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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1982, #FossilFuel company #Exxon (now #ExxonMobil) produced an internal report on #CarbonDioxide and the #GreenhouseEffect. Its scientists predicted #GlobalWarming of 3-6° by 2100. We need a #ClimateNuremberg — these companies knew & they lied for profit.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/trump-iran-war-fossil-fuel-policy-environment. Just imagine if the #US & #global #economies were far more dependent on #renewable #energy, & far less dependent on #fossilfuels, which neither Donald #Trump nor the #fossilfuel #companies would like. Would the #USA & #Israel be at #war with #Iran, would global #markets, #firms & #households be concerned about volatile energy #prices - would we be in this mess of Trump's & Netanyahu's making?
"Record wind output helps shield the UK from worst of Iran war fallout."
Meanwhile, Trump is making sure Americans have no choice but pay for highly polluting gas by blocking the use of renewable energy.
#iran #war #fossilfuel #gas #climatechange #renewable #wind #economy #pollution #uspol #trump
There are always signs and portents about all sorts of things, some are distant and vague, some are close and sharp
Here we have a radioactive red blaring klaxon saying "the #USA is a country in decline":
"The #Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French #energy giant #TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore #windfarms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue #fossilfuel projects in the #US"
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
All the more reason to get off #fossilfuel #fascism pronto https://www.huffpost.com/entry/financial-markets-iran-war_n_69bbb6d3e4b05b29d3cab5a8 #renewables #solar #sustainability #climate #iran #iranwar #trump
It's simpler to defeat #iran and #russia than anyone would think. Just move away from #fossilfuel .
The war against #climatechange is the one we should be fighting. Imagine just a few days of war money going toward research grants for renewables.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/116243526360548942
Some brains would explode if we were to try implementing any of this in the USA:
Sri Lanka has declared every Wednesday a holiday for public institutions to conserve fuel.
In Myanmar, private vehicles are allowed only to operate on alternates days.
Vietnam called on people to "ride bicycles, carpool, use public transport, and "restrict personal vehicle use when unnecessary."
#war #oil #iran #fossilfuel #car
BBC News - Sri Lanka declares Wednesdays off as Asian countries try to conserve fuel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5n58rlnzo
From 2021... This started before #Trump, but things are way worse now!
#AntiProtestLaws Threaten #Indigenous and #Climate Movements
“#CriticalInfrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting #PipelineProtesters.
Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021
"In 2016 as a member of Congress, #DebHaaland stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the #StandingRockSioux Reservation against construction of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. Today, as the first #NativeAmerican to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the #FirstAmendment rights of the protesters she joined in the past.
"With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.
"Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'
"Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas #pipelines. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as #ALEC, a powerful lobbying group funded by #FossilFuel companies like #ExxonMobil and #Shell.
"Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under #Ohio’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.
"Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down #SafetyCones and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.
"The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the #BayouBridge charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.
"Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in #Minnesota, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In #Oklahoma organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.
"The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of #HomelandSecurity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as #DomesticTerrorists and violent extremists in order to justify further #surveillance and #policing. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '#AnimalRights / #EnvironmentalExtremism,' describing even #NonviolentProtesters as #extremists.
"At Standing Rock, a private security firm [#Blackwater] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the #KeystoneXLPipeline protests in 2018, #DHS agents held an '#AntiTerrorism training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the #FarRight militant group the #ThreePercenters have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.
"To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural #GasPipelines and experience higher #CancerRisk due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the #SiouxTribe’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.
"The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating #FirstAmendment challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.
"As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."
#BrennanCenter #Authoritarianism #Fascism #NoDAPL #NoKXL #PipelineProtests #WaterIsLife #ACAB #ErikPrince #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ExxonLied #Blackwater #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRockSioux
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/11/reaching-net-zero-by-2050-cheaper-for-uk-than-one-fossil-fuel-crisis
#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #NetZero #fossilfuel #fossilfuels
This makes explicit why the #FossilFuel industry is pushing so hard for "carbon capture" and "hydrogen with #CCS": It's an excuse to keep pumping oil and gas.
"Aramco is heavily investing in #CarbonCapture technology and aims to produce blue ammonia, which has a lower carbon footprint compared to traditional ammonia."
BUT
"It is very difficult to identify any off-take agreement in Europe [for blue hydrogen]... and they explained it's because of the high cost."
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116205019992662625
For green energy deniers:
"Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth."
#environment #fossilfuel #gas #oil #renewable #pollution #energy #climatechange #price #economy
Half of world’s #CO2 #emissions come from just 32 #fossilfuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging #climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
Saudi #Aramco was the biggest state-controlled polluter and #ExxonMobil, #Chevron, #Shell, #ConocoPhillips and #BP -- the top five emitting investor-owned companies.
State-owned fossil fuel producers made up 17 of the top 20 emitters in the #CarbonMajors report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissions-fossil-fuel-firms-study
ICYMI #CPPIB "risks the future value of our pensions by locking contributors into #fossilfuel investments that will exacerbate runaway #climatechange and destabilize the economy and financial system.The pension manager risks the future value of our pensions by locking contributors into fossil fuel investments as the rest of the world pivots to #climate solutions." https://www.nfu.ca/why-im-suing-canadas-largest-pension-fund-manager/
#CorporateCapture #BigOil #WaterisLife #cdnpoli #ClimateCriminals #PublicLiability
"In this episode of EcoFactors, Lisa interviews President and CEO of NB Lung Melanie Langille about the lung-related perils related to the proposed new massive fossil fuel development in New Brunswick on the east coast of Canada. Did you know that 1 in 5 New Brunswicker's live with a predisposed lung condition and that burning fossil fuels puts these people at risk first? "
"Last Wednesday, scientists said that we are closer than ever to the point after which global heating cannot be stopped.
Just one day later, Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, announced the elimination of the Obama-era endangerment finding which underpins federal climate regulations."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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"Multiple estimates find that 2025 was one of the warmest years on record for the planet, exceeded only by 2024 and 2023. Indeed, Berkeley Earth reports that 'The warming spike observed in 2023 to 2025 has been extreme and suggests an acceleration in the rate of Earth’s warming.'"
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/turning-our-back-on-clean-energy
"In other news, the Trump administration has gone to war against any and all efforts to limit climate change. The administration is also imposing a 'blockade' against wind and solar projects, delaying or even revoking permits, whether or not these projects have received federal subsidies."
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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"The Trump administration hates science and science-based policies in general; look at its war on vaccines, which will end up causing an enormous number of deaths. Its assault on universities threatens the best scientific research centers in the world. Its irrational treatment of immigrants means the best and brightest from the around the world no longer want to come here."
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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"But in the case of energy, its destructive policy largely reflects the corrupting influence of big money."
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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"Climate is one of those classic areas where Trump, I think, doesn’t care that much. We know he hates wind turbines, and likes the coal guys because they kiss up to him.
But that’s about the extent of his interest in climate policy."
~ David Roberts
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/david-roberts-interview-endangerment-finding
"A small handful of people are making a whole lot of money in sticking with the old dirty energy sources. This administration has intentionally set back progress on wind and solar projects, as well as on the electric vehicles that much of the world is transitioning over to, in order to prop up a few wealthy tycoons at the expense of the rest of us."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EPA #CleanAir #FossilFuel #oil #EconomicElites #environment
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/trump-climate-change-clean-air.html
The #Trump admin on Thursday plans to announce the repeal of a scientific finding that #GreenhouseGas #emissions endanger human #health, removing the legal basis for federal #climate #regulations.
The move represents the most sweeping #ClimateChange policy rollback by the admin to date, after a string of regulatory cuts & other moves intended to unfetter #FossilFuel development & stymie the rollout of #CleanEnergy.
#law #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #EndangermentFinding
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-set-revoke-basis-us-climate-regulation-2026-02-12/
Pressure Builds to Ban ‘Blatantly False’ Ads
"Both [#Canada's] federal government and B.C.’s provincial government are facing increased pressure to put an end to misleading #FossilFuel #advertising."
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/06/26/Pressure-Builds-Ban-Blatantly-False-Ads/
June 2024:
"#Edinburgh’s city council voted to ban #FossilFuel advertisements on city property, undermining the ability of not only oil companies, but also car manufacturers, airlines and cruise ships, to promote their products. The ban targeted arms manufacturers as well."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/06/15/fossil-fuel-advertising-bans-edinburgh/
No #fossilfuel #separatism thewalrus.ca/albertas-separatist-movement-is-a-national-security-threat/ #canada #trump #fascism #alberta #climate #climatechange
#ClimateDiary ‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
This is really worth reading - captures local people’s experiences of #Flooding, clearly centres #FossilFuel burning as a core cause of increases, and also introduced me to a new, useful term that i have to log here: #ClimateNegligence
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The Saturday read
'Homes may have to be
abandoned': how
climate crisis has
reshaped Britain's
flood risk
Damian Carrington
and Steven Morris
Welcome to
SOMERSET
Erected by Somerset County Council in the yea
of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth ll 2002
ed with Atlantis
Flood
This is what oil corporations do: walk away and leave behind soil and groundwater contamination that taxpayers have to pay to clean up.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup
IT'S A LAW
"#Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring #FossilFuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by #ClimateChange.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott allowed the bill to become law without his signature late Thursday, saying he is very concerned about the costs and outcome of the small state taking on “Big Oil” alone in what will likely be a grueling legal fight. "
Parking on biodiversity while racing to the beach
"There are concerns extra people and cars are putting pressure on the natural environment...If we're not careful overtourism will actually destroy the character, the amenity, the natural environment, the beauty of the area that we've got to sell."
"We don't want damage to the vegetation.There's also increased risk of fire from starting underneath their vehicles so please park in the designated areas."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/busy-beaches-southern-wa/106211286
Image: "The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions has spotted cars parking on the side of the access road into Greens Pool in Denmark. "(Supplied: DBCA /ABC)
#biodiversity #beach #cars #CarStorage #FossilFuel #tourism #overtourism #coast #schoolholidays #OverCrowded #flora #destruction #limits #NPs
Using my rule of thumb to always immediately look at what’s under the ground when someone invades someone else: What, you may ask yourself, accounts for the US government’s intense interest in the nation of Venezuela?
#USpol #oil #FossilFuel
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the-bad-guys
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Showing top oil reserves in the world with Venezuela looking pretty good
Big Polluters have captured €17 billion in public subsidies for failed carbon capture technology – because fossil fuel lobbyists are setting the agenda https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/big-polluters-have-captured-eu17-billion-public-subsidies-failed-carbon-capture-technology
Mapping the money behind carbon capture https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/mapping-money-behind-carbon-capture
#environment #pollution #CarbonCapture #subsidies #fossilfuel #fossilfuels
Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protection-sought-for-new-mexico-flower-threatened-by-fossil-fuel-industry-2025-12-04/
#NewMexico #environment #wildlife #EndangeredSpecies #fossilfuel #fossilfuels
350 Dead in 10 days.
The terrible air quality has forced authorities to close schools, universities and offices to reduce exposure. Hospitals are reporting rising numbers of cases of respiratory and cardiac complications across the country.
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I am not trying to imply that any of this is simple to solve or deal with. I think the analysis of ultimate outcomes if we stay on a particular #energy usage trajectory is relatively simple because it's just about energy balance, but what to do about it is a significantly different matter bringing in the full range of complexity of human endeavor. I don't pretend to have answers there, but naturally I have a lot of thoughts and I'll share a couple more.One reason I'm not solidly in the #renewables camp, aside from the energy blindness argument I posted previously, is that virtually everything we do right now is deeply dependent on #fossilfuel. Even an unforeseen 1% deficit in #oil production could have catastrophic effects across the planet. I think we have no choice but to give up this source of energy eventually--it's finite, after all, and we seem to be pulling up the last feasibly-accessible bits of it as we speak--but we're inviting disaster if we're not circumspect about how we go about it.
To elaborate a bit, one area of risk I know a bit about because of my simulation work is that so-called "baseload generation" of electricity cannot be done with current renewable technologies (that I know of) aside from hydroelectric and geothermal. Baseload generation refers to the consistent baseline of energy required to make things go--think hospitals or water treatment plants and pumping stations, the sewage system, things we deem necessary to have always going. Without adequate baseload generation we risk the entire electric grid collapsing and everyone losing electric power and everything that depends on it for long periods of time across large geographic areas simultaneously, a dystopian apocalypse film made real for a large number of people.
Nuclear (18%), hydroelectric (6%), coal (20%) and natural gas (40%) are the main baseload generation technologies in the US energy mix (from https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3). Geothermal could be baseload but is
It's a hairball of a problem.
That's why what I'm really on board with is #degrowth, or in the absence of that not adding more to growth. In the long term we have no choice but to abandon "make #GDP go up" as an #economic imperative for governments, so we might as well drive there in the most systematic and harm-minimizing manner we can. Anything we can do to reduce harm in the meantime--including embracing renewable energy sources--is great and we should do all of them, but I can't hang my hopes on what I see as stopgaps. One of the most immediate and effective things we can do is take the pressure off the energy-generating system by not increasing energy demand exponentially year after year. That's where I am in my thinking right now anyway.
Unless we develop that perfectly-insulated planetary exhaust pipe, I guess!