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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

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

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How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy?

AI amidst the climate emergency

billmckibben.substack.com

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 2d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 2d

August 2026. Massive heatwaves kill 1000s of Americans, mostly low-income and elderly, because as a society we decided it was more important to be able to create pervy deepfake videos of the girl next door than to power air conditioners.

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 2d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 2d

there's some nonsense out there but also practical tips from people who've been through it. I've learned more about parenting an autistic child from TikTok than the rare face-to-face consultations with professionals

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 3d

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...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 3d

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 6d

Exhibit #1000 in why "tech neutral permitting reform" is little more than a dodge from the hard work of politics and building solidarity amongst climate advocates to forcefully confront the entrenched power of fossil fuels.

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 8d

"The White House is offering 'concierge, white glove service' to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 6d

guys we need food to live

ECIU @eciu.net · 6d

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to an analysis of Government figures, after the country’s hottest spring and summer on record as well as the driest spring in more than 100 years.
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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 7d

I can't understand why it's not routinely offered along with the seasonal flu jab? All that work to get a vaccine out quickly and they've just abandoned it!

Signed, someone suffering right now from what is probably Covid

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 7d

just 10 of the biggest data centres planned in the UK would emit enough to wipe out the benefits expected from EV switching

www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/new-rep...

New Report: Big Tech Data Centres: a Threat to UK Decarbonisation

A new report by Global Action Plan and Foxglove estimates a significant rise in annual carbon emissions as a result of data centres planned or in construction in the UK: Ten of the largest data centre...

www.globalactionplan.org.uk

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Laurie van der Burg @laurievdburg.bsky.social · 8d

I'm going on maternity leave in Jan 🤰 and I am looking for a cover!

If you want to join @oilchange.bsky.social to help end fossil fuel finance & increase support for a just transition, do apply! Climate litigation experience is a plus.

oilchange.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

Please share!

Senior Adviser - Global Public Finance (January - June 2026)

Job Opening: Senior Adviser - Global Public Finance (January - June 2026) at Oil Change International in Oil Change International.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11d

Russian-linked vessels are continuing to leak oil off Europe’s shores — despite Western sanctions — underscoring the continent’s inability to rein in Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet.

Russia’s blacklisted tankers keep dumping oil in Europe’s seas

Shadow fleet vessels sailed unimpeded in EU waters after leaving slicks near the continent.

ow.ly

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 10d

💃🎉🙌 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 10d

the most important question to ask badenoch is: what are these cheaper sources of energy of which she speaks?

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 10d

oh and critically, uk is no longer a major oil & gas producer, never will be again and has no power to make fossil fuels cheaper

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 10d

is it an easy way out? badenoch is no trump, she doesn't command the fealty of tech billionnaires or supreme court justices. the legal and economic risks are real. hopefully wiser heads will convince her to reverse ferret or replace her before it comes to that

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 10d

there is nothing that will get you *kicked out* of the paris agreement. staying in while backsliding on ambition/action would make it pretty easy for climate lawyers to challenge in court, but i reckon they'd face lawsuits either way. ask clientearth?

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 10d

tbh there are plenty of countries with worse climate records in the paris agreement. like, most of them. do you want to give kemi ideas?

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 12d

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.

www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

On Friday, the ultranationalist minister suggested that Israel would be better off throwing the flotilla participants in prison for several months
rather than immediately deporting them back to their home countries. Security prisoners - those incarcerated for offenses that intentionally harm national security - are housed separately from criminal prisoners and are not eligible for many of the benefits available to the general prison population. The term is a catch-all term applied to detainees, convicted prisoners and terrorists, and administrative detainees who are held
without charges for extended periods, without trial.

"We are in Ketziot prison, and as I promised, those flotilla members,
supporters of terrorism, are here in a security prison," Channel 14 reported
Ben Gir as saying. "They receive conditions for terrorists here, for everything, terrorist sweatpants, terrorist conditions. This means, there is a minimum of the
minimum, that's what I promised and that's how we are fulfilling it."

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 14d

dumb policy, dumb politics

it does nothing for the Tories' chances of winning power but it increases uncertainty around UK climate commitments and therefore the cost of capital for green investments

*slow hand clap*

Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 14d

All that years of anti-climate/environment invective on Conservative right has achieved so far is create a wedge within their own electoral coalition. Those switching from Con to Reform are anti Net Zero, those that have remained are pro.

Labour coalition meanwhile is basically unscathed.

Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 15d

won't somebody rescue me from this city hellscape

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15d

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

I decided this was unacceptable.

Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"

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