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PhENtastic.bsky.social
@phenominal.bsky.social
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You don't know me... but i unfortunately know a lot about climate denial, propaganda and rightwing disinformation
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phenominal.bsky.social
Oh, and biofuels boosters, blatant fossil fuel shills, and covert fossil fuel shills! What an unbiased survey of climate communications!
OUR PANEL INCLUDED… Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Ken Caldeira, senior scientist emeritus at the Carnegie Institution for Science and visiting scholar at Stanford University | Kate Marvel, research physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Holly Jean Buck, associate professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo | Kim Cobb, climate scientist and director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | Jennifer Wilcox, chemical engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania and former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Michael Greenstone, economist and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago | Solomon Hsiang, professor of global environmental policy at Stanford University | Chris Bataille, global fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy | Danny Cullenward, senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania | J. Mijin Cha, environmental studies professor at UC Santa Cruz and fellow at Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute | Lynne Kiesling, director of the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics at Northwestern University | Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources | Emily Grubert, sustainable energy policy professor at the University of Notre Dame | Jon Norman, president of Hydrostor | Chris Creed, managing Chris Creed, managing partner at Galvanize Climate Solutions | Amy Heart, senior vice president of public policy at Sunrun | Kate Brandt, chief sustainability officer at Google | Sophie Purdom, managing partner at Planeteer Capital and co-founder of CTVC | Lara Pierpoint, managing director at Trellis Climate | Andrew Beebe, managing director at Obvious Ventures | Gabriel Kra, managing director and co-founder of Prelude Ventures | Joe Goodman, managing partner and co-founder of VoLo Earth Ventures | Erika Reinhardt, executive director and co-founder of Spark Climate Solutions | Dawn Lippert, founder and CEO of Elemental Impact and general partner at Earthshot Ventures | Rajesh Swaminathan, partner at Khosla Ventures | Rob Davies, CEO of Sublime Systems | John Arnold, philanthropist and co-founder of Arnold Ventures | Gabe Kleinman, operating partner at Emerson Collective | Amy Duffuor, co-founder and general partner at Azolla Ventures | Amy Francetic, managing general partner and founder of Buoyant Ventures | Tom Chi, founding partner at At One Ventures | Francis O’Sullivan, managing director at S2G Investments | Cooper Rinzler, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Gina McCarthy, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Neil Chatterjee, former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Representative Scott Peters, member of the U.S. House of Representative Scott Peters, member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Todd Stern, former U.S. special envoy for climate change | Representative Sean Casten, member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Representative Mike Levin, member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Zeke Hausfather, climate research lead at Stripe and research scientist at Berkeley Earth | Shuchi Talati, founder and executive director of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering | Nat Bullard, co-founder of Halcyon | Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org | Ilaria Mazzocco, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies | Leah Stokes, professor of environmental politics at UC Santa Barbara | Noah Kaufman, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy | Arvind Ravikumar, energy systems professor at the University of Texas at Austin | Jessica Green, political scientist at the University of Toronto | Jonas Nahm, energy policy professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS | Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force | Costa Samaras, director of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University | John Larsen, partner at Rhodium Group | Alex Trembath, executive director of the Breakthrough Institute | Alex Flint, executive director of the Alliance for Market Solutions
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
literally basing a story off what a venture capitalist, lobbyist, and cashed-out-former-policymaker said.
“‘Climate.’ Literally the word climate, I would just get rid of it completely,” one venture capitalist told us. “I would love to see people not use 'climate change' as a predominant way to talk to people about a global challenge like this,” seconded a former Washington official. “And who knows what a ‘greenhouse gas emission’ is in the real world?” A lobbyist agreed: “Climate change, unfortunately, has become too politicized … I’d rather talk about decarbonization than climate change.”
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
People around the world still believe the British wwii propaganda about carrots improving night vision!
January 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
Meanwhile, Stancil: Help people? No, more posts!
December 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
Yep!! The gas for ai stuff is happening regularly eg

www.realclearenergy.org/video/2025/1...

www.realclearenergy.org/articles/202...
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Here’s the link 🔗

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The man who broke offshore wind
How David Stevenson, a guy with a hybrid car and a solar rooftop, helped take down a burgeoning US energy sector.
www.motherjones.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
(You can put the link in the 1st post here...)
December 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
Third Way has taken ExxonMobil funding so of course their pres is telling Dems to be nice to polluters.

(Also willing to bet any pro pollution campaign coffers are plenty oily, regardless of Dem or Rep...)
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
Yes but have you considered that he'll sic his NYT attack dogs on you? Much to think about.
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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phenominal.bsky.social PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · Dec 3
Abundance is a not-even-thinly-disguised campaign to gut NEPA on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.

caad.info/analysis/new...
What’s the angle here? Attempting to grow support among the people they most heavily pollute? A word in one of their other ads hints at it, blaming “restrictions” for increasing costs and reducing access to energy. Other players are even less subtle. While some U.S. Democratic party darlings are pushing to reform permitting policies like the US’s National Environmental Policy Act, (one of the few tools frontline communities have to challenge polluters) billionaires and fossil fuel advertisers are also pushing the exact same line. What a wacky coincidence! Energy Citizens, a Big Oil advertising front group profiled in peer-reviewed papers and CAAD reports alike, has this LinkedIn ad copy: “Energy projects can get caught up in the courtroom for years. Permitting reform will help power our energy future.” (No telling how long until the American Petroleum Institute gets Billy Bob Thorton to say as much in Landman…) Big Oil’s lobby groups are singing the same tune, with the American Exploration & Production Council claiming in a LinkedIn ad that “permitting reform unleashes American-made energy.” And the CEOs themselves are in on it, with methane giant Williams’ (see past CLL for more) CEO Chad Zamarin making it clear that they want to gut NEPA, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling and positioning methane gas as the “solution.” So if you hear people – especially people who aren’t your usual climate deniers – arguing that we need to scrap the last remaining protections frontline communities have, supposedly to speed up renewables, ask them why they’re doing the fossil fuel industry’s advertising for them.
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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this is why you'll hear these types of arguments often explicitly from guys who will say they don't focus on clean energy for climate but Because The Economy. they imagine themselves outside of racialized and other marginalized life in this country.
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
Abundance is a not-even-thinly-disguised campaign to gut NEPA on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.

caad.info/analysis/new...
What’s the angle here? Attempting to grow support among the people they most heavily pollute? A word in one of their other ads hints at it, blaming “restrictions” for increasing costs and reducing access to energy. Other players are even less subtle. While some U.S. Democratic party darlings are pushing to reform permitting policies like the US’s National Environmental Policy Act, (one of the few tools frontline communities have to challenge polluters) billionaires and fossil fuel advertisers are also pushing the exact same line. What a wacky coincidence! Energy Citizens, a Big Oil advertising front group profiled in peer-reviewed papers and CAAD reports alike, has this LinkedIn ad copy: “Energy projects can get caught up in the courtroom for years. Permitting reform will help power our energy future.” (No telling how long until the American Petroleum Institute gets Billy Bob Thorton to say as much in Landman…) Big Oil’s lobby groups are singing the same tune, with the American Exploration & Production Council claiming in a LinkedIn ad that “permitting reform unleashes American-made energy.” And the CEOs themselves are in on it, with methane giant Williams’ (see past CLL for more) CEO Chad Zamarin making it clear that they want to gut NEPA, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling and positioning methane gas as the “solution.” So if you hear people – especially people who aren’t your usual climate deniers – arguing that we need to scrap the last remaining protections frontline communities have, supposedly to speed up renewables, ask them why they’re doing the fossil fuel industry’s advertising for them.
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
You can be right on everything, but if you don't account for politics and power, you'll still lose.
Henry didn’t ask a single question about coal’s impact on the climate, or even on public health. She just argued about electricity rates, which was why lawyers representing Walmart, the state’s hospitals, and a coalition of industrial users that included a factory owned by Koch Industries all echoed her arguments. Beyond Coal’s lawyers are ​“not burning bras. They’re fighting dollar for dollar,” an attorney for the hospitals told me. ​“They’ve become masters at bringing financial arguments to environmental questions.” Sure enough, later in 2015 the state’s rate-setting commission rejected OG&E’s costly plan to upgrade the coal plant. But that did not turn out to be the end of the saga. Oklahoma’s then–Attorney General Scott Pruitt — a Republican fossil-fuel booster who would go on to lead the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first term — appealed the ruling, even though he was supposed to be advocating for lower rates for Oklahoma residents. Under intense pressure, the all-Republican commission reversed its decision. So Henry appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and in 2018, she won the case. But it didn’t matter, because OG&E went ahead with the coal upgrades, and the commission eventually approved massive rate increases to pay for them. It’s not fun to spend years on a case, win on the merits, then lose anyway. “That’s just reality,” Henry said. ​“You still have to keep fighting.” In Ohio, the utility FirstEnergy bribed legislators to pass a bill forcing customers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars propping up two aging coal plants — and even after the scandal erupted in 2020, the subsidies continued until this summer. Now Trump is threatening to prevent any coal plants from retiring; his order invoking an imaginary ​“energy emergency” to keep that clunky Michigan plant in operation is costing ratepayers millions of dollars per day.
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
phenominal.bsky.social
that's why i never trust a number.

a word? A word you can trust.

But a number? Nah. Numbers are fake.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM