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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 11h

Shazam!

Another smashing episode of Season 14 of Drilled.

I love how each conversation goes to places not covered in the chapters--

I'm learning a lot, and I was an editor of the book!

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

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 14h

All that misinformation DOES have an impact.

And it's leading us to terrible energy policy.

Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 16h

When the power went out in Spain this spring, many people immediately pointed the finger at the country's solar and wind power as the cause.

That wasn't the trigger, but a new survey finds that all that misinformation?

It had an impact.

Read more here, only on @npr.org 🎧⬇️

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

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 1d

"Among them: former employees and fellows of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative group that has fought renewable energy ...[and] anti-environmentalist group Americans for Prosperity, which is backed by the fossil fuel moguls the Koch brothers."

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

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

www.theguardian.com

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Preorder now--launch is next week!

(will be free online for download here).

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Max Boykoff @maxboykoff.bsky.social · 5d

An important conversation. Thanks @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social larger book project led by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social (Brown University), Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami), Carlos Milani (Rio de Janeiro State University) & Christian Downie (Australian National University)

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 6d

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

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Ketan. We here at @cssn.org seek to be your Quality Content Utility. These Season 14 episodes are wonderful, interesting discussions with the chapter lead authors of the definitive Climate Obstruction, a Global Assessment, which has 110 total authors. We learned a LOT in these two years

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

The sheer amount of content coming out of @drilledmedia.bsky.social is incredible. A whole bunch of great interviews partic on climate obstruction and tactics. Haven't even finished the great 'carbon bros' series yet, too much good stuff damn it

pca.st/podcast/35c7...

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 6d

@cssn.org people have a look.

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 6d

Would sure be great if any aspiring scholar on the immensely important topic of climate obstruction would study the 193 (!) submissions to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. Many from lobby groups ...
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Submissions

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I saw some of those. And your fine words.

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 8d

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.

theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

@anuregnet.bsky.social @anu-iceds.bsky.social @cssn.org

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?

This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.

theconversation.com

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 8d

The next episode is up !

Key for #COP30 initiative on climate information integrity

Here on Spotify or whatever app. Or the website.

open.spotify.com/episode/6cAY...

The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well?

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Mike Interesting that the neutrality policy was at least part of what led you to leave administration and get back to faculty role. That has not been discussed here when such was voted on last year. Sad you’d have to give up advocating for human survival to be a higher Ed administrator

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 9d

“‘No law’ means ‘no law’,”

'In a 161-page ruling issued on Tuesday, the judge, William G Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee, called the case “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court”'

Amen. And Go, @aaup.org

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

Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students

Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment

www.theguardian.com

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 9d

This makes a ton of sense. Biking is a sensory explosion, your mind is super busy. Was biking all over NYC last week for Climate Week, and man was my brain lighting up.

Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Seriously, I would have paid for half a plane ticket for a Rohingya to fly to NYC. This is just wrong. They can't be forgotten.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 16d

doh forgot to tag @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social! Complete conversation (pod ep + transcript) are here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep2 | Welcome to the Rapture! How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Intersect with Climate

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 17d

Listen wherever you get your podcasts:

Youtube: youtu.be/u3Z76N0GRvU?...;

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4cGx...;

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Liars and blockers: The rising threat of climate disinformation and misinformation

YouTube video by TRACK CHANGES - climate + sustainability podcast

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 17d

Experts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social @aronczyk.bsky.social and @johnfocook.bsky.social speak with @trackchangesmedia.bsky.social on the rising threat of climate disinformation in the media, solutions misinformation, and the attack on climate science and scientists themselves.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 23d

SO excited that this Drilled Podcast series is LIVE!

And just ahead of the release of the global assessment, the first-of-its-kind compendium of knowledge on why we are failing to do enough on climate change.

Thank you @amywestervelt.bsky.social !

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 23d

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 19d

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 20d

"Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at the recent “environmental protection” meeting of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), ...The ICAO is the forum where nations agree the rules governing international aviation."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says

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Maebh Ní Fhallúin @maebhnif.bsky.social · 22d

More of this

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23d

In London, hate will never win.

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Maebh Ní Fhallúin @maebhnif.bsky.social · 21d

Forensic accounts of #climateobstruction networks

Familiar #BigTobacco tactics but lens here is on a wider set of liable actors & enablers -supply chain coalitions, trade associations, utilities, car manufacturers, meat & dairy

Trade assn ++spend in this area is on advertising & promotion
#CDoH

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 23d

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 22d

Now there's a "doomism" of fatalistic acceptance that we're too late and it's just "too hard." We cannot afford that. It's the death throes of the largest industry in human history. Without the story of intentional obstruction, this piece is true but only as far as it goes. Sad. 4/4

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 22d

The efforts at preventing or undermining the collective pro-climate efforts DWW laments the loss of have been sophisticated, usually coordinated, and sadly effective. They appeal to, and build, people's self interests and short-termism.

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