Devastating.

I want Colorado Senator @hickenlooper.senate.gov to spend one hour fighting this for every $1 he has received from the fossil fuel industry in his political career and to give up sleep while he does it. Hint: it is in the millions.

And if he doesn’t succeed he needs to resign.

This is great work, with potential application across multiple disciplines, and important implications for restoration and other long term management strategies.

Defunding responses to climate change does not make the need for this work go away. Remember, when they do this they are simply shifting the costs around, and in most cases actually increasing them. All in order to extract more profit from destruction, leaving all of us to pay.

This is not their data to destroy. We all own it. Add this to the long list of suits being brought.

It has never stopped blowing my mind, the incredible situation that the gas industry has created for itself

Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too

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1) It is wholly inaccurate as arctic ecosystems are diverse and provide critical functions for indigenous communities and planetary balance

2) it is the language that is frequently used to justify fossil fuel extraction and general extractive industry/ environmental degradation

It to take anything away from the central points of your piece (which is enlightening), since some of your work focuses on the language of climate/fossil fuel industry, might I suggest you consider a different descriptor for the arctic than “frozen wasteland”?
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So true! Tree planting is so ingrained in the popular vision of restoration, it is easy to over state (or greenwash) the relative importance and effectiveness of it. Reforestation has a role to play but we risk not seeing the proverbial forest (ecosystem) for the trees.