Climate Change: Why Facts Don't Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMCL_ooDWJ0

#climatescience #climatechange #climatecrisis #climatecatastrophe #climatedenialism #propaganda #capitalism #bigoil #fossilfuels #polycrisis #polykrisis

" #Texas #fracking #billionaire brothers fuel #rightwing media with millions of dollars - Farris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund #climate denialism education, conservative politicians and pro- #FossilFuel projects

Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an array of evangelical projects and conservative Texas politicians.

The fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks have each doled out millions of dollars through separate foundations over the last decade to a number of high-profile conservative and religious groups including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.

“Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/05/texas-fracking-billionaire-brothers-prageru-daily-wire

#FossilFuels #FarRight #Extremism #US #USPolitics #Fascism #ClimateDenial #ClimateDenialism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klimakrise #Klima #Politik

"As early as the 1970s, #Exxon’s scientists predicted that the firm’s #fossilfuel products could lead to #globalwarming with “dramatic #environmental effects before the year #2050.” Yet, as has been well documented, Exxon officials responded by investing company funds in casting doubt on climate change research, even financing think tanks focused on #ClimateDenialism. Had they instead broadcast their scientists’ findings and worked to speed the transition to alternative fuels, the world would be in a far less precarious position today."

#ExxonKnew #ExxonLied

#ClimateDenialism: “The #CleanAirAct reduces #pollution,” he said. “It does not provide a #safehaven for international #corporations to dissemble and #lie about their #products, which is what the #defense’s argument boils down to here.”
#NationalizeFossilFuels #DefenseProductionAct #AbolishTheFilibuster #keepitintheground #GreenNewDealForHealth #ProduceHeatPumps

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/fossil-fuel-firms-continue-to-try-to-dismiss-climate-lawsuit-in-hawaii/

all too familiar 😩
"Far-right outsider takes shock lead in Argentinian primary elections - Javier Milei, an admirer of Donald Trump, thinks the climate crisis is a lie and wants sale of human organs to be legalised

"The far-right populist Javier Milei rocked Argentina’s political establishment on Sunday by emerging as the leader in primary elections to choose presidential candidates for the October general election.

Milei, an admirer of the former US president Donald Trump, says Argentina’s central bank should be abolished, thinks the climate crisis is a lie, characterises sex education as a ploy to destroy the family, believes the sale of human organs should be legal and wants to make it easier to own handguns.

Votes were still being counted late on Sunday but analysts agreed that the upstart candidate, who gained notoriety – and a rockstar-like following – by angrily ranting against the “political caste”, did much better than expected and is a real contender for the presidency.

With about 92% of polling locations reporting, Milei had about 30% of the total vote, according to official results. The candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change, were at 28% and the current governing coalition, Union for the Homeland, had 27%."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/argentina-far-right-populist-javier-milei-shock-lead-primary-presidential-elections

#Argentina #Politics #FarRight #Fascism #Trump #LatinAmerica #SouthAmerica #ClimateDenial #ClimateDenialism #Populism

The nazi-joke-goverment has started to undermine the work Sanna Marin and her government made for climate action on municipal level. Opposition parties and municipal officials are baffled by this, as the savings achieved are minimal and the law had only put into operation and was really popular. #ClimateEmegency #naziJokeGovernment #politics #politicsFI #finland #climateDelay #climateDenialism #climateAction #defunded

"Dismissal often manifests as ridicule or erasure of the climate crisis in discussions about extreme weather. This happens not because individual journalists fail to make the link, but because they know their newspaper’s ‘party line’."
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/a-hot-mess-behind-the-scenes-of-the
#climatecrisis #climateDenialism

ChatGPT gets it right on climate denialism

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/19/opinion/chatgpt-climate-denialism

“Climate denialism is dangerous because it can impede progress towards addressing the climate crisis, which is one of the most urgent and pressing issues facing our planet today.”…

“Some may have ideological, political or economic motivations to oppose action on climate change. For instance, some corporations and industries that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions may fear regulations or financial costs associated with reducing emissions.”

ChatGPT reveals an impressive “understanding” of the climate denialism movement, writes commentator Gerald Kutney.

#AI #climatedenialism #dangerous #crisis #economicmotivations #corporations #astroturf

"It's worth noting that Canada's #NeoDenialists like former Dragon and orphan oil well creator #WBrettWilson have (at least for now) skipped over the part where #JewishSpaceLasers are to blame for wildfires as American congresswoman #MarjorieTaylorGreene claims but make no mistake: this is the quality and calibre of the new #ClimateDenialism in 2023."

Podcast: https://www.podcastics.com/episode/243873/link/

#abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Wildfire

I suppose we should be grateful Canada's #NeoDenialists like
former Dragon and serial oil well orphaner #WBrettWilson have (at least for now) skipped over the part where #JewishSpaceLasers are to blame but make no mistake: this is the quality and calibre of the new #ClimateDenialism in 2023.

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#ClimateChange #Smoke #Wildfires #abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis #Climate

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson honours MP whose climate group called global warming ‘welcome’
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/boris-johnson-honours-global-warming-policy-foundation-andrea-jenkyns-gwpf-climate-crisis/ #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenialism

The far right fiercely protecting the economic interests of the rich gain more powerful as the impacts of climate crisis begin to approach catastrophic levels.

Climate denialism together with dehumanization of climate scientists, activists and refugees fuel a cycle of hatred as right-wing governments shut down climate policies and build walls, effectively worsening the global situation.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/hard-right-climate-catastrophe-extreme-weather-refugees

#climatecrisis #farright #extremeright #fascism #climatedenialism

My review of the book 'Climate Obstruction' was published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

The book brings out how systematically and blatantly various parties, mainly the US fossil fuel industry, have sought to distort the results of #ClimateScience and have been spreading this nonsense for decades. It also explains how all this works in practice, from the system level down to individual settings.

#ClimateDenialism
#ClimateChange

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01685-6

Climate delay discourses, often in combination with #climatedenialism and climate-impact scepticism, are used to erode public and political support for climate policies.
We found 12 #ClimateDelay discourses that can be grouped by their underlying logic into those that:
- redirect responsibility;
- push non-transformative solutions;
- emphasize the downsides of climate policies;
- surrender to #climatechange.

Discourses of climate delay, CUP, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/discourses-of-climate-delay/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7

#IPPC #IPPCreport #fucked

“White men are the super spreaders of climate denialism”

love the picture

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/03/07/news/white-men-super-spreaders-climate-denialism
#ClimateChange #ClimateDenialism #PetroMasculinity

Things can be so damned gloomy and dark it's easy to forget how much has changed in just the last few years alone. Renewables are competing and defeating fossil fuels in an increasing number of arenas and becoming a clear dollars-and-cents winner. That's a one way trip. Classic #ClimateDenialism is functionally dead & more humans come to climate awareness every year. That too is a one way trip.

Feb 28th Zoomcast, 7pm. RSVP: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/acoc_5_1_climate_optimism_with_chris_turner

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#ClimateChange #ClimateOptimism

Dishonest actors like
#DonValley MP #NickFletcher have moved on from denying #ClimateChange outright but now ragefarm/fearmonger/outright lie about solutions like #15MinuteCity. We're in a #GlobalEnergyTransition. We have no time for utter BS like this.

Learn more about the ongoing devolution of #ClimateDenialism in our next #TheClimateLens podcast episode coming soon.

Check out our previous show here: https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/the-alberta-transition-222208/

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#onpoli #cdnpoli

#TrevorHancock: Morgan's columns should come with a health warning

#FossiFuel advocate #GwynMorgan’s columns are an example of ‘discourses of delay,’ which argue that we need #OilAndGas to fuel our society and change is impossible — thus delaying action on #ClimateChange.

#ClimateDenialism

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trevor-hancock-morgans-columns-should-come-with-a-health-warning-6452653

@ProPublica

Good journalism! Thank you.

It’s interesting to see a lot of fossil fuel companies give relatively high percentages of their campaign contributions to election deniers.

Seems election denial and climate science denial go hand-in-hand.

#ElectionDeniersAreTraitors #electionDenial #climateDenialism #climateDeniers

@benjaminhccarr

A lot of us are concerned about the rise of overt nazism on twitter and rightly so.

But this article puts a light on a perhaps more long-term problem as this evil wealthy supervillain wrecks havoc...
#climatedenialism #climatechange #climatejustice