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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 4d

Energy Secretary Wright and Interior Secretary Burgum have both cited "pollution" from offshore wind turbines as one of the reasons they need to be scrutinized or shut down.

Joe Lyou @jklyou.bsky.social · 4d

Chevron refinery in El Segundo exploded and burned last night. Here's the view from my house. Some things to know. 🧵

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI: Our team dug deeper into the Trump administration's misleading climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, reliance on fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome. www.politico.com/interactives...

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

www.politico.com

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 9d

Energy Secretary Wright made tens of millions of dollars as the CEO of a fracking company, so he certainly knows that the natural gas he brought to market is the primary cause of the decline of the coal industry.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 10d

Scott, Ben & I went through the entire report line by line to understand the types of tactics the authors use. The examples in our final project are prime illustrations of how this document misleads, manipulates and obscures. Proud to see this story published and proud to work with this badass team.

Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 10d

Ben Storrow, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I are out with a different look at the misleading Trump administration climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome.

Politico @politico.com · 11d

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 10d

Ben Storrow, @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I are out with a different look at the misleading Trump administration climate science report. It's more than a fact check. We show the sleights of hand they employ - fake debates, manipulated data, fossil fuel-funded experts - to reach a desired outcome.

Politico @politico.com · 11d

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change.

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

www.politico.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11d

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns.

It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.

Via @heatmap.news

How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart

The administration argued in the name of national defense — but Orsted had receipts.

heatmap.news

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 13d

UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband @ed-miliband.bsky.social told @saraschonhardt.bsky.social that other countries are not changing strategy because clean energy is “the route to energy security and good jobs and climate action.”

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 13d

Trump's climate denial tirade at the UN is part of an administration-wide effort to pressure other countries to drop their climate policies and clean energy reliance. Aside from some commitments to buy LNG to avoid tariffs, the pressure campaign is largely ineffective. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump urges the world to abandon climate fight

Through his rhetoric and promotion of U.S. fossil fuels, the president is trying to undermine global climate efforts.

www.eenews.net

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 14d

Trump's UN speech was one of his most unfiltered and extended climate denial riffs ever, full of falsehoods, lies and distortions.

“I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”

www.eenews.net/articles/con...

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

www.eenews.net

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

Trump also just repeated a stream of disproven climate claims to world leaders who govern countries where climate science has not been so politicized and even conservative leaders push for clean energy. It comes less than 24 hours after his numerous false claims about autism.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

Trump has unleashed a torrent of climate denial unlike any of his UN speeches in his first term, lecturing European leaders on the "dangers" of wind energy, even as many countries have relied on wind power for decades.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

It used to be global cooling." Climate change is "the greatest con job perpetrated on the world." Climate predictions "made by stupid people." "I've been right about everything and I'm telling you that if you don't get away from green energy...it's a scam." Trump to the UN just now.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

"The Amish, they have no autism," Trump says to support his debunked claims, describing the insular community that traditionally treats health care needs with home remedies.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

"We understood a lot more than people who studied it," Trump says, describing RFK Jr. and their mutual claims about autism research. He notes they have been pushing their claims (debunked by a vast body of research) for 20 years and that the administration's new report stems from their beliefs.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 15d

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum is the administration's attack dog on wind energy, killing projects, claiming it's unreliabe. But wind energy doubled in North Dakota during his tenure as governor, now providing 1/3 of the state's electricity. Only 5 other states produce more www.eenews.net/articles/bur...

Burgum celebrated wind power. Then Trump tapped him to kill it.

As governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum bragged about his state’s wind energy. He shed those views when he became Interior secretary.

www.eenews.net

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 27d

This post that states "white people did more to end slavery than anyone" is from a climate denier cited as an expert by PragerU, Fox, etc. His tweet perfectly encapsulates how deniers cherry-pick data to support absurd conclusions. (My great-great grandfather was one of those Union casualties)

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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · Sep 4

NEW: A Trump-backed crypto company is warning investors that rising temps “pose a threat” to its operations.

American Bitcoin's disclosure is a reminder that companies are still concerned about climate change — despite the president's efforts to downplay the problem. www.eenews.net/articles/don...

Don Jr. and Eric Trump are investors in a crypto company that calls climate change a threat

A new crypto venture whose largest shareholders include President Donald Trump’s sons disclosed to investors that rising temperatures “pose a threat” to its

www.eenews.net

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Aug 26

None of this is true.

Still, NOAA actually studied and tested the issue and found that "There are no known links between large whale deaths and ongoing offshore wind activities." www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Aug 22

The White House has determined that this painting should not be on display at the Smithsonian as part of its new foray into art criticism.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Aug 21

She is standing in front of a structure built by enslaved people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 21

White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Aug 18

Trump officials may soon hold public climate science debates, recruit more denialists to attack research and go through every line of the National Climate Assessments to highlight doubt, a DOE report author told me.

“We will have to enlist other scientists," he said. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science

The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.

www.eenews.net

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Aug 11

Scoop: The Trump administration on Friday sent letters to wind energy developers indicating a crackdown under bird protection laws is imminent

They’re targeting wind projects using the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, with six-figure fines and jail time for violations

Via @heatmap.news

Interior Department Targets Wind Developers Using Bird Protection Law

A new letter sent Friday asks for reams of documentation on developers’ compliance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

heatmap.news

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 31

The report relies on a rhetorical trick, cherry picking peer-reviewed science and stripping it of context to support a narrative. "As a general rule, what they say is correct, but it’s carefully filtered to give an impression that’s counter to a full reading of the analysis,” @andrewdessler.com said

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is the long-planned adversarial red team-blue team review of climate science the authors have sought. Except this time, it leaves out the blue team representing consensus climate science. It is the first step in a process that will eventually respond to criticism and grow into a larger report.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 31

The researchers Wright tapped have no interest in "honest scientific discourse,” @michaelemann.bsky.social told me. “Instead, they have served as loyal soldiers in the ongoing war on science being waged by polluters, petrostates, and plutocrats, and the politicians...who do their bidding.”

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