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Climate denial, racism, ableism, misogyny, and homophobia walk into a bar. Wait, sorry - not a bar - the GB News studio. Every single day.

This is how fossil-fuelled media ragebaits you: by using hate and lies as a distraction tactic.

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The Great Green AI Hoax Machine If AI companies want to claim they are helping solve the climate crisis, they should be required to show their math, writes Friends of the Earth's Michael Khoo.

🚨New from @techpolicypress.bsky.social: The Great Green AI Hoax Machine

@michaelkhoo.bsky.social looks at how Silicon Valley’s claims that AI will slash emissions & “fix the climate” stack up against AI’s exploding energy demand.

Spoiler alert: the math doesn’t add up.

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Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz ‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of climate action advocates going ‘silent’ on the issue.

🚨 New from @desmog.com : Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz

‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of Democrats, billionaires, activists and reporters going ‘silent’ on the issue.

10 Years After Berta Cáceres’ Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmental Activists? Despite some prosecutions, the criminal masterminds behind the Indigenous leader's murder remain at large, while illegal land grabs, international finance and attacks against defenders continues with…

A decade after celebrated environmental justice advocate Berta Cáceres’ murder, Honduras remains one of the deadliest places on earth for land & environmental defenders, as land grabs and attacks continue with impunity.

via @ninalakhani.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social

10 March: DSA: Unfolding the European Commission’s first decision against X This webinar unpacks the European Commission’s first-ever DSA non-compliance decision – fining X €120 million – examining the legal reasoning, key breaches identified, and what the landmark ruling mea...

💡Join @disinfo.eu on 10 March for DSA: Unfolding the European Commission’s first decision against X.

The webinar will explain why X was fined €120M under the DSA, how the Commission built its case and the evidence civil society used to make it stick.

www.disinfo.eu/outreach/our...

Carney Government Knew Carbon Capture Was ‘Very Limited,’ Docs Show Briefing notes obtained by DeSmog reveal the Carney government had major knowledge gaps about CCS even as it made the technology central to its climate plan.

🔎 Leaked briefing notes show the Carney government knew CCS could only play a “very limited” role in cutting emissions, even as it was promoted as a climate centrepiece.

via @desmog.com

AI greenwashing: Big Tech’s AI climate promises fall flat, study finds Only 26 percent of climate-related AI claims cite any academic papers, while 36 percent didn’t cite any evidence at all, according to German non-profit Beyond Fossil Fuels.

Big Tech is selling AI as a climate fix – but most of those claims don’t stand up to scrutiny, with 36% of climate‑related AI claims not citing any evidence at all.

Driving momentum and delivery on the road to COP31 Early insights on what is needed for COP31 to deliver in a changing global order and shape the pathway to the second Global Stocktake in 2028.

COP30 laid foundations, but COP31 in Antalya has to be about delivery: closing the emissions gap, scaling finance and resilience, and turning fossil fuel phase‑out into reality.

@e3g.bsky.social's new briefing maps out what needs to happen next

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In the run-up to the elections, fake TikTok accounts are selling for US$28 in Brazil How “ready to go viral” political profiles fuel the supply chain of lies — and threaten the climate and the environment.

In Brazil, fake TikTok accounts with 10k followers are selling for around $28, then weaponised to spread polarising political content and climate disinformation before the 2026 elections.

Learn more in the latest edition of Oii

Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute, has reported talking to members of Congress about draft legislation to stop state climate lawsuits.

What a coincidence that Rep. Harriet Hageman happens to be drafting legislation to do exactly that. 🙄

Fact check: the reliability of renewable energy | Policy and insight Friends of the Earth’s Sandra Bell addresses claims that the UK must drill more North Sea gas and pursue fracking due to limits on renewable energy, showing how renewables can reduce exposure to gas…

💡 Fact check: the reliability of renewable energy. @friends-earth.bsky.social examine the claim that “renewables can’t keep the lights on” and set out what the evidence says about reliability and UK energy security.

The end of accountability: How autonomous AI could supercharge climate disinformation While conspiracies rely on falsehoods, lies or manipulative uses of emotion, they share a key feature: they are traceable to people and institutions.

🗞️ New piece from @sonjasolomun.bsky.social and Chris Russill explores how autonomous AI can turbocharge climate conspiracies and flood local democracy with disinformation.

BREAKING: A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$ 345 million.

This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. A thread ⤵️🧵

Large language model reveals an increase in climate contrarian speech in the United States Congress - Communications Sustainability Congressional opposition to climate policies has grown in the United States, and Republicans are approximately twelve times more likely than Democrats to make contrarian claims, according to an analys...

What's going on with claims about #climate science and solutions in the #USCongress?

Here's our analysis of trends over three decades using the most sophisticated framework yet. An exciting collaboration of three research teams on three continents.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Stop Dirty Data Centres Big Tech’s ambition to build more and more energy-hungry data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them. Now is the time to act.

On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February, communities will come together to take coordinated action, calling for stronger protection of our climate in the face of rapid hyperscale data centre expansion. Join us: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Data Centres Threaten UK Climate Targets Big Tech’s plan to build more hyperscale data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk. Developers’ own figures indicate that emissions from just 10 planned UK data centres will release 2.7 million tonnes of CO² each year, wiping out annual CO² savings from the switch to EVs.

Big Tech’s ambition to build more data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them.

It is estimated that more than 100 data centres are planned across the UK, the largest of which would consume more electricity than double all the households in Wales.

"People are rising up against big tech data centres being built at the expense of people and planet". Photo in black and white of 10 people holding a banner that stays 'STOP DIRTY DATA CENRES'. Global action plan logo.

This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK.

Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

🪧 UK activists are planning protests over the climate and social impacts of AI data centres.

“Big Tech's unchecked construction of hyperscale AI data centres is putting the UK's climate targets at risk,” says Oliver Hayes of @globalactionplan.bsky.social

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How Europe’s Climate and Sustainability Rules Were Shredded While Citizens Remained in the Dark Policymakers, civil society, investors, business, and the media all must answer key questions fast — before the regulatory rollback turns into a rout.

Brussels has quietly gutted flagship climate and sustainability rules after intense corporate lobbying, leaving most big companies off the hook and citizens in the dark.

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The Trump EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal: Wrong on Statute, Deceptive on Science, Reckless on Impacts On February 12, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, which establishes EPA’s statutory obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.…

🗑️ Trump’s EPA just tore up the science‑backed Endangerment Finding to give polluters a free pass.

@UCS.org explains why this move is wrong on the law, deceptive on the science, and deadly for the future.

Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

🚨 New from @desmog.com : Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company

The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

YouTube video by EU DisinfoLab 12 February 2026: Scroll, stop, verify. How the EU is bringing climate facts forward

Nearly 3 in 4 people say they’re frequently exposed to disinfo, but how can you spot it?

This webinar from @disinfo.eu shows how the EU’s #ClimateFactsMatter campaign gives people practical ways to spot disinfo, challenge it and push climate facts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6X6...

Daily Mail article with headline that reads: Reform wants Britain's backing for fracking

Though this article notes that most people oppose fracking, these people are referred to as "renewable robbers" (who's robbing what, and from whom, isn't clear 🤷‍♀️).

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An orange sunset silhouette of an offshore oil rig. Text: "The system is rigged. 5 ways federal policy favors fossil fuels over clean energy." CAP logo at the bottom.

Fossil fuel subsidies don't lower your energy bills—they pad Big Oil's profits. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-government-rigs-the-market-in-favor-of-fossil-fuels/

SCOTUS will hear Exxon’s effort to crush climate lawsuits Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.

SCOTUS will hear Exxon’s latest bid to crush climate lawsuits, with Justice Alito participating despite owning fossil fuel stocks that could be affected by the outcome.

Learn more via @emdashsanders.bsky.social's piece for ExxonKnews

The President Is Putting Oil First and America Last Instead, the government should be coming up with reforms that deliver projects—such as clean energy and infrastructure—that actually make life better for people and communities.

🛢️ The president keeps talking about “America first” while current U.S. energy policy props up fossil fuels and blocks the cheaper, cleaner options Americans want.

In reality, that means putting oil interests first and America last.

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AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle As a data centre construction boom sweeps the UK, creating soaring electricity demands that threaten to decimate climate targets, opportunist politicians and commentators are using this new…

New from @desmog.com: AI vs. Net Zero

Opponents of climate action are seizing on the AI boom to attack the UK government’s clean energy goals and push more fossil fuels.

The public deserves safety, transparency & accountability from Big Tech.

After the 2025 Iberian blackout, climate disinfo blaming renewables surged again.

Now Spain & the EU are treating climate not just as an environmental crisis, but as an information crisis too.

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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.

🗑️ 20,0000 AI-generated “grassroots” emails just helped kill a key clean air vote in Southern California, blocking rules that would have cut pollution from gas appliances.

“What we’re seeing with AI is absolutely the next step in digital astroturfing"

via @latimes.com

US supreme court takes up fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case Judgment in city of Boulder’s lawsuit against Suncor Energy USA and ExxonMobil could affect wave of climate litigation

⚖️ The US supreme court has agreed to hear Exxon and Suncor’s bid to shut down Boulder’s climate lawsuit.

This is a case that could shape whether communities can hold Big Oil accountable for decades of climate deception and local damage.