Geoff Dembicki

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Alberta Separatist Pushes for Removal of Indigenous Rights at ‘Unity’ Conference ‘In a free Alberta, Aboriginal rights should not exist,’ argued Fraser Institute fellow and WeUnify panelist Bruce Pardy.

One reason why Alberta separatists want the province to leave Canada? Ending Indigenous rights.

@desmog.com reporter @daniparadis.bsky.social went to a rightwing conference in Calgary and heard truly unhinged remarks about what an independent AB would look like.

www.desmog.com/2025/10/28/a...

I'll be on this panel talking about a big disinfo scoop DeSmog is preparing to publish :0

🗓️ Join CAAD for a Pre-COP30 Disinformation Roundtable on Thursday October 30th, at 11am ET.

We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.

Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

Shazam!

Another smashing episode of Season 14 of Drilled.

I love how each conversation goes to places not covered in the chapters--

I'm learning a lot, and I was an editor of the book!

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S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

Wild to publish thousands of words about why the world has 'soured on climate politics' and not mention at all a relentless fossil fuel campaign against action or the resurgence of far-right climate denial.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago - Inside Climate News At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slide...

📰 10 years ago TODAY 📰

@insideclimatenews.org published part 1 of its bombshell "Exxon Knew" investigation.

The reporting showed how #ExxonKnew its fossil fuel business could cause "potentially catastrophic events" — but then led efforts to deceive the public and block solutions.

I'm speaking at this disinfo conference in Ottawa next month, sharing insights from @desmog.com's deep investigations into climate denial movements.

I'm told in-person tickets are close to selling out, so if you'd like to join irl get your ticket soon!

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

Newfoundland and Labrador has made it into international news for ridicule it absolutely deserves for using generative AI to “write” a report on the future of education. Great job to those MUN education profs.

Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate

What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science

✍️ for @desmog.com

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’ Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

I'm among the clean energy advocates who worked w the tech industry to accelerate renewable energy deployment a few years ago. We can't let that history distract us from what's happening today - a cynical, politically-motivated tech industry pivot toward fossil energy. www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’ Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

🚩🚩🚩 More red flags in Google land 🚩🚩🚩

The company’s president recently praised a speech by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that criticized Silicon Valley’s support of a “climate extremist agenda” and called for an expansion of “incredibly clean” coal plants to power data centers.

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’ At least six publications have taken down articles under the name Margaux Blanchard that were AI-generated

Totally insane to me that editors at Wired and Business Insider got tricked into publishing essays and feature stories from a fake freelancer generated by AI.

"After some standard correspondence about framing and payment, the editor assigned the story..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’ Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

So, the president of Google called the Trump admin's climate denialism "fantastic." Read the latest from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social at @desmog.com + @thelever.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

Thanks for flagging, it's fixed now :)

It's especially disappointing because, of the tech companies, Google seemed like one that maybe actually did care about climate change.

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’ Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”

Google is cozying up hard to Trump.

At an AI event, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he was 'offended' by the 'climate extremist agenda'.

Asked about his speech, Google president Ruth Porat replied that 'Burgum's comments were fantastic'.

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Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.

Tech bros love to say AI will fix climate change but oil companies are mostly using it to drill for more oil.

@sharonkelly.bsky.social was at an industry event where a Shell exec said 'about 70 percent of our technology effort' is on fossil fuel production.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

Today’s @theglobeandmail.com editorial cartoon is a banger

Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & Canada's Carbon Capture Con The backers of carbon capture and storage have lied to us before. Will we believe them this time?

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy.

Have a GREAT Sunday!

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Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...

The Israeli military has a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell" assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters.

I'm going to be sick
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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

A 'maddening' new bombshell report revealing the fraud of plastics recycling.

@rebeccajohn.bsky.social reports for @desmog.com on an exclusive document showing the petrochemical industry knew as early as 1974 that recycling was a false solution.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/m...

For a little bit more about what #BigOil did and how they owe YOU for what they did, tune into the latest episode of the #ClimateLens, featuring #PetroleumPapers author & investigative journalist @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com
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Thanks so much for sharing the wisdom on the #ClimateLens, Brent! Our show drops the third Wednesday each month which will be August 20! Meantime, folks can check out our latest show featuring @desmog.com's @geoffdembicki.bsky.social!

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PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep foss...

This seems like an insane conflict of interest to me.

Great reporting from @climatechangenews.com

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...

A non-exhaustive list of climate deniers that want the EPA endangerment finding repealed:

American Petroleum Institute
Project 2025
Heartland Institute
The Koch network
Steve Koonin
CO2 Coalition