In the news, we find that it's Business As Usual for Shell Oil — which means both polluting our atmosphere with greenhouse gases AND polluting our political system with disinformation. 😠
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A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal.

Fourteen of those groups are on the advisory board of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint proposing radical changes to the federal government, including severely limiting the Environment Protection Agency.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/15/shell-oil-project-2025-climate-crisis

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Politics #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Even for those of us who have worked on, and warned about, climate risks for decades, this news is extremely disturbing.

#climatechange

Read:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4806281-climate-change-earth-systems-collapse-risk-study/

Excellent LA Times article on #Project2025's call to dismantle #NOAA and privatize the National Weather Service. This will destroy the nation’s ability to track weather, combat #climatechange and protect the public from environmental hazards.

That part of Project 2025 was written by Thomas Gilman, a right-wing Trump appointee who comes from the auto, oil/gas/, mining industry -- threatened by climate change policies.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-28/project-2025-targets-noaa-and-national-weather-service

Project 2025 targets NOAA and National Weather Service

The call to dismantle the United States' vital weather department has raised the hackles of experts who say NOAA provides not only important free data but also life-saving information.

^{Hayley Smith (Los Angeles Times)}