*[Enwl-eng] It's time to embrace climate conspiracy

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Date: ср, 7 янв. 2026 г. в 20:36
Subject: It's time to embrace climate conspiracy

Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for 
decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.
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      It's time to embrace climate conspiracy
      Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has 
documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.
                        Emily Atkin

                        Jan 7

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      I hate conspiracy theories. I always have. As a journalist, they’re 
usually the thing I’m pushing back against.

      And yet, for a few years now, I’ve found myself saying something 
slightly heretical on panels and in conversations with other reporters: we 
need to start engaging in more overtly conspiratorial language. Because the 
actual story of climate change—the one we’ve reported exhaustively—is one 
about coordinated power, deliberate deception, and a bought-off government 
that repeatedly acts to promote an industry that is poisoning humans and the 
environment for profit. It just so happens to be a real conspiracy.

      The Trump administration’s recent invasion of Venezuela has put this 
conspiracy at the top of the news cycle. Trump framed the attack explicitly 
as an oil play, bragging about handing Venezuela’s oil infrastructure to 
U.S. companies. He said he privately briefed oil executives in advance of 
the attack, but did not inform Congress. He made clear that if U.S. 
companies were hesitant to enter Venezuela, U.S. taxpayers would step in to 
shoulder the financial risk.

      These statements strip away every remaining excuse for decorum. When a 
president deploys military might and taxpayer dollars to expand Big Oil’s 
power, journalists and climate advocates shouldn’t be afraid to say why that’s 
really happening—or to use the kind of language that makes it finally click 
in people’s brains.

      If there were ever a moment to embrace climate conspiratorial 
language, it’s now. If we don’t, we’ll miss a rare chance to show the public 
who the government really works for, and who pays the price.

      Here’s how I’d put it, if anyone needs a hand.

      You don’t ever need to pay for HEATED—it’s free. But if you have the 
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      Upgrade to paidA climate script for the conspiracy-minded
      You may think that the biggest climate conspiracy is chemtrails. You’d 
be wrong.

      But climate-altering chemicals are being dumped into the atmosphere at 
an astonishing rate. And the government is actively trying to cover up what’s 
happening, why it’s happening, and who it hurts.

      Airplanes aren’t the ones releasing world-changing amounts of 
climate-altering chemicals into the sky. Fossil fuel companies are. Fossil 
fuel operations are notorious for emitting massive amounts of greenhouse 
gases into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide and methane. Just look at 
these graphs showing how much heat-trapping gas has accumulated in the 
atmosphere over time.

      A NASA graph, since removed by the Trump administration, shows that 
the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (blue line) has increased 
along with human emissions of carbon dioxide (gray line) since the start of 
the Industrial Revolution.

      A NASA graph shows a rise in atmospheric methane concentrations since 
the year 1010.
      The U.S. government is actively trying to cover up these numbers. 
Since taking office, Trump has proposed shutting down the country’s 
longest-running carbon dioxide monitoring station. He’s secretly directed 
NASA employees to draw up plans to destroy two satellites that monitor 
global carbon dioxide levels. And he’s moved to end the program that 
requires fossil fuel companies to track and report greenhouse gas emissions 
from more than 8,000 facilities.

      The government has also been working overtime to cover up the massive 
harm this pollution causes. Trump has altered or deleted nearly every 
federal scientific report and web resource that’s come out in the last two 
decades showing that climate change is killing people, costing money, and 
making us less safe. He says it’s because all the studies are flawed and 
alarmist. Really? All of them? Every single one?

      The real reason the government is doing this is simple: Because it’s 
bought and paid for by Big Oil, the most profitable and powerful industry in 
the world. Before the election, Trump promised oil executives he would give 
them whatever they wanted in exchange for campaign support, floating a $1 
billion price tag. How much the industry actually gave is impossible to 
know, thanks to dark money and opaque PACs. But from what we can see, Big 
Oil spent $219 million to influence the 2024 election, with at least $75 
million going directly to Trump’s campaign and affiliated PACs. Eighty-eight 
percent of oil and gas money went to Republicans.

      And now, the government is deploying the U.S. military to help the 
industry dump even more of these climate-altering chemicals into the 
atmosphere.

      Trump explicitly stated his intention for the U.S. to control 
Venezuela’s oil. He laid it out plain as day: “We’re going to have our very 
large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, 
spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil 
infrastructure, and start making money for the country.”

      Trump didn’t tell Congress about the Venezuela attack before it 
happened. But he did claim to tell oil executives. Let that sink in. The 
president reportedly informed private oil companies about a military 
invasion before informing the people’s elected representatives. So who does 
the government work for, exactly?

      The oil industry has tried to deny receiving advance notice prior to 
the invasion—but only through anonymous sources. To this I remind you: Oil 
companies are notorious liars. They spent decades lying about climate 
change, burying their own research showing fossil fuels were destroying the 
planet, and funding disinformation campaigns to confuse the public. If they 
really didn’t speak to Trump, why don’t they say it loudly and proudly?

      Now, plenty of people have correctly pointed out that it will be 
difficult and expensive for U.S. oil companies to take over Venezuela’s oil. 
But that’s much less of a problem when the government works for you. After 
industry sources told CNN that oil companies “were reluctant to commit to 
reinvesting” in Venezuela, Trump immediately fell over himself to offer to 
help them—with taxpayer money, of course. Trump said oil companies 
rebuilding Venezuela’s infrastructure will “get reimbursed by us, or through 
revenue,” with the U.S. government potentially subsidizing efforts by energy 
companies to rebuild the country’s oil industry.

      Oil companies are trying to publicly act like they don’t want 
Venezuela’s oil. But here’s what’s indisputable. Chevron’s stock soared as 
much as 10 percent after the invasion. Exxon and ConocoPhillips shares rose 
around 3 to 4 percent. Oil service companies like SLB, Baker Hughes, and 
Halliburton jumped between 4 percent and 9 percent. And U.S. refiners 
Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, PBF Energy, and Valero Energy were up 
between 3.4 percent and 9.3 percent.

      Another thing that’s indisputable: Venezuela’s new acting president, 
Delcy Rodríguez, is the country’s oil minister. She’s long been the go-to 
contact for senior oil executives, with strong ties to Republicans in the 
oil industry who actively pushed for her to lead post-Maduro Venezuela. I’m 
sure that’s just a crazy coincidence.

      Perhaps all of this could be defensible if the outcome for ordinary 
Americans were actually positive. Trump insists it will be—that oil 
expansion means jobs, security, and prosperity.

      That claim is the heart of the conspiracy. It’s not that Trump and the 
oil industry are working together; that part is in plain sight. It’s that 
the public is being told this partnership exists for our benefit, when in 
reality it exists to preserve fossil fuel dominance in a world where that 
dominance is threatened by people simply understanding the truth—that oil 
and gas pollution is transforming the climate, making us sicker, poorer, and 
less safe.

      That’s why Trump works to obscure emissions data, suppress climate 
science, and discredit anyone who explains the harm. It’s why he’s willing 
to spend taxpayer money, deploy military force, and rewrite foreign policy. 
Not because any of this serves the public interest, but because all of it 
serves the same goal: keeping fossil fuels flowing, even as the scientific 
case for transitioning away from them becomes overwhelming.

      And doing that requires a public that is less informed, more 
economically strained, and easier to distract—too busy coping with rising 
costs and mounting crises to demand a transition that would reduce 
pollution, lower long-term costs, and make wars over energy unnecessary.

      So no, you don’t need to worry about chemtrails. You need to worry 
about who controls energy—and what they’re willing to do to keep it that 
way.

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      Upgrade to paidFurther reading:
        a.. Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ 
for climate, experts warn (The Guardian)

        b.. Why the federal government is making climate data disappear 
(Grist)

        c.. The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle (Drilled)

        d.. U.S. to control Venezuela oil sales “indefinitely,” Energy 
Secretary says (New York Times)

        e.. Trump to meet with oil execs about Venezuela on Friday 
(Politico)

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