Thread by @ScientistRebel1

#Elsevier, the publisher of @TheLancet @CELL and many more journals, continues to subsidise climate breakdown through data services, exhibition hosting and political lobbying supporting coal, oil, and gas exploration and extraction. A thread 1/n 🧵

Elsevier provides the oil and gas industry with information about potential exploration areas, techniques, and new technologies needed for fossil fuel development in new areas such as Arctic and tar sands environments.

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Some of Elsevier’s latest book titles informing and promoting oil and gas exploration include Seismic Imaging Methods and Applications for Oil and Gas Exploration; Elements of Petroleum Geology; Reservoir Characterization of Tight Gas Sandstone, and elsevier.com/books/gas-inje… 3/n

Elsevier and its parent company #RELX provide the fossil industry with data services such as Geofacets and Knovel, used by major oil, gas, and coal companies. Thanks to Elsevier, “exploration has never been more seamless” 4/n

According to Open Secrets, RELX’s Political Action Committee does not shy away from supporting U.S. politicians who have worked to deny climate action, and even the very existence of the crisis: opensecrets.org/orgs/relx-grou… 5/n

RX, RELX’s exhibitions business, hosts events serving the fossil fuel industry, including Queensland Mining & Engineering Exhibition, Asia Pacific’s Mining & Engineering Exhibition, and Brazil Offshore, “designed to grow your brand or business in Brazil’s oil and gas market.” 6/n

“Elsevier, The Lancet’s publisher, [subsidises] climate pollution through analytic tools & new journals supporting [fossil fuel] exploration & extraction-an ongoing partnership [...] morally & materially insupportable.“ Macmillan & Jones, Lancet (2022) doi.org/10.1016/S0140-… 7/n

Sufficiently enraged? The #StopElsevier launched by @ScientistRebel1 and @ScientistsX is gearing up for major actions this spring. Help us keep fossil fuels out of research by joining the boycott or engaging in direct action: stopelsevier.wordpress.com 8/n