Geoff Dembicki
@geoffdembicki.bsky.social
Investigative climate reporter and global managing editor with @desmog.bsky.social. I wrote THE PETROLEUM PAPERS, named a best book of the year by The Washington Post. https://www.geoffdembicki.com/
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‘The Rig’ Creator Adapting Geoff Dembicki’s Bombshell Investigation Into Fossil Fuel Companies & Climate Change For TV
Geoff Dembicki's 'The Petroleum Papers' is being adapted for TV by 'The Rig' creator David MacPherson.
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Hollywood has struggled to come up with a climate movie or TV show that isn't a dystopian thriller or obtuse metaphor.
So I'm thrilled that @macpherzone.bsky.social will be adapting my book about oil companies covering up climate secrets for New Pictures.
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So I'm thrilled that @macpherzone.bsky.social will be adapting my book about oil companies covering up climate secrets for New Pictures.
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Here's what we learned at @desmog.com spending the last year reporting on MAGA and its allies across the US, UK, Europe and Canada.
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How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next
Across the U.S., UK, Europe, and Canada, Donald Trump and his allies supercharged climate denial, boost fossil fuels, and fomented political chaos.
www.desmog.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here's what we learned at @desmog.com spending the last year reporting on MAGA and its allies across the US, UK, Europe and Canada.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/22/h...
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Amazon just sponsored an AI energy summit chock full of climate deniers and fossil fuel evangelists, never mind that it promotes itself as a global corporate climate leader....
Just how far did the summit go to promote fossil fuel-powered AI? Find out @desmog.com 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/a...
Just how far did the summit go to promote fossil fuel-powered AI? Find out @desmog.com 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/a...
Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers
Speakers at the event previously said "there is no climate crisis" and there is "lively debate" on climate science.
www.desmog.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Amazon just sponsored an AI energy summit chock full of climate deniers and fossil fuel evangelists, never mind that it promotes itself as a global corporate climate leader....
Just how far did the summit go to promote fossil fuel-powered AI? Find out @desmog.com 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/a...
Just how far did the summit go to promote fossil fuel-powered AI? Find out @desmog.com 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/a...
It should be way bigger news that far-right politicians from Europe, some of whose parties actively flirt with Nazi slogans, came to NYC to party with Young Republicans.
Oh yeah, and the event was co-organized by a group linked to Viktor Orban.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g... @desmog.com
Oh yeah, and the event was co-organized by a group linked to Viktor Orban.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g... @desmog.com
Group Linked to Hungary's Orban Co-organises Young Republican Gala
Far-right European politicians and their U.S. allies celebrated their growing bonds and shared goals at the lavish party — "we are in the trenches together".
www.desmog.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It should be way bigger news that far-right politicians from Europe, some of whose parties actively flirt with Nazi slogans, came to NYC to party with Young Republicans.
Oh yeah, and the event was co-organized by a group linked to Viktor Orban.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g... @desmog.com
Oh yeah, and the event was co-organized by a group linked to Viktor Orban.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g... @desmog.com
New @desmog.com story shows how pro-oil and gas 'news' is manufactured.
The Globe & Mail reported on an LNG report without noting the report's author works for a fossil fuel lobby group.
The group even tells clients it can 'get your story told' in Cdn media.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/m...
The Globe & Mail reported on an LNG report without noting the report's author works for a fossil fuel lobby group.
The group even tells clients it can 'get your story told' in Cdn media.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/m...
Media Pushing Pro-LNG Report Didn’t Mention Author Worked for Oil and Gas Lobby Firm
Several Canadian media outlets gave prominent coverage in December to a new report arguing that exporting massive amounts of natural gas from British Columbia to Asia will be good for the global fight...
www.desmog.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New @desmog.com story shows how pro-oil and gas 'news' is manufactured.
The Globe & Mail reported on an LNG report without noting the report's author works for a fossil fuel lobby group.
The group even tells clients it can 'get your story told' in Cdn media.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/m...
The Globe & Mail reported on an LNG report without noting the report's author works for a fossil fuel lobby group.
The group even tells clients it can 'get your story told' in Cdn media.
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/m...
I know people don't need more reasons to dunk on Matthew Yglesias, but the fact that he describes Mark Carney as representing 'the Left in Canada' is totally hilarious.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I know people don't need more reasons to dunk on Matthew Yglesias, but the fact that he describes Mark Carney as representing 'the Left in Canada' is totally hilarious.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
At this point AI expansion and fossil fuel growth are basically the same thing.
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel age
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At this point AI expansion and fossil fuel growth are basically the same thing.
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
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Story by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social that I somehow missed during my research for this story. It helps explain why Danielle Smith, a former oil industry lobbyist, is keen to grant accreditation to the Peterson Academy
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December 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Story by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social that I somehow missed during my research for this story. It helps explain why Danielle Smith, a former oil industry lobbyist, is keen to grant accreditation to the Peterson Academy
www.desmog.com/2024/02/05/j...
www.desmog.com/2024/02/05/j...
Glad to be on @apublicaffair.bsky.social, thanks for the thoughtful chat about climate disinformation!
🎙️ More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP 30. Kathy Mulvey of @ucs.org and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com join us to talk about the conference and the decades-long campaign by the fossil fuel industry to spread climate disinformation.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/climate-disi...
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/climate-disi...
Climate Disinformation Spans the Globe (Still) - WORT-FM 89.9
Kathy Mulvey and Geoff Dembicki talk about COP 30 and the decades-long campaign by the fossil fuel industry to spread climate disinformation.
www.wortfm.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Glad to be on @apublicaffair.bsky.social, thanks for the thoughtful chat about climate disinformation!
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The Indigenous group cited as being in favour of the pipeline in this article is in fact a crown corporation owned by the Government of Alberta. Its funding comes from the GoA and Danielle Smith's Cabinet appoints its Board of Directors
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
Indigenous groups remain split on Alberta’s pipeline pact with feds | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation was named a key partner in Ottawa and Alberta's MOU on on Friday for a pipeline to the B.C. coast, but others have concerns.
globalnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Indigenous group cited as being in favour of the pipeline in this article is in fact a crown corporation owned by the Government of Alberta. Its funding comes from the GoA and Danielle Smith's Cabinet appoints its Board of Directors
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
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People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
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Carney just signed a deal with Alberta that lays out conditions for a new oil pipeline.
In doing this, he managed to piss off one of his own cabinet ministers (who promptly resigned), coastal First Nations, the B.C. government, the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois.
But uh, here's what he got:
In doing this, he managed to piss off one of his own cabinet ministers (who promptly resigned), coastal First Nations, the B.C. government, the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois.
But uh, here's what he got:
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Carney just signed a deal with Alberta that lays out conditions for a new oil pipeline.
In doing this, he managed to piss off one of his own cabinet ministers (who promptly resigned), coastal First Nations, the B.C. government, the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois.
But uh, here's what he got:
In doing this, he managed to piss off one of his own cabinet ministers (who promptly resigned), coastal First Nations, the B.C. government, the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois.
But uh, here's what he got:
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liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
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Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
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Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is taking Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court. @sharonkelly reports:
Battle Over Tariff Power Pits Trump Against Koch Network
Charles Koch’s fortunes were fueled by importing Canadian oil. Now a major Koch-funded law firm seeks to limit Trump’s tariff powers.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is taking Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court. @sharonkelly reports:
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In case you're wondering how cozy AI giant Nvidia, and its CEO Jensen Huang, are getting to the Trump administration, Huang's now showering praise on Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a climate denying fracking executive.....
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
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My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
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Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his 'Passion' for Science
Jensen Huang gives "a shout-out for Secretary Chris Wright" as Nvidia and Trump administration partner on a massive AI buildout.
www.desmog.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In case you're wondering how cozy AI giant Nvidia, and its CEO Jensen Huang, are getting to the Trump administration, Huang's now showering praise on Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a climate denying fracking executive.....
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...
My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️
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Some explanations deliver themselves.
Soft denialism on the march.
Soft denialism on the march.
“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Some explanations deliver themselves.
Soft denialism on the march.
Soft denialism on the march.
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
I got some fan mail for my story about Exxon and Atlas Network!
"You’re a two-digit IQ left-wing quack with fortunately zero influence."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
"You’re a two-digit IQ left-wing quack with fortunately zero influence."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I got some fan mail for my story about Exxon and Atlas Network!
"You’re a two-digit IQ left-wing quack with fortunately zero influence."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
"You’re a two-digit IQ left-wing quack with fortunately zero influence."
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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This research provides a critical step in understanding the Atlas Network, and an important example of the scale and influence of disinformation campaigns.
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This research provides a critical step in understanding the Atlas Network, and an important example of the scale and influence of disinformation campaigns.
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This is a crucial investigation. Dembicki brings the literal receipts for Exxon using the #AtlasNetwork to break climate action in the Global South. Lomberg’s presence is telling. He is present at the end of “Merchants of Doubt” as the latest of a few cooperative “scientists”.
#Auspol #NZpol
#Auspol #NZpol
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a crucial investigation. Dembicki brings the literal receipts for Exxon using the #AtlasNetwork to break climate action in the Global South. Lomberg’s presence is telling. He is present at the end of “Merchants of Doubt” as the latest of a few cooperative “scientists”.
#Auspol #NZpol
#Auspol #NZpol
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Stunning @desmog.com story from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social - showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Stunning @desmog.com story from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social - showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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This is incredible, even for Exxon. Exxon found to have funded right-wing think tanks to spread #climate change denial across Latin America in a "coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is incredible, even for Exxon. Exxon found to have funded right-wing think tanks to spread #climate change denial across Latin America in a "coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We obtained hundreds of documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial in Latin America and all across the Global South.
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We obtained hundreds of documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial in Latin America and all across the Global South.
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...