Richard DuffyFeb 29, 2024
Rhinos Worry Me has moved

Electric cars, carbon capture, planting trees; all these climate actions feel like fighting a wildfire while an arsonist is setting more fires.

Don't get me wrong - we *need* people fighting the fires (even if some of them are more effective than others).

But more urgently, someone needs to stop the arsonist.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis

Feb 29, 2024 at 12:02pmWeb
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 29, 2024

@RhinosWorryMe

Stopping the arsonist means stopping OPEC who owns politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/08/opec-rails-against-fossil-fuel-phase-out-at-cop28-in-leaked-letters
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/global-opec-chiefs-call-for-huge-investment-in-oil-is-a-formula-for-climate-disaster/

Trump
https://newrepublic.com/post/179250/president-trump-owes-saudi-arabia-540-million
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68296877
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2024/02/28/heres-who-could-loan-trump-540-million/?sh=5f5ce5103746
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/27/trump-saudis-influence-buying/
https://thehill.com/policy/4215912-saudi-crown-prince-suggests-investment-would-stay-in-kushner-fund-if-trump-reelected/

Speaker Mike Johnson
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4275210-mike-johnson-speaker-gop-pro-oil-climate-skeptical-record/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion
https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/house-speaker-mike-johnsons-climate-change-playbook-deny-the-science-take-the-funding/

Rishi Sunak
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/19/uks-invite-saudi-crown-prince-risks-rubber-stamping-repression
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1817191/rishi-sunak-typhoon-jets-deal-saudi-arabia-germany-bae-systems
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2308266/world

Opec rails against fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 in leaked letters

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

The Guardian
Show threadRhinos Worry Me has movedFeb 29, 2024

@Npars01

Among others.

Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 29, 2024

@RhinosWorryMe

Feel free to add to my list of fossil fuel shills...

Show threadDana Siler PghFeb 29, 2024

@Npars01 @RhinosWorryMe yes! I have been reading The Petroleum Papers by Geoff Dembicki.

I would add Fox News to this list.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7byqw/rupert-murdoch-climate-change-fox-news-news-corp

Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show

Murdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.

Show threadJorge StolfiFeb 29, 2024

@DanaSiler @Npars01 @RhinosWorryMe

Jules Verne has a sequel for /From The Earth To The Moon/ where an American company quietly buys all (presumed) land around the North Pole, and then proceeds to build a huge cannon whose recoil would shift the axis of the Earth -- so that their land would end at a temperate latitude, and they can then mine the coal expected to be there.

Show threadDana Siler PghFeb 29, 2024
@Npars01 @RhinosWorryMe I am starting to come to the view that climate change is being inflicted on us by the oil companies and their allied media companies. If it were not for the denial and misinformation these companies have perpetrated, we could be a lot further along the path to decarbonization.
Show threadHelen GrahamFeb 29, 2024
@RhinosWorryMe But instead the USA seems about to give the arsonists free range by electing a president who could quite literatly destroy the world as we know it ,hes admitted he will "drill,drill,drill" that he will withdraw from climate agreements ,most likely damage alaska and has also said he will leave Putin to have free range in Europe and will effectively hand over ukraine to him giving putin control over large nuclear power stations that would make the Chernobyl disaster small scale