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."

The Philippines have extended a "state of national calamity" FOR A FULL YEAR after Fung-wong hit just 5 days after Typhoon Kalmaegi, which killed 224 and left 135 missing. Super-typhoons in the Philippines have doubled since 2000. Thanks for blocking clean energy for the last 60 years, Exxon!

Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution. What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing. All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.

Yes, it's a moral failure to allow fossil fuel pollution and fail to switch to clean energy. And a criminal failure b/c it is enabled by disinformation, fraud, and negligence. And a financial failure b/c WE are paying TRILLIONS in damage so fossil fuel companies can make billions in profits. 💸💸💸

This is your weather on fossil fuel pollution. And it's costing you much more than you realize. @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:

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!

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!

Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution. What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing. All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.

War criminal 🤝 climate criminal. The catastrophic legacy of Dick Cheney's Halliburton Loophole and the US fracking boom it ushered in: 🧵

Exxon paid for Spanish and Chinese translations of books denying human-caused climate change; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians. Oye, Exxon. ¡Qué cabrón eres!

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...

Trump is intentionally raising energy prices to create "a huge transfer of wealth from rate payers to big fossil fuel donors." - @whitehouse.senate.gov

Give an oil CEO a jump scare! Halloween costumes to terrify the rich ghouls burning down the world 🧵:

It's not a coincidence, it's a crime. Fossil fuel companies have known since 1954 that their pollution would cause mass catastrophe and mass casualty. But they lied, and lied, and lied to keep polluting.

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...

After the strongest Atlantic Hurricane landfall on record, and a record-tying 3rd Category 5 Hurricane in 2025, and the most expensive first 6 months of extreme weather since record keeping began... It's good to know that FEMA is spending our disaster tax dollars on... WHAT THE FU-

Reminder that Exxon funded then buried research that proved the dangers of climate change back in the 1970s

To paraphrase a gag I picked up from @radiodeadair.com "Sir please disclose your emissions data." "NO! You're gonna yell at me!"

-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

I finally watched the Danish series Families Like Ours on Netflix. It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic. And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.

The sun gives us 10,000 times more energy than we use. A few weeks of sun is more energy than all known reserves of oil, gas, and coal. The sun's energy is free. Solar power was invented in the 1800s. But yeah, let's keep burning the stuff that makes monster hurricanes happen multiple times a year.

And the fossil fuel industry DEFINITELY affects climate: WARMING: 75% of all heat-trapping pollution INACTION: $445M in 2024 to elect puppets and block competition. IGNORANCE: 70+ years of lies and buying media silence DAMAGE: $28 TRILLION in costs from just 111 major polluters

Fossil Fuel pollution traps heat on Earth, warming oceans, and making storms worse, faster. Big Oil has known this for 70 years, but is now polluting more than ever, thanks to decades of disinformation and corruption. Which means Exxon and Chevron's lies are literally destroying Jamaica right now.

Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.” Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.

160 mph winds, 13 foot storm surge, 40" of rain. Pray for Jamaica. And know that this was done to them knowingly, by fossil fuel companies, and the elected leaders who keep letting polluters freely boil the oceans with their pollution.

Fixed it!

Us: To compete with clean energy, the fossil fuel industry has to buy politicians, block competition, raise energy prices, get trillions in subsidies and bailouts, corrupt the news media, and hide the cost of its pollution. How can they still say fossil fuel is affordable? Big Oil CEOs:

Merci beaucoup to the French court for smacking down the greenwashing merde of TotalEnergies, the 7th biggest corporate fossil fuel polluter who just announced plans to expand gas production. It's the first time France's Greenwashing law has been used against a fossil fuel company.

I Care About Whales And Birds, Declares Serial Liar And Convicted Felon Sending Bulldozers Into Pristine Alaskan Bird Sanctuary On Behalf Of Industry Responsible For Boiling World's Oceans And Collapsing Coral Reefs Essential For Whale Survival

Trump is hoping you won't notice that blocking wind and solar energy for his big oil donors is not only raising your energy prices, it's also increasing your disaster costs. Market manipulation and political corruption FTW!

The banned words include “tax breaks" "tax credits" and "subsidies." Good to know the Energy Department is so hyper-focused on eliminating every single obstacle standing in the way of... [checks notes] increasing our energy prices. ✅

Oh good, it's been too long since I was scared absolutely shitless.

The Trump administration is intentionally increasing your energy bills to pay back fossil fuel campaign donors. @whitehouse.senate.gov exposes this corruption in a must-watch speech on the Senate floor.

Leading economist: Continuing fossil fuels is "futile" because it leads to mass-death and economic collapse. The fossil fuel industry's product isn't oil, or gas, or energy — it's murder and theft. Full stop.

“There’s this tragedy of killing freedom of speech. … The reason this is happening is because [Trump officials] don’t have the superpower of comedy,” said Staci Roberts-Steele of @weareyellowdot.bsky.social I got to interview some very cool comedy writers and experts for today’s story. 🎭

For the latest episode of #ClimateCalifornia, we joined Sam and Ale from @goodluckmedia.bsky.social to talk about our podcast #SABOTAGE, and how storytelling can speed the pace of change. Watch it here: www.pbs.org/video/now-8p...

Donny, you are out of your element.

The Trump administration’s attacks on national parks continue This time, they’ve removed both physical signs and website mentions describing how climate change is damaging the parks Because if you remove the info, famously, the problem goes away www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever. www.cracked.com/article_4100...

Our energy choice: "An extraordinary development for humanity" or "insanity."

We 🔥 Moses Storm. His time in the sauna was wacky, honest, and hilarious. In other words, it was just like a Moses Storms standup set, but with a little more sweat, and a lot more robe.

POV: You work at Edelman and do PR for Exxon.

Oil companies love to call solar "alternative energy" as if it's less than oil, gas, and coal. In fact, fossil fuel is the alternative. The sun is the source of all energy on Earth, including fossil fuels. They are a fart in the wind compared to how much energy we get continuously from the sun.

"At this pace, CA will be 100% [clean energy] 24/7/365 by 2035." And we're barely even trying! Imagine what California (or anywhere) could do if all leaders actually called out the danger of fossil fuels, ended subsidies, and made the biggest polluters actually pay for the damage they've done.

"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."