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Rei Takver

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Investigative climate and tech reporter @desmog.com. Words in the Guardian, DeSmog, and the Nerve, among others.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
nyc climate & tech / energy peeps check in! time to make some good vibes happen…
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Calling NYC climate people! Let's build some community around Rei 💚 Click through...
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Bora Chang, MPH @climatechang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Calling all NY Climate peeps for fellowship and camaraderie and support for @rtakver.bsky.social! ❤️‍🩹
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/06/2026
New York climate folks - please connect up with Rei who is an absolute gun journalist - eg this total scoop: www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/i...
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Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres
As the UK and EU debate how to source the vast quantities of electricity they’ll need to power their grand visions of home-grown artificial intelligence (AI), the gas turbine sector is confident that ...
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
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Meriem Mahdhi @meriemm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My dearest friend, one of the strongest women I ever met, wrote one of the most beautiful poems I ever read. Please have a look and share.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Last night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer. I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem. Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Turns out, when you delightedly tell people you're going to force something on them that will take their job, destroy their future, and ruin the environment, they ... don't like it?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/06/2026
Congrats everyone: thanks to the AI boom, the US is now investing more in fossil fuel power than China, a country with four times the population.
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AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China - Carbon Brief
The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the IEA
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The New York Times is hiring another climate policy reporter. Come work with me! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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Climate Policy Correspondent
Washington, DC
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/06/2026
God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.
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What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?
Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Welsh Reform labelled "a retirement home for failed Conservatives", with two thirds of cabinet being ex-Tories. By @adambarnett.bsky.social for @desmog.com
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Two Thirds of Reform’s Wales Shadow Cabinet Are Ex-Tories
The majority of Reform UK’s shadow cabinet in Wales is made up of former Conservative Party politicians, including its leader, chief whip, and shadow economy minister, DeSmog can reveal. Nigel Farage’...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"fewer people believe it now than when the same question was asked in 2019 and 2022" 🤔 I wonder if this has anything to do with this travesty? ##EndClimateSilence
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 28/05/2026
TikTok may have pledged to tackle climate misinformation on its platform in 2023, but earlier this month the company sponsored the annual meeting of the right-wing Canada Strong and Free Network that featured multiple climate deniers as speakers. By @rtakver.bsky.social at @desmog.com:
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TikTok’s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers
By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 26/05/2026
🔴 NEW: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’ In KTM dealerships across the continent, thousands of off-road bikes are stripped of legally-required features that restrict pollution. 📝By @hajmedd.bsky.social & @tjjordan.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/05/26/e...
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Exclusive: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’
Austrian motorcycle giant KTM is systematically bypassing laws designed to limit pollution and noise, it can be revealed. During a year-long investigation, undercover reporters visited 15 trade shows ...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/05/2026
The EU must ensure tech companies disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, the head of the bloc’s environment agency has said.
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Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU
Brussels must require tech companies to disclose data centers’ energy and water use, Leena Ylä-Mononen says.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🔴 New - TikTok says climate denial isn't tolerated on TikTok, but... January: Trump-friendly tech giant Oracle takes over US TikTok algorithms to recommend videos May: TikTok sponsors right-wing Canadian conference full of climate deniers My 📝 for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/05/22/t...
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TikTok’s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers
By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Climate hushing in the UK? You betcha. Really important work from my colleague @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📝 Vital reporting from my colleague Sharon Kelly ⤵️
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 20/05/2026
🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland
A close ally of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has helped to launch the central European offshoot of a U.S. climate denial group alongside far-right figures. Lois Perry – executive director of Heartlan...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A powerful climate convergence today, featuring none other than @thierryaaron.bsky.social, @rtakver.bsky.social, myself, and Sarlacc's Pit.
Three nerds and a large dog smile at the camera beneath a blue sky
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 13/05/2026
credit to @mississippitoday.org for for breaking the number of turbines w their story (below) - we’re adding details from the emails that appear to show the company doubling the power capacity at the site between late March and last week
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xAI now has 46 gas turbines without air permits. - Mississippi Today
The NAACP has requested an injunction after learning xAI has more than doubled the number of temporary-mobile turbines at its Southaven facility. MDEQ confirmed to Mississippi Today that the number wa...
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I wrote a piece about the need to end climate silence. Don't listen to the "climate hushers" -- people telling us to ignore the crisis & only focus on affordability and "kitchen-table" issues. Instead, connect climate and our fossil fuel addiction to the issues that voters care about most.
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Ending Climate Silence — Advocating for Climate Action in a World on Fire
Climate Silence is Real and Getting Worse
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/05/2026
We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...
New compute partnership with SpaceX
We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center. This gives us access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month. This additional capacity will directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.

This joins our other significant compute announcements:

An up to 5 gigawatt (GW) agreement with Amazon, which includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026;
A 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom, which will begin coming online in 2027;
A strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA that includes $30 billion of Azure capacity;
Our $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack.
We train and run Claude on a range of AI hardware—AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs—and continue to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online.

As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 07/05/2026
Watch the recap video on our YouTube channel here: youtube.com/watch?v=yw-GXu0kzl4&feature=youtu.be
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How Climate Denialism is Evolving With Trump in Office
YouTube video by Covering Climate Now
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 07/05/2026
📍TODAY📍 Don't miss Covering Climate Now's special conversation on the Trump administration’s embrace of climate denialism, featuring DeSmog reporter Rei Takver. To register, go here: buff.ly/C77yrwf @rtakver.bsky.social
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Talking Shop: How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office — Covering Climate Now
In April, a climate denial conference hosted in Washington, D.C., and boasting US Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin as a keynote speaker signaled a new era in US politics: from a slow…
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 07/05/2026
DeSmog’s analysis of Nigel Farage’s £2 million in earnings is featured on the front page of The Guardian today
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...
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Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
TODAY: Join us at 5pm BT, 12pm ET, and 9am PT to discuss how climate denialism is evolving with Trump in office
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If you missed it, read Rei's foray into data centre world, where reps are betting that fossil gas will power the slop machine all across Europe. @rtakver.bsky.social
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/05/2026
DeSmog just went to a data centre conference and found gas turbine manufacturers happily and openly talking about how they expect Europe to follow America's completely bonkers fossil gas / data centre boom www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/i...
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Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres
As the UK and EU debate how to source the vast quantities of electricity they’ll need to power their grand visions of home-grown artificial intelligence (AI), the gas turbine sector is confident that…
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join me tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to hearing my co-panelists' perspectives
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 05/05/2026
Heartland Institute climate deniers want to repeal of the 17th Amendment, which would strip away direct elections of U.S. senators and hand that power to state legislatures.
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
SCOOP: A climate denial group with close ties to the Trump administration is asking whether all Americans 'should have the right to vote.' Read @rtakver.bsky.social in @desmog.com about a Heartland Institute podcast questioning 'universal suffrage.' www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...
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Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“I’m going to say something very controversial: Not every adult over the age of 18 should have the right to vote,” said Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute. Six days later, EPA chief Lee Zeldin gave the keynote at a Heartland anti-climate event. My 📝 @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...
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Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
How Zia Yusuf made his money...
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Zia Yusuf: the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s ‘DOGE’ Ringleader
Zia Yusuf almost withdrew from frontline politics as soon as he entered it. Over the past year, Reform’s former chair emerged from obscurity to become the right-hand-man of Nigel Farage – the odds-on ...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 30/04/2026
🔴 NEW - Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
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Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War
Senior executives, directors, and major investors from the world’s largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth more than $66 million (£49 million) during price hikes linked to the Ir...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨Out today: 67% percent of Reform’s funding has come from donors with financial interests in fossil fuels, totalling £24m. Crucial reporting from @desmog.com
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r... @desmog.com
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/04/2026
What a STUNNING quote: “I just think the American market is ahead of us [and] the same thing is going to happen here....it just will take a bit longer and it will be a bit harder because more people will be saying, ‘hang on a minute, we don’t want to be burning greenhouse gasses"
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Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres
As the UK and EU debate how to source the vast quantities of electricity they’ll need to power their grand visions of home-grown artificial intelligence (AI), the gas turbine sector is confident that…
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/04/2026
The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
EXCLUSIVE My big behind-the-scenes look into how Gov. Josh Shapiro has courted Amazon amid the mounting backlash to data centers Complete with internal emails, memos, an “exclusive” offer for help with faster permitting and a NDA no one would explain to me. My latest for @heatmap.news 😌
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Inside Josh Shapiro’s Attempt to Navigate the Data Center Backlash
Emails between the Pennsylvania governor’s office and Amazon illustrate the difficulty of courting big business as anti-AI fervor explodes.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I got inside a European AI energy summit in Brussels last month, and the mood among gas industry players was buzzing. The UK and EU are about to unveil regs determining whether Europe's AI boom can be gas powered - even if its a disaster for the climate. Will they bow to Big Tech pressure? More👇
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NEW: Reform Donor Expands Fossil Fuel Portfolio to £300 Million Jeremy Hosking, owner of The Critic magazine, has increased his oil, gas & coal shares by more than half this year. www.desmog.com/2026/04/28/r... @desmog.com
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Reform Donor Expands Fossil Fuel Portfolio to £300 Million
A major right-wing political funder has dramatically increased his fossil fuel investments this year, DeSmog can reveal. Jeremy Hosking, who owns the hedge fund Hosking Partners, donated £1.7 million ...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/04/2026
Congratulations to heat pumps: a technology that has now hit the milestone of "PR guy with gas industry links is doing astroturfing campaigns against you" stage all clean technologies have to go through 🥂 🎉 www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...
French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network
Spreading Heat Pump Hate
A string of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a "lawn mower that never stops" and depict
installers as "environmental fraudsters" and "swindlers".
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A few weeks ago, I published some analysis showing that the UK government had massively underestimated the emissions from the data centres driving the country's "AI revolution". Now, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published some new numbers and they are... a lot higher.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/04/2026
We could just ... not let them do this.
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Reform has already told us how they want to accomplish this deportation of 400k: with a surveillance tool that will use vast quantities of government held personal data. Labour basically legalised it. It can still be stopped. My recent reporting @thenerve.news 👇 www.thenerve.news/p/reform-dep...
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Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Keir Starmer may have handed him the tools
Reform’s proposed "Deportation Command” would integrate NHS, police and financial data into a single surveillance database. Meanwhile, Palantir has signalled it won’t stand in their way, and campaigne...
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