@alixdunn.com sat down with @ketanjoshi.co, an independent climate writer who tracks the climate impact of data centers and AI. Ketan breaks down how Big Tech’s bet on AI is single-handedly keeping the fossil fuel industry alive—while killing our dreams of a sustainable energy grid. Listen here:

The Climate Cost of AI Prophecies: How Data Centers Fuel Big Fossil w/ Ketan Joshi

Ketan Joshi explains how we got from facilities that drew the power of a suburb to facilities that consume as much electricity as Nigeria’s entire power grid.

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Agree! Klimawissenschaftt muss die Reduktionspfade verschärfen statt ( mit Kompensationsfiktion und CCS verwässern und hinausschieben)

Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · 4w ago

Net zero 2050 is a political anchor increasingly distant from the science aligned with our UNFCCC, Paris &ICJ commitments. Simple Q. As we face a cumulative emission challenge & global emissions are still rising, how can we still have the same end date. Each year we fail so the date moves closer.

Auch bei uns heimisch!

The English Oak Project@thekentacorn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ilex aquifolium, the common holly Found in shady areas of forests of oak, & one of very few native hardwood evergreen trees in Britain, & a pioneer species that repopulates the margins of forests We leave ours to grow into trees, & this is where the magic starts 1/2

Tolle Recherche von Greenpeace über den Gas-Lobbyismus von Frau Reiche, zu Lasten des Klimaschutzes. youtu.be/ESFNc5uYFOM

Reiches geheime Arbeit für RWE, E.ON und die Gasindustrie

YouTube video by Greenpeace Deutschland

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In welche Pläne fließt Geld #werbrauchtdasRechenzentrum

Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · last wk.

This is what crowd out looks like.

Konkret fordern sie : funktionierende Toiletten, Klopapier, Seife, aber auch genug Lehrkräfte für alle. Und vermutlich auch eine Zukunft. Das macht sie schon zu zersetzenden Elementen.

And all because you won’t write your own sentences and paragraphs, as you had to do only five fucking years ago. We could end all this tomorrow if everyone just searched, read, thought and wrote by themselves

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2w ago

Gas-fired power stations to run new US data centers will generate as much emissions of the entire United Kingdom. This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/348_...

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VAW Glaciology@vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 2w ago

Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

New report for @climateintegrity.org "shows exactly how the fossil fuel industry has cast doubt on climate science and undermined efforts to address global warming over the last 70 years — all in their own words."

Davis Allen@davisallen.bsky.social · 2w ago

The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.

The fight against AI starts with data centres but getting the full picture of the harms they create for the communities around them can be tough. So tune into Green Majority at 11am tomorrow on CIUT 89.5FM to catch my interview with @parismarx.com on their new book Hyperscale hyperscalebook.com

Hyperscale by Paris Marx

An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.

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‼️New drone/YOLOv4-based study finds super-high #plastic densities at the Caspian Sea coast: 7,192 litter items were detected in ~0.385 km2, corresponding to a mean of 18,684 items/km2, hotspot densities exceeded 60,000 items/km2. ➡️We so need this #PlasticsTreaty! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leider real: Banken versuchen die #Finanzialisierung von Wäldern, Mooren … unter dem Deckmantel des Klimaschutzes. Guter warnender 🧵👇🏾

Green Finance Observatory@greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 2w ago

French bank Credit Agricole launches Crédit Agricole Capital Naturel. Crédit Agricole Capital Naturel will also call on the Amundi Arbora Nova fund, a fund structured around afforestation and reforestation. 1/9 presse.credit-agricole.com/credit-agric...

Das 👇 #RoteHilfe

Recht gegen Rechts@recht-gegen-rechts.bsky.social · 2w ago

@ronensteinke.bsky.social

The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.

Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)

Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.

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Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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Ich habe vor einiger Zeit einen hochrangigen Mitarbeiter aus einem für #Wasser 💧 zuständigen Landesministeriums gefragt, wie der Umgang mit dem Wasserverlust durch künstliche #Entwässerung, insbesondere Acker-Drainagen 🚜, sei. Die Antwort war gewissermaßen erschütternd: 1. Das Problem sei...

Steffi Lemke@steffi-lemke.de · 3w ago

Niedrigste Wasserstände, trockene Böden und schwindende Wasservorräte mit negativen Folgen für Natur und Wirtschaft. Jetzt nicht nur im Hochsommer sondern auch Ende September. Wir müssen das Wasser in der Landschaft halten, Entwässerung zurückbauen, Auen und Flüsse renaturieren. Es eilt!!!

Peat is the first step to plant rests on their way to become coal. It's always been nature's carbon capture. We need to encourage the carbon sinks.

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

“Climate is out. Power is in,” is how Sophie Purdom, founder and managing partner of climate-tech venture firm Planeteer, put it in a presentation for investors at the firm’s annual general management meeting on Monday.” Delegating the climate crisis to tech, energy, & finance capital is suicide.

Climate Tech VCs Zero In on Powering AI Instead of Cutting Carbon Emissions

‘Decarb is dead for now,’ as one VC said, referring to decarbonization.

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The roadmap was only published in English 😇

Elif Eralp, Tochter von Hülya Eralp Akteurin der Exilbewegung der Linken aus der Türkei, Mitbegründerin der feministischen Frauenzeitschrift PAZARTESI (Montag) ab 1995 in der Türkei. versammeln-antirassismus.org/migrantirafe...

Tune in to The Spill for my conversation with UN special rapporteur on climate change Elisa Morgera, on the winners & losers of carbon tunnel vision, & why it's not too late to turn things around. Subscribe to @drilledmedia.bsky.social to catch our new weekly show drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Die Bundesregierung plant massiven Zubau von gefährlichen CO2-Leitungen. Sicherheit ist dabei nicht gewährleistet. Länder und Kommunen sollten beunruhigt sein. Der Zubau würde wertvolle Naturräume zerstören. @bundnrw.bsky.social @bundsachsen.bsky.social background.tagesspiegel.de/energie-und-...

Carbon Capture and Storage: Der riskante Rohrleitungs-Boom

Tausende Kilometer CO2-Leitungen sollen durch Deutschland entstehen. Die Sicherheit ist dabei nicht gewährleistet, warnen Nachhaltigkeitsforscher Felix Ekardt von der Uni Leipzig und Geschäftsführerin...

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BUND Berlin@bundberlin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bemerkenswert, dass Cem Özdemir neben anderen Ratschlägen auch noch die Bebauung des Tempelhofer Felds fordert. www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/das-i...

Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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This is the most extraordinary controversy in the history of climate science. An indictment of the IPCC’s culture and systems. I hope this team looks at the anthropocene vote next.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 4w ago

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI is melting the planet while they tell #NYClimateWeek it's a cure. Dont fall for it. Nvidias emissions are up 725% to fuel the AI bubble. AIgreenwashing.org

Merz will Enteignung verbieten, sehr gut. Endlich keine Autobahnen und kein Kohleabbau mehr, wird höchste Zeit. Mehr hier: enteignungspartei.lol Und wer wissen will, was Vergesellschaftung ist, der kann hier nachlesen: dietzberlin.de/produkt/wess...

Wessen Freiheit, welche Gleichheit?

Das Versprechen einer anderen Vergesellschaftung. Buch von Sabine Nuss in der Reihe ›Analysen‹ von Dietz Berlin

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"...The public at large" should "take a breath, hold onto our skepticism, and recognize this kind of hype for what it is the next time it comes around." --Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w ago

From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

Geoffrey Lean: 18 years ago, scientists drew up 9 planetary boundaries not be transgressed if the world is to remain safe and secure. Today they report we have crossed a record seven—with ocean acidification joining others like climate change and biodiversity loss. The only two boundaries to have

Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries now at record breach levels - Oceanographic

Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries breach safe limits at record levels, a new report warns, as ocean heat and extreme weather intensify.

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