If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did? - The Permaculture Research Institute
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2023/10/16/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-hadnt-been-kidnapped-would-fossil-fuels-have-dominated-the-20th-century-the-way-they-did/

Cove’s company, Sun Electric Generator Corporation, based in New York, was capitalised at US$5 million (around US$160 million in today’s money). By 1909, the idea had gained widespread media attention. Modern Electric magazine highlighted how “given two days’ sun… [the device] will store sufficient electrical energy to light an ordinary house for a week”.

It noted how cheap solar energy could liberate people from poverty, “bringing them cheap light, heat and power, and freeing the multitude from the constant struggle for bread”. The piece went on to speculate how even aeroplanes could be powered by batteries charged by the sun. A clean energy future seemed to be there for the taking.

Vested interests?
Then, according to a report in The New York Herald on 19 October 1909, Cove was kidnapped. The condition for his release required forgoing his solar patent and shutting down the company. Cove refused and was later released near Bronx Zoo.

But after this incident, his solar business fizzled out. Which seems odd – in the years before the kidnapping, he had developed several iterations of the solar device, improving it each time

TUHO: plus

'Reckless to the Point of Madness': How the Murdoch Empire Hacked British Politics – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/12/08/reckless-to-the-point-of-madness-how-the-murdoch-empire-hacked-british-politics/

Troxhu OT, ale Murdochovy media jsou jednim z top climate denial zdroju

'News Corp Was Out to Get Me': Chris Huhne Condemns Murdoch Empire after Settlement for Phone-Hacking and Intrusion – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/12/05/news-corp-was-out-to-get-me-chris-huhne-condemns-murdoch-empire-after-settlement-for-phone-hacking-and-intrusion/

Some Realism About Environmental Skepticism: The Implications of Bjørn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist for Environmental Law and Policy
Douglas A. Kysar
Ecology Law Quarterly

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24114215

Researchers have revealed that fossil fuel companies paid Meta, which owns social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, up to $5.12 million (€4.68 million) for climate disinformation ads in recent months.
Four oil and gas majors — Shell, ExxonMobil, BP and TotalEnergies — accounted for 98% of that advertising spending, noted "Deny, Deceive, Delay (Vol.3): Climate Information Integrity Ahead of COP28," a new report published by the global research coalition Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD).
The pro-fossil fuel social media advertisements serve to reinforce — and monetize — climate disinformation generated by right-wing news websites and publications like The Daily Telegraph in the UK, The Daily Wire and Breitbart in the US, and Sky News in Australia.
On Facebook, ads surveyed included misleading green claims about Big Oil's commitment to renewable energy — despite the sector providing barely 1% of global investment in clean power, the report noted.
Ads simultaneously promoted the need to maintain the flow of oil and gas, which are among the biggest sources of planet-heating greenhouse gases that delegates in Dubai are looking to phase out.
"We're increasing investment in lower carbon energy and keeping oil and gas flowing where it is needed," ran one Facebook ad by petroleum giant, BP.

Climate lies ramp up ahead of crucial climate talks in Dubai – DW – 11/29/2023
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-misinformation-heats-up-ahead-of-of-crucial-climate-talks/a-67573678

The international relations literature often assumes that negotiators in global regimes are actively seeking a collective agreement to the problem on the table. There are cases, however, where a delegation may instead be “striving for no,” that is, participating with the aim of obstructing a deal. This article explores the challenges surrounding such cases of “obstructionism,” using the example of Saudi Arabia in the climate change regime. It examines the evidence for diagnosing Saudi Arabia as an obstructionist in that regime, the delegation's negotiating tactics, strategies for addressing obstructionism, and finally the repercussions for both the climate change regime, and Saudi Arabia itself. In conclusion, the article considers whether Saudi Arabia may be moving bey

https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article-abstract/8/4/9/14728/Striving-for-No-Saudi-Arabia-in-the-Climate-Changeond obstruction.

Prej je tedka na instaci nova petrolhead hvezdicka Filip Turek. Uplne jsem mijel doted :(

Už teď tu může jezdit milion elektroaut, tvrdí šéf asociace pro elektromobilitu | TN.cz
https://tn.nova.cz/auto/clanek/531480-uz-ted-tu-muze-jezdil-milion-elektroaut-rika-sef-asociace-je-to-hracka-pro-bohace-oponuje-zavodnik

na obzoeu dalsi funky projekt

Bari Weiss' New "Fiercely Independent" University Closely Tied to Right-Wing Koch Network - EXPOSEDbyCMD
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/11/30/bari-weiss-new-fiercely-independent-university-closely-tied-to-right-wing-koch-network/

That Which They Will Not See: Climate Denial as a Vector of Epistemological Crisis in the Contemporary United States
Susannah Crockford

Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US – Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri – based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction of ignorance, the argument is made that this literature as it pertains to climate denial does not go far enough in accounting for the persistence of the rejection of climate science. Theoretically drawing from anthropological work on the incommensurability of paradigms, the argument is based on a tripartite construction of denial as produced through an interaction of a cultural norm of radical empiricism, a political-media ecosystem funded by fossil fuel companies, and a cosmological schema derived from conservative white evangelicalism. The result of this process is an epistemological crisis in contemporary American society.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912920946400?journalCode=prqb

Climate Denial Revisited: (Re)contextualising Russian Public Discourse on Climate Change during Putin 2.0

In this article we examine Russia’s recent public discourse on climate change, with a special focus on the arguments denying anthropogenic climate change. We scrutinise the ways in which denial arguments presented in the media are tied to the changing Russian political and economic context, especially the increasingly authoritarian turn in governance during President Vladimir Putin’s third term in office (Putin 2.0). We conclude that the Russian discourse on climate change emphasises Russia’s Great Power status, identifying its sovereignty and fossil energy as the basis of this status. This discourse refers to key categories, including Russia’s national identity and the spatial–material characteristics of the Russian state.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2018.1472218

Blogging about Climate Change in Russia: Activism, Scepticism and Conspiracies

The article explores the new media’s role in climate change communication in Russia. By providing an open space for the expression of very diverse points of view, the internet creates a substitute media reality where both climate activists and climate sceptics can question the established discourse. Analysis of 374 entries published on the LiveJournal blogging platform has resulted in the identification of four discursive categories: “conspiracies of climate change,” “climate change impact,” “political games of climate change” and “online (anti-)environmentalism.” Each category demonstrates how the same topic can be framed in very different ways depending on bloggers’ worldview rather than the nature of the discussed environmental problem. The findings also show that the blogs act as “echo-chambers” for both climate deniers and climate activists reinforcing their behold beliefs. Finally, the analysis discovers some parallels with the traditional media coverage in their minimal critique of Russian state policy on climate.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2017.1308406

Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case

In this paper, we consider climate scepticism in the Russian context. We are interested in whether this has been discussed within the social scientific literature and ask first whether there is a discernible climate sceptical discourse in Russia. We find that there is very little literature directly on this topic in either English or Russian and we seek to synthesise related literature to fill the gap. Secondly, we consider whether Russian climate scepticism has been shaped by the same factors as in the USA, exploring how scientists, the media, public opinion, the government and business shaped climate scepticism in Russia. Climate scepticism in the USA is understood as a ‘conservative countermovement’ that seeks to react against the perceived gains of the progressive environmental movement, but we argue that this is not an appropriate framework for understanding Russian climate scepticism. Articulated within a less agonistic environment and situated within an authoritarian regime, Russian expressions of climate scepticism balance the environmental, political and economic needs of the regime under the constraints of a strong ‘carbon culture’ and closed public debate.

Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case | Climatic Change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03390-3