Geoffrey Supran
@geoffreysupran.bsky.social
Professor of Environmental Science & Policy and Director of Climate Accountability Lab at University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.
Investigating Big Oil's climate propaganda. Formerly Harvard, MIT, Cambridge.
Investigating Big Oil's climate propaganda. Formerly Harvard, MIT, Cambridge.
3/n: PhD #2: Using mixed methods to investigate the corporate capture of academic research and government agencies by fossil fuel interests.
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
November 6, 2024 at 11:32 PM
3/n: PhD #2: Using mixed methods to investigate the corporate capture of academic research and government agencies by fossil fuel interests.
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
2/n: PhD #1: Using computational social science to investigate climate change discourse on social media.
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
November 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM
2/n: PhD #1: Using computational social science to investigate climate change discourse on social media.
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
More info and application form here: graduate.earth.miami.edu/phd-and-ms-p...
🚨No better day to announce the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami is hiring for 4 new positions in computational social science (2xPhD, Postdoc, Software Engineer) to investigate disinformation & propaganda. Come help shape climate accountability for the next four years. ⬇️ 1/n
November 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM
🚨No better day to announce the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami is hiring for 4 new positions in computational social science (2xPhD, Postdoc, Software Engineer) to investigate disinformation & propaganda. Come help shape climate accountability for the next four years. ⬇️ 1/n
14/n: Our paper also encourages our colleagues "to go further than research": “to communicate their findings widely, to advocate for the policy implications of their work, and to support others in doing so.”
It's heartening that hundreds have already begun to do so ⬇️:
It's heartening that hundreds have already begun to do so ⬇️:
September 5, 2024 at 5:14 PM
14/n: Our paper also encourages our colleagues "to go further than research": “to communicate their findings widely, to advocate for the policy implications of their work, and to support others in doing so.”
It's heartening that hundreds have already begun to do so ⬇️:
It's heartening that hundreds have already begun to do so ⬇️:
12/n: One of our coauthors, Emily Eaton, had to go so far as to take her own university *to court* to (successfully) compel her university to disclose its fossil fuel funders.
September 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
12/n: One of our coauthors, Emily Eaton, had to go so far as to take her own university *to court* to (successfully) compel her university to disclose its fossil fuel funders.
7/n: Interestingly, we found that NGOs & students have been raising the alarm on this since at least 2003. Despite this, and despite the glaring historical parallels to the tactics of tobacco, pharma, & junk food industries, academic studies are only just starting to catch up.
September 5, 2024 at 5:11 PM
7/n: Interestingly, we found that NGOs & students have been raising the alarm on this since at least 2003. Despite this, and despite the glaring historical parallels to the tactics of tobacco, pharma, & junk food industries, academic studies are only just starting to catch up.
3/n: Our study uncovers hundreds of real or apparent conflicts of interest for researchers & unis, with oil & gas companies funding climate & energy research, sitting on uni governing boards, endowing academic posts, sponsoring scholarships & lectures, advising curricula, & more.
September 5, 2024 at 5:08 PM
3/n: Our study uncovers hundreds of real or apparent conflicts of interest for researchers & unis, with oil & gas companies funding climate & energy research, sitting on uni governing boards, endowing academic posts, sponsoring scholarships & lectures, advising curricula, & more.
2/n: Thanks also to The Guardian's @dharna.bsky.social
for her excellent reporting on this. As Kert Davies told her, politicians are "doing the [oil] industry’s work for them." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
for her excellent reporting on this. As Kert Davies told her, politicians are "doing the [oil] industry’s work for them." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
May 6, 2024 at 10:38 PM
2/n: Thanks also to The Guardian's @dharna.bsky.social
for her excellent reporting on this. As Kert Davies told her, politicians are "doing the [oil] industry’s work for them." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
for her excellent reporting on this. As Kert Davies told her, politicians are "doing the [oil] industry’s work for them." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
For the first time in its 28-year history, a UN climate agreement uses the F-words: Fossil Fuels.
COP28’s oil tanker-size loopholes notwithstanding, how did we get here?
Our 2017 @sciam piece sums up the confluence of forces that have finally named the elephant in the room:
COP28’s oil tanker-size loopholes notwithstanding, how did we get here?
Our 2017 @sciam piece sums up the confluence of forces that have finally named the elephant in the room:
December 13, 2023 at 2:54 PM
For the first time in its 28-year history, a UN climate agreement uses the F-words: Fossil Fuels.
COP28’s oil tanker-size loopholes notwithstanding, how did we get here?
Our 2017 @sciam piece sums up the confluence of forces that have finally named the elephant in the room:
COP28’s oil tanker-size loopholes notwithstanding, how did we get here?
Our 2017 @sciam piece sums up the confluence of forces that have finally named the elephant in the room:
As we (rightly) celebrate the first ever UN climate pact to recognise the role of fossil fuels, just a reminder that fossil fuel interests have known that their products could cause dangerous global heating since before UN climate talks even began three decades ago.
December 13, 2023 at 2:53 PM
As we (rightly) celebrate the first ever UN climate pact to recognise the role of fossil fuels, just a reminder that fossil fuel interests have known that their products could cause dangerous global heating since before UN climate talks even began three decades ago.
1989 Exxon internal strategy memo: "Increase emphasis on costs/political realities" of addressing climate change.
2023 COP28 President: Addressing climate change by phasing out fossil fuels will "take the world back into caves".
2023 COP28 President: Addressing climate change by phasing out fossil fuels will "take the world back into caves".
December 3, 2023 at 4:31 PM
1989 Exxon internal strategy memo: "Increase emphasis on costs/political realities" of addressing climate change.
2023 COP28 President: Addressing climate change by phasing out fossil fuels will "take the world back into caves".
2023 COP28 President: Addressing climate change by phasing out fossil fuels will "take the world back into caves".
7/n: The evolution of the "predominant framings of [climate] policy targets" since 1992 has been (green):
1️⃣ "stabilization" of climate
2️⃣ % emissions cuts
3️⃣ CO2 concentration
4️⃣ emissions budgets
5️⃣ temp limits
No fossil fuels. What is Exxon's CEO TALKING about?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1️⃣ "stabilization" of climate
2️⃣ % emissions cuts
3️⃣ CO2 concentration
4️⃣ emissions budgets
5️⃣ temp limits
No fossil fuels. What is Exxon's CEO TALKING about?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 2, 2023 at 9:32 PM
7/n: The evolution of the "predominant framings of [climate] policy targets" since 1992 has been (green):
1️⃣ "stabilization" of climate
2️⃣ % emissions cuts
3️⃣ CO2 concentration
4️⃣ emissions budgets
5️⃣ temp limits
No fossil fuels. What is Exxon's CEO TALKING about?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1️⃣ "stabilization" of climate
2️⃣ % emissions cuts
3️⃣ CO2 concentration
4️⃣ emissions budgets
5️⃣ temp limits
No fossil fuels. What is Exxon's CEO TALKING about?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fun final class of the semester today!: Popcorn 🍿, Ribena 🥤, & my friend & favourite climate comedian in the whole world Rollie Williams Zooming in to talk about his incredible climate storytelling on @climatetown.bsky.social, trying to “find the peanut butter to put on pills of information”.
December 1, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Fun final class of the semester today!: Popcorn 🍿, Ribena 🥤, & my friend & favourite climate comedian in the whole world Rollie Williams Zooming in to talk about his incredible climate storytelling on @climatetown.bsky.social, trying to “find the peanut butter to put on pills of information”.
4/n: The UK net zero minister's claim that oil and gas are "not the problem" comes literally hours after the UN once again confirmed that global fossil fuel production will blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over.
November 9, 2023 at 12:57 AM
4/n: The UK net zero minister's claim that oil and gas are "not the problem" comes literally hours after the UN once again confirmed that global fossil fuel production will blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over.
3/n: This is wholly consistent with my & @naomioreskes.bsky.social's 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric, which found that "fossil fuel industry discourse [has] encouraged & embodied 'an accelerating individualization of responsibility'".
November 9, 2023 at 12:56 AM
3/n: This is wholly consistent with my & @naomioreskes.bsky.social's 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric, which found that "fossil fuel industry discourse [has] encouraged & embodied 'an accelerating individualization of responsibility'".
So great to have climate journalist extraordinaire @amywestervelt.bsky.social join our class and department seminar today here at @MiamiRosenstiel to talk about the Standard Oil octopus, “a big tent full of clowns”, and much more! Thx for visiting, Amy!
October 27, 2023 at 8:17 PM
So great to have climate journalist extraordinaire @amywestervelt.bsky.social join our class and department seminar today here at @MiamiRosenstiel to talk about the Standard Oil octopus, “a big tent full of clowns”, and much more! Thx for visiting, Amy!
Blimey, today @nytimes.com released a "British-Irish Dialect Quiz", & it worked shockingly well for me! It put my English somewhere between Southampton, Reading, & Cambridge...I was born in Reading, grew up in Southampton, & went to uni in Cambridge 🤯 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 20, 2023 at 6:51 PM
Blimey, today @nytimes.com released a "British-Irish Dialect Quiz", & it worked shockingly well for me! It put my English somewhere between Southampton, Reading, & Cambridge...I was born in Reading, grew up in Southampton, & went to uni in Cambridge 🤯 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Big Oil's new "potentially game-ending" strategy to kill climate lawsuits is to argue it had "no duty to warn" because climate science was "'open and obvious' for decades.”
Sadly, I and @naomioreskes.bsky.social predicted this defence in our 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric. 1/n
Sadly, I and @naomioreskes.bsky.social predicted this defence in our 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric. 1/n
October 12, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Big Oil's new "potentially game-ending" strategy to kill climate lawsuits is to argue it had "no duty to warn" because climate science was "'open and obvious' for decades.”
Sadly, I and @naomioreskes.bsky.social predicted this defence in our 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric. 1/n
Sadly, I and @naomioreskes.bsky.social predicted this defence in our 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric. 1/n
5/n: They are oblivious that they are just pawns in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar propaganda scheme leveraging the imprimatur of their university - on the front page of the NY Times, no less - to green an oil baron's image so he can lead UN climate talks a decade later.
September 21, 2023 at 3:20 PM
5/n: They are oblivious that they are just pawns in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar propaganda scheme leveraging the imprimatur of their university - on the front page of the NY Times, no less - to green an oil baron's image so he can lead UN climate talks a decade later.
7/n: Here are 7 examples from our paper of Rex Tillerson publicly challenging the basics of climate science and its implications in speeches, interviews, and Congressional testimonies between 2008 and 2017.
September 18, 2023 at 7:29 PM
7/n: Here are 7 examples from our paper of Rex Tillerson publicly challenging the basics of climate science and its implications in speeches, interviews, and Congressional testimonies between 2008 and 2017.