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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
"Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”?

Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”?

Is the science of climate change “settled”?

Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”?

Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”?

Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts?

Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them?

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information.

So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing.

Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over.

A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor.

If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world.

These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate.

When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance.

However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati…

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our
@EmilyYoffe
:

https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 6, 2023
Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by
@PatrickTBrown31
.

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
From thefp.com
Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 5, 2023
"Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.

Here’s how it works."

@PatrickTBrown31
with a must-read piece:

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize was won by one of the worst war criminals of the 20th century.

The year was 1973.

His name was Henry Kissinger.

This is his thread of shame.

#RedHotHistory

Henry Kissinger towards the end of his life

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Lisa Marriott @lisaamarriott.bsky.social · 3d

Well “running out of time” never a truer word!

Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 3d

The planet is on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster, but we’ve run out of time to discuss that I’m afraid.

#bbcqt @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 3d

The planet is on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster, but we’ve run out of time to discuss that I’m afraid.

#bbcqt @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 4d

The campaigners did many interviews this morning but not one with any of the main broadcast organisations.

MPs and Lords will soon be briefed on AMOC collapse and the other threats facing us. Make sure your MP attends. See www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 4d

How much longer will the BBC, ITV, Sky, C4 and C5 hide AMOC collapse from the British people?

Campaigners were at City Hall today to demand London Assembly members start planning for the UK being plunged into a far colder, drier climate which would decimate agriculture. 🧵

AMOC campaigners with the AMOC bomb outside London's City Hall

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 4d

Kindess defeats evil every time.

“I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never by conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”

Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 7d

On rare occasion there’s an accurate headline about rapid climate warming
and it’s always jarring as hell
and a reminder how much we’re being lied to on a daily basis.

Headline reading “Atlantic current at risk of collapse - plunging U.K. into never ending winter”

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Tim L 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦 @tim0.bsky.social · 8d

🅱latant 🅱ias 🅲orporation 🤬

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 8d

Feeling like the discourse around around #climate change is broken?

Tune in to this exciting new #podcast documentary, in which @laurielaybourn.bsky.social sets out a new story to make sense of our current moment.

A narrative that can help us nativigate the storm ahead ⛈️

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 8d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 8d

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels.

This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS.

Here's how they did it 🧵

Deadly NO2 air pollution levels in London in 2016 before the introduction of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 9d

Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...

Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India

India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 12d

There’s still a lot left that’s worth fighting for.

RIP Jane Goodall.

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Strategic Climate Risks Initiative @climate-risk.bsky.social · 13d

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next?

Ten years after agreeing to limit global heating to 1.5°C, the world is overshooting.

How do we navigate what comes next?

Welcome to Overshoot.

Listen to the trailer now 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer

open.spotify.com

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI
Now we know why 6 billion sea stars in the Pacific turned to slime, and, as one can surmise, it's likely that global warming and ocean heatwaves played a big role. If we kill the oceans, things will NOT go well for us.

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming - Inside Climate News

Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.

insideclimatenews.org

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 15d

Uruguay proves renewable energy isn’t a dream — it’s a choice.

And it’s entirely doable — if politicians have the guts.

A humble professor called Ramón Méndez Galain showed the so-called leaders of Europe and the US how it can be done. 🧵

Ramón Méndez Galain, the humble professor who turned little Uruguay into a renewable energy giant

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 16d

Assata also loved nature 💚

Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 16d

They called her the most dangerous woman in America.

Black Panther.

Tupac’s godmother.

Political prisoner.

Jailbreak while 8 months pregnant.

Obama’s FBI put her on the Most Wanted list but couldn’t get her.

She just passed in exile in Cuba.

This is Assata Shakur in her own words. 🧵

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 20d

Govt should offer all workers in polluting industries transition to a green career. They’re crying out for it.

Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 20d

Despicable propagandists in the billionaire media howl that oil + gas workers hate action to tackle the climate crisis.

But a major new survey shows that UK fossil fuel staff are DONE with their dying industry.

They want out — and they want a worker-led #JustTransition to another world🧵

Is the fossil fuel industry nearing it's end?

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Clean Creatives @cleancreatives.bsky.social · 21d

The ad industry has a dirty little secret. Well, actually, it's not little at all.

🌏 💰 Fossil fuels are responsible for 75% of carbon pollution, but less than 1% of global marketing spend.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21d

“Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction”

Good piece on the dystopian vision Farage, Tice & Reform are reaching for:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for | Jonathan Liew

Politicians and influencers eulogise the emirate as a place of cleanliness, convenience and low crime. The truth is far darker, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 21d

topical history 😱

Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 21d

November 17, 1938. 50,000 devotees of “Western civilisation,” “traditional family values,” “positive Christianity” (the official religion of German N*zism) and rabid anti-communism gathered to mourn the assassinated German diplomat Ernst vom Rath.

newspaper article: Make Funeral Of Vom Rath Challenge To World

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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · 21d

Reeves: "This extra runway at Gatwick will mean lower costs for a family holiday."

More happy holidays while you help burn your children's future, thanks to the lunatic UK government which is in hock to #fossilfuel lobbyists

#flightfree

#climatecrisis

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22d

Things are feeling bleak right now, so it's worth sharing how California, the world's 4th largest economy, is doubling down on offshore floating wind.

California isn't backing down on offshore wind power despite Trump cancellation

The Trump administration canceled nearly half a billion dollars in funding for California's largest offshore wind project, but the state is persevering toward its ambitious goals.

www.latimes.com

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site.

This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Grok used to say that misinformation and disinformation were greatest threat to Western civilization. Elon Musk changed the answer to something more in line with his personal views: “demographic collapse.”

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