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Fossil fuel money is one of the most powerful forces in American politics. It is the biggest obstacle we face in preserving a livable climate for everyone on Earth.
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29 October
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And I think there’s a good reason to question the whole premise that climate change doesn’t swing votes. Economist Matt Burgess studied the 2020 presidential election and estimated that if climate change hadn’t been an issue, Republicans might have gained a roughly three-point swing in the popular vote.
22 October
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It’s because we’ve all been subject to a decades-long industry influence campaign targeted at politicians and the public, designed to convince us that methane gas is “natural” fuel that’s good for our bodies and the environment.
14 October
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Exxon used advertising as a tool to mislead consumers about the risks of its business model.Their words
The reason this testimony is so important is that it shows how Exxon used advertising as a tool to mislead consumers about the risks of its business model.
8 October
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The extreme worst-case future becoming unlikely does not mean climate change is chill now.Their words
The extreme worst-case future becoming unlikely does not mean climate change is chill now.
24 September
21 September
From one piece Why I turned down funding for my Miami story 2 beliefs · heated.world
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It means people still want confrontational, voicey climate reporting. They believe it should exist, and they’re willing to help make sure it does.
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I believe nonprofit funding models are integral to the future of journalism.
17 September
From one piece The open houses at the edge of disaster 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Sellers and real estate agents are financially incentivized to avoid learning about or disclosing climate riskTheir words
sellers and agents are incentivized not to know about climate risk or communicate it. Everyone involved only needs the property to look safe long enough to pass it along
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Surviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate riskTheir words
Surviving up to now is not evidence that a property is prepared for what comes next, she said-especially when the conditions around it are changing.
9 September
From one piece We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
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Cloud providers' AI tools are being used by oil companies to increase fossil fuel production.Their words
Amazon's technology explicitly helps oil companies increase production.
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data centers are nowhere near the biggest climate problem with artificial intelligence.
29 August
From one piece “What can I do?” The answer is still anything. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.Their words
As the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.
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How much worse the climate crisis becomes depends on how many people publicly demand systemic change now.Their words
However worse the climate crisis gets now depends on how quickly society transforms. How quickly society transforms depends on how many people demand it.
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The idea that individual action cannot help stop climate change is a more damaging lie than climate denial itself.Their words
The most harmful lie being spread about climate change today is not that it is fake. It's that nothing you can do can help save the world.
19 August
From one piece We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.Their words
But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
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Reducing emissions intensity per unit of production does not by itself lower total emissions if output volume rises.Their words
AI may help an oil company emit less pollution per barrel of oil. But if the company is producing more barrels than it otherwise would have, total emissions can still rise.
12 August
From one piece AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Public discourse shapes what form governance and regulatory accountability ultimately take.Their words
Governance inherits the shape of the discourse that informs it,
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AI had to help renewable energy four to five times more than fossil fuels just for emissions to break even.
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they found that Big Oil's use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers.
21 July
From one piece The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is uncontroversial in the scientific community to say that climate change is intensifying these explosive wildfires, particularly in the Canadian boreal forests.
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The fossil fuel industry's great political achievement is not that it has persuaded every Republican that climate change is a hoax. It is that it has made the truth unspeakable among Republican politicians-even when their constituents are choking on it.
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fossil fuel money is an immensely powerful, intensely corrupting force in American politics that limits not only what conversations we can have about massive problems, but what we can do to solve them
17 July
From one piece Another stolen summer day 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.Their words
It is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.
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Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.
15 July
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climate coverage is rapidly shrinking-and what remains is increasingly paywalled
2 July
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29 June
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