Sarah Chow

YouTube video by Climate Town Exxon’s $600 Million Dollar Lie

New @climatetown.bsky.social video is out! I had the pleasure of chatting to Rollie + Matt ab false solutions pushed by the fossil fuel industry - they’ve made a fantastic video on Exxon’s algae debacle

(also being credited alongside incredible researchers is pretty cool too, Benihana was great)

Proud to join hundreds of other individuals + orgs calling on govts at #COP30 to recognize and act on the threat of disinformation - we need protections that defend public health, democracy and information integrity.

Read @caadcoalition.bsky.social's open letter here:

📩 caad.info/analysis/rep...

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Honestly I think I clocked this not because he invested in solar geoengineering or biofuels OR when he wrote that god awful climate book but it was when his daughter said that the most sustainable thing you could do was use less plastic straws

I know their dinner table talk is bad

People need to stop glazing Gates - just because he's a billionaire doesn't mean he knows anything about the climate

(see “appeal to authority” fallacy: when people mistakenly trust an authority figure's claims simply bc of their perceived status)

Gates just wants to make money out of this.

“Celebrity chefs who would have to recall their non-stick cookware line are against the PFAS ban! Here’s what the Incredible Hulk had to say about it.“

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the… The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

Sometimes I feel like I work at The Onion. Like, my article today could easily have run under some version of this 👇

Trump Heroically Saves Whales From Wind Farms By Ending All Research Studying Whales and Wind Farms

@bencollins.bsky.social

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy | Request PDF Request PDF | Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy | Oil and gas companies have claimed to be part of the transition to renewable energy. Our analysis of the energy assets ...

⛽Top 250 oil + gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewables.

Fossil fuel interests have paid millions in PR to mislead the public that they're "part of the solution" or "integrated energy companies"

🎯Antonio Bontempi + Marcel Llavero Pasquina have recently published work proving otherwise.

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.

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"

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

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

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!

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 🤷‍♀️

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!

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.

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 ...

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...

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"

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.

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.

Sam Altman is just blurting out words now

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

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 Save Share Gift this article Listen to this article 7 min 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 Paul Karp Paul Karp NSW political correspondent Apr 1, 2025 – 6.42pm Save Share Gift this article Listen to this article 5 min 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.

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...

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 misin...

THIS IS A BIG DEAL 🔥⛽🌏💀 MAKE A SUBMISSION !

The Australian Senate now has a Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy investigating climate disinfo orgs & funders

Due by 12 Sept 2025 here:

www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

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#auspol #NZpol #AtlasNetwork

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.

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...

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

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!)

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.

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...

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

🚨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***

sydney 😭❤️‍🔥

lol

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

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

📣 Offsetting 📣 doesn't 📣 work ‼️

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

Exxon has no place in the climate space.