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Rei Takver
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Probably the only Californian investigative journalist in the history of the North of England. Reporter @desmog.com.
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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
As a former US History teacher, I can heartily confirm that students can, in fact, see beyond monochrome flat caricatures of constructed historical personality. That we need reporters to go around interviewing people to respect young people enough to simply know this...says more about the adults.
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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🔴 NEW 🔴

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds

📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social

Published in partnership with @apublica.org

www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.
www.desmog.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In case you're wondering how cozy AI giant Nvidia, and its CEO Jensen Huang, are getting to the Trump administration, Huang's now showering praise on Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a climate denying fracking executive.....

My reporting for @desmog.com ⤵️

www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/n...
Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his 'Passion' for Science
Jensen Huang gives "a shout-out for Secretary Chris Wright" as Nvidia and Trump administration partner on a massive AI buildout.
www.desmog.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Meta is scrambling to mask its rising emissions: first by buying dodgy pseudo-offsets to make its emissions align with its "target" (🤔), and more recently, by joining a lobby group pushing to redefine how emissions are measured

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/29/m...

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/03/m...
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"

Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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See also: Jensen Huang demanding the uk build more fossil fuel generation to power data centres full of his chips.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.

It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.

Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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For anyone writing about or going to COP -

Mammoth bit of work from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and Gil Alessi 👏
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Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30

Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit

📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇

www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods

The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.

📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🚨 Our new report, Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified, is out now. 🚨

The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
And yet, two weeks ago the government of Brazil was the "master sponsor" of a major oil and gas conference in Rio, where Nvidia sold AI tools for fossil fuel expansion to Petrobras....

www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.

Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.

We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”

Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The daily news cycle is now: billionaire promises he'll make the world exponentially worse; govt officials say "yes please, we'll help you make the world exponentially worse"; everyone else goes "wtf?" Repeat.
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit

📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30

The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.

📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30

The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.

My reporting today @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.

Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
heated.world
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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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
A quick blog for y'all, because it feels important to nip this one early: NO, this chart DOESN'T show a European solar voltage apocalypse

Spoiler: it is almost entirely down to Sweden's grid operator upgrading detection software

All the dirty details here:

ketanjoshi.co/2025/10/29/c...
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM