Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)

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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What a USS 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace Gaby Flores 28 Feb 2026 • 3 min read • O 0 Comments • f 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.

I cannot stop thinking about the $345 billion judgement against Greenpeace.

We have to, essentially, phase out fossil fuels, yet for participating in a years-long fight to block one measly little pipeline, if they can't overturn this on appeal, Greenpeace will be destroyed.

How is this even real?

this would be irreversible, so let’s not let it happen. let’s use our talents to push for the phaseout of fossil fuels.

A graph displaying poll results revealing that a majority of Democrats, Independents, Republicans, Non-MAGA Republicans and non-conservative Independents/Republicans link climate change with rising home insurance costs.

Why are Democrats afraid to talk about climate, when so many people already connect the dots between fossil fuel polluting emissions and their family’s financial costs?

Home insurance is a HUGE cost for so many families, and getting worse fast!!

Outsider economic populism plus critique of the Democrats plus racism is the Trump formula, just sayin’.

WaPo: "Fossil fuel giant wins $370 million tax break for burning gas as an 'alternative fuel'"

It would be hilarious, if it weren't so deadly serious.

Fossil gas isn't "natural," let alone an "alternative fuel".

Netanyahu says Trump fulfilled his dreams in bombing Iran: Israel now has the "assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years"

Volume of crude oil and condensate transported through the Strait of Hormuz by origin million barrels per day 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 420 2024 1Q25 by destination million barrels per day eia 18 16 other Iran 14 Qatar 12 Kuwait 10 Iraq 8 UAE 6 4 2 2020 2021 2022 2023 Saudi Arabia 0 other Saudi Arabia United States Europe other Asia Japan South Korea India China 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 1Q25

China is the biggest customer of oil that flows through the strait of hormuz (Saudi Arabia is the biggest supplier)

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With the Ocean Included, the Social Cost of Carbon Doubles - Eos A new calculation includes ocean ecosystems when assessing the monetary impact of climate change.

The social cost of carbon tells policymakers how much climate change is costing humanity. But until now, calculations disregarded the ocean almost entirely.

Has it occurred to anybody that Trumps Iranian war ploy greatly benefits his friends in the domestic US oil and gas production industry? Fracked oil and gas requires high prices to be economic, and at current prices it's barely profitable, if that.

oh

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I hate the way normal historic NYC winter weather for late February is now rightly understood as a “cold snap.”

How has the planet changed THIS MUCH just in my lifetime?? I’m not *that* old. And this is geological. And there’s no end in sight.

It’s really fucking terrifying.

Abstract Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (COz) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric COz levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms. However, directly assessing this in humans is very difficult. We analysed serum bicarbonate (HCO*), calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) levels from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 3020 as indirect proxies for atmospheric COz exposure. Over this period, average bicarbonate levels in this population show an increasing trend which parallels rising atmospheric COz concentrations. Both Ca and P have decreased steadily over the same period. If these trends continue, blood bicarbonate values could be at the limit of the accepted healthy range in half a century, and Ca and P will be at the limit of their healthy ranges by the end of this century. Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects. These findings highlight the urgent need for significant reductions in anthropogenic COz emissions to safeguard public health.

“Average bicarbonate levels in [the blood of] this population show an increasing trend which parallels rising atmospheric CO2concentrations … If these trends continue, blood bicarbonate values could be at the limit of the accepted healthy range in half a century.”

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Flegal is truly one of the worst.

This is so wild. "climate groups talk too much about climate, focus on affordability instead" is out; now climate groups are talking too much about affordability (because that threatens the tech industry and data centre growth??)

they’re against anything that hurts “business,” I think

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Oil prices are going to shoot up, a inflationary shock to world economy.
Ppl will want to know why.
There is going to be a media campaign by US, Israel & Gulf Kingdoms that its coz Iran is attacking oil sites in Gulf.
Omitted will be US+ISR fearsome bombing to cripple Iran⬇️
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