its bombshell "Exxon Knew" investigation.

The reporting showed how #ExxonKnew its fossil fuel business could cause "potentially catastrophic events" — but then led efforts to deceive the public and block solutions.

Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago - Inside Climate News

At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slide...

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 26d

I'm speaking at this disinfo conference in Ottawa next month, sharing insights from @desmog.com's deep investigations into climate denial movements.

I'm told in-person tickets are close to selling out, so if you'd like to join irl get your ticket soon!

The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26d

Worried about climate change and the impact of disinformation of policies and strategies to combat it? Then you can't miss Max Bell School of Public Policy presents Climate at a Crossroads.

Join us on October 9, in Ottawa or online. climateatacrossroads.eventbri...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29d

Newfoundland and Labrador has made it into international news for ridicule it absolutely deserves for using generative AI to “write” a report on the future of education. Great job to those MUN education profs.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

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Clare Carlile @clarecarlile.bsky.social · Sep 11

Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate

What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science

✍️ for @desmog.com

DeSmog @desmog.com · Sep 11

🔴 NEW 🔴

Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...

Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints

A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm among the clean energy advocates who worked w the tech industry to accelerate renewable energy deployment a few years ago. We can't let that history distract us from what's happening today - a cynical, politically-motivated tech industry pivot toward fossil energy. www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Aug 20

🚩🚩🚩 More red flags in Google land 🚩🚩🚩

The company’s president recently praised a speech by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that criticized Silicon Valley’s support of a “climate extremist agenda” and called for an expansion of “incredibly clean” coal plants to power data centers.

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Aug 22

Totally insane to me that editors at Wired and Business Insider got tricked into publishing essays and feature stories from a fake freelancer generated by AI.

"After some standard correspondence about framing and payment, the editor assigned the story..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’

At least six publications have taken down articles under the name Margaux Blanchard that were AI-generated

www.theguardian.com

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · Aug 21

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

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Ashley Braun @ashleybraun.bsky.social · Aug 19

So, the president of Google called the Trump admin's climate denialism "fantastic." Read the latest from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social at @desmog.com + @thelever.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

www.desmog.com

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks for flagging, it's fixed now :)

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's especially disappointing because, of the tech companies, Google seemed like one that maybe actually did care about climate change.

Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Aug 19

Google is cozying up hard to Trump.

At an AI event, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he was 'offended' by the 'climate extremist agenda'.

Asked about his speech, Google president Ruth Porat replied that 'Burgum's comments were fantastic'.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g... @desmog.com

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

www.desmog.com

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Aug 19

Google is cozying up hard to Trump.

At an AI event, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he was 'offended' by the 'climate extremist agenda'.

Asked about his speech, Google president Ruth Porat replied that 'Burgum's comments were fantastic'.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g... @desmog.com

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

www.desmog.com

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Aug 18

Tech bros love to say AI will fix climate change but oil companies are mostly using it to drill for more oil.

@sharonkelly.bsky.social was at an industry event where a Shell exec said 'about 70 percent of our technology effort' is on fossil fuel production.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead

DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.

www.desmog.com

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today’s @theglobeandmail.com editorial cartoon is a banger

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Aug 17

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy.

Have a GREAT Sunday!

www.podcastics.com/episode/3772...
#cdnpoli #abpoli #Climate #EnergyTransition #yyc #BigOil #SueBigOil #CCUS #CarbonCapture #PetroleumPapers #MarkCarney #CleanEnergy #Renewables #ClimateSky

Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & Canada's Carbon Capture Con

The backers of carbon capture and storage have lied to us before. Will we believe them this time?

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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Israeli military has a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell" assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters.

I'm going to be sick
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas

Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...

www.972mag.com

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

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

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

www.theguardian.com

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Aug 5

A 'maddening' new bombshell report revealing the fraud of plastics recycling.

@rebeccajohn.bsky.social reports for @desmog.com on an exclusive document showing the petrochemical industry knew as early as 1974 that recycling was a false solution.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/m...

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows

Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

www.desmog.com

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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · Aug 5

For a little bit more about what #BigOil did and how they owe YOU for what they did, tune into the latest episode of the #ClimateLens, featuring #PetroleumPapers author & investigative journalist @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com
#yyc #abpoli #ClimateChange #cdnpoli bsky.app/profile/calg...

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Jul 23

Investigative journalist @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com joins us to talk #PetroleumPapers, what #BigOil really thinks about #CarbonCapture and what it all means for Canada’s so-called #CleanEnergy future
#cdnpoli #abpoli #Climate #EnergyTransition #yyc www.podcastics.com/episode/3772...

Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & the Carbon Capture Con

The backers of carbon capture and storage have lied to us before. Will we believe them this time?

www.podcastics.com

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Jul 31

Thanks so much for sharing the wisdom on the #ClimateLens, Brent! Our show drops the third Wednesday each month which will be August 20! Meantime, folks can check out our latest show featuring @desmog.com's @geoffdembicki.bsky.social!

bsky.app/profile/calg... #ClimateChange #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Jul 23

Investigative journalist @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com joins us to talk #PetroleumPapers, what #BigOil really thinks about #CarbonCapture and what it all means for Canada’s so-called #CleanEnergy future
#cdnpoli #abpoli #Climate #EnergyTransition #yyc www.podcastics.com/episode/3772...

Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & the Carbon Capture Con

The backers of carbon capture and storage have lied to us before. Will we believe them this time?

www.podcastics.com

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Jul 31

This seems like an insane conflict of interest to me.

Great reporting from @climatechangenews.com

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...

PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract

As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep foss...

www.climatechangenews.com

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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · Jul 30

A non-exhaustive list of climate deniers that want the EPA endangerment finding repealed:

American Petroleum Institute
Project 2025
Heartland Institute
The Koch network
Steve Koonin
CO2 Coalition

DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 30

Trump deciding to repeal the EPA's endangerment finding didn't come out of nowhere.

DeSmog for years has been tracking a coalition of climate deniers and fossil fuel groups working hard to demolish the bedrock of US climate policy.

www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/c...

Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding?

In late July, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced at a trucking facility in Indiana that the Trump administration would be moving to rescind the “endangerment...

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DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 30

Trump deciding to repeal the EPA's endangerment finding didn't come out of nowhere.

DeSmog for years has been tracking a coalition of climate deniers and fossil fuel groups working hard to demolish the bedrock of US climate policy.

www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/c...

Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding?

In late July, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced at a trucking facility in Indiana that the Trump administration would be moving to rescind the “endangerment...

www.desmog.com

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