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Vintage Little Golden Book Cover with children dressed up as a cowboy, policeman, construction worker, circus performer and fireman.

Title:
When I Grow Up
I'll spend every waking hour fighting monster wildfires
thanks to Shell

November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Yellow Dot Studios

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The weight of the climate crisis and all of its damage can be... a lot to process. Especially this time of year.

Our friends at Unthinkable built an amazing resource hub to help navigate it all.

Check it out and share with someone who needs it:
www.unthinkable.earth/resource-hub

November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM

Yellow Dot Studios

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"before the letter showed up on the President’s desk, [Christine Todd Whitman] had caught Cheney printing out the letter on the White House printer." - @ghostpanther.bsky.social with a crazy story of about how Dick Cheney derailed climate action in the W. Bush Administration.

McKay:
Yes, the people he killed and one of the most monstrous torture programs you’re ever going to encounter. But one of the downplayed things about Dick Cheney too is, probably as much as any dozen individuals, he was responsible for killing action on climate. There’s a whole story about Christine Todd Whitman in the White House, and she was head of the EPA. She’s a Republican, but people forget that George W. Bush and a lot of Republicans back then were actually for action on climate. And this was before it became fully politicized, because it’s pretty simple grade school science. No one was actively pushing denial back then. And so Bush was going to go for the carbon credits. They were going to do some kind of bill. I’m sure it wouldn’t have been enough, but it was going to be something.

Cheney caught wind of it, and he called Jim Inhofe, the senator from Oklahoma. And he said, hey, you should be aware this is coming down the pike, because he knew Inhofe was completely owned by oil companies. Then a letter showed up on Bush’s desk from a collection of Senate Republicans saying, if you go forward with this climate action, we will block your agenda. And here’s the crazy part. Christine Todd Whitman, before the letter showed up on the President’s desk, had caught Cheney printing out the letter on the White House printer. So Cheney wrote it and sent it over to Inhofe, and Inhofe and a collection of other senators sent it to Bush. And then, of course, Cheney strolls into the Oval Office, plays the role of trusted veteran advisor, and tells them to back off. And that was it. We interviewed Christine Todd Whitman, and to this day, she is pissed.

November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM

Yellow Dot Studios

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In fairness, as the world's #1 funder of fossil fuels, JPMorgan Chase had already made it abundantly clear that they are totally cool with screwing kids.

November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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Brain meme:
Small Brain: “Energy bills are high because of the woke green energy agenda”

Medium Brain: Energy bills are high because Trump is helping his Big Oil donors block cheap wind and solar, forcing us to use expensive, old, dirty fossil fuels plants.

Big Brain: All bills are high because burning oil, gas, and coal raises the cost
of food, weather, health care, insurance, and more. The real cost of fossil energy is vastly higher than the price at the pump.

Super Brain: Energy bills are high because we’re being bled dry by the rich.

November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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“The only way to change the trajectory is with strong laws” -
Judith Enck, @beyondplastics.bsky.social

"If such measures make plastic’s price reflect its true toll, other kinds of packaging—and systems enabling, for example, reusable takeout containers—could compete economically."

November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM

Yellow Dot Studios

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Big Oil is literally burying us in plastic.

None of this breaks down. It is now 4 times the mass of all living animals (and much is INSIDE pretty much all of them.)

November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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News outlets like the @nytimes.com will say that taking Big Oil ad money (and therefore parroting known disinformation,) is necessary to enable their mission to "seek the truth and help people understand the world."

But actually it does just the opposite.

November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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One of the guys who saw the housing collapse coming has been “looking up” at climate collapse, too:

In a 2016 conversation about making The Big Short, Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social, shared how Brad Pitt's real-life character "Ben Rickert" "scared the crap out of me."

November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Yellow Dot Studios

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An antique Little Golden Book cover of a personified snowman playing with children

Title:
FROSTY
The snow man is disappearing thanks to those creeps at Exxon

November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM

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FFS

November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM

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It makes no sense to continue investing in oil, gas, and coal which keep getting more expensive, when clean energy is *cheaper* because the wind and sun are *unlimited* and *free.*

Fossil fuels are only still around because of the lies and corruption of the fossil fuel industry.

November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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It is amazing that 60 years ago, scientists were so crystal clear that burning fossil fuels was raising Earth's temperature.

And yet thanks to Big Oil's decades of lies, today 40% in the US still don't believe global warming is human-caused or settled science, and 30% don't think it's happening!

PROBABLE FUTURE CONTENT OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE

We can conclude with fair assurance that at the present time, fossil
fuels are the only source of CO: being added to the ocean-atmosphere-
biosphere system. If this held true throughout the last hundred years,
the quantity of CO: in the air at the beginning of the present decade was
about 7% higher than in the middle of the last century (see Table 3).

Throughout these hundred years, the rate of fossil fuel combustion,
and thus of CO, production, continually increased, on the average about
3.2 percent per year. The amount produced in 1962 was almost 25 times the annual production in the mid-1860's. The rate of increase may be accelerating. During the eight years from 1954 to 1962, the average rate of increase was 5%.

POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ON CLIMATE

One of the most recent discussions of these effects is given by Möller
(1963). He considers the radiation balance at the earth's surface with
an average initial temperature of 15°C (59°F), a relative humidity of
75 percent, and 50% cloudiness. We may compute from his data that
with a 25 percent increase in atmospheric CO, the average temperature
near the earth's surface could increase between 0.6°C and 4°C (1.1°F
to 7°F), depending on the behavior of the atmospheric water vapor
content. The small increase would correspond to a constant absolute
humidity, that is, a constant weight of water in the atmosphere. The
larger increase would correspond to a constant relative humidity, that
is, as the temperature rose, the water vapor content would also rise to
maintain a constant percentage of the saturation value. A doubling of
CO: in the air, which would happen if a little more than half the reserves
of fossil fuels were consumed, would have about three times the effect of a twenty-five percent increase.

$CARBON DIOXIDE FROM FOSSIL FUELS-THE INVISIBLE POLLUTANT Only about one two-thousandth of the atmosphere and one ten- thousandth of the ocean are carbon dioxide. Yet to living creatures, these small fractions are of vital importance. Carbon is the basic build- ing block of organic compounds, and land plants obtain all of their carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Marine plants obtain carbon from the dissolved carbon dioxide in sea water, which depends for its concentration on an equilibrium with the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. Marine and terrestrial animals, including man, procure, either directly or indirectly, the substance of their bodies and the energy for living from the carbon compounds made by plants. All fuels used by man consist of carbon compounds produced by ancient or modern plants. The energy they contain was originally solar energy, transmuted through the biochemical process called photosynthesis. The carbon in every barrel of oil and every lump of coal, as well as in every block of limestone, was once present in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Over the past several billion years, very large quantities of carbon dioxide have entered the atmosphere from volcanoes. The total amount was at least forty thousand times the quantity of carbon dioxide now present in the air. Most of it became combined with calcium or magnesium, freed by the weathering of silicate rocks, and was precipitated on the sea floor as limestone or dolomite. About one-fourth of the total quantity, at least ten thousand times the present atmospheric carbon dioxide, was reduced by plants to organic carbon compounds and became buried as organic matter in the sediments. A small fraction of this organic matter was transformed into the concentrated deposits we call coal, petroleum, oil shales, tar sands, or natural gas. These are the fossil fuels that power the world-wide industrial civilization of our time.$

Throughout most of the half-million years of man's existence on earth,
his fuels consisted of wood and other remains of plants which had grown
only a few years before they were burned. The effect of this burning on
the content of atmospheric carbon dioxide was negligible, because it
only slightly speeded up the natural decay processes that continually re-
cycle carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere. During the last few centuries, however, man has begun to burn the fossil fuels that were locked in the sedimentary rocks over five hundred million years, and this combustion is measurably increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide.

In the geologic past, the quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
was determined by the equilibrium between rates of weathering and
photosynthesis, and the rate of injection of volcanic carbon dioxide.
on an earthwide average, both weathering and photosynthesis must speed up when the carbon dioxide content of the air is increased, and slow down when it is diminished; consequently, over geologic time the carbon dioxide in the air must have risen when volcanic activity was high, and must have gone down when volcanoes were quiescent.
On a human scale, the times involved are very long.

The present rate of production of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion is about a hundred times the average rate of release of calcium and magnesium from the weathering of silicate rocks. As long as this ratio holds, precipitation of metallic carbonates will be unable to maintain an unchanging content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Within a few short centuries, we are returning to the air a significant part of the carbon that was slowly extracted by plants and buried in the sediments during half a billion years.

November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM

Yellow Dot Studios

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Even back then, they got it

November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel.

We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!

November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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War criminal 🤝 climate criminal.

The catastrophic legacy of Dick Cheney's Halliburton Loophole and the US fracking boom it ushered in: 🧵

November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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Out of respect for Exxon's modesty, please don't share this!

November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM

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Trump is intentionally raising energy prices to create "a huge transfer of wealth from rate payers to big fossil fuel donors." - @whitehouse.senate.gov