What is AI's real carbon footprint? You won't find it in the sustainability reports of tech giants. That's because they claim it's mostly or entirely powered by renewables. Natasha White & I dug deeper to find reality to be otherwise. Thanks to use of dodgy credits.

The Clean Energy Marshall Plan from Brian Deese is a banger A new clean energy finance & energy resilience authority? 'Play to get paid' approach to MDB reform? Yes please 😎 But there's one fundamental shift this plan requires for success... 🧵 foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

ECB researchers find that banks making commitments w Science Based Targets initiative provide cheaper loans to firms that commit to decarbonization and penalize more polluting firms. SBTI's theory of change appears to be validated here. ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps…

I got a lot of flak for wanting people to know about Holly Jean Buck's past work at the Department of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management when they read her Jacobin article arguing that attention to fossil-fuel disinformation is counterproductive. Ok, then. Here's my defense. 🧵

Baltimore alleges "Wall Street investment firms [including Blackrock & Vanguard] played a role by pressuring shale drillers to coordinate their output to prevent fueling price wars with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other oil producers abroad."

Apparently the owner of this site is obstructing an investigation into the attempted coup in Brazil & thus Brazilians will soon lose access here. Come to Bluesky - great conversations & no worries about anti-democratic algorithms. bsky.app/profile/sophif…

The editor of Scientific American does a nice job explaining why climate folks and others who care about evidence-based arguments and supporting content creators should come over to Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/laurah…

In case you're weighing whether to switch to Bluesky. "While independent fact-checkers found the content in all of those 50 posts shared by Musk to be false or misleading, none contained a community note,” X’s system for contextualizing potentially misleading posts.

A must read article by CNN, which correctly warns that Elon Musk’s posts, and the lack of scrutiny they receive from his company’s own fact-checking system, “lay bare how Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine.” cnn.com/2024/09/03/med…

My climate posts are now on Bluesky. I come over here to help spread the word about this site's evolution into a disinformation purveyor. For all who care about honest and fair elections. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Hey climate friends, here's the case for adopting a "Twitter last" and coming over to Bsky: i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/bluesky-is-bet…

AI-generated content glorifying Hitler has ~25M views on X, TikTok & Instagram since Aug. 13. Pro-Hitler content reached the largest audiences on X, where it was "most likely to be recommended via the site’s algorithm." X has no comment. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…