Ketan Joshi

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Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability

Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: [ketanjoshi.co/greensky](https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ )

Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com

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2026-05-12 20:34:46 UTC

Pretty classic twisty and deeply confused carbon removal rhetoric, where they first exclaim you can't stop fossil fuels for data centres, and then still insist that carbon removal isn't there to excuse the use of fossil fuels??
You just did exactly that!!
[heatmap.news/ideas/climew...](https://heatmap.news/ideas/climeworks-ai-carbon-removal )
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2026-05-06 11:39:12 UTC

go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over
how's that for a slice of fried gold?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5kutjayihojlflwy3rk3gnkf/post/3ml5lyh2u2s23
[a group of people sitting on a...](https://media.tenor.com/R2KBDpz7pCsAAAAC/shaun-of-the-dead-coffee.gif?hh=200&ww=470 )

2026-05-04 07:59:56 UTC

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted:
[www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-williamson-7a501b329_retraction-note-the-effect-of-chatgpt-on-activity-7456842986551803904-DBoN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABBbg1kBL4bGVwJOur529vIonS7OTt82ADg )
[www.nature.com/articles/s41...](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07310-z )
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2026-04-30 17:55:40 UTC

The smart thing to do during a crisis caused by over-reliance on fossil fuels is to immediately act to lock in fossil fuels even more deeply than they already are
This is a crisis folks, we don't have time to deal with irrelevant stuff like *checks notes* um.............THE THING CAUSING THE CRISIS
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2026-04-29 10:08:19 UTC

this is going to be a thread of analysts openly celebrating fossil fuel companies' skyrocketing ultra-profits off the back of the bloody and deadly attacks by the US and Israel, including several hundred dead school children
RBC analyst Biraj Borkhataria:
[www.reuters.com/business/ene...](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/totalenergies-reports-29-earnings-rise-q1-strong-trading-prices-2026-04-29/ )
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2026-04-22 12:32:34 UTC

Also worth noting that wind had the largest effect in cutting power prices here - a very good reminder of the importance of a diverse mix of non-fossil energy sources :)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ll3y2nqxwrhie5aaj75ocz3/post/3mjz2oyi5n22i

2026-04-09 07:36:31 UTC

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.
We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)
[www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gwittebolle_1-tonne-de-co%E2%82%82-cest-ma-projection-annuelle-activity-7447171247601356800-4-dB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABBbg1kBL4bGVwJOur529vIonS7OTt82ADg )
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2026-04-08 08:48:01 UTC

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*
Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
[Sam Altman Says It'll Take Ano...](https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer-2000743487 )

2026-04-08 06:19:00 UTC

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability
The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

2026-04-04 17:27:22 UTC

this 8 year old tweet of mine emerged recently and just, man, what I would give to return to a time when these were the main issues with The Internet
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2026-03-24 18:55:35 UTC

This is..........a solar power podcast.
When I talk about how the corporate and technological infrastructure of climate has been largely diverted towards meeting technology company demand, this is what I'm talking about
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2026-03-18 17:45:19 UTC

Note that two and three wheeler EVs are STILL cutting more oil demand today than EVs globally
(albeit only just and probs not for long)
Still - such a badly underrecognised form of EV
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u75dzingoes47w2n57qksnbq/post/3mhdbd54jqk27
#note1lnf…mseg

2026-03-17 13:36:29 UTC

Meta's power consumption grew to 18.4 terawatt hours in 2024
They are building a 2.25 gigawatt (!!!!!!!!!!!!) gas plant in Louisiana
And lobbying to weaken climate disclosure
...........for.....this?
[ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...](https://ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/data-collection-big-tech-emissions-energy/ )
[techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/g...](https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/gas-power-plants-approved-for-metas-10b-data-center-and-not-everyone-is-happy/ )
[influencemap.org/pressrelease...](https://influencemap.org/pressrelease/GHG-Report-34412 )
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#note1nf4…7p9m

2026-03-16 12:28:02 UTC

"Installing wind power in line with the EU’s 2030 goals could have cut gas consumption in the power sector by more than the entire gas imports from Russia in 2025"
[energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-conten...](https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CREA_EU-CO2-emissions-fossil-fuel-imports_2025.pdf )
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2026-03-16 07:30:07 UTC

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate:
-“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.”
[www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts )
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2026-03-12 12:03:54 UTC

Ireland's new fossil-fuelled #Petrotech data center will increase Ireland's **total** (everything, not just the power sector) emissions by ~1%
Absolutely nuts. A 1% national increase - for what? Come on boosters, explain why this is worth it 🫠
[www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamazay_datacenters-sustainability-artificialintelligence-activity-7437821528114819072-6jer?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABBbg1kBL4bGVwJOur529vIonS7OTt82ADg )
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2026-03-06 11:26:53 UTC

Inspired by #QuitGPT, please join me for what is already the largest boycott of anything in history of all humanity: the #QuitCoke campaign
Already, fifteen million people have considered the thought of signing a pledge to #QuitCoke
Here's a video, with some discussion of alternatives to consider!
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2026-02-12 08:18:24 UTC

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wfuybzxgaqfpzfn242rvexzb/post/3menidv3t3i23
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#note122f…cxz5

2026-02-03 20:53:24 UTC

A reminder!
George Lakoff came up with the 'truth sandwich' concept during Trump's first term. It's not magic but it's good basic information hygiene and should be the default when fighting against bullshit
[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_s...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_sandwich )
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2026-01-21 20:15:18 UTC

a gentle reminder that wind power is bloody great, contributes bulk energy at a scale that was almost literally unimaginable in the energy discourse of the 2010s, and in conjunction with solar power, storage, transmission and aggressive demand reduction where possible, can eliminate fossil fuels ->
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2026-01-16 11:47:25 UTC

Among other things - hell yes, please give William Shatner creative control on a Star Trek series. Shatner is a fantastic climate advocate and could actually inject some real, thoughtful consideration of this issue into the show
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/post/3mcja5ljxhc2n
[Exclusive: William Shatner "We...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPNxf00iUY )
#note1ree…nlxf

2026-01-02 20:01:56 UTC

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
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2025-12-16 11:05:55 UTC

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them
[archive.ph/r0u2r](https://archive.ph/r0u2r )
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2025-12-03 12:55:22 UTC

Oh no, we got a moonshot here folks [www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-project-suncatcher-sundar-pichai-data-centers-space-solar-2027-2025-11 )
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2025-11-17 10:52:19 UTC

"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"
[AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pull...](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-stuffed-animal-pulled-after-disturbing-interactions )

2025-11-11 20:25:45 UTC

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!
It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱
[newrepublic.com/article/2028...](https://newrepublic.com/article/202864/meta-generative-ai-ads-emissions )
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2025-11-03 21:17:35 UTC

just....enjoy this
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2025-10-27 22:18:33 UTC

...........................since when does commercial media in Australia do normal, reasonable stories like this?? this is great
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2025-10-22 12:10:38 UTC

Chatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science
[www.bloomberg.com/news/article...](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/norway-s-wealth-fund-unleashes-ai-to-root-out-climate-risk )
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2025-09-23 20:28:19 UTC

the age of the climate vulture
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2025-09-10 10:34:55 UTC

Pretty great study comparing projections of costs of wind and solar to actual costs
holy shit did everyone get it ultrawrong (for both wind and solar!!) - image below is utility PV capex
[www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261925005860 )
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2025-09-10 10:06:23 UTC

I'm not an absolutist about machine learning and I do try to give tools a go that aren't trained on stolen data, or that aren't designed to fabricate information.
Text-to-speech is v useful for me bc I struggle to read / concentrate *a lot*. So I gave LLM-powered TTS a go and just WOW DOES IT SUCK

2025-09-01 07:42:18 UTC

remembering all the journalists in Australia who kept insisting we should having polite cups of tea with racists and hearing them out
[www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/camp-sovereignty-clash-melbourne-rally/105719018?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link )
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2025-08-30 03:02:00 UTC

Can you IMAGINE the obscene jail sentences that would've been rushed through parliament in the space of hours, had climate protesters done something even close to this
[www.sbs.com.au/news/article...](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/why-anthony-albanese-was-chased-by-angry-farmers-on-tractors-today/wqm0o39zi )
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2025-08-19 20:57:21 UTC

Finally got around to doing a quick update on the eternal question of Texas vs California: which state is doing better on decarbonisation of power?
Not only is it still Cal, the gap is widening. Texas' data centre boom is incentivising coal and gas MASSIVELY.
[ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/19/t...](https://ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/19/texas-is-showing-us-what-real-abundance-looks-like/ )
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2025-08-19 17:50:30 UTC

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
[www.theverge.com/news/761338/...](https://www.theverge.com/news/761338/microsoft-excel-ai-copilot-spreadsheet-cell-filling )
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2025-08-19 07:31:45 UTC

Your daily reminder: "The overnight rule" - anyone who says something like 'you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight' is actually arguing for phasing them out as slowly as possible, and arguing against a made-up person to cover and distract from this
[archive.ph/C0vh3](https://archive.ph/C0vh3 ) [article from Oct 2023]
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2025-08-11 12:34:54 UTC

A neat demonstration of:
- Blatantly motivated forecast
- Decision to act as if unavoidable
- Consequent realisation of the forecast
pattern that has been operational in the fossil fuel world for ages. The prophecy is there to fulfil itself, not to inform or explore possibilities
[archive.ph/qeIDS](https://archive.ph/qeIDS )
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2025-07-06 11:18:07 UTC

reminder: climate fatalism becomes starkly absurd when you put it in literal, immediate and physical terms.
Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3k4yps4y6q42c
#note1qpg…vzgq

2025-05-20 12:06:22 UTC

You don't have to obey anyone's framing. Calling them British Petroleum. Call it a chatbot instead of "artificial intelligence". Use real emissions, not adjusted for offsets or certificates. It's all allowed!!!

2025-05-05 08:30:15 UTC

One week on from Spain's blackout - and media outlets can talk about is solar power. So I decided to look into Spain's nuclear fleet, and discovered that in April, it was operating at its lowest levels in ten years
Why? Here's a hefty piece digging into that, for you:
[ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/05/w...](https://ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/05/why-no-one-is-asking-questions-about-spains-mysterious-missing-nukes/ )
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2025-04-24 08:43:09 UTC

The prospect of attracting American researchers escaping authoritarianism has triggered a pretty massive turn-around in policy here in Norway, which was only recently trying to close the country off from the world in terms of research.
[www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025...](https://www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025/100-millioner-kroner-til-internasjonal-forskerrekruttering/?utm_source=dynamics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Befolkning&utm_content=Tillit%20forskning/Nys/FD#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=7e5c4115-0e5c-4a22-a8be-8f7e0b3c0300 )
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2025-04-09 10:15:27 UTC

Thank you to [@theverge.com](https://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com ) for posting the full clip of Microsoft's Copilot event - including the moment when Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad protested the company selling AI tools to Israel for the use of murdering families
(she was immediately fired)
[youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...](https://youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?t=80 )
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2025-04-02 08:48:10 UTC

Generative AI really destroys its own fuel source, hey.
Do the tech bros see any downside to killing art, writing, investigation and effort?
What are they going to train their models on after we're all dumbfounded by the concept of doing a first draft, or checking a source, or learning a skill

2025-03-31 09:19:25 UTC

Great [@nickfeik.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/nickfeik.bsky.social ) piece on how bad it is that both major parties are refusing to engage with the already-very-bad insurance crisis caused by the impacts of burning coal, oil and gas
"Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk"
[Your house is becoming uninsur...](https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/31/house-insurance-climate-change-weather-risks-cyclone-alfred-bushfire/ )

2025-03-04 17:40:11 UTC

"A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say “WHAT’S ELON’S CUM TASTE LIKE?,” and “NAZI CAR,” and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc"
[www.404media.co/email/5fe4b7...](https://www.404media.co/email/5fe4b793-d6df-4a2d-a524-4cee94ff7d74/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter )
[Facebook Cybertruck Owners Gro...](https://www.404media.co/email/5fe4b793-d6df-4a2d-a524-4cee94ff7d74/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter )

2025-03-04 14:28:35 UTC

This is such a good illustration of the danger of over-reliance on machine-generated "research" tools - sometimes it reproduces human-created accurate information well, and other times it garbles it but in a seriously convincing way.
So the false confidence effect is extremely powerful here
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd/post/3ljivpiwags2a
#note1xw6…4w88

2025-02-09 10:15:23 UTC

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
[advait.org/files/lee_20...](https://advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf )
[advait.org/files/lee_2025...](https://advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf )

2025-01-23 13:09:22 UTC

Sam Altman is just blurting out words now
[www.bloomberg.com/features/202...](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-sam-altman-interview/?srnd=homepage-europe )
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2025-01-21 16:41:29 UTC

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
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2025-01-15 14:23:51 UTC

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train
[labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...](https://labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V74iVZRc1GyRCm8 )
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2024-12-28 10:16:54 UTC

Grim beyond belief to see universities diving head first - with eyes closed hard and faces grinning proudly - into the swamp of generative machine learning
Just dwell on how deep the rot is spreading at the most basic levels of human education, around the world
[www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...](https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/12/UNSW-Sydney-signs-landmark-agreement-with-OpenAI )
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2024-12-28 07:58:00 UTC

OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..

2024-12-28 00:03:33 UTC

What are bad things that our generation (millennials) will be notorious (and mocked) for?
I reckon
- Submitting too readily and uncritically to social media companies, and their exploitative models
- Being weirdly uncaring consumers for things like exploitative food delivery apps
Others?

2024-12-12 17:06:16 UTC

Just signed this petition - If Bluesky doesn't enforce its community guidelines then it's on a straight line pathway to becoming just as bad as X.
Please sign too if you don't think cracking open the door to hate here is a desirable thing. Transphobia isn't welcome
[www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu...](https://www.change.org/p/bluesky-must-enforce-its-community-guidelines-equally )
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2024-12-08 08:00:35 UTC

Collective punishment directed at Jewish-Australian places of worship, leading to the destruction of a building, is fundamentally wrong.
Israel collectively punishing the people of Palestine, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, including thousands of children, is also wrong.
[PM and senior minister say Mel...](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/08/murray-watt-says-melbourne-synagogue-firebombing-looks-like-terrorism-as-dutton-blames-labor-ntwnfb )

2024-12-06 13:40:06 UTC

Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today
[www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...](https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/meta_largestever_datacenter/ )
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3lckouogxzd2y
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#note1ypk…cvfs

2024-12-05 12:40:49 UTC

2 recent stories:
- Amazon promising carbon removal *inside* its data centres
- Meta asking for nuclear power proposals for its data centres
Different techs, but the same dynamic: the techs are in what I am going to call the 'greenwashing habitable zone'.....
[www.semafor.com/article/12/0...](https://www.semafor.com/article/12/01/2024/amazon-ai-data-centers-to-double-as-carbon-capture-machines )
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2024-11-22 11:20:03 UTC

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
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2024-11-08 21:05:05 UTC

The CEO of COP29 talking to a fake investment group on a video call, promising to arrange deals between them and SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company during the upcoming climate conference:
[www.bbc.com/news/article...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmzvdn9e18o )
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2024-11-04 09:10:33 UTC

When Microsoft talks about how it's murdering its climate goals w/ generative AI, it's rationalised on the grounds that demand for AI is huge.
At the same time: they are desperately force-injecting it into every single corner of every single software tool whether it makes sense or not.
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2024-11-04 08:54:37 UTC

Total is worried about the optics of a Trumpian fossil fuel deregulatory wildfire
[www.ft.com/content/9adc...](https://www.ft.com/content/9adc51ff-34f4-4aa2-b41b-5ebcbd7fd8cd )
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2024-10-30 20:31:05 UTC

There is a data centre proposed in Virginia that would require the 2nd biggest fossil gas power station in the entire US
Fifteen 30 megawatt gas turbines - 3,500MW in total. Larger than 1,823 gas plants. Oil/gas media outlets cannot contain their excitement
[www.power-eng.com/gas/develope...](https://www.power-eng.com/gas/developer-proposes-massive-data-center-campus-with-onsite-gas-turbines-in-virginia/ )
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2024-10-16 11:51:53 UTC

I hate so much the obscene contortions these companies make people do, to get their messages across in a way that suits the company. It is so cruel and evil because so many good, smart and passionate people are giving up so much of those qualities just to be even slightly heard
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5nskatzhyxersjilvtnz4lh/post/3l6mupeu5eq22

2024-09-27 17:05:51 UTC

***two fucking years*** in prison for throwing soup at the glass covering on top of a painting.
TWO YEARS.
Imagine a judge expressing the same real anger and sneering vindictiveness when describing a fossil exec choosing to kill Earth's life support systems.
[www.theguardian.com/environment/...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/27/just-stop-oil-activist-phoebe-plummer-jailed-throwing-soup-van-gogh-sunflowers )
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2024-09-18 07:39:15 UTC

"The Tasmanian wind farm that pioneered the use of technology designed to avoid bird deaths from turbine blade strikes says there have been no impacts involving endangered and protected eagles at the project for more than a year, despite eagle activity being higher than ever"
[Wind farm owner says “blind sp...](https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farm-owner-says-blind-spot-fixed-to-protect-eagles-turbine-blade-strike/ )

2024-08-29 11:51:02 UTC

oh no what if we don't warm the planet enough, how bleak
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2024-08-26 19:16:11 UTC

Massive Attack are the real deal on climate.
"This isn’t us trying to point the finger at the consumer,” he says. “It’s more about the promoters, who hold the power in this sector, who need to do more. They have the ability to make the change; the finances"
[Massive Attack castigate music...](https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/23/massive-attack-music-industry-climate-inaction?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2024-08-21 08:10:52 UTC

I guess it's not going to last forever but one thing I *really* like about Bluesky is that so many of the climate and energy folks seem motivated by building community, sharing info, shitposting and digging around / exploring ideas.
Bluesky's fundamental design seems to dissuade the self-promoters

2024-08-12 13:33:37 UTC

This is pretty wild: climate funds are being used to expand highways. It is justified on the grounds that more lanes = fewer idling cars = less emissions
The only really surprising thing here is that they aren't selling lane widening carbon offsets
[www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-07/can-adding-highway-lanes-bring-transportation-emissions-down?sref=jjXJRDFv )
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2023-08-15 12:37:11 UTC

You realise "climate change is inevitable" is absurd when you reword it as "fossil fuels are inevitable" or "Exxon is inevitable" or "Rishi Sunak is inevitable"
It's a threat built of causes which we can identify and fight. Fatalism is pro-fossil. Be pro-fighting, instead ✊🏽
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