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Non-profit media studio from filmmaker Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up) challenging the existential threat of polluter BS.
🎬 Coming in 2026:
yellowdotstudios.com/you-need-this/
youtube.com/@Heated.Conversations Season 2
Does comedian Dylan Adler care about the impact of the fashion industry? Do you? And would it help you care if you were trapped in a sauna until you did?

New episode of Do You Even Care? with Esteban Gast is live!
The Devil Wears a World Catastrophe with Dylan Adler
YouTube video by Do You Even Care
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:40 PM
There destruction of humanity is being led by surprisingly few ̶m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶e̶r̶s̶ public and state-owned companies:

"Just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024, down from 36 a year earlier."
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:20 PM
SABOTAGE from @goodluckmedia.bsky.social & Yellow Dot 🙌👁️

"Why It’s Impactful: It is incredible that the Sabotage team got to embed with Just Stop Oil to give us insight into a world not commonly explored (mostly for safety) and to help us understand it. This would not have happened without trust."
Best of Impactful Podcasts 2025
Sounds Like Impact: A newsletter for audio and action
www.soundslikeimpact.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Hey ChatGPT - Are videos of puppies doing the Dougie a good replacement for survivable temperatures, or readily available food and water?
US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate
Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Our new show Do You Even Care? is live!

Esteban Gast combines comedy and real news/science to see if he can get his comedian friends to care about the earth as much as he does... while he's got them trapped in a sauna.
Don't say this to a Latina | Does Joanna Hausmann even care?
YouTube video by Do You Even Care
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The sauna is back! Coming Thursday: Do You Even Care, with Esteban Gast.

Subscribe to see new episodes (if you even care):
youtube.com/@doyouevencare_show?sub_confirmation=1
January 27, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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The reality of escalating extreme weather as we start 2026: Meteorologist @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down.

Serious question: Do you accept that this is happening?
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The suit “accuses BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell and industry trade group American Petroleum Institute of a wide-ranging conspiracy that has harmed the climate and saddled Michiganders with higher prices.”

There really is a global warming conspiracy. From big oil companies.
Michigan AG sues Big Oil over ‘cartel’ to suppress EVs, renewable energy
AG Dana Nessel alleges some of the world's largest oil companies colluded to keep Michiganders' hooked on fossil fuels, leading to higher transportation and home energy costs while harming the climate...
www.mlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...
January 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
To be fair, this question is harder than it sounds.
The reality of escalating extreme weather as we start 2026: Meteorologist @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down.

Serious question: Do you accept that this is happening?
January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...
January 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
This is real. And it is very old school coal industry bullsh*t.

Here's an (also real!) 2008 coal front group ad that they quickly pulled down after some media... reported on it.
archive.thinkprogress.org/coal-front-g...
January 22, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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These graphs sync up almost perfectly with graphs showing wealth inequality, outside money in the U.S. political system and tonnage of bombs dropped on Gaza.
Status of the most recent monthly-averaged greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Observational data provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
January 21, 2026 at 4:12 PM
From the crazy activists at Time:

"Continued expansion of coal, oil, and gas is incompatible with planetary stability and long-term prosperity. Fossil fuels remain the primary driver of global warming… creating material risks to food systems, public health, infrastructure, and national economies."
​​At Davos, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Is No Longer Debatable
Markets have moved on from fossil fuels. Politics hasn’t.
time.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The reality of escalating extreme weather as we start 2026: Meteorologist @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down.

Serious question: Do you accept that this is happening?
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
“I carried that unease into a recent group call with Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay and journalists from the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. McKay ended up saying things everyone who cares but is struck by climate fatigue needed to hear.”
Commentary: I was struck by climate fatigue until I listened to this Oscar-winning filmmaker
The string of recent disasters should not be written off as just routine bad weather, says CNA's Charles Phang.
www.channelnewsasia.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
2025 was our 3rd (or 2nd) hottest year - by a lot.

The last 11 years have been been the 11 hottest observed. The last 3, the top 3.

We are in an "extreme warming spike" that "suggests an acceleration" and that "past warming rate is no longer a reliable predictor of the future." 📈 😵‍💫 ⏰ 🚨
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
To wrap your head around this, you have to realize that THE SUN is constantly sending Earth a *massive* amount of energy.

That energy could easily power our world. Instead it's cooking us under the pollution from burning fossil fuels — a vastly smaller, dirtier, and more expensive energy source.
In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
January 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
“The ultimate foundation of democracy is the American jury system. These efforts are attempting to deny Americans the right to that key democratic institution.”
Red-state Republicans seek climate ‘liability shield’ for fossil fuel industry
If enacted, Utah and Oklahoma measures would restrict litigation against oil companies over role in climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
"You may think that the biggest climate conspiracy is chemtrails. You’d be wrong.

But climate-altering chemicals are being dumped into the atmosphere at an astonishing rate. And the government is actively trying to cover up what’s happening, why it’s happening, and who it hurts."
It's time to embrace climate conspiracy
Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.
heated.world
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.

Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.

More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"Sources added that they hadn’t seen Wirth with such a big grin on his face since he had gotten that journalist imprisoned."
Chevron CEO Sure In Good Mood This Week
HOUSTON—Calling the executive’s demeanor “unnervingly jovial,” company sources confirmed Tuesday that Chevron CEO Mike Wirth sure was in a good mood this week. “Man, normally that guy is a first-rate…
theonion.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM
"The worst effects may not reveal themselves until catastrophe strikes. But the cracks have already begun to show."

Trump is fanning the flames of disaster while kneecapping our ability to respond.

Please understand: In the next disaster, government resources may not be there to help you.
‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say
Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:28 PM
36 years since the first international climate science report.
38 years since Dr. James Hansen warned congress.
60 years since President Johnson warned the public.
71 years since the fossil fuel industry knew.

And existential heat-trapping pollution from fossil fuels is rising faster than ever. 💫
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

The latest CO2 data just came in from Mauna Loa and the 3-year rate of CO2 growth just hit a new record high, now growing at a rate of 7.97 ppm per 3 years.

(That dip in the mid-1990's is Mt. Pinatubo. Google is your friend.)
January 7, 2026 at 7:21 PM