"A Woodside spokesperson said it was wrong to describe what took place as lobbying, pointing to provisions within federal environment laws that require the government to consult on conditions it attaches to environmental approvals processes."

In the case of building decarbonization, did you know that building decarbonization at the city or local level is preemptively banned in state statutes now in 22 states? This is because the modelers and the climate advocates weren't promising that the transition would be successful, but primed

It must change because the real-world is ripe for fossil fuel industries to exploit a very real fear Americans have - based on our past history! - about societal abandonment. They talked about many good cases of this. Fossil fuel companies exploit this fear, and have limitless resources to do so.

Most of the direction for climate has come from modelers who, on average, are not dealing in the real world where forecasts of prices and flows of physical goods meet the actual physical systems carrying them meet the real world and real people who live around those systems. This should change.

One of the best people i know, @gruberte.bsky.social came on this podcast to talk about the work she is doing with two of the other best people i know, @jmijin.bsky.social and @jlappen1.bsky.social. One big takeaway for me is this...

From the Tesla Owners Australia FB group

Chinese car companies now happily contributing to Australia's duel problem of plug-in fossil fuel cars and oversized yank-tanks, both helping to drive transport emissions up and up - probably back to pre-covid trends. No one is immune to car company brain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A question - for Australian friends. Does anyone know of any businesses based in Australia that are incorporating or enacting the principles of degrowth, post-growth or donut economics into how they operate? Asking for a friend, but am pretty curious myself!

Cut-price Costello Tim Wilson on Sky just now: "It’s very clear to me that when there’s an increase in petrol prices, Jim Chalmers collects more excise revenue." Excise is not based on price changes. It's indexed twice a year in line with inflation.

Hey!!! Got a new piece up at @crikey.com.au for you, about how Australia's data centre lobby is trying the subtle dance of avoiding regulation by suggesting weak voluntary actions But something new has thrown them off balance......... www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/a...

Ah yes, cutting funding to Muslim groups because of a social media post by the far-right Australian Jewish Association. The textbook definition of social cohesion

Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran? The 1%. Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research. Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c... Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Imagine if every press release celebrating the economic benefits of a new data center disclosed these costs. Key facts about this facility would also include "eight natural gas turbines and 51 diesel generators," "premature mortality" and "respiratory and cardiovascular disease."

As the tech industry increasingly turns to onsite fossil fuel power for data centers, what does this mean for nearby communities? A new study evaluates the impacts of fine particulate matter from a VA facility's onsite power system & finds $53M–$99M/yr in health damages.

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

Anthropic vs OpenAI is a lot of things but also feels like a debate between two forms of racism White liberal US racism where bombing brown people elsewhere is fine but targeting citizens is icky Or white supremacist MAGA racism which is about incinerating all race traitors domestic or otherwise

imagine if we just had the based surge in renewable supply and not the cursed surge in data centers' energy demand

Lol, just heard from a German friend who is calling the backup in the Straight of Hormuz right now the "fossil fuel dunkelflaute." Niche humor.

🔌💡 Plastic waste is visible. Plastic #emissions are not. Roughly 90% of plastic’s lifecycle emissions happen upstream, during the high-heat processes used to turn oil and gas into polymers. climatetechmap.com/opportunity-...

What's wild is that Trump is going around deliberately & explicitly trying to bully countries into becoming dependent on US LNG. Who on earth thinks becoming dependent on the US is smart right now?

New Brattle report: Europe could get much farther pivoting to "clean flexibility" than it will trying to find alternative gas suppliers. We're seeing that gas dependence ties you to just as much uncertainty, volatility, & inflation as dependence on oil. The only real independence is clean.

The anti-trans-healthcare parallels to climate denial are basically 1:1.

I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it

US Navy: No availability to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, sorry. Trump: "If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible."

What level of Hell is reserved for "bookies for gambling on measles outbreaks"

Whole new meaning of this cartoon just dropped

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

Like... no, you're not "projecting" or "calling" races, Polymarket. You're showing people the current betting line and misrepresenting it as something more than that.

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

Politely fried tf outta my man

How will the Iran War impact India? It goes well beyond oil prices, @andymukherjee70.bsky.social explains 🎥

interesting thread on the discourse here - but I have one Q, on "I would treat the arguments of those who program and run big coding projects more seriously than the arguments of those who do not" It feels very much like broken, bad software has been getting worse for a few years now, right? so...

"E-bike ownership has increased from 110 million in 2011 to nearly 400 million in 2023, meaning that, on average, one in every four people in the country owns one." Let's just mention #eBikes for once, shall we? itdp.org/2025/03/04/e...

good faith data center question: can anyone point me to any studies or news reports that are NOT the nytimes georgia expose from last july about actual *water pollution* from data centers? not water USE, but pollution

falling car sales may not kill Tesla, but the legacy automakers deciding to stop subsidizing their alleged "disruptor" definitely will www.electrive.com/2026/03/03/t...

"Chinese technology will play a major role in Africa’s energy systems. That is not inherently a problem. The problem is technology without transfer, investment without employment and transition without justice." www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...

Every expert in this panel acknowledges that load growth associated with data centers is uncertain, which brings with it a lot of RISK. But, the key argument is that the costs of that risk should not be socialized. The proper customer needs to pay for the risk, and that customer is the data centers.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

check out the sizzle reel for the Ketan Joshi who's an astrologer

Can consumer generative AI products like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot solve climate change? #BigTech companies certainly want you to think so, but the evidence says otherwise. Take action and read our report here: https://stand.earth/resources/ai-climate-hoax-greenwashing/

Ridiculous... didn't they learn anything from the last one?

Hamid Amini er drept. Han var i pappaperm og på familiebesøk i Iran. Det er ein forferdeleg tragedie. Den patetiske rasisten Teigen har null sympati og er mest oppteken av rasistiske hot takes. Sjå kor jævlig dette e.

Deleted this one because it's unconfirmed at best, possibly not accurate (don't think windows central is an AI or microsoft cheerleader, either) www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

Got a decent number of oddly hurt reactions on LinkedIn a few years' back when I criticised this company's climate / sustainability claims www.bbc.com/news/article...

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT? As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc. It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece??? What?

'once projects are given a chance to embed, it’s only a small percentage of people who keep ranting on about such projects. Few to no political voices advocate ripping out projects (with some exceptions to populists). The general public acceptance grows over time'

"Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial government has signed an agreement with Equinor and BP to open the path for construction and production of the Bay du Nord offshore oil project" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...