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May 2, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
*HUGE*: Hours after UK Parliament officially declares "#ClimateEmergency", government's official advisers formally recommend legislation to "use known technologies [to] end our contribution to global warming by reducing emissions to Net Zero by 2050." 1/n theguardian.com/environment/20…
2/n: The UK Committee on Climate Change @theCCCuk "conclude[s] that net-zero is necessary, feasible and cost-effective" "based on existing technologies." theccc.org.uk/publication/ne…
3/n: Off-shored emissions continue to be a major blind spot. @theCCCuk say "it is important that [the UK does] not simply off-shore emissions to other parts of the world." But does that sufficiently attend to our "common but differentiated responsibility"? theccc.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
4/n: Crucial informed concern from @KevinClimate about lack of speed and equity, and over-reliance on negative emissions technologies, in proposed UK decarbonization pathway:

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Oct 12, 2023
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 & @NaomiOreskes predicted this defence in our 2021 analysis of ExxonMobil's climate rhetoric. 1/n
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2/n: We saw this coming based on computational detection of Exxon's systemic climate "risk" rhetoric & its historical alignment w/ a cornerstone of Big Tobacco's legal position on the "risks" of smoking, which is that "Everyone knew but no one had proof." tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/15/sup…
3/n: Note that the wording of the oil companies' legal defence itself assiduously practices this strategy by referring to the "impact of fossil fuel use on the global climate" not as the factual reality that it is, but as an "alleged" possibility.
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May 1, 2023
🚨Climate Accountability Lab at University of Miami is hiring!🚨 Pls share widely!📢

Researchers at all levels (undergrad, grad, postdoc, senior scientist, consultant) interested in investigating climate disinformation & propaganda, pls reach out! Postdoc job listings below. 1/n Image
2/n: Postdoc #1: Climate Change Disinformation and Propaganda. Quantitative and qualitative applied social science methods welcomed.

More info and application form here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCareer…
3/n: Postdoc #2: #2: Digital Climate Deception. Computational tracking of climate change discourse on social media.

More info and application form here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaff/…
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Jan 12, 2023
NEW: In @ScienceMagazine today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.

📰No pay wall for 2 weeks: bit.ly/ExxonKnew2poin… Image
2/n: This is the first ever systematic assessment of an oil and gas company's climate projections. It's published by me, climate scientist @rahmstorf (@PIK_Climate), and historian of science @NaomiOreskes.
3/n: We began by collecting every available global warming prediction reported by Exxon scientists in internal memos & peer-reviewed papers. This yielded 16 temperature projections from 1977-2003 in 12 graphs, shown here with subsequent *observed* temp changes overlaid in red. Image
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Jan 12, 2023
🥳Some news!🥳 I am thrilled share that I have just joined the University of Miami as a tenured Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Policy!

My new group, the Climate Accountability Lab, will investigate climate disinformation & propaganda by fossil fuel interests. 1/n
2/n: Housed at @univmiami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, & Earth Science @MiamiRosenstiel, my group will conduct cutting-edge data science, communication science, and history of science research that holds bad actors accountable for obstructing climate action.
3/n: Major research initiatives will include tracking climate deception on social media & scrutinizing Big Oil's funding of academia.

For (very occasional!) updates on the Climate Accountability Lab's research findings & job listings, please sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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Dec 9, 2022
DAMN. Smoking gun documents uncovered by US Congressional investigation expose the oil and gas industry’s secret strategy to weaponize their climate pledges to “further secure the industry’s license to operate." 1/n cnn.com/2022/12/09/pol…
2/n: This should fundamentally shift how the public, press, & policymakers perceive Big Oil’s climate commitments: as propaganda defending business-as-usual by, as BP privately put it, “protect[ing the] role of gas as a bridge [fuel], & position[ing] gas as a destination fuel.”
3/n: This amounts to a climate strategy of one step forward & two steps back. Investments made today will make or break humanity’s ability to stop catastrophic climate collapse, yet oil & gas firms are marketing & lobbying strategically to hook society onto further fossil fuels.
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Sep 21, 2022
NEW report today by me & ati.io @NCoC reveals European oil, car, & airline companies' systematic use of language & imagery (of nature & demographics) on social media to brand themselves as green, innovative, & charitable. THREAD. ati.io/three-shades-o…
2/n: We conducted visual and textual content analysis of 2,325 organic social media posts this summer from 22 of the largest fossil fuel producers, car manufacturers, & airlines in the EU. We looked at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
3/n: We found that during this summer of record temperatures, droughts, & wildfires in Europe, all 22 oil, car, and airline companies remained explicitly silent on the topic of climate change. Just 0.3% of posts mentioned "climate change" or "global warming".
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