I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇

Great piece on "tactical frivolity" by @shteyngart.bsky.social in NYT: "Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians". As perfected by Otpor among others. Humor is the antidote! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

The fossil fuel industry can only survive by capturing government - and clamping down on people protesting this... insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

"If geoengineering works well initially & you see this temperature drop, the tempempation to keep going & extracting fossil fuels will be greater than ever, because it will seem that you have a technologically that can cut off the link between temperature rises & fossil fuel combustion."

Comics who took the Saudi dollar facing a richly-deserved backlash. Not mentioned but also important: Saudi's dastardly role in obstructing climate action for decades... www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

As the US spirals out of control, let's be clear who the architects of this chaos are. A fossil fuel industry hell-bent on preserving its destructive business. Yet in the UK, their lobbyists roam the palace of Westminster with privileged access to ministers. At what point will we say enough?

Trump and Stalin would have got on nicely www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Climate stooges

Eye-opening (yet unsurprising...) from @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A despicable approach to carbon emissions: attempting to destabilise the Green energy market @edmilibandmp.bsky.social we re in your corner. Please share/comment if you agree @mvtfwd.bsky.social @femi-oluwole.bsky.social @philmoorhouse.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

"From 2019-2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial. "Bringing this information to the attention of voters 'was the only message to significantly reduce willingness to vote for Reform'"

Nothing to worry about

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #10/10: NO HONESTY = NO HOPE There is an ongoing debate in climate communications about doom and gloom vs hope. 🧵 #climatecommunication #climatescience

Awareness doesn't always lead to action. If you don't give a credible account of agency, of how people can affect the dire situation you've just explained, they won't act. 🧵 In the US, it's call or go see your elected representative... #climateaction #climatescience

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Climate Science Translated Breakdown #8/10: TIPPING SOCIAL NORMS As Michael Oppenheimer tells David Crosss "we need more people like you". Change comes once social norms tip. 🧵

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #7/10: GRABBING ATTENTION Sadly, most people would rather chew off their own foot than listen to a hefty chunk of the latest climate science. Grabbing their attention is 90% of the battle - this is true of most comms btw. 🧵

Must-read! Prof Michael Oppenheimer in top DC news site @thehill.com, discussing our new film and why it's time to laugh at the climate crisis: thehill.com/opinion/ener...

How the next financial crisis starts - The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil By @pilitaclark.bsky.social HT @carbonbrief.org #climatecrisis www.ft.com/content/9e5d...

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #6/10: CLIMATE SHOCKS Climate communicators secretly welcome extreme weather... it's a no-brainer opportunity to draw attention to the immediacy and danger of the crisis. 🧵

If anyone has an hour and 14 minutes to kill, here is one of us last Sunday on the @climatechat.bsky.social podcast with the highly-informed @danmiller999.bsky.social, going into the juicy details of our approach! www.youtube.com/live/Y3KO7lR...

"The idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing and we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing" Great interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social with the ever-punchy @doctorvive.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #5/10: HUMOUR (TYPES OF) This joke didn't make the final cut, but we like it! Humour is a key part of our campaign - but there is definitely good climate humour and bad climate humour for our purposes...🧵

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #4/10: TRIAL AND ERROR The truth is that no one has cracked climate comms. Otherwise we wouldn't still be in such deep s**t. It's therefore imperative to keep trying new creative approaches and angles. In our new film for instance, we bring up China... (🧵)

In case you're wondering what a heat dome is ... www.theclimatebrink....

It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea. All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs. Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?

Sunday at 10am PT on Climate Chat: "Translating Climate to Human", with Ben Carey, cofounder of @utopiabureau.bsky.social & the Climate Science Breakthrough channel. Can humor help engage the public? @leonsimons.bsky.social @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social youtube.com/live/Y3KO7lR...

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #3/10: FAIRNESS People aren't motivated by facts, they're motivated by emotion. Including outrage at unfairness, an emotion that has driven people to rise up throughout history. The climate crisis is a story of extraordinary unfairness, with clear villains:

My most recent book, Saving Ourselves, lays out the argument in full--the paperback comes out NEXT MONTH: www.danarfisher.com/pre-order-book

Yikes-inducing summary of latest studies from @thierryaaron.bsky.social (also one of our top advisers 🙏🙏🙏)

It's almost as if we should fund a proper campaign to counteract fossil fuel industry misinformation. Possibly featuring much-loved comedians? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #2/10: RELEVANCE A criminal amount of climate coverage still focuses on the raw numbers like 1.5, which mean nothing to most of us. Instead we need to spell out the impacts, from crop failures to food shortages to huge economic and political instability.

⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1

Fun event on the evils of adland at #LCAW2025 on Monday with @lucyvonsturmer.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @robbiegillett.bsky.social @seriouspeople.bsky.social and more. We'll be there as @utopiabureau.bsky.social showing our film and having a drink afterwards no doubt. Limited places! lu.ma/dcepro15

Spain just released a report detailing the reasons behind the country's April blackouts. Britain's Daily Telegraph is now directly lying about the report, falsely claiming that solar power was to blame for the power cuts. The lies are being spread on social media.

PG version of the new "Climate Science Translated" out now! If you felt like sharing, but weren't sure your great-aunt Mabel (or your colleagues...) would appreciate David Cross's strong language, here is an equally punchy yet swearing-free version!

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #1: PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE In our latest film, we highlight that 74% of Americans want more climate action from government. But most people think they’re in the minority — a phenomenon called pluralistic ignorance.

"Dr Gillian Kay, a senior scientist at the Met Office and lead author of the study, said: “The chance of exceeding 40C has been rapidly increasing, and it is now over 20 times more likely than it was in the 1960s" #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hey fellow scientists and health professionals: Join me in taking action with @ucsusa on global warming, our broken food system, and more: www.ucsusa.org/action-cente...

Banks pledge almost a trillion £ in fossil fuel investment Everyone involved in these deals is complicit in murder As I have mentioned a few times, the world is now going backwards, as corporations and governments turn away from #climate action Desperate times www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Talking Climate is now a podcast! Every week, you can listen to the good news, not-so-good news, and what you can do on Spotify and Substack, narrated by the amazing Anne Cloud — and we’ve already got nine episodes ready to binge. Listen on Spotify:

Good grief. Lynas has been pushing #nuclear power for years, ignoring obvious proliferation consequences. Charlatan. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Outtake of the day: David Cross is not a scientist, but...🤔

New 🚨🚨🚨 Watch the Official Outtakes of our David Cross x Prof Michael Oppenheimer film! 💥 Warning: features climate scientist swearing...

Parents! David Cross sees your guilty climate secret (unreleased material) 🤫😱 #climatecrisis #parenting

UK government literally invites capture by fossil fuel interests as reported by The Times...🤦‍♂️ archive.ph/wRrSN

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

Unseen material! David Cross on the 🇺🇸 Dream...

🚨Watch: Malignant normality: the social phenomenon that explains *all* the horror we're seeing right now. As explained by the incomparable @stephaniehson.bsky.social

OUTTAKE OF THE DAY: David Cross translates Prof Michael Oppenheimer on whether we should act now, or later perhaps? #climatecrisis #actnow