Denialism

Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary “Carbon Capture”

By June Sekera and Neva Goodwin | – After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.” This strategic pivot was on display at the […]

Climate Crisis

Mars Attacks Earth! And we’re the Martians in this Picture

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com) – Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla” sounds? Well, let me tell you that they do — or rather did when they were devastating London. I know that because I recently reread H.G. Wells’s 1898 novel […]

Climate Crisis

Top 5 Loopholes left by COP26 for Big Carbon that need to be Closed

The Conversation

By Jeremy Moss | – For the Glasgow climate summit to be judged a success, a key outcome had to be that parties agree the majority of the world’s fossil fuel reserves need to be left in the ground. As recent research suggests, 89% of coal and 59% of gas reserves need to stay in […]

Climate Crisis

Oil and Gas Corporations are waging a Climate Disinformation Campaign on Twitter during COP26

The Conversation

By Jill Hopke | – When oil and gas companies took to Twitter during the first half of the U.N.’s Glasgow climate conference, they often presented themselves as part of the solution to climate change and talked about energy security. In many ways, their messaging on social media provides a window into how these companies […]

Denialism

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

The Conversation

By Benjamin Franta | – Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change – and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they knew about it. I pored over […]

Climate Crisis

The Path to a Livable Future: Or Will Rich Corporations Trash the Planet?

Tomdispatch

By Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual track […]

Climate Crisis

Climate change: Saudi Arabia and OPEC resisting action on fossil fuels

Brian Whitaker

( al-Bab.com) – Leaked documents show that Saudi Arabia and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have been lobbying to water down a crucial scientific report on climate change. News of the lobbying comes just days before the start of the COP26 conference on international action to slow down global warming. Ahead of the […]

censorship

Oil Giant BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners

Open Democracy

By Martin Williams, Lucas Amin and Gabriel Pogrund | ( Opendemocracy.net ) – Oil and gas giant BP spent years spying on peaceful climate campaigners – and even hired a private intelligence firm set up by a former MI6 agent. A new report by openDemocracy, published on Monday, reveals a “shocking” web of surveillance that […]

Climate Crisis

Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

The Conversation

By Taha Yasseri and Mary Sanford | – Ten years ago, when we ranked the most controversial articles on Wikipedia, George W. Bush was at the top of the list with global warming at number five. The article on global warming has now been re-titled as climate change, but this remains among the most polarising […]