Ketan Joshi

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Fighting alongside my friends for the best possible pathway to climate justice and fossil fuel elimination. Anti-greenwashing.

Creator / curator of Greensky: https://tinyurl.com/3jk8zrt8

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The wagging tails and proud bragging about providing fascist imagery for a white supremacist movement is just particularly stomach churning. These people are really letting us know how they think and feel.

Santos are moving away from the controversial carbon offsetting approach by *checks notes* - Relying on totally uncontroversial CCS - Also still relying on offsets What on Earth is going on with this piece... carbonherald.com/santos-seeks... archive.ph/wip/5bAmf

It's quite remarkable how closely the dynamics of corporate investment in machine learning resemble the dynamics of frantic, bullrush construction of ultra-wasteful Bitcoin mining (which, remember, has continued burning energy even past the peak hype cycle) www.theguardian.com/business/art...

A tech company with unstoppably rising emissions buying up "carbon removal" credits from Occidental Petroleum: company that has explicitly said it's using carbon removal to enable more fossil extraction How are people working in carbon removal celebrating this??? carbonherald.com/microsoft-50...

Occidental Petroleum say the quiet part out loud: and it makes zero different to the emerging carbon removal industry, or its customers. ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/c...

Jeeeez. The University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI undoes the harm of using software-generated images trained on stolen works by..............donating to an art gallery. How long before someone invents AI offsets? www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/blog/what-do... archive.ph/wip/gwJd6

I mean..........relative to car factories, data centres really aren't major engines of job creation? www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence...

"I personally can't imagine this, therefore why bother" really explains so much about where Australia's energy industry dudes are at right now

Peter Dutton manages to nudge Australian print media outlets climate mentions up to a high not seen since Nov 2022. And all it took was him spouting some nonsense bullshit that was nonetheless coded to be media catnip while real, serious issues are ignored sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/rese...

This @theausinstitute.bsky.social survey illustrates kind of perfectly why the fossil fuel industry spends so much marketing spend talking about jobs, economics and how dependent government revenue is on fossil fuels. australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

One of the most head-spinning but largely unchallenged fossil industry lies in Australia is a monthly "warning" issued that there's a "gas shortage" which requires a million new gas fields to be opened up. More gas is burned *just to process gas exports* than is used domestically in manufacturing.

Shell's main thought leader guy is getting in on my LinkedIn post Context: 0.14% of Australia's federal budget comes from oil and gas taxes, PRRT via @theausinstitute.bsky.social (public perception = 12%) australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"Oh SHIT we're running out of GAS we gotta extract MORE GAS" is one of the filthiest lies from Aus' fossil fuel industry, yet somehow it's also extremely successful and largely received completely uncritically every time it gets repeated by their cheerleaders www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Koomey et al: "U.S. data centers are projected to consume approximately 73 billion kWh in 2020" (2016) eta.lbl.gov/publications... 2022 US data centre power consumption: 190 billion KWh 2026 projections: 260 (IEA Electricity report 2024) www.iea.org/reports/elec...

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Yah it's remarkable that even by the most cheatiest metric in the toolbox for ESG reports, Google and Microsoft are flying at full speed in the wrong direction

Every single year has been worse than the last, when it comes to the completely obscene energy greed of Bitcoin mining. Probably a decent chance it ends up causing more harm through this than machine learning training / inference ever will... ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

1.3 gigs of new gas to meet rising demand due to Bitcoin mining Trust me when I say the Bitcoin problem has not only not gone away, but very clearly gotten worse, despite far fewer headlines about it.... www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

"It is better to ask what a NIMBY is saying “no” to – or a YIMBY is saying “yes” to – and on what grounds, rather than question their right to take part in the debate at all" theconversation.com/why-yimbys-n...

How did I somehow fail to notice this amazing new @carbonplan.org database? And....I did not know that Rivian was in the business of selling carbon offsets from people charging up their monster trucks..... carbonplan.org/research/off...

Huh.......this actually just went up a few days ago - Rivian's request to list this project with Verra got denied. Nice to see the system working, sometimes! registry.verra.org/app/projectD... @jtemple.bsky.social @carbonplan.org

this is probably generally true but I have taken one (1) single good photo of fireworks in my life and it's sometimes my laptop / phone background

This is your annual advance reminder that you will never look at a photograph or video of fireworks again, nor will it be of any real interest to your social media contacts. Just look with your own gelatinous human eyes.

Cool and Good: the perceived explosion of power demand for generative machine learning training / inference is causing investors to bulk buy stocks in power utilities 🧐 www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

For a party obsessed with The Optics.....

Chris Bowen did exactly the same thing with climate policy, btw. "This is urgent reform so stop trying to improve it and just pass it!!!!" (except he framed it as 'x months to 2030' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One year ago www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"And that's why he's announcing that all of his cash is going to go towards organising and activism to push governments to fund basic services!" *I turn to speak behind my shoulder* "Right Mister Beast?" *silence*

Folks: a reminder -> Google frequently cite this "research" that claims a 5-10% global (global!!!!) decrease in emissions thanks to "AI" www.greenbiz.com/article/goog... I clicked through all the references and what lies at the bottom is *very bad* -->> www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-rea...

'Shell's greenwashing scam was bad because it wasn't profitable enough' is a take

I guess this is because Shell's CCS facilities are working very well and bringing huge returns to the business

Not the main point of this article but man is it one of the single most harmful and toxic lies from this industry that fossil gas = 'clean energy'. Quite a few opinion polls suggest many people don't even consider it to be a fossil fuel. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/c...