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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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One of the guys who saw the housing collapse coming has been “looking up” at climate collapse, too:

In a 2016 conversation about making The Big Short, Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social, shared how Brad Pitt's real-life character "Ben Rickert" "scared the crap out of me."
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 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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FFS
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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It makes no sense to continue investing in oil, gas, and coal which keep getting more expensive, when clean energy is *cheaper* because the wind and sun are *unlimited* and *free.*

Fossil fuels are only still around because of the lies and corruption of the fossil fuel industry.
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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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
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Even back then, they got it
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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
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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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Out of respect for Exxon's modesty, please don't share this!
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 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
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The Epstein Files
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Paying for pollution
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Unbought politician
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Striking worker
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Whistle-blower
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Protesting grandma holding sign: “for my granddaughter no new oil gas or coal
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Plant-Based Eating
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Outspoken scientist
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Cheap Solar Power
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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And everyone can find ways to be a part of the "courageous leadership, public engagement, and widespread institutional change" that science says is required to avert existential damage from fossil fuel pollution and ecological overreach.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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You don't need to be a climate scientist to understand this. Everyone should read it.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 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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-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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For the record, @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social is so desperate to hide its pollution, it is now openly disagreeing with the ideas of:

1. Science
2. Clean Up Your Mess
3. Thou Shalt Not Kill
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Fixed it!
Bob The Builder Meme: Can We Fix It? They’re saying Trump is driving up energy prices to pay back dirty fossil fuel donors by blocking clean energy and eliminating green tax breaks for sustainable tech that cuts carbon emissions and addresses climate change. Fixed! Politico News Article: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list In addition to “climate change” and “green,” EERE forbid officials from using “emissions” to avoid the implication that they are a negative. Climate change is caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, which is driven primarily by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy. Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM