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@joeygrostern.bsky.social

Investigative Climate Journalist @desmog.com in Berlin + working with Deutsche Welle and Clean Energy Wire All my posts are very serious and important

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Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival James Orr, an ally of Nigel Farage and JD Vance, accused the UK of adopting a “naive and dangerous” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at an event organised by an oil-funded think tank. Speaking...

🔴 NEW - Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival

An academic with ties to Reform slammed the UK’s strong support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

07.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 10    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1
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Reform Splurged £1.3m on Right-Wing Newspaper Adverts During Election Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media...

🔴 NEW - Reform paid almost £1.3 million to right-wing newspapers during the 2024 general election campaign - roughly 25% of its total budget.

📝 @desmog.com scoop with @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇

28.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 154    🔁 79    💬 8    📌 4
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The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

02.06.2025 16:19 — 👍 983    🔁 426    💬 31    📌 45
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The Misleading Panic over Misinformation People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...

27.06.2025 06:50 — 👍 1728    🔁 770    💬 84    📌 168
Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below.

Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]

Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

25.06.2025 16:01 — 👍 470    🔁 286    💬 33    📌 36
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Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report Dozens of companies and trade bodies were involved in an effort to water down key sustainability legislation in the EU, according to a new report published today.  The Corporate Sustainability Due Dil...

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Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report

An 'unparalleled competitiveness hysteria' is at play, according to transparency campaigner
@kennethhaar.bsky.social from @corporateeurope.org

For @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/06/24/c...

24.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report Dozens of companies and trade bodies were involved in an effort to water down key sustainability legislation in the EU, according to a new report published today.  The Corporate Sustainability Due Dil...

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Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report

An 'unparalleled competitiveness hysteria' is at play, according to transparency campaigner @kennethhaar.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/06/24/c...

24.06.2025 09:30 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
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Great British PAC's website, ex-Reform Ben Habib's new right-wing fundraising body, is plastered with AI-generated images

You'd think someone would check the images before uploading

17.06.2025 11:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Rishi Sunak made £344,911 for speaking for a total of 6.5 hours at two speaking arrangements in May this year.

It would take the average British worker 9.2 years to earn the same amount.

17.06.2025 10:37 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
The higher the bonnet, the bigger the blind spot. Diagram showing how drivers can't see children in high fronted cars.

The higher the bonnet, the bigger the blind spot. Diagram showing how drivers can't see children in high fronted cars.

NEW RESEARCH: new car bonnets are trending higher every year and drivers of high fronted cars unable to see children as old as nine 😱🚙🚸❗

#Carspreading is out of control. What’s the latest? 🧵1/8

@transenv.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org

12.06.2025 10:09 — 👍 199    🔁 127    💬 10    📌 17

The Conservative Party's new national digital campaign manager finished his undergraduate degree in July last year –could they not find literally anyone more qualified?

12.06.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate so much that there's a Big Dark Roof sabotaging climate policies, ffs

05.06.2025 10:12 — 👍 115    🔁 36    💬 7    📌 1

By this definition even the King of Britain isn't counted as British

Clown show stuff from Matt Goodwin

04.06.2025 09:35 — 👍 918    🔁 234    💬 72    📌 8
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GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down A hedge fund manager who owns three right-wing UK media outlets has called for the BBC to be “broken up” and its fact-checking service “shut down”. Sir Paul Marshall – proprietor of GB News, The Spect...

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GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down

Marshall, who also owns The Spectator, called for the public broadcaster to be part-privatised at a Pharos Foundation event.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @joeygrostern.bsky.social

28.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 7    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 1
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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election GB News gave a platform to at least 953 anti-climate attacks in the immediate run-up and aftermath of the 2024 general election, DeSmog can reveal. Half of these featured attacks on clean energy polic...

A reminder that GB News is a prolific spreader of climate disinformation

www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...

28.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down A hedge fund manager who owns three right-wing UK media outlets has called for the BBC to be “broken up” and its fact-checking service “shut down”. Sir Paul Marshall – proprietor of GB News, The Spect...

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GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down

At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed

@desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...

28.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 48    🔁 35    💬 17    📌 6
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Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment A Reform UK mayor who claims “net zero madness” is “bankrupting Britain” has called for investment in an offshore wind project “to boost growth” in the local economy. Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who was elec...

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Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment

Two of Farage’s mayors have this week backed clean energy projects, seemingly at odds with the party’s anti-climate stance.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

23.05.2025 11:53 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 3

*Big* scoop from @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social

22.05.2025 11:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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GB News spewed out almost 1,000 anti-climate attacks in 7 months - that’s like 5 every single day. Climate denial should be a crime in my view - it does enormous harm. At the very least GB News should have some regulatory scrutiny. We don’t need toxic media in our country.

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29.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 152    🔁 35    💬 6    📌 4
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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election GB News gave a platform to at least 953 anti-climate attacks in the immediate run-up and aftermath of the 2024 general election, DeSmog can reveal. Half of these featured attacks on clean energy polic...

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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election

Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections.

My report for @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...

28.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 124    🔁 48    💬 6    📌 0

One of these "experts"? None other than Richard Tice, one of Reform's window-lickers-in-chief.

And will someone PLEASE explain the concept of *batteries* to these snake oilers saying rEnewAbLeS mAkE yOuR gRiD iNsEcUrE

How anyone can put their byline to this I will never know.

29.04.2025 08:15 — 👍 42    🔁 9    💬 10    📌 0
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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election GB News gave a platform to at least 953 anti-climate attacks in the immediate run-up and aftermath of the 2024 general election, DeSmog can reveal. Half of these featured attacks on clean energy polic...

A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...

28.04.2025 16:26 — 👍 39    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1
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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election GB News gave a platform to at least 953 anti-climate attacks in the immediate run-up and aftermath of the 2024 general election, DeSmog can reveal. Half of these featured attacks on clean energy polic...

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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election

Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections.

My report for @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...

28.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 124    🔁 48    💬 6    📌 0
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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election GB News gave a platform to at least 953 anti-climate attacks in the immediate run-up and aftermath of the 2024 general election, DeSmog can reveal. Half of these featured attacks on clean energy polic...

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GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election

Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

28.04.2025 15:24 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.

Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas.

Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis

www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...

23.04.2025 09:44 — 👍 180    🔁 119    💬 3    📌 11
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Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election The Heritage Foundation, the U.S. group that produced a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, is trying to shape the upcoming Albanian election, DeSmog can report. The opposition candidate Sal...

The Heritage Foundation prepares for some more election interference

www.desmog.com/2025/04/14/h...

17.04.2025 20:24 — 👍 631    🔁 251    💬 36    📌 14
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Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds Climate disinformation was routinely broadcast in news programmes across French TV and radio in the first three months of 2025, with 128 verified cases identified by an alliance of NGOs. Using AI to i...

🔴 Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds

New findings from an alliance of NGOs challenges the belief that disinformation is confined to social media.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

15.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 15    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election The Heritage Foundation, the U.S. group that produced a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, is trying to shape the upcoming Albanian election, DeSmog can report. The opposition candidate Sal...

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Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election

The Heritage Foundation helped to “design” the manifesto of candidate Sali Berisha, who is accused of corruption.

📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

14.04.2025 12:04 — 👍 35    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 2

We know industry and PR firms can undermine peer-reviewed science but it’s rare to get this 🪟 into their tactics 🧵

In a newly seen document, Red Flag boasts of its “remarkable success” framing the landmark Eat-Lancet report as “radical”, “out of touch” & “hypocritical”

Latest @desmog.bsky.social👇

11.04.2025 09:09 — 👍 27    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 1
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Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry After donating heavily to Trump’s reelection, Big Oil is just catching on that the president's policies can hurt them too, anonymous survey of industry executives reveals.

Hilarious to me that oil execs are privately freaking out about the Trump administration's chaos.

@sharonkelly.bsky.social has more in @desmog.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...

07.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 29    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1

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