Pretty wild how so many governments around the world staring down another fossil fuel crisis are like "Sorry this is no time to reduce fossil fuel use, don't you know we're in a CRISIS"

New York's governor wants to delay a landmark climate law. That could cost households thousands in energy bills A recent analysis by a coalition of climate and community groups says delaying the law could cost New Yorkers $9,000 per household over five years.

NY: call your state legislators and demand they stop Hochul’s attack on New York’s climate law.

If she succeeds she will raise our energy bills, destroy jobs and increase pollution.

Call now and leave them a message!
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Any Way the Wind Blows Claims of curtailment-powered data centers from Crusoe and OpenAI’s can be tested in ERCOT by utilizing the 60-day SCED data. Abilene sits in an interesting position on the ERCOT grid, in the West zone but bordering the North, which makes the area a natural bottleneck for power flowing out of the wind-rich west, often driving bearish West congestion. We calculated curtailment data for wind resources located West of Abilene, including multiple units that directly tie onto the same 345kV network that Stargate intends to interconnect to. The data shows that while Crusoe is correct that wind generation in the area does see curtailment, this “wasted” wind energy would not cover the expected usage of the full data center. Beyond the total amount of curtailed wind, there’s a notable seasonal trend. Curtailments spike during the spring when weak load, combined with stronger renewable generation, and increased transmission outages, drive congestion as wind generation tries to flow out of West Texas and towards major load centers.

Many arguments from data centre operators mimicking Bitcoin company lines like "we're just using stranded renewable energy". This analysis shows OpenAI's Stargate project will use way more than any available curtailed wind - mostly from their new fossil gas plants

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Congratulations!!!!!

How Australia is supporting NASA's first Moon flight in 50 years Canberra-based communications systems will support NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century, helping astronauts orbit the Moon and return data.

Cool, how lovely to have resources www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Meanwhile, name your social and environmental justice issue in Australia that has little to no $ and is *still* experiencing cuts.

The Lucky Country...

🔥👇🏽Enviro reporter Caitlin Fitzsimmons in Sydney Morning Herald on fossil industry’s propaganda tactics & vast disinformation ops as revealed by the Senate Committee’s ‘Integrity Gap’ report; the role of the IPA, Centre of Independent Studies & other #Auspol members of the global 🇺🇸 #AtlasNetwork. 👓👀

Big Oil to reap billions from Iran war windfall after a month of soaring energy prices By Sheila Dang, Stephanie Kelly and Amanda Stephenson March 26, 20268:20 PM GMT+1Updated 15 hours ago

The situation could resemble 2022, when Big Oil broke records for profit after Russia's February invasion of Ukraine rocked energy markets. That year, oil companies rewarded shareholders with record dividends and share repurchases. Public outrage sparked calls for windfall-profit taxes. "The first quarter is going to be phenomenal for these companies. I don't think there's any way around that," said Leo Mariani, a senior research analyst at Roth Capital Partners. U.S. shale producers and other ​companies without major operations in the Middle East should gain the most, benefiting from higher prices without costs associated with shut-in production, stranded tankers or expensive repairs to war-hit facilities. Still, executives said the big profits ​will probably not boost their planned capital spending on new production. CHEVRON, SHELL, EXXON MOBIL STAND TO MAKE BILLIONS In the past month, six analysts covering Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab revised their projections ⁠for the U.S. oil major's first-quarter per-share earnings, raising estimates by an average of about 40%, according to LSEG data. Three analysts covering London-based Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab increased their net profit estimate for the three-month period by an average of 15%. The consensus Wall ​Street estimate for Exxon Mobil's (XOM.N), opens new tab full-year per-share earnings has been revised up about 4% from before the war, smaller than forecasts for other companies. This could be because Exxon, the biggest U.S. oil company, has more production exposure to disruptions in ​the Middle East, said Stewart Glickman, director of equity research at CFRA Research. Four analysts covering Exxon increased their earnings estimate in the past month, while three revised them down, according to LSEG data. Exxon will publish its first quarter earnings snapshot next month, detailing factors that impacted earnings. Shell will release a quarterly update note on April 8 detailing the expected financial effects from the conflict. Part of Shell's Pearl GTL (gas-to-liquids) facility in Qatar was damaged in attacks this month.

"The first quarter is going to be phenomenal for these companies. I don't think there's any way around that"

Not sure I would have used the word "phenomenal" to describe those blood-soaked war-profit billions, but I guess I am not an Experts In Markets

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Seems Pauline Hanson's cannily been attending Science Meets Parliament "dinners & meetings over many years—likely more than any other parliamentarian—[..] & stays longer at dinner than almost all parliamentarians"

Smart PR

Shame to normalise the racist, Islamophobic, climate-denying One Nation

we are slowly but surely reconnecting with the basic truth that things exist to serve particular purposes, and that making them more like smartphones doesn't necessarily make them better at those actual use cases

something similar is happening in our relationship with Silicon Valley more broadly

it's happening with cars too, where the rising touchscreen tide is rolling back and physical controls are once again re-asserting their place in the cockpit

it turns out that "everything's computer" is just pure ideology, rather than a way to actually improve peoples lives

The * is doing heavy lifting.

The satellites need to be perfectly lined up to provide that light for 20 minutes, and this won't happen if they are evenly spread along Sun synchronous orbits.

Suggests they are doing optimistic back of the envelope rather than detailed simulations.

Reflect Orbital finally have some numbers for their underwhelming service.

50 Watts per square metre for 20 minutes* in 2030 if they launch 5000+ satellites. This requires 750 satellites and if they charge $5000 per satellite per hour then this will cost just $750,000.

www.reflectorbital.com

I would only add (and bet you agree) that these things *can* be distractions from the other *butttt* you should only ever oppose that in reference to very specific, clear and opposable examples of it happening rather than in general terms

‘The worst I’ve seen’: Oil industry grapples with the fallout from US-Israel war with Iran The Middle East war is scrambling markets and threatening to remake the energy industry.

look this is a pretty good point BUT there are signs of some freakin out in the extractive majors too

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This article is more than 1 year old Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says This article is more than 1 year old Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions

Donald Trump’s policy swings are creating instability, energy chiefs say Industry that benefited from president’s cuts to regulation and green policy is wary of unpredictability ‘It’s very difficult to predict what’s going to happen as our president has a habit of changing his mind,’ NRG chief executive Lawrence Coben said in an interview at CeraWeek in Houston © Bloomberg Donald Trump’s policy swings are creating instability, energy chiefs say on x (opens in a new window) Donald Trump’s policy swings are creating instability, energy chiefs say on facebook (opens in a new window) Donald Trump’s policy swings are creating instability, energy chiefs say on linkedin (opens in a new window) Share Save Pro Features Configuration Jamie Smyth, Martha Muir and Stephanie Findlay in Houston Published3 hours ago 23 Print this page Get ahead with daily markets updates.Join the FT's WhatsApp channel At the largest US energy industry conference this week, executives said Donald Trump’s chaotic policymaking and abrupt decision to attack Iran have created instability, price volatility and the spectre of recession. Though the past year under the Trump administration has been a boon for the fossil fuel industry, several said growing uncertainty could soon translate into a block

The Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Pouring one out for the fossil fuel companies experiencing severe buyers remorse regarding their most recent despot purchase. No refunds on this one, my guys.

Houthi missile attack signals ‘serious’ escalation in Iran war Rebels’ participation puts vital maritime routes at greater risk

The best moment to kick our fossil fuel addiction was immediately after the Paris Agreement.

There have been many next best moments.

But this might be the last best moment: physical blockage of oil flows forcing governments to speed up renewables

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Hahaha

[Holding hands behind back]We'd love to go faster but our hands are tied!

"house is always haunt" 2026 edition:

Yesterday I came across an article Leigh Sales wrote on Thursday when the ABC was on strike. It is one of the worst commentary pieces on Australian political-economic history I've read.

It was clear no one of quality was around to check her work or prevent it from being published. 1/13

yep I know

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court!

2025 Republicans: We run things now so

I’ve never understood using burger production as some kind of gotcha to anti-AI campaigners. “You criticise murder but what about *other* murders?” *waits for high five*

TotalEnergies to reassess 2050 net zero plans due to slow energy transition By Forrest Crellin and Shadia Nasralla March 26, 20262:10 PM GMT+1Updated 19 hours ago

This is why fossil fuel companies always presented their "targets" linked to the caveat that they can only act as fast as society moves: so that when they successfully lobby for fossil lock-in, they can pretend they're just passively going along with trends

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There is massive, massive demand out there for environmentally credible voices creating permission space for people to fully absorb genai into their lives and many big enviro accounts are heeding the call and adopting greenwashing tactics in doing so

this year

I reckon I know why

← Posts Watch again 3,655 203 147 383 Liked by jack_toohey and others commonsearth We still discourage the overuse of Al though Source: Water Footprint Calculator & de Vries-Gao A. (2025). The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence. Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 7(1), 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter. 2025.101430 ketanjoshi19 Do you guys realise that big tech doesn't need free voluntary PR assistance from accounts like yours? ketanjoshi19 ketanjoshi19 like, they've already corruptly captured regulators and governments, why are you choosing to help them ketanjoshi19 You can tell they didn't read the paper they're citing because this is in the abstract (there's nothing about beef in the entire paper, I assume they either intentionally fabricated it or it came from Al slop): "(Al systems) water footprint could be in the range of the global annual [...] ketanjoshi19 commonsearth I don't think you actually opened or read it though. This is why you don't rely on Al for referencing 9 hours ago

electricity consumption. Despite Al system power demand approaching that of a country the size of the United Kingdom, the environmental impacts of this growth remain unclear. Most assessments focus on the cost of interacting with specific Al models but do not provide a more holistic overview. Such estimates are complicated by the fact that data center. operators do not publicly disclose the required inputs. Reports that attempt to address the global environmental impact of Al hardware typically rely on proprietary analyst data, limiting validation in the public domain. The lack of distinction between Al and non-Al workloads in the environmental reports of data center operators means it is possible to assess the environmental impact of Al workloads only by approximating them through data centers' general performance metrics. Company-wide metrics from the environmental closure of data center operators suggest that Al systems may have a carbon footprint equivalent to that of New York City in 2025, while their water footprint could be in the range of the global annual consumption of bottled water. Further disclosures from data center operators are urtly required to improve the accuracy of these estimates and to responsibly manage the growing environmental impact of Al systems. Summary Although there are ways to estimate the global power Copy Share Select all Web search ༄ཅTTIPས"") WICC TITOLTTOO ITUITI Tap to see search results ÷ it TO SITIOnmental di...

electricity consumption. Despite Al system power demand approaching that of a country the size of the United Kingdom, the environmental impacts of this growth remain unclear. Most assessments focus on the cost of interacting with specific Al models but do not provide a more holistic overview. Such estimates are complicated by the fact that data center. operators do not publicly disclose the required inputs. Reports that attempt to address the global environmental impact of Al hardware typically rely on proprietary analyst data, limiting validation in the public domain. The lack of distinction between Al and non-Al workloads in the environmental reports of data center operators means it is possible to assess the environmental impact of Al workloads only by approximating them through data centers' general performance metrics. Company-wide metrics from the environmental closure of data center operators suggest that Al systems may have a carbon footprint equivalent to that of New York City in 2025, while their water footprint could be in the range of the global annual consumption of bottled water. Further disclosures from data center operators are urtly required to improve the accuracy of these estimates and to responsibly manage the growing environmental impact of Al systems. Summary Although there are ways to estimate the global power Copy Share Select all Web search ༄ཅTTIPས"") WICC TITOLTTOO ITUITI Tap to see search results ÷ it TO SITIOnmental di...

An enviro account on Instagram blurting out effective altruist whataboutism and completely mis-citing a paper estimating the water impacts of slop.

What are we doing here people, Sam Altman doesn't need free PR assistance

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Tom!! Lovely to see you here ❤️

One of the world‘s largest oil and gas companies says its net zero target can‘t be met in time because of the wider economy not transitioning fast enough. File under: NRA blames gun owners.
Moral of the story: Never ever wait for the incumbents to lead a transition.
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Trump and Modi Had a Call About the Iran War. Elon Musk Joined Them.

Some may have seen that Trump and Narendra Modi had a call the other day about the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

What they weren't told was that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who holds no official government position, was on the call with them.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...