🔎 Leaked briefing notes show the Carney government knew CCS could only play a “very limited” role in cutting emissions, even as it was promoted as a climate centrepiece. via @desmog.com

Big Tech is selling AI as a climate fix – but most of those claims don’t stand up to scrutiny, with 36% of climate‑related AI claims not citing any evidence at all.

COP30 laid foundations, but COP31 in Antalya has to be about delivery: closing the emissions gap, scaling finance and resilience, and turning fossil fuel phase‑out into reality. @e3g.bsky.social's new briefing maps out what needs to happen next www.e3g.org/publications...

In Brazil, fake TikTok accounts with 10k followers are selling for around $28, then weaponised to spread polarising political content and climate disinformation before the 2026 elections. Learn more in the latest edition of Oii

Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute, has reported talking to members of Congress about draft legislation to stop state climate lawsuits. What a coincidence that Rep. Harriet Hageman happens to be drafting legislation to do exactly that. 🙄

💡 Fact check: the reliability of renewable energy. @friends-earth.bsky.social examine the claim that “renewables can’t keep the lights on” and set out what the evidence says about reliability and UK energy security.

🗞️ New piece from @sonjasolomun.bsky.social and Chris Russill explores how autonomous AI can turbocharge climate conspiracies and flood local democracy with disinformation.

BREAKING: A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$ 345 million. This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. A thread ⤵️🧵

What's going on with claims about #climate science and solutions in the #USCongress? Here's our analysis of trends over three decades using the most sophisticated framework yet. An exciting collaboration of three research teams on three continents. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February, communities will come together to take coordinated action, calling for stronger protection of our climate in the face of rapid hyperscale data centre expansion. Join us: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Big Tech’s ambition to build more data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them. It is estimated that more than 100 data centres are planned across the UK, the largest of which would consume more electricity than double all the households in Wales.

This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK. Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

🪧 UK activists are planning protests over the climate and social impacts of AI data centres. “Big Tech's unchecked construction of hyperscale AI data centres is putting the UK's climate targets at risk,” says Oliver Hayes of @globalactionplan.bsky.social buff.ly/x8bwx3j

Brussels has quietly gutted flagship climate and sustainability rules after intense corporate lobbying, leaving most big companies off the hook and citizens in the dark. via @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/02/26/h...

🗑️ Trump’s EPA just tore up the science‑backed Endangerment Finding to give polluters a free pass. @UCS.org explains why this move is wrong on the law, deceptive on the science, and deadly for the future.

🚨 New from @desmog.com : Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

Nearly 3 in 4 people say they’re frequently exposed to disinfo, but how can you spot it? This webinar from @disinfo.eu shows how the EU’s #ClimateFactsMatter campaign gives people practical ways to spot disinfo, challenge it and push climate facts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6X6...

Though this article notes that most people oppose fracking, these people are referred to as "renewable robbers" (who's robbing what, and from whom, isn't clear 🤷‍♀️). 💰 Funded by ads: #Asda, #BootsUK, #BritishGas, #Tesco, #Morrisons, #SkyTV, #SagaInsurance, #Aviva & #Staysure

Fossil fuel subsidies don't lower your energy bills—they pad Big Oil's profits. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-government-rigs-the-market-in-favor-of-fossil-fuels/

SCOTUS will hear Exxon’s latest bid to crush climate lawsuits, with Justice Alito participating despite owning fossil fuel stocks that could be affected by the outcome. Learn more via @emdashsanders.bsky.social's piece for ExxonKnews

🛢️ The president keeps talking about “America first” while current U.S. energy policy props up fossil fuels and blocks the cheaper, cleaner options Americans want. In reality, that means putting oil interests first and America last. Learn more via @nrdc.org buff.ly/QcEi5oX

New from @desmog.com: AI vs. Net Zero Opponents of climate action are seizing on the AI boom to attack the UK government’s clean energy goals and push more fossil fuels.

The public deserves safety, transparency & accountability from Big Tech. After the 2025 Iberian blackout, climate disinfo blaming renewables surged again. Now Spain & the EU are treating climate not just as an environmental crisis, but as an information crisis too. caad.info/analysis/bri...

🗑️ 20,0000 AI-generated “grassroots” emails just helped kill a key clean air vote in Southern California, blocking rules that would have cut pollution from gas appliances. “What we’re seeing with AI is absolutely the next step in digital astroturfing" via @latimes.com

⚖️ The US supreme court has agreed to hear Exxon and Suncor’s bid to shut down Boulder’s climate lawsuit. This is a case that could shape whether communities can hold Big Oil accountable for decades of climate deception and local damage.

Five oil supermajors have made $467bn in profit since Russia invaded Ukraine – almost enough to cover the entire cost of rebuilding Ukraine. It’s time for governments to hold big oil accountable and push for a fossil-free future. https://gwitness.org/4c7kbI4

🌳 Outdoor brands can’t claim to love nature while funding fossil-fuelled storytelling. @creatives4climate.bsky.social are making the case for “briefing for better” – choosing agencies who refuse greenwash and instead back a just transition.

🗞️ The Mail on Sunday and The Times have now misrepresented NESO’s findings 3 times to push a fake £4.5 trillion “cost of net zero” figure. As @granthamicl.bsky.social's Bob Ward writes, this isn’t a mistake, it's an increasingly desperate campaign against climate change policies. buff.ly/bbMJ7Or

💡 When the Iberian Peninsula went dark in April 2025, renewables were instantly blamed, but the real cause was a voltage surge and grid failures, not solar or wind. This piece from @boelleu.bsky.social explores how blackout scares are turned into anti‑climate disinformation. buff.ly/NkWLnDs

⚡️ The data centres needed to power the govt's AI revolution would use more electricity than the UK consumes at peak. According to Ofgem, around 140 sites are seeking grid connections totalling 50GW (vs 45GW today), a surge MPs warn could put Britain’s climate targets at risk. buff.ly/Q2N6pbC

Another week, another stack of anti-climate action pieces by the Telegraph including articles that: 1️⃣ Imply solar panel plans in the countryside will cause higher energy bills, spoil the landscape, and threaten livelihoods 2️⃣ Suggest net zero puts UK at risk of Russian attack

We cracked down on tobacco ads because they were selling us something deadly. Fossil fuel advertising is selling a different kind of harm, and cities banning it are finally calling it what it is.

We’re watching the climate disinformation playbook in real time: undermine science, attack climate policy, then quietly strip “climate” out of global energy priorities. www.politico.eu/article/us-s...

Today, the EPA abandoned its responsibility to protect Americans from deadly air pollution by finalizing a repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), a key rule that limited how much mercury and other toxic pollution coal- and oil-fired power plants can release into the air.

Day two of the climate hearings against TotalEnergies 👀 The ongoing hearing before the Paris Judicial Court provides a defining test of corporate climate responsibility under legal standards regarding companies' duty of vigilance. Read what happened yesterday in the 🧵 below 👇

🚨New from @americanprogress.bsky.social 5 Hidden Ways the Government Rigs the Market in Favor of Fossil Fuels. www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hi...

Meet the science influencers taking on social media's swamp of climate denial, anti-vax content and wellness pseudoscience. www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com

Why is it wrong to ignore climate science? In this fact check from @friends-earth.bsky.social, experts explain how denying the evidence on human‑driven heating puts lives, livelihoods and infrastructure at risk.

⚖️ Environmental and health groups are suing the EPA for scrapping the endangerment finding.

The oil & gas industry has been quietly burying trillions of gallons of toxic wastewater below ground for decades. We've uncovered documents showing the EPA has known since the 1970s that this approach should only be “a temporary means of disposal" for industry's waste www.desmog.com/2026/02/12/t...

🚨 New from @ucs.org: Internal DOE Documents Confirm Climate Report Was Created to Justify Administration Policy "Facts are supposed to shape policy—not the other way around."

🗞️ For the first time in 15 years, UK newspaper editorials opposing climate action now outnumber those backing it. The denial has shifted: instead of attacking climate science, many outlets are now attacking climate solutions like net zero. Learn more via @simonoxfphys.com

Big Tech never met a climate claim it couldn’t greenwash. While AI-driven electricity demand throws the fossil fuel industry a lifeline, we’re told AI can help solve the climate crisis. The reality? 74% of claims about AI climate benefits are unproven. bit.ly/AIGreenwash

If it's helping with the climate crisis, turns out its probably not generative AI ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If it's generative AI, turns out it's probably making the climate crisis worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Great research from @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social

💡Claims that AI can help fix climate have been dismissed as greenwashing in a new report by @ketanjoshi.co @stand.earth @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ofcom's job is to protect our society from media misinformation, not act as an enabler. Take action: climatemisinformation.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

If you fell for the rabbits jumping on a trampoline, you might want to take our Spot the Fake challenge. Put your AI-eye to the test and drop your score in the comments below. Take your chance, play now 👇

I've noticed a bunch of stuff too - eg, so many of the projects where 'traditional' AI is being used for climate stuff isn't really panning out....we're going to see more of this fore sure bsky.app/profile/keta...

Similarly: others like @jowalton.bsky.social have noticed the evidence underpinning 'AI for climate' claims can be oddly weak, regardless of what type of AI is being used - eg, this article that ended up being retracted for using misleading references theconversation.com/will-ai-save...

Okay - so - Quite a few people have noticed that big tech really seems to muddle different types of AI when talking benefits - @timnitgebru.bsky.social @shengokai.blacksky.app @sashamtl.bsky.social @bluejo.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social + others Nicely explained by @karenhao.bsky.social here: