Naomi Oreskes is a heroine of the climate movement, and of many other fights against corporate malfeasance. See Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, from 2010. Now she has won the Volvo Environment Prize for unmasking the corporate climate denialists.
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Huge congratulations to Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes for winning the Volvo prize! She is a pioneer in unmasking the financial interests and methods behind climate science denial.
I’m proud to have published with her how Exxon knew exactly what they were doing.
www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...
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— Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf (@rahmstorf.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
New findings are always questioned, that’s how science works
But many are aggressively denied, that’s how pseudo-science for profit works.
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The "silent majority" is where the vast majority of people want climate action but they don't talk about it because they think other people won't agree.
I imagine if that problem were resolved we would see climate climbing in voter importance.
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— Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 (@brichapman.com) November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is why the haters hate, hate, hate, hate NPR and PBS.
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Good news in your feed!
Listen to NPR’s @marketplace.org at min 21 as
@peterschmitt34.bsky.social & the Food Group talk about their awesome work bringing together solar energy, ag, & land access for new farmers as #agrivoltaics.
#goodnews @npr.org #proudwife podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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— Katie Jones (@katiejonesmpls.bsky.social) November 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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CHESSA member Pivot Energy is helping lead the future of agrivoltaics, blending solar power and agriculture to strengthen communities and ecosystems.
Read Sustainability Magazine’s Q&A with Angela Burke on moving from pilot to portfolio: buff.ly/n0LhRir
#CHESSAMembers #Solar #Agrivoltaics
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— CHESSA (@solarchesapeake.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
IKEA launched a lineup of renewable energy solutions in the UK, which includes solar panels, heat pumps, and EV chargers.
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for a record 87 hours in 2025 so far.
New England’s last coal-fired power plant shut down three years ahead of schedule.
Egypt has enough desert to generate solar and wind power enough for all of MENA and Europe besides. So do several other Sahara Desert countries.
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Good meeting with 🇪🇬Minister Manal Awad this morning in 🇨🇦.
We exchanged on COP30, NDCs, carbon markets and Egypt’s vast potential for renewable energy.
The 🇪🇺 and 🇪🇬 have a good collaboration on many topics, and look forward to going further on climate and energy transition.
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— Wopke Hoekstra (@wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu) November 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Mazama Energy logged 331°C in an enhanced geothermal system at Newberry, Oregon. The prize: firm, 24/7 clean power with far higher watts per well. The catch: materials + reservoir at >400°C
climatetech.industryexaminer.com/mazama-331c-...
#ClimateTech #Geothermal #EGS #AI #TechNews
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— Industry Examiner (@industryexaminer.bsky.social) October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No New Nukes
The Axis of Idiocy
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The Liberals are still obsessed with nuclear power.
Sadly for them it is too expensive to compete with renewables & storage, too slow to build to have any impact on cost of living, & too dangerous to gain broad public support.
reneweconomy.com.au/liberals-dri...
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— Friends of the Earth Australia (@foe.org.au) November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™
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If we don’t solve the massive “free-to-pollute” fossil fuel subsidy (IMF: $700B/yr in U.S.), there’s no pathway to climate safety. Period. Once you put a price (penalty) on pollution, that is when innovation happens, because it has a revenue proposition.
— Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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On the flip side, protecting that $700B/yr subsidy gives fossil fuel a massive incentive to engage in climate denial fraud and dark money political corruption, both of which they do at industrial scale.
— Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#Climate denial isn’t just rejecting science—it’s defending the myth of endless growth. As The Limits to Growth warned decades ago, we can’t expand forever on a finite planet. What we need now is a new story of progress—one rooted in limits, care, and belonging. 🧪🌍🌐
An excellent read 👇
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— Stelios Katsanevakis (@skatsanevakis.bsky.social) November 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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The UN’s latest climate progress report ahead of COP30 warns that pledged emissions cuts—just 10% by 2035—fall far short, making a breach of 1.5°C warming now “inevitable,” as António Guterres cautions countries to act faster.
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— Truthout (@truthout.org) October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal: Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according ...
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— The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) (@guardian-climate.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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The National Party finally makes it official and abandons all Australians under the age of 40.
Abandoning net zero and the nuclear ban with absolutely zero rational argument for doing either. There is no scientific, technological, engineering, economic, or social evidence to justify dumping them.
— Glenn Plummer I👀U (@glenntheplummer.bsky.social) November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I got a bat scoop just for Halloween 🦇Earlier this month, a mysterious DOE 'hit list' was leaked to the press that put $24B in federal clean-energy funding on the chopping block. I just discovered that critical research studying bats in future wind farm areas has officially been axed. 🪓
Do offshore wind farms kill bats? Trump cut research into the question.
Scientists were making remarkable discoveries about bat activity in the ocean waters where California plans to build turbines. Now their $1.6M grant is gone.
Earlier this month, the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) received a letter from the Department of Energy abruptly canceling its $1.6 million grant to study bat behavior in California waters earmarked for offshore wind development — a move that will hinder the nascent research effort. Christian Newman, EPRI’s program manager for the grant, said the organization is actively looking for other funding sources.
He wants to be able to rant and rave about wind turbines harming whales, birds, and bats, with no data to contradict him. He won’t get that.
