Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Hey look, Gates didn’t just hobnob with Lomborg, he funded Lomborg for years. Nobody should take Bill Gates seriously on climate change. www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

A reminder that Lomborg is *really* not just some humble health campaigner or innovation advocate. He is an absolute machine of climate disinformation and spends the vast majority of his time specifically opposing technology deployment using flat-out fabrication

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

In case you need a refresher on who Lomborg is... www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

In case you're wondering where Bill Gates puts his money on climate change.... www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

"Microsoft’s VP for energy, Google’s chief investment officer, OpenAI’s Altman, Amazon’s VP for global data centres, & Nvidia’s senior director of corporate sustainability have all publicly supported the idea of their companies relying on natural gas as an energy source for AI data centres"

🔴 NEW - Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

🚨You need to read Rei's feature on UK Labour's love affair with US authoritarian Big Tech, a coterie of firms now openly undermining democracy worldwide.

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇

In @heatmap.news - a really, REALLY good demonstration of the rhetorical function of promising nuclear power at some point in the future, while engaging in a massive, full-scale unchecked fossil fuel infrastructure explosion today and tomorrow --->>>>

Friends — these are terrible times, to be sure. But I believe we will triumph. Here’s why.

It'd be great if the UK public and corporate media spent a single minute on this brutally important story - but the accountability principle has long since flown the nest.

🔴 NEW - Zia Yusuf has resigned as Reform’s DOGE chief with the project in turmoil. Reform’s Musk-inspired slash-and-burn agenda has faced further setbacks this week

Alt read - Labour has already handed Reform the keys to UK data, so Yusuf knows they don't need to bother with DOGEing councils. Labour's Data Bill has legalised US DOGE-style seizures of mountains of personal data on UK residents. Farage is already gloating about it. A 🧵 on an overlooked threat

Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :) Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!! ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/

My daughter finished hers at 4 am. This is her first protest.

Be part of this, show up for #NoKings on Saturday — and join up with an organization afterwards — do what you can, it matters.

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread. As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT archive.ph/grTVe

So much for Reform's "professionalisation" drive. They welcomed a conference sponsor whose CEO has called Farage's rhetoric "very far-right". Meanwhile, they banned accredited journalists from attending... 📝 @desmog.com story with @joeygrostern.bsky.social 👇

If I may coin a phrase, capitalism provides every human want at the cost of every human need.

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th. Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I'll be there. Please join in. www.nokings.org

"As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new energy chief – an official from the first Trump administration who is a dedicated champion of natural gas."

AI will have all types of effects on skilled work, some bad some perhaps good, but everyone who cares about climate disruption needs to explicitly confront that ramping data centers *in the current economic model* (with the current people in charge) will only accelerate greenhouse gas emissions.

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres. All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing: www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

Important piece from @desmog.com‘s @rtakver.bsky.social!

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

My latest for De Smog

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Crucial reporting on the UK's new, Blackstone-backed data centre that, in "limited circumstances", will run on a fleet of 580 diesel generators.

Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain... Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet? My 📝 for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...

🔴 NEW - Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Preach

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships. Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

A timely reminder that as President Trump attacks wind power, his sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for...bitcoins.

Bemoaning the cost of UK electricity and in the same breath promising to do the one thing guaranteed to cause that cost to stay sky high is the sort of intellectual brilliance you'll only get from the world's leading tech moguls.

Chris Wright is genuinely a con man selling climate denial to the world in order to enrich himself and his gas industry friends. This should be a much bigger story.

Reform are proposing to “rescind” the climate emergency declared by Kent County Council in 2019 in a move branded "anti-science & dangerous" by the Greens on the council Green cllr Stuart Jeffery: "“Reform’s paper to council is full of conspiracy theories and garbage science. The science is clear."

Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science ✍️ for @desmog.com

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress