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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · 4d

lots of ✍️ people with ✍️ higher degrees ✍️ and audacity ✍️ that still ✍️ dispute climate ✍️ change

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · 5d

Wow a submission from Mr Disinformation himself 😍

(aka australian flavoured heartland institute)

📩 pls dm me if you want to dig through these documents together - would love to hear what people think!

(https://www.desmog.com/institute-public-affairs/)

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · 5d

Going through submissions to Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change + Energy.

Big mixed bag of entries from people *concerned* about disinformation and people unfortunately *swindled* by disinformation.

Some you can just guess without even clicking into them 🤷‍♀️

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · 8d

I've been listening (and knitting) to the hearing on Youtube and have found Matt Canavan's rebuttals to his party's astroturfing really interesting.

It's almost like seeing the research play out in real time - would love to chat to you about this!

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · Aug 12

We were talking about how the oil industry in California will never be its former self today. How production is just not coming back no matter what the regulatory climate. And I found this image from the OC register from back in 2014.

Says it all.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

We have a brand new paper, again by a team of crack undergrads, about the networks of these anti-wind lawyers. The Marcella case happened to be first. 10/n

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-e...

Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States

Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against ...

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 25

According to Timmons, the lawyers suing the lab, Nancie + Roger Marzulla "are hard-right libertarian lawyers who have been fighting major environmental laws since the 80s"

"They have connections to the Reagan + Trump Administration, oil producers, tobacco firms, Koch, Heartland insitute, etc"

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ridiculous - I hope Brown stands up to this like Harvard has.

This lab produces leading work on climate obstruction - it's helped me understand the organized, global, network of anti-renewables astroturfing - across the US, Australia, etc.

It's importance is exactly why they're being targeted.

Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 23

Sam Altman is just blurting out words now

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Photographer: Kyodo/AP Images
So energy …

Fusion’s gonna work.

Fusion is going to work. Um. On what time frame?

Soon. Well, soon there will be a demonstration of net-gain fusion. You then have to build a system that doesn’t break. You have to scale it up. You have to figure out how to build a factory—build a lot of them—and you have to get regulatory approval. And that will take, you know, years altogether? But I would expect [Helion 20] will show you that fusion works soon.

20 Helion, a clean energy startup backed by Altman, Dustin Moskovitz and Reid Hoffman, focuses on developing nuclear fusion.

In the short term, is there any way to sustain AI’s growth without going backward on climate goals?

Yes, but none that is as good, in my opinion, as quickly permitting fusion reactors. I think our particular kind of fusion is such a beautiful approach that we should just race toward that and be done.

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Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · Aug 18

The chair of the Climate Change Authority is advising the govt on policy that affects the demand and supply of carbon credits WHILE ALSO employed by a firm that describes itself as "Generating high-integrity carbon credits".

www.afr.com/policy/energ...

screenshot: https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/kean-urged-to-quit-climate-job-over-obvious-conflict-of-interests-20240813-p5k229

Kean urged to quit climate job over ‘obvious conflict of interests’
John Kehoe and Hannah Wootton
Aug 13, 2024 – 5.04pm

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Conflict of interest perceptions mean Matt Kean should choose between his job as chairman of the federal government’s Climate Change Authority or working for a private energy transition fund led by a former Macquarie banker, a former top public servant and a fan of the ex-NSW treasurer says.

Wollemi Capital stands to make millions of dollars from investing in carbon credits – the same emissions offsets generated from carbon farming that the authority advises the government on and over which it influences the value.

Chris Bowen, left, Matt Kean and Anthony Albanese at a press conference to announce his appointment in June. Alex Ellinghausen

The Australian Financial Review revealed on Monday that the former NSW Liberal treasurer and energy minister had become director of strategic partnerships and regulatory affairs at the climate and energy transition investment firm, less than two months after being appointed CCA chairman.

The twin roles immediately triggered conflict-of-interest alarm bells among conservative MPs and public integrity campaigners.

Stephen Bartos, a former head of the NSW budget watchdog and an ex-federal finance department deputy secretary, said he was a “fan” of Mr Kean’s past work on climate policy but that he should choose between the public and private sector jobs.

screenshot: https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/matt-kean-has-material-interests-in-carbon-credit-schemes-20250401-p5lo42

Matt Kean has ‘material interests’ in carbon credit schemes
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Apr 1, 2025 – 6.42pm

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Climate Change Authority chairman Matt Kean has material personal interests in three agricultural projects generating carbon credits through green investment firm Wollemi Capital, while at the same time advising the federal government about carbon farming and emissions targets.

Kean, the former NSW Liberal treasurer appointed to the CCA by the Albanese government in June 2024, declared the interests to CCA’s register of material interests when he took on the role. The Australian Financial Review obtained Kean’s declarations to the register under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · Aug 12

From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

Incredible facts about Barrow Island
There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve.

It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth.

Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago.

US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 11

But why place climate denier matt canavan on the committee 🙄 Are they going to investigate him?

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 11

Australia's entrenchment with climate disinfo stretches a lot further than this - as per work from @pennytangey.bsky.social @roycerk2.bsky.social @commsdeclare.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au @ketanjoshi.co @timinclimate.bsky.social (and many more!)

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 11

The inquiry is largely pushed in light of the astroturfing going on in Australia, as studied by @jeremywalker.bsky.social and reported on by @cameronwilson.bsky.social

reneweconomy.com.au/senate-launc...

Senate launches inquiry into who is funding fake astroturf anti-renewables groups

The Senate has launched an inquiry into the dark money funding anti-renewables astroturfing groups, and deliberately misleading anti-climate campaigns.

reneweconomy.com.au

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨Folks in the Australian climate disinformation space! 🚨

The Australian Senate has established a committee for information integrity, and is currently inviting orgs and individuals to make submissions.

shorturl.at/WXOGO

The deadline for submissions is ***September 12***

Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy

On 30 July 2025, the Senate appointed a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy, to inquire into the prevalence and impacts of misinformation and disinformation which relates to climate change and energy. The co

shorturl.at

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 3

sydney 😭❤️‍🔥

Jo Palmer @josephinepalmer.bsky.social · Aug 3

Incredible footage of the march across Sydney Harbour Bridge #FreePalestine

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 2

lol

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · Aug 2

Very satisfying seeing Chris Minns totally humiliated www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge

Palestine Action Group claims up to 50,000 people will take part in the march which is scheduled to take place on Sunday

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣 Offsetting 📣 doesn't 📣 work ‼️

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 31

We should come to terms with the fact that forest, shrubland, grassland, and wetland ecosystems cannot offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions.

But we should still protect and restore them for biodiversity and other ecosystem benefits.

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience

The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

www.nature.com

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 1

Would you take money from the bacon factory if you were trying to become vegetarian?

Exxon has no place in the climate space.

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 1

Civic Exchange taking money from fossil fuel companies that, to this day, continue to lobby against, stall and deter climate action undermines the integrity of their organization as an “independent think tank that uses research to address environmental challenges”.

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 1

When faced with their history of climate obstruction, Exxon claimed HKFP were "debating the past" - their obstruction and lobbying continues on today.

They are one of the top companies lobbying against climate action.

US oil giants top list of lobby offenders holding back climate action

Report into lobbying tactics names ExxonMobil and Chevron as worst, while carmaker Toyota takes third

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Chow @sarahchow.bsky.social · Aug 1

Exxon replied with the claim that they invest $6bn a year on false solutions like hydrogen, CCS and “bio”fuels

These are technologies that **only work** with the continued use of fossil fuels.

They stand in direct opposition to a fossil fuel wind down.

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