OBS! Dette er IKKE satire, tro det eller ei.

This is........pretty wild A collection of "insiders" say they don't think data centres are (the present tense is important) slowing down decarbonisation (mostly the "innovators") This comes out 1 day after a @rhg.com US emissions update that *explicitly* names DCs as a core cause of rising GHGs

We’ve fought fascism and oligarchy before, and it’s so boring to have to do it again when our primary focus should be on addressing climate change. But the fascists and oligarchs are exacerbating climate change and hindering our efforts to combat it, so fight them we will.

Oljeminister Aasland om å slutte å røyke: jeg har fått beskjed av legen om å slutte så fort som mulig, men jeg har tenkt øke det litt de kommende årene for så å slutte sakte sakte på 2030-tallet. Jeg tenker å utvikle røykinga mi - bli bedre på å blåse ringer. Jeg røyker jo ikke fordi det er godt!

Fra (ny)liberalisme til fascisme - who would have thought? Alle sosialister i hele verden pluss alle som har lest historie i alle fall.

Det här! Equinor har kraftigt överdrivit hur mycket koldioxid man lyckats fånga in och lagra. Det löftet från flaggskeppet som oljebolaget - och stora delar av den globala industrin-bygger hela sin framtidsstrategi på. Ett oerhört avslöjande av @desmog.com.web.brid.gy www.desmog.com/2025/01/14/e...

I remain really frustrated that there are still people who shrug this off as a nothingburger - by putting the number over a denominator over all humanity, doing spurious comparisons to other heavy industry and concluding it's not a priority etc All of that is just PR / marketing for tech companies

This is something I have been warning about for months. The US is one of the world's most polluting economies, and it has been exceedingly difficult to breakthrough the dismissiveness. bsky.app/profile/keta...

I think it's fair to say that X's integration of an abusive nudify app that includes children as victims of its users is not really going to have any sort of material dent in the volume of people contributing their labor to ensuring there is a broad hesitation to quit the app. So: now what?

Criticism, opposition and activist pushback against the excessive and unjustified over-deployment of genAI matters. If you want proof, here's two ultra-rich and unstoppably successful tech CEOs begging us to stop gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

HEY LOVELIES Part 2 of my series on CCS for @thepointau.bsky.social - about the amazingly-named Gorgon project, owned by Chevron, in Western Australia thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

This short statement by Jerome Powell deserves attention. He’s accusing the Trump administration of attempting to use a bogus criminal prosecution to extort compliance with White House demands to lower interest rates. Via @annabower.bsky.social

«the ongoing addiction to fossil fuels and a commitment to their production and use is a blatant violation of existing and longstanding international law» By @amywestervelt.bsky.social. Question is what is most likely to sentence Trump? An illegal invation or boosting fossil energy?

Når skal Støre slutte å komplett ignorere sitt ungdomsparti? All kred til @gautebs.bsky.social som riktig peker på Ap sin oljepolitikk og «drill baby, drill», men hvor lenge gidder du/dere å tale til døve ører?

The U.S. takeover of Venezuela's oil industry violates various aspects of international law, including those related to climate change, leaving the U.S. government open to litigation for environmental harms, @ninalakhani.bsky.social writes @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/Venezue...

My theory on this is that X isn't just an informational safe space / bubble for political / media elites - it's a *moral* bubble as well. Journalists and politicians are basically losing any moral reaction to child abuse because they now digitally reside inside an app that creates that abuse

Norway's government announces new plans to develop new oil and gas fields beyond 2030. All the usual talking points around "energy security", jobs, national income etc. A good reminder that the inevitable collapse of demand won't remove a single joule of enthusiasm from the world of supply.

«The lesson all leaders who are major fossil fuel importers - and that means most leaders - should draw from this is it is time to accelerate the transition off oil, gas as fast as possible.» backchannel1.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

I fundamentally cannot compute the push for a government level ban of X when the vast majority of government figures and the entire infrastructure of the progressive left that would push for a ban also spend their days doing volunteer work for Musk by providing free content to X to keep it alive

Dagens besteforeldregenerasjon er på facebook, feeder med det verste innholdet du kan tenke deg, de scroller og scroller og scroller og de utgjør en stadig større del av befolkningen og stemmer. Jeg er bekymret for unge med dårlig selvtillit men jeg er også bekymret for de gamle som blir fascister

It’s wild how European leaders are wringing their hands about a US invasion of Greenland being a violation of international law when just the other day they stood aside or even cheered as the US invaded Venezuela in violation of international law.

The Trump regime is burying the news that they're pulling the US out of the UNFCCC and the Green Climate Fund, but here's what they're doing: igniting the world on fire and trying making sure the US can never stop pouring gas on the flames. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

This is an estimate using mid-range numbers (data centre consumption, average gas efficiency, gas usage etc) of additional greenhouse gas emissions due specifically to AI computation by 2030 in the US (second image is more pessimistic assumptions) bgamazay-aiemissionscalculator.hf.space

Three weeks ago...

Hey!! Here's a new piece for @thepointau.bsky.social - the first of what will be many little updates on the current state of carbon capture and storage. Both failure-prone and eternally immune to the consequences of failure: there is absolutely nothing like it -->> thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Weird how "oil prices are low now" doesn't seem to have resulted in any decrease in oil exploration and extraction!! Almost like this isn't a business that makes any actual sense and is actually desperate grab for a deadly resource before the music stops playing!

murderous, evil people

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

I’m telling you, the rise of authoritarianism is directly connected to efforts to keep the fossil-fuel system going. It’s right there for everyone with eyes to see.

Greenland is back in the news so I am compelled to remind folks that while yes, there are rare earth minerals there, the tech weirdos who have infiltrated the government have also been obsessed with Greenland as part of their network state plan for a long time. drilled.media/news/network...

Oljetankeren «Bella 1» er et skip tidligere eid av Fredriksens BW Group (da under navnet Mulan), ser det ut som. Ikke noe nytt at norske redere har skodd seg godt på å selge gamle skip til den russiske skyggeflåten. www.aukevisser.nl/supertankers...

An absolute must-listen interview with Kim Stanley Robinson! One of the best I’d say.

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

When potential supply is expensive they seek subsidies rather than not extracting. When governments are unstable, they lobby, influence and become political players. When demand isn't high enough they manufacture by killing policies, encouraging wasteful industries (SUVs, GenAI, single-use plastics)

Despite the fact that the world is clearly oversupplied for oil in the coming years, it hasn't put a single dent in enthusiasm for accelerated expansion of new oil projects The idea that this industry operates on a rational or logical basis is itself irrational... productiongap.org/2025report/#...

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great @olliemilman.bsky.social + @dharna.bsky.social piece feat @patrickgaley.bsky.social and others “So long as governments continue to rely on fossil fuels in energy systems, their constituents will be hostage to the whims of autocrats" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sweet lord, yet another example of a fossil fuel supplier admitting that demand for their fossil fuel product rises when it's cheap and freely available thanks to their increased extraction!!!! Starting to suspect supply impacts demand, folks!!!!!!! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

And a timeline that shows how closely Trump's pivot on #Venezuela followed Maduro's actions around oil in Guyana (also embedded in the piece):

I'm reading through Abundance because everyone seemed to, and I'm not yet in a position to offer a critique but a few things have caught my attention. I'll collate a few here as I go. 🧵

"A political group created by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch earlier this year wrote to a branch of the U.S. government making requests about artificial intelligence" www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

UnHappy 6th of january, US. Unhappy you didn’t do anything about, I guess.

E24 sin egen klimafornekter- og oljeaktivistspaltist slår på tromma og slår nok en gang fast (og holder en liten fest over miljøministeren sin feiltolkning) at økonomene er ganske så sikre på at vi bare blir bitte litte grann mindre rike med klimaendringer, enn uten. e24.no/energi-og-kl...

"This isn’t the same as calling this a “war for oil.” It’s more an invitation to oligarchs to join in his conception, such as it is, of the future world order" ^^ a very important distinction

Thinking idly about how there was a time in the past where the Grok CSAM scandal would lead to a huge exodus off X to Bluesky and elsewhere but how now everyone who cared about such things has already left