#Climate Reporting

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"When civil disobedience is punished more severely than racist rioting, something has gone badly wrong."

"…whether you agree with Just Stop Oil’s tactics or not…their nonviolent protest, whose aim was to protect us all from harm, was a far less serious crime than the violence on the streets this month, whose perpetrators deliberately inflicted injury and massive, indiscriminate criminal damage. The riots did not just inconvenience people, they terrorised them.

When civil disobedience is punished more severely than racist rioting, something has gone badly wrong."

[reality-detective]

Greg Reese Report 👇

Conflicting Pole Shift Agendas Between the East and West.

Is this why the world is being turned upside down? You Decide 🤔

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, and Kyung Lah at CNN:

Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.

Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on “religious liberty” instead of “Christian nation-ism.” But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, published a video of the meeting on Thursday – offering a window into the thinking of one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement, who’s been floated as a possible White House chief of staff. Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has “blessed” his organization and “he’s very supportive of what we do.” “Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” Vought said. “And we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.” In discussing Trump’s plan to carry out the largest deportation in US history – which the former president has called for publicly – Vought said the expulsion of millions of undocumented immigrants could help “save the country.” Once deportations begin, “you’re really going to be winning a debate along the way about what that looks like,” Vought said. “And so that’s going to cause us to get us off of multiculturalism, just to be able to sustain and defend the deportation, right?”

The video is the latest example of secret recordings exposing political figures’ private comments. The tactics used by the Centre – which created fake websites and a fake LinkedIn profile to deceive Vought – are typically rejected by mainstream American news outlets. But using hidden cameras and deceptive practices in reporting is more common in the UK, where the Centre is based, and it’s been on the rise on the fringe of the US media as well. The conservative group Project Veritas has long conducted sting operations and published selectively edited videos, and earlier this year, a liberal activist released audio recordings of conversations she had with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts.

[...]

An elaborate ruse

Vought served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, where he made a name for himself as a policy wonk committed to the MAGA movement. In public, Trump repeatedly praised Vought for doing an “incredible” and “fantastic” job at OMB. After Trump left office, Vought started the Center for Renewing America, a nonprofit that describes itself as the “tip of the America First spear.” CRA was one of many right-leaning groups that partnered on Project 2025, a more than 900-page blueprint for Trump’s second term that was led by the Heritage Foundation. Vought personally authored the project’s chapter on the executive office of the president, and his group contributed to several other chapters of the plan as well. Vought also served as the policy director of the Republican National Convention committee that rewrote the GOP’s official platform this year – a sign of how central he is to Republicans’ policy goals. 

Last month, Vought’s team was approached by employees with the Centre for Climate Reporting, which has previously published investigations into climate negotiations and Saudi Arabia’s energy policy. The Centre spun an elaborate fiction, with a journalist and a paid actor posing as the brother and son-in-law of a reclusive New Mexico investor. The nonexistent patriarch had watched Vought’s appearances on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show while recuperating from an illness – and wanted to make a seven-figure contribution to CRA after previously focusing his philanthropy on classical music, they claimed. The meeting took place on July 24, the week after the Republican convention, at the presidential suite of the Rosewood hotel in DC, where the Centre had placed several hidden cameras and microphones, Carter said. After the Centre’s employees suggested starting the meeting with a prayer, they peppered Vought with questions about his work and views, the video shows.

CNN reports a secretly recorded video by Centre For Climate Reporting featuring Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term that includes drafts for executive orders numbering in the hundreds.

See Also:

MMFA: In undercover interview, Project 2025 architect gets candid on the initiative’s radical goals and connections to Trump

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The climate worldwide was getting colder and colder and the sky was turning violet. Later on, news stations started reporting that there were clouds at ground level. Turned out this was all happening because Earth somehow went out of orbit.

[you-need-not-apply]

PLEASE READ THE AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE REPORT 2024

It’s horrifying

[lordrakim]

Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. Continue reading Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

[aemiron-main]

It’s so frustrating that this sounds “good” for Canada on the surface but the reality is that Doug Ford has a long record of absolutely fucking over and selling out Canada environmentally & speeding through environmental assessments for major projects & slashing environmental regulations for logging, mining etc & he’s now going to be using the tariffs and “I want all of it to be sourced from Canada,” as an excuse to do even more environmental deregulation & excessive deregulated logging and mining.

Like, this is the same guy who continues to change environmental regulation behind closed doors, without notifying the public, and the same guy who allowed developers to cut into the protected Greenbelt in Ontario. This is the guy who proposed and passed a bill that repealed the Toxics Reduction Act, allowed corporations to ignore the Clean Water Act, Greenbelt Protection Act, and Great Lakes Act, and called the bill the “Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act,” presenting environmental harm & deregulation it under the guise of “supporting and helping local Canadian business/increasing production of goods from industries like the logging and mining industries so that more Canadian-sourced materials can be used/so that these sectors can become competitive again in Ontario”- gee, isn’t that familiar? Talking about sourcing more materials from Canada & using that as an excuse for mass environmental deregulation & giving corporations a free pass to ignore health and environmental regulations?

(and all that ^ isnt even CLOSE the tip of the iceberg of all the extremely shitty things Doug has done, nor is it even the tip of the iceberg of all the extremely shitty, detrimental-to-Canada things he’s done under the guise of being pro-Canada).

Any Canadians (or Americans- anyone, really, but especially Canadians) who think this is just “Doug Ford finally doing something good for Canada and protecting the interests of Canadians,” need to open their eyes & go learn about the reality of Doug’s shady dealings with developers & mining companies & his vast amount of health and environmental deregulation, and how he’s always gone out of his way to hide what he’s doing and try to present it as some sort of “sourcing from Canada,” patriotic BS.

Doug Ford is simply going to fuck over Canada’s land and people under the guise of helping them, under the guise of Canadian patriotism, just as he’s always done.

Doug Ford isn’t on the side of Canada. He’s not even on the side of Ontario- he’s completely and solely the side of himself, just as he’s always been.

This is not Doug standing up for Canadians. This is Doug seeing a perfect excuse to continue doing what he’s been doin, and continue it on a more extreme level, and continue it without having to hide it anymore, because suddenly he’s got this potential route of justification for it.

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

'The fossil fuel industry will have powered human development in the 20th century and then destroyed it in the 21st.'

#ThereIsNoPlanetB #LeaveItInTheGround "The fossil fuel industry is facing decline, no matter what. It is D-Day for them."

[mintanoia]

so did anyone else feel an evergrowing existential dread since they were young?

like i never thought i'd live to 60 because of climate change, but over the years, looking at what's happening in the world right now, i think living to 40 might be pushing it (i'm 22 rn).

like i never thought of having kids or anything because i just accepted that the world would end before that? not even in a "oh no. this might happen :(" way but in a "it's happening no matter what i do" way. just a simple fact.

anyone else...?

[cognitivejustice]

Meet Audrey Cerdan, climate editor-in-chief at France Télévisions who changed the weather report

It lasts only a few minutes, but the weather report brings its own kind of atmosphere to France.

Every evening at 8pm, a familiar anchor from state broadcaster France Télévisions steps into people’s homes with “a warm hello” and tells them about tomorrow. 

Televised forecasts have been a staple of daily life since the 1940s; changing such a trusted format is no small matter. But the way the climate crisis is disrupting our weather demands innovation, so last year the broadcaster turned its traditional report into a climate change-informed weather report, Journal Météo-Climat.

“We see it as the weather being a still image, and the climate being the film in which this image is featured,” explains Audrey Cerdan, climate editor-in-chief at France Télévisions. “If you just see the still image, but you don't show the whole movie, you’re not going to understand the still picture.”

Cerdan was the journalist tasked with overseeing this transformation. She has just been crowned one of three ‘Journalists of the Year’ for 2024 by Covering Climate Now - an organisation that celebrates the best of climate journalism. 

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Have you heard the latest nonsense from the climate cultists? They're now trying to tell us that the act of breathing in and out is itself an offense against the weather gods.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/environmental-news/the-climate-death-cults-mask-is-slipping

#TheFreeThoughtProject #TFTP

[just2bruce]

Carbon Capture for ships - current state

Some people think carbon capture onboard is going to be important in meeting emissions goals for ships. There is some entrepreneurship, and some interest by large oil producers and purveyors. However, many problems remain to be solved. There is essentially no ‘supply chain’ to handle the liquefied carbon product the ships produce onboard from running the carbon capture equipment. Liquid CO2 has…

[kogiopsis]

Lying awake at night thinking "what if it doesn't snow again this winter"

[jackoshadows]

Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative