Opinie: De tactieken om twijfel te zaaien over het klimaat werken nog altijd

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

De tactieken om twijfel te zaaien over het klimaat: ook bij ‘fatsoenlijke’ partijen hebben tegenwerkende krachten altijd nog vrij spel www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Climate folks: listen to @amywestervelt.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast, Carbon Bros. The intersection of the manosphere & climate is terrifying, creating new social obstacles to climate policy. Also featuring the brilliant @hannamorris.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Sharing this as Solid Sustainability is not on BlueSky (yet): *Webinar: What is the fossil fuel industry doing at my university?* 1/5

“Despite overwhelming evidence of the interlinked, intergenerational, severe and widespread human rights impacts of the fossil fuel life cycle … these countries have and are still accruing enormous profits from fossil fuels, and are still not taking decisive action,” Elisa Morgera. bit.ly/40vBaNw

Greenpeace's anti-SLAPP case against Energy Transfer in the EU started today. Meanwhile Greenpeace USA is appealing the $666 million ruling handed down in North Dakota in March. In @drilledmedia.bsky.social @alleenbrown.bsky.social w/the story ET tried to keep out of court drilled.media/news/slappd

UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics on.ft.com/3Ut4pNF | opinion

New report that maps the network of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers: www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-e...

How do far right parties frame solar power? How have their positions changed? What does this variation over time tell us about the motives of the far right's obstruction of solar? See @manesweisskircher.bsky.social and ‪@sabinedvolk.bsky.social‬'s piece below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Student research out of the @climatedevlab.bsky.social has sparked legal backlash from anti-wind groups. With offshore wind construction already at risk, attacks from groups like these threaten the possibility of meeting local climate goals. See the full article below, and the newly released report.

See @kathymulvey.bsky.social's piece in @ucs.org. blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’, hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns - Plastic production soared more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says expert review in @thelancet.com #plasticstreaty www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marten Scheffer’s appeal to media and scientists: reveal the invisible hand of vested interest players! It is this ‘invisible hand’ of lobby power which so far has prevented us from tackling the #ClimateCrisis, despite having the solutions. #GlobalTippingPoints2025

Short thread with 2 basic facts you should know about this kind of flash flood. ⬇️

I'm starting a thread to keep track of what media coverage this "urgent message to world leaders" from #climate scientists receives. If you see anything, please add it to this thread 🧵

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

De asielwet is een frontale aanval op de mensenrechten. Op onze beschaving. Op medemenselijkheid. Deze avond is het gevolg van het jarenlang ophitsen tegen mensen die vluchten voor oorlog en geweld. De Tweede Kamer zit vol met ophitsers. En vol met mensen die te laf zijn daartegen op te staan.

Franse wetenschappers stellen voor om hittegolven voortaan te vernoemen naar oliemaatschappijen.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says. False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a corporate attempt to put an end to climate protest and *particularly* to Indigenous led climate protest. Massive 1A assault. Pretty shocking that our little outlet was one of maybe 3 or 4 that had a reporter there every day of the trial (one of the others was a fake newspaper 🙃)

Through intentional campaigning, the meat and dairy industry pushes against one of the only effective actions an individual can take to curb climate change: diet. See Loredana Loy & CSSN Director Jennifer Jacquet's article in @climate-policy.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

De (klimaat)wetenschap slopen is onderdeel van de radicaal-rechtse agenda. Wij maken ons grote zorgen over wat er gaande is in de VS. Europa moet pal staan voor de basis van ons klimaatbeleid. Mijn motie is aangenomen!

Upcoming PhD Defence | Tom Rowe of the Cultural Geography Group will be defending his PhD thesis titled “𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲? 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀” on Friday, March 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the Omnia Auditorium, Wageningen. 🎓🌍

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

The New Denialism: Climate Change An excellent new open lecture with Kevin Anderson, professor Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester and visiting researcher Uppsala University, recorded in Uppsala February 12, 2025.

Kraakhelder betoog! 🔥 'Klimaatwetenschap onder vuur: desinformatie als politiek wapen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Op 11 maart (20:00-21:30) brengt Martijn Duineveld ‘klimaatobstructie’ in kaart en laat zien dat niet alleen bedrijven, maar ook universiteiten er onbewust aan meedoen. Filosoof Mario Veen (Hogeschool Utrecht) vertelt hoe subtiel klimaatdesinformatie eigenlijk is. Meer info: sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...

Looking forward to participate (from remote) in the screening of the film The Researcher in Nottingham @ Mammoth Climate Action cinema on Sat 1st Feb at 7pm.👉mammothcinema.uk/Event/113151 : Love the idea of a climate action cinema!

Onze rechtsstaat ligt onder vuur. In Den Haag, maar ook in Brussel. Daarom zoekt Follow the Money 2000 nieuwe leden. Als nieuw lid draag je direct bij, sluit je aan: www.ftm.nl/tegenkracht?...

The trends are undeniable. We are just at the beginning of this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔥Let’s sue them! In the Tourism & Globalization course will teach you how to use academic knowledge to help make big changes that go beyond and are critical of technofixes and redirecting responsibility. 🗓10 March – 2 May 2025 (WUR Period 5) 📝 Registration deadline: 9 February 2025

Welcome to bluesky @w-u-r.bsky.social a shame that my first post tagging you has to be about using police force against students during the eviction of the longest free Palestine encampment in the Netherlands. What happened to open dialogue ?

🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’? Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels.. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The obstruction of ambitious/adequate climate action by the building construction and real estate industry is barely mentioned and almost completely unstudied in the social science literature. We found they were major spenders on lobbying in state legislatures, but this city-level action is key.

Folks, I too am unsurprised that oil companies hijacked this process. I am one of the reporters who has been covering that effort for the past several years. The point is not to surprise, it’s to document, which then hopefully informs legislation, litigation, change, etc.

This is the first bird extinction in mainland Europe in 500 years. 1400 birds are globally threatened with extinction. 230 are Critically Endangered. The Slender-billed Curlew is just the latest in over 200 bird extinctions since 1500. 😢🪶🧪

My latest starter pack is entirely subjective, joyfully curated for my personal satisfaction. It features my partner-in-climate-action former 🇨🇦 Env Min @cathmckenna.bsky.social and an elite squad of climate-focused K’s and C’s. Who'd I miss? Let me know—it's not a party without the whole crew!

"We find that universities are an established yet under-researched vehicle of climate obstruction by the fossil fuel industry, & that universities' lack of transparency about their partnerships with this industry poses a challenge to empirical research." wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If you missed this 🧵 on the "Koch & Climate Obstruction" report I wrote with Robert Brulle @climatessn.bsky.social, please read and share! It unpacks what what Koch knew, and what Koch said. Now, here's are new 🧵 on what Koch DID, starting with historic material from the 1990's.

Listen to women. Follow women. Here's a starter pack for women in climate. (I don't know how to remove myself from this list i'm so sorrry) go.bsky.app/KZ1yZUJ

Goed om het beestje bij de naam te noemen. De rechtszaak van de ANVR tegen het reclameverbod in Den Haag is klimaatobstructie, het bewust tegenwerken van het klimaatbeleid en klimaatactie. Dan kan je nog zo vaak "duurzaam" op je website schrijven. www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Martijn Duineveld over het cynische narratief van reisbrancheorganisatie ANVR: 'De klimaatontkenner die de effecten van klimaatverandering publiekelijk onderkent'

Two things we've seen from Trump in the past week: - Appointing superspreaders of misinformation to high office. - Announcing that social media media platforms will no longer be allowed to act against misinformation. It's going to be quite the ride.

1. Who really won the US election? The fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries. We scarcely heard about them during the election campaign, which is just how they like it. Almost everything we *did* hear about was a distraction from the real agenda. 🧵