@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
Two graphs in today’s FT.
Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.
This column by Stephen Bush in @FT is worth a read... this sentence stood out to me as deeply depressing:
'There is nowhere in the United Kingdom where large gatherings of Jewish people can now take place without some form of security.'
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
07.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 1621 🔁 546 💬 64 📌 31
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com:
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
#ScienceUnderSiege
Do yourself a favour and make time to watch this 👇
25.09.2025 07:23 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain...
Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet?
My 📝 for
@desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...
🔴 NEW - Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre
It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
This year we've been really swinging for the fences.
Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts.
Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so?
youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg
This is actually scandalous. The Telegraph today reports that Ofgen itself attributes next week's price cap rise to wind farms.
Only, it's not Ofgen saying that at all, it's a... *checks notes*... renowned "CLIMATE SCEPTIC" crank who says that.
I think this is complaint-level stuff...
This is part of a massive generative slop / plagiarism operation seemingly being run by one dude operating a bunch of similarly designed websites - "Krishna Pathak" (not sure if actual real dude)
Also being syndicated on MSN. Registered at 'paper mill' address in Wyoming
GenAI is the WORST
23.09.2025 07:41 — 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
⁉️ How are polluting industries using digital tools to block climate action?
I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook"
– a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space
Cover of the Replaybook a fieldguide to the climate and information crisis
⭐ We are thrilled to announce “The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis”, a first-of-its-kind toolkit by 30+ experts, journalists & NGOs to decode disinfo, challenge tech & counter division in climate comms.⬇️Must-have! Download: tacticaltech.org/replaybook/
23.09.2025 06:00 — 👍 30 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 2Hey Robert, DeSmog is looking to verify the bit about Heartland – give me a follow here so I can shoot you a DM. Thanks!
08.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
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Sam Altman @sama i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now 12:21 AM · Sep 4, 2025 · 1.5M Views
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
04.09.2025 07:54 — 👍 7133 🔁 1390 💬 64 📌 100@jamesrball.com and @writesbright.bsky.social have confirmed they're also banned from this year's Reform UK national conference.
They were informed today.
So Farage explicitly told Congress that he doesn't ban journalists from Reform events on the exact day that he banned journalists from events.
Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets.
@femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
02.09.2025 13:07 — 👍 1190 🔁 507 💬 22 📌 37
ICYMI
AI 'Slop' Websites publishing climate denial
MSN hosted articles citing fake experts and institutions, posted by group linked to AI-based animal media outlet
This slop used as 'evidence' by climate deniers incl. Heartland institute
(Published while I was away)
My latest for @desmog.com
Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.
01.09.2025 14:05 — 👍 1044 🔁 282 💬 90 📌 16
AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
- MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions.
- “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit”
By @joeygrostern.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
🔴 NEW - AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
MSN hosted AI-generated content that cited non-existent climate experts and institutions.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Shocking, fascinating and downright ridiculous story from @joeygrostern.bsky.social about AI slop websites churning out climate denial 👇🏻
27.08.2025 15:03 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1Great @desmog.com article by @joeygrostern.bsky.social on this incredible network of slopaganda, primarily used to publicise climate denial.
How cool that we are still only in the early days of this type of stuff :) :) :) :)
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
“AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial" | Article by @joeygrostern.bsky.social for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
Yes, great effort by @desmog.com and @joeygrostern.bsky.social
I also saw this site a few months back and thought WTF.
It was clearly highly suspect, but good that someone has done the digging and exposed it.
MSN should be deeply embarrassed it allow itself to amplify this slop.
