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Non-profit media studio from filmmaker Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up, The Big Short, Anchorman)
Clearing the air of polluter BS, so we can clear the air of the fossil fuel pollution that’s killing us.
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The Philippines have extended a "state of national calamity" FOR A FULL YEAR after Fung-wong hit just 5 days after Typhoon Kalmaegi, which killed 224 and left 135 missing.

Super-typhoons in the Philippines have doubled since 2000.

Thanks for blocking clean energy for the last 60 years, Exxon!
Eight dead and more than a million displaced after super typhoon Fung-wong slams the Philippines
About 1.4 million people evacuated as storm sparks flash floods and landslides and leaves millions without power
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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An antique Little Golden Book cover of a personified snowman playing with children Title: FROSTY The snow man is disappearing thanks to those creeps at Exxon
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution.

What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing.

All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Yes, it's a moral failure to allow fossil fuel pollution and fail to switch to clean energy.

And a criminal failure b/c it is enabled by disinformation, fraud, and negligence.

And a financial failure b/c WE are paying TRILLIONS in damage so fossil fuel companies can make billions in profits. 💸💸💸
Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
This is your weather on fossil fuel pollution. And it's costing you much more than you realize.

@climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:
Extreme Weather Report - Nov 6 2025
YouTube video by Free Speech TV
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
It is amazing that 60 years ago, scientists were so crystal clear that burning fossil fuels was raising Earth's temperature.

And yet thanks to Big Oil's decades of lies, today 40% in the US still don't believe global warming is human-caused or settled science, and 30% don't think it's happening!
PROBABLE FUTURE CONTENT OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE We can conclude with fair assurance that at the present time, fossil fuels are the only source of CO: being added to the ocean-atmosphere- biosphere system. If this held true throughout the last hundred years, the quantity of CO: in the air at the beginning of the present decade was about 7% higher than in the middle of the last century (see Table 3). Throughout these hundred years, the rate of fossil fuel combustion, and thus of CO, production, continually increased, on the average about 3.2 percent per year. The amount produced in 1962 was almost 25 times the annual production in the mid-1860's. The rate of increase may be accelerating. During the eight years from 1954 to 1962, the average rate of increase was 5%. POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ON CLIMATE One of the most recent discussions of these effects is given by Möller (1963). He considers the radiation balance at the earth's surface with an average initial temperature of 15°C (59°F), a relative humidity of 75 percent, and 50% cloudiness. We may compute from his data that with a 25 percent increase in atmospheric CO, the average temperature near the earth's surface could increase between 0.6°C and 4°C (1.1°F to 7°F), depending on the behavior of the atmospheric water vapor content. The small increase would correspond to a constant absolute humidity, that is, a constant weight of water in the atmosphere. The larger increase would correspond to a constant relative humidity, that is, as the temperature rose, the water vapor content would also rise to maintain a constant percentage of the saturation value. A doubling of CO: in the air, which would happen if a little more than half the reserves of fossil fuels were consumed, would have about three times the effect of a twenty-five percent increase. CARBON DIOXIDE FROM FOSSIL FUELS-THE INVISIBLE POLLUTANT Only about one two-thousandth of the atmosphere and one ten- thousandth of the ocean are carbon dioxide. Yet to living creatures, these small fractions are of vital importance. Carbon is the basic build- ing block of organic compounds, and land plants obtain all of their carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Marine plants obtain carbon from the dissolved carbon dioxide in sea water, which depends for its concentration on an equilibrium with the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. Marine and terrestrial animals, including man, procure, either directly or indirectly, the substance of their bodies and the energy for living from the carbon compounds made by plants. All fuels used by man consist of carbon compounds produced by ancient or modern plants. The energy they contain was originally solar energy, transmuted through the biochemical process called photosynthesis. The carbon in every barrel of oil and every lump of coal, as well as in every block of limestone, was once present in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Over the past several billion years, very large quantities of carbon dioxide have entered the atmosphere from volcanoes. The total amount was at least forty thousand times the quantity of carbon dioxide now present in the air. Most of it became combined with calcium or magnesium, freed by the weathering of silicate rocks, and was precipitated on the sea floor as limestone or dolomite. About one-fourth of the total quantity, at least ten thousand times the present atmospheric carbon dioxide, was reduced by plants to organic carbon compounds and became buried as organic matter in the sediments. A small fraction of this organic matter was transformed into the concentrated deposits we call coal, petroleum, oil shales, tar sands, or natural gas. These are the fossil fuels that power the world-wide industrial civilization of our time. Throughout most of the half-million years of man's existence on earth, his fuels consisted of wood and other remains of plants which had grown only a few years before they were burned. The effect of this burning on the content of atmospheric carbon dioxide was negligible, because it only slightly speeded up the natural decay processes that continually re- cycle carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere. During the last few centuries, however, man has begun to burn the fossil fuels that were locked in the sedimentary rocks over five hundred million years, and this combustion is measurably increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide. In the geologic past, the quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was determined by the equilibrium between rates of weathering and photosynthesis, and the rate of injection of volcanic carbon dioxide. on an earthwide average, both weathering and photosynthesis must speed up when the carbon dioxide content of the air is increased, and slow down when it is diminished; consequently, over geologic time the carbon dioxide in the air must have risen when volcanic activity was high, and must have gone down when volcanoes were quiescent. On a human scale, the times involved are very long. The present rate of production of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion is about a hundred times the average rate of release of calcium and magnesium from the weathering of silicate rocks. As long as this ratio holds, precipitation of metallic carbonates will be unable to maintain an unchanging content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Within a few short centuries, we are returning to the air a significant part of the carbon that was slowly extracted by plants and buried in the sediments during half a billion years.
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel.

We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution.

What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing.

All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
War criminal 🤝 climate criminal.

The catastrophic legacy of Dick Cheney's Halliburton Loophole and the US fracking boom it ushered in: 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Exxon paid for Spanish and Chinese translations of books denying human-caused climate change; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians.

Oye, Exxon. ¡Qué cabrón eres!
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 8:28 PM
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You probably won't hear about it on the news, but the climate scientists just straight up called for political revolution 🚨

"The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink"
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Trump is intentionally raising energy prices to create "a huge transfer of wealth from rate payers to big fossil fuel donors." - @whitehouse.senate.gov
“The people who make a bundle out of knocking down clean energy are the fossil fuel people who cut that deal for hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign in return for him clobbering their rivals by making it difficult to develop clean energy projects. It is a huge transfer of wealth from rate payers to big fossil fuel donors. They’re hoping you won’t notice that behind that soaring electric utility bill is manipulation of the grid to drive up prices.” - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Give an oil CEO a jump scare! Halloween costumes to terrify the rich ghouls burning down the world 🧵:
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
It's not a coincidence, it's a crime.

Fossil fuel companies have known since 1954 that their pollution would cause mass catastrophe and mass casualty. But they lied, and lied, and lied to keep polluting.
weatherprof.bsky.social Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 12d
From 1980-2002 THREE storms acheived extreme rapid intensification.
From 2003-2025 EIGHTEEN storms achieved extreme rapid intensification.
6X increase!
It’s not coincidence, it’s climate change!
(source of data Dr Kieran Bhatia x.com/bhatiakieran...)
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
You probably won't hear about it on the news, but the climate scientists just straight up called for political revolution 🚨

"The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink"
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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After the strongest Atlantic Hurricane landfall on record, and a record-tying 3rd Category 5 Hurricane in 2025, and the most expensive first 6 months of extreme weather since record keeping began...

It's good to know that FEMA is spending our disaster tax dollars on... WHAT THE FU-
Florida awarded $608 million U.S. grant for immigration detention centers • Florida Phoenix
Florida officials received a hefty lump sum of cash from the federal government Tuesday to cover the cost of the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility.
floridaphoenix.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Reminder that Exxon funded then buried research that proved the dangers of climate change back in the 1970s
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14d
Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.”

Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.
Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations
Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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To paraphrase a gag I picked up from @radiodeadair.com

"Sir please disclose your emissions data."

"NO! You're gonna yell at me!"
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14d
Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.”

Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.
Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations
Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
-Fossil fuel pollution makes hurricanes stronger
-Big Oil knew in 1954
-Solar panels were invented in 1881
-The sun sends us 18,000x more energy than we use
-Solar could power the world with just 0.3% of land (less than the land footprint of fossil fuel)

📍Black River, St Elizabeth, Jamaica #melissa
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ghostpanther.bsky.social
I finally watched the Danish series Families Like Ours on Netflix.

It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.

And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
Promotional picture for the show Families Like Ours showing the family at the center of the story
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
The sun gives us 10,000 times more energy than we use.
A few weeks of sun is more energy than all known reserves of oil, gas, and coal.
The sun's energy is free.
Solar power was invented in the 1800s.
But yeah, let's keep burning the stuff that makes monster hurricanes happen multiple times a year.
Hurricane Melissa Is a Monster Climate Change-Fueled Hurricane: Here’s What to Know
This is the third Category 5 hurricane this year.
blog.ucs.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
And the fossil fuel industry DEFINITELY affects climate:

WARMING: 75% of all heat-trapping pollution

INACTION: $445M in 2024 to elect puppets and block competition.

IGNORANCE: 70+ years of lies and buying media silence

DAMAGE: $28 TRILLION in costs from just 111 major polluters
drkatemarvel.bsky.social Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14d
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:

STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food

RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor

SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise

PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Fossil Fuel pollution traps heat on Earth, warming oceans, and making storms worse, faster. Big Oil has known this for 70 years, but is now polluting more than ever, thanks to decades of disinformation and corruption.

Which means Exxon and Chevron's lies are literally destroying Jamaica right now.
Warming oceans probably fueling Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification
Climate scientists have long warned that warming oceans are making such explosive storm development more common
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer Follow working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM @ Everybody can reply 628 reposts 25 Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer • 23d "I'm strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.”

Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.
Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations
Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM