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At LEAST 2 million! Up to 8 million!! And maybe more if they go over estimates!!! All for chatbots that can't count fingers but can encourage suicide!!!

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Chase Cain Hi, I'm Chase — a meteorologist, but I don't forecast the weather 😳 Instead, I'm curious about the ways we can reconnect with nature — and how that’s the root of repairing the damage caused by climate...

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NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose

The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week

Here's our interview:

The "mainstream" has always just been polite code for whiteness

It’s amazing that we’ve all just had to accept that our top military leaders in time of was will only take questions from wildly partisan media outlets. LindellTV, Daily Caller, Daily Wire get called on, but no legitimate general audience or defense press outlets.

Daily Consent Manufacturers

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Building data centres to house the AI that picks targets for war crimes that cause spikes in prices for the fossil fuels we burn to power the data centres that we keep building so the war criminals will give us tax money to build data centres to house the AI that....

#854 Naomi Oreskes - The Big Myth; Learning to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market YouTube video by The Dissenter

In episode 854, I talk with Dr. Naomi Oreskes about her fantastic book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. #History #Economics

youtu.be/g1XYBSL5118

"llms can write social science articles better than professors now" BITCH I DONT CARE. i literally do not care because the point of people having fucking thoughts and doing research is PEOPLE HAVING THOUGHTS AND DOING RESEARCH. the point of the work is DOING THE FUCKING WORK.

I'm not saying Republicans are liars, I'm saying the AI said Republicans lie about climate change 13 times more often than Democratic Congresspeople, and it's because they're getting paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about climate change and obstruct climate action.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.

'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

We cracked down on tobacco ads because they were selling us something deadly. Fossil fuel advertising is selling a different kind of harm, and cities banning it are finally calling it what it is.

'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

"Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions." Great piece by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social.

Internal DOE Documents Confirm Climate Report Was Created to Justify Administration Policy Facts are supposed to shape policy—not the other way around. That key principle is being undermined as the Trump administration seeks to reverse an important pillar of U.S. climate policy. In its…

🚨 New from @ucs.org: Internal DOE Documents Confirm Climate Report Was Created to Justify Administration Policy

"Facts are supposed to shape policy—not the other way around."

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines

Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim

kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

💡Claims that AI can help fix climate have been dismissed as greenwashing in a new report by @ketanjoshi.co @stand.earth @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social

via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA

NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....

Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!

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*Vaxx

Everyone knows its not censorship, they're lying about that because they're liars. Stop having the debate they want, thats how they win! See: Maxx, climate, LGBT, etcetcetc

Really wish disinfo experts would learn to stop engaging directly with obvious bad faith frames. No ones "confused"!

They're lying, on purpose, for money and power.

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

Sounds accurate to me.

Noah Smith: The Breakthrough Institute will be a recurring comic minor villain in the eventual history of the energy revolution. Alex Trembath: This doesn't speak well of yours or John's reading comprehension, bro. NS: OK so I asked AI "who is the most famous recurring minor comic villain in video games", and I swear I didn't tell it to find a bald guy! It was just a coincidence!!! 😭😭 [image of bald dude in leather armor]

AT: Not beating the "has no idea what he's talking about" allegations, Noah. NS: When a homeless guy screeches something incomprehensible at me as I walk past him on the street, I'm not beating his allegations either AT: Look Noah, I understand that you're a prick and that's very impressive. But you and I have met many times, we agree broadly on abundance the need for a broad portfolio of cheap abundant energy technologies, and the ways in which the degrowth environmentalist wing of the Democratic coalition causes all sorts of problems. Where we differ is in our relative estimations of solar vs. nuclear's potential to create energy abundance. I know you know all of this, because we've discussed it in person several times. Yet you still allow charlatans like Hanger to convince you that of a false caricature of the Breakthrough Institute. It's lazy. NS: The funny thing here is that if BTI weren't an organization of pricks run by pricks that hires people based on their ability to fit into a culture of pricks, the organization would have had much more influence over the years (which would have been bad for America). AT: How so? NS: Because then BTI would have convinced more people that solar and batteries aren't the future of energy. As things happened, the incredible prickishness of BTI people (which everyone acknowledges in private btw) reduced their ability to spread disinfo about solar.

You love to see it when some of the lamest people argue with each other.

Ramez Naam: "As "the original solar optimists"??? Alex, are you fucking kidding me? How many times did I take you and BTI to task for your terrible solar projections and deliberate attempt to cast doubt on renewables. You have a chance to repair BTI's reputation, as you're less of a jerk than those who came before you. Lying about your past isn't it. You're wasting a chance to rebuild trust here. Lame." Responding to post from Alex Trembath: "As the original solar optimists, we @TheBTI have been arguing for 20 years that early-stage deployment subsidies would drive innovation and cost declines. We were right, and now the barriers to solar are mainly regulatory and systemic, not the cost of the panels themselves."

Over in The Other Place, things continue to go well for BTI.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Sad that @washingtonpost.com is shedding real journos while apparently instituting a new rule for the opinion pages: all authors must appear in the #EpsteinFiles

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