Nick Gottlieb
@nickgottlieb.bsky.social
Writer. PhD student. Stay at home dog dad. Political economist studying LNG, imperialism, and counterinsurgency.
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Looking to stop a local datacenter? This seemed to work.
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Looking to stop a local datacenter? This seemed to work.
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The world is caving to the petro-overlords on methane emissions.
If you thought climate change was bad now, we're just getting cooking!
If you thought climate change was bad now, we're just getting cooking!
We are losing the most important climate fight.
"The U.S. has demanded that the European Union exempt its oil and gas from obligations under the bloc's methane emissions law on fuel imports until 2035"
The science is on our side. The economics are on our side. Not the politicians.
"The U.S. has demanded that the European Union exempt its oil and gas from obligations under the bloc's methane emissions law on fuel imports until 2035"
The science is on our side. The economics are on our side. Not the politicians.
money.usnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The world is caving to the petro-overlords on methane emissions.
If you thought climate change was bad now, we're just getting cooking!
If you thought climate change was bad now, we're just getting cooking!
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Wrote a bit about this:
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Wrote a bit about this:
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Another US airstrike in Somalia happened yesterday, near Kismayo. AFRICOM released no casualty figures or other information beyond saying it "targeted" al-Shabaab. This is by my count the 87th strike or series of strikes announced by AFRICOM this year, by far the most ever in a year in Somalia.
www.africom.mil
December 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Another US airstrike in Somalia happened yesterday, near Kismayo. AFRICOM released no casualty figures or other information beyond saying it "targeted" al-Shabaab. This is by my count the 87th strike or series of strikes announced by AFRICOM this year, by far the most ever in a year in Somalia.
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Ecuador just said no to US militarism. In a major rebuke to Washington and President Daniel Noboa’s far-right agenda, voters rejected plans to host American military bases—showing that even under repression, popular resistance can still win.
Ecuador just dealt a blow to US militarism in Latin America
This resurgent far-right in Latin America is almost certainly a product of US intervention, but from Noboa to Bukele, it is also unmistakably part of a coordinated global far-right project. And, as wi...
canadiandimension.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ecuador just said no to US militarism. In a major rebuke to Washington and President Daniel Noboa’s far-right agenda, voters rejected plans to host American military bases—showing that even under repression, popular resistance can still win.
In 2023, the Ecuadorian people showed the world what meaningful climate action looks like, voting by a huge margin to restrict oil and gas drilling in Yasuní National Park. It was a huge step in the direction climate policy desperately needs to go: restricting supply. 1/
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In 2023, the Ecuadorian people showed the world what meaningful climate action looks like, voting by a huge margin to restrict oil and gas drilling in Yasuní National Park. It was a huge step in the direction climate policy desperately needs to go: restricting supply. 1/
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"Ultimately, this paper has found that fossil-fuel research contributes to the greenwashing of both the donor fossil fuel companies as well as the Doerr School of Sustainability @stanforduniversity.bsky.social, slowing rather than supporting society’s transition to clean energy"
Fossil Fuel Funds for University Research in the Transition to Clean Energy
| Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society
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December 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Ultimately, this paper has found that fossil-fuel research contributes to the greenwashing of both the donor fossil fuel companies as well as the Doerr School of Sustainability @stanforduniversity.bsky.social, slowing rather than supporting society’s transition to clean energy"
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I've been told that editors don't like reporters to be subject matter experts. I strongly disagree. And Justin Nobel is an excellent example of why.
"In this context, natural gas pipelines may be regarded as polonium-generating infrastructure"
Got your attention?
He just published this.
"In this context, natural gas pipelines may be regarded as polonium-generating infrastructure"
Got your attention?
He just published this.
A hypothesis on binding of polonium to the amino acid cysteine with significance in oil and gas country and beyond - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
A timely hypothesis regarding the preferential binding of polonium-210 (Po-210) to the sulfhydryl (-SH) group of the amino acid cysteine is presented. This offers a mechanistic explanation for the bio...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've been told that editors don't like reporters to be subject matter experts. I strongly disagree. And Justin Nobel is an excellent example of why.
"In this context, natural gas pipelines may be regarded as polonium-generating infrastructure"
Got your attention?
He just published this.
"In this context, natural gas pipelines may be regarded as polonium-generating infrastructure"
Got your attention?
He just published this.
The US just seized a Venezuelan oil tanker.
There is a Russian oil tanker on fire.
The global oil industry trade is under attack.
And yet, prices are down. We are in a new world.
There is a Russian oil tanker on fire.
The global oil industry trade is under attack.
And yet, prices are down. We are in a new world.
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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It's never been more clear that corporations are the ones with the most power over government: Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's never been more clear that corporations are the ones with the most power over government: Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
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We hear a lot of talk from industry, industry-aligned non-profits and politicians about how it will be easy to eliminate methane emissions from oil and gas production. It's a lie.
Just read this piece to get a sense of how misleading those claims are.
Oh yeah, and the emissions are poison.
Just read this piece to get a sense of how misleading those claims are.
Oh yeah, and the emissions are poison.
So many important points in this piece on a methane release by Permian Resources that we will likely break it down in a longer post some time soon.
NEW: Permian Confirms Methane Release After Hunterbrook Investigation
Hunterbrook Media’s investment affiliate, Hunterbrook Capital, does not have any positions related to this article at the time of publication. Positions may change at any time. Full disclosures below....
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December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We hear a lot of talk from industry, industry-aligned non-profits and politicians about how it will be easy to eliminate methane emissions from oil and gas production. It's a lie.
Just read this piece to get a sense of how misleading those claims are.
Oh yeah, and the emissions are poison.
Just read this piece to get a sense of how misleading those claims are.
Oh yeah, and the emissions are poison.
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In related news, the Canadian Sociological Association is instructing its members to be open to working "in collaboration" with AI and to cultivate "the ability to use it as a complementary 'co-intelligence' rather than view it solely as a threat."
So that's how things are going in higher ed.
So that's how things are going in higher ed.
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In related news, the Canadian Sociological Association is instructing its members to be open to working "in collaboration" with AI and to cultivate "the ability to use it as a complementary 'co-intelligence' rather than view it solely as a threat."
So that's how things are going in higher ed.
So that's how things are going in higher ed.
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In order to show their commitment to the ceasefire, Israel gunned down a child then ran him over with a tank today in Gaza
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In order to show their commitment to the ceasefire, Israel gunned down a child then ran him over with a tank today in Gaza
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China is leaping ahead in clean energy while Canada and United States keep falling further behind
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
ANALYSIS | The rise of the electrostate: By dominating clean energy, China is leading on climate action | CBC News
China’s massive lead in clean technologies has shifted the climate fight from one of big pledges and international diplomacy toward a technological revolution in cheaper energy, analysts say.
www.cbc.ca
December 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
China is leaping ahead in clean energy while Canada and United States keep falling further behind
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
This. Carney is—more than any other leader in recent memory!—a direct representative of finance capital.
If you elect a Goldman Sachs guy, you get a Goldman Sachs government.
If you elect a Goldman Sachs guy, you get a Goldman Sachs government.
People are debating whether he's playing smart political chess, or capitulating to the fossil fuel sector, but the other option here is that this is just what he wants to do and is using the political moment we're in to ram his vision through any opposition to it.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This. Carney is—more than any other leader in recent memory!—a direct representative of finance capital.
If you elect a Goldman Sachs guy, you get a Goldman Sachs government.
If you elect a Goldman Sachs guy, you get a Goldman Sachs government.
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The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.
Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.
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Working people subsidize forestry corporations — when corporations leave, working people should take ownership. Closed mills must be expropriated, turned into worker-owned co-operatives, with funding to shift to a sustainable forestry model. /2 #bcpoli
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Working people subsidize forestry corporations — when corporations leave, working people should take ownership. Closed mills must be expropriated, turned into worker-owned co-operatives, with funding to shift to a sustainable forestry model. /2 #bcpoli
The BC govt's approach to industrial decline has been to throw more and more money at companies that invariably spend it on "modernization," a code word for replacing jobs with machinery. The answer is not more handouts for finance and industry. It's expropriation and worker control. #bcpoli
From Crofton to 100 Mile House, forestry workers’ livelihoods are collapsing. Foreign corps come in, strip the land, and skip town to chase their next boom. The establishment has let private equity push thousands out of work for decades. Solutions to build a better industry, for workers & forests /1
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The BC govt's approach to industrial decline has been to throw more and more money at companies that invariably spend it on "modernization," a code word for replacing jobs with machinery. The answer is not more handouts for finance and industry. It's expropriation and worker control. #bcpoli
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Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
BC and Canada are following close Australia's lead on this one. We British settler colonies like to stick together! #bcpoli
Yes, Australia led on the model of how to screw over its citizens by letting private companies sell off the country's natural resources to the highest bidder.
At least Australia has much better rooftop solar options than the US.
At least Australia has much better rooftop solar options than the US.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
BC and Canada are following close Australia's lead on this one. We British settler colonies like to stick together! #bcpoli
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One thing about this moment is it’s increasingly clear how, if you want a politics without terminal contradictions, the options are communism or fascism.
Any gradation of conservatism or liberalism contorts around who gets rights, how far to extend violence, or what’s acceptable/good exploitation
Any gradation of conservatism or liberalism contorts around who gets rights, how far to extend violence, or what’s acceptable/good exploitation
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One thing about this moment is it’s increasingly clear how, if you want a politics without terminal contradictions, the options are communism or fascism.
Any gradation of conservatism or liberalism contorts around who gets rights, how far to extend violence, or what’s acceptable/good exploitation
Any gradation of conservatism or liberalism contorts around who gets rights, how far to extend violence, or what’s acceptable/good exploitation