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24 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Hello climate and media Twitter! Curious about your take on these questions👇

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Given that the #ClimateCrisis is accelerating and people are already dying (from heat, flood, disease, etc), fossil fuel ads in the news media are...
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When a news outlet with an excellent climate desk not only runs but writes ads for oil and gas companies, they do what to the credibility of their journalism:
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Given that the world must stop the general use of fossil fuels as soon as possible in order to halt global heating, legitimate news outlets encouraging readers to consume more fossil fuels by running ads for them is:
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Imagine, if you will, that the world fails to halt global heating. Really sit with the horror of that for a moment. Now think about how news executives are going to feel about the fact they used their platforms to shill for fossil fuels. Will they feel...
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Today's fossil-fuel disinformation is mostly spread by advertising that falsely presents oil and gas companies both as providing necessary fossil energy AND as legitimate and positive partners in the energy transition. Many of those ads are created by @nytimes @TBrandStudio.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
26 Aug
I am thrilled to announce that in partnership with @EvergreenAction @ClimatePower @350 @ClimateHawkVote @stopfundingheat @YEARSofLIVING & @fossilfreemedia, @EndClimtSilence is today launching a CAMPAIGN to tell @nytimes 💥STOP PROMOTING FOSSIL FUELS💥

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Since founding @EndClimtSilence in 2018, I have come to realize that the biggest problem facing climate journalism is the influence of fossil-fuel money on the executives running news outlets.

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This influence emerges in many ways.

Broadcast network execs are, I believe, insinuating to their production and reporting teams that it's "political" or "biased" to cover the #ClimateCrisis precisely becuz they don't want to alienate their oil and gas advertisers.

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9 Aug
I am deeply frustrated that the @IPCC_CH is calling for "reductions" in CO2 emissions rather than what is required: the virtual elimination of CO2 emissions in the next decades.

I mean, virtual elimination of emissions is what "reaching net-zero CO2 emissions" means!

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"Reductions" is a weak word that suggests only action on the margins, like losing enough weight to tighten your belt by one hole, or something.

ACTION ON THE MARGINS IS NOT WHAT IS REQUIRED

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What political struggle was lost to give us the mixed message that we need to both "reduce" emissions and "reach net zero emissions"?

I feel like I'm in one of those nightmares where you scream at the top of your lungs, but don't make even the smallest sound.

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9 Aug
This week, and maybe next week, elected officials and the news media will be paying more attention to the #ClimateCrisis than they usually do.

Let's make this time count!

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Use this tool to call your Senators and tell them you want them to pass transformative climate policy in order to win your vote. It's easy and very satisfying! And it will help.

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Here is contact information for the prime-time network news programs. Reach out to them and tell them you want more climate coverage! Make some noise!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
12 Jul
Here are things NOT mentioned in this @mattyglesias post scolding the climate left for not understanding American political dynamics:

*mitigation
*decarbonization
*a clean electricity standard
*oil & gas lobbying
*how politicians produce the conditions to pass their agenda

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Also not mentioned: the limit outlined by the @IPCC_CH in SR 1.5.

9 years (at this point) to halve emissions & less than 30 to zero them out entirely in order to have even a 2/3s chance to halt warming under 2C, if we also deploy global-scale negative emissions afterwards.

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If you're going to position yourself as the voice of clear-eyed realism, you really need to account for the reality of physics in your analysis.

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17 Feb
OMG it turns out that at his CNN town hall last night, @JoeBiden didn't tie what's happening in Texas to climate change or to his plans to decarbonize the grid.

@TheDemocrats are STILL making the same messaging mistake. They are scared to connect disasters to climate!

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I argued *three years ago*, after Hurricane Harvey, that the Dems had been essentially bullied by the right into not talking about climate while people were actually suffering and (sociology suggests) most receptive to climate messages.

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This fear and weakness is part and parcel of the Dem's reluctance to discuss climate policy as a political fight with clear stakes and clear antagonists. But are the Repubs reluctant to do this?? Of course not! They say nothing without demonizing their opponents.
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17 Feb
I usually love @EENewsUpdates, but this story on the politics of the Texas blackouts is garbage.

We did not see "partisan arguments" about whether to blame renewables or fossil fuels.

We saw GOP LIES blaming wind power and reality-based FACT CHECKS correcting the record.
And this paragraph's false equivalence makes my head spin.

People's criticism of Texas Repubs is not the same as these Repub's criticism of CA Dems.

Repubs are being criticized for lies and hypocrisy. Dems were being criticized for *supporting renewable energy*.
And, finally, it wasn't "some" conservative groups who attempted to use the grid failure to scare people away from climate action. It was the *entire* right-wing spin machine, from the Texas Public Policy Foundation to Fox News, who LIED about the blackouts to en masse.
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