Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)

E&E News: The oil island that could break Iran President Donald Trump’s allies are urging him to take control of a small spit in the Persian Gulf that controls nearly all of Iran’s oil exports.

See this island? It's a 5-mile strip of land known as Kharg Island, and it's home to Iran’s most important oil facility, an export terminal in the Persian Gulf that handles up to 90% of the nation’s crude.

I bet that Trump is going to try to seize it.

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rational = / = moderate

The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race is going to be an LGBTQ+ ally <p>Here are Jasmine Crockett's and James Talarico's track records on LGBTQ+ issues.</p>

Screenshot from here:

www.advocate.com/politics/jas...

Seeing a lot of nonsense about Talarico being the “moderate”candidate.

Does this sound “moderate” or does it sound leftist to you?

The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race is going to be an LGBTQ+ ally <p>Here are Jasmine Crockett's and James Talarico's track records on LGBTQ+ issues.</p>

www.advocate.com/politics/jas...

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/25/t...

* THE TEXAS TRIBUNE DONATE DONATE Primary Ballot Races to Watch went aimost y0% for trump in 4U44. = Repu Republicans have begun previewing the attacks they'll wage against Talarico if he wins the March 3 primary, highlighting comments he's made in the past calling God "nonbinary," arguing that the Bible sanctions abortion and stating that Christianity merely "points to the truth" along with other religions. Talarico is holding firm.

"So, what I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires," he continued. "Trans people are one percent of the population. Undocumented people are one percent of the population. Muslims are one percent of the population. We are all focused on the wrong one percent. Trans people aren't taking away our health care. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. Muslims aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians."

I’m not sure that’s the right read here? Talarico’s economics are arguably more left than Crickett’s and his cultural politics are left too.

Broadcast climate coverage declined again in 2025, a three-year drop from its 2022 peak. Coverage still rarely connects climate disasters and impacts to fossil fuels or federal policy, which matters as Trump's climate rollbacks continue to advance. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters

An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

It’s so fucking obvious.

Feel like there is a lesson here:

I've said it many times: it is striking how many of the GOP pathologies that currently dominate public life were effectively test-run in the hothouse environment of climate debate.

that’s asteroid-impact fast

(and wouldn’t it suck if, geologically, humans were just a social version of an asteroid? yes it would. end fossil fuels!)

Why do some outlets still refer to Hegseth as "Secretary of Defense"? Trump changed the agency to The Department of War and the title to "Secretary of War." Hegseth's very much earned his title, which clearly defines how he sees and carries out his job.
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YouTube video by Congressman Jared Huffman This is what happens when Christian Nationalism infiltrates the government

Our troops are being told that war with Iran is part of a biblical prophecy for Armageddon that Trump was anointed by God to carry out.

This is what happens when Christian Nationalism infiltrates the government. And people are dying because of it.

blessings to the whole extended family!

There is no better way to insulate yourself from global oil & gas price volatility than to invest in technologies that generate useful heat & power without any oil & gas input. The Trump WH attack on renewables is a direct attack on your economic security.

If the next election is between Reform and Greens, as it’s starting to look like, Greens will win

New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"

—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

You should absolutely do this, so long as you lead with compassion and commisseration. There are so few teachable moments in the climate and energy space, and this is definitely one of them.

that would be nice

think the overshoot conjecture has lost steam because the ascendant petroauthoritarians don't even care about pretending to care about global heating - just as they don't care about getting the American people on board w war, a la Bush 2, but just start bombing. 1 C］ ••• Dr. Genevieve Gue... @doct... • 9s When the geoengineering moment comes, if it does, the liberals (global liberals, but in the American sense) will be the ones pushing for it and trying to govern it. The petroauthoritarians are openly burning it all down.

screenshotting and quoting myself here 😅 because I *SO AGREE*

When the geoengineering moment comes, if it does, the liberals (global liberals, but in the American sense) will be the ones pushing for it and trying to govern it. The petroauthoritarians are openly burning it all down.

I think the overshoot conjecture has lost steam because the ascendant petroauthoritarians don’t even care about pretending to care about global heating — just as they don’t care about getting the American people on board w war, a la Bush 2, but just start bombing.

there is a lesson for the Democrats here

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.

Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.

Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

everybody knows that words matter, but the people who want to claim objectivity just pretend that they don’t

Around 2022 I made a list of CDR people over on X because I wanted to keep track of the discourse. I just went back over there for the first time in years. Literally nobody on that list is talking about carbon removal or even climate change. Now everyone’s talking about AI.

Why am I not surprised?

Sorry — I did mean million!!

What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.

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