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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co |
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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: tinyurl.com/3jk8zrt8
ketanjoshi.co/ ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
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Ketan Joshi
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I really can't begin to describe the despair and disappointment when my friends and fellow climate folks have justified keeping X alive through their presence because "that's where the audience is" like - that is true, but that is the exact reason you need to stop being the audience!
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Ketan Joshi
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In Norway you have to write a 2,000 word essay explaining the importance of this video for the citizenship test
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuu...
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Ketan Joshi
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Never stops making me mad every time I see it: if we had begun the process of eliminating fossil fuels in the 1990s, it would've been a relatively shallow curve. Climate deniers and delayers have put us in a position where the same temp limits require a cliff-like drop in emissions.
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isaac
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ICYMI (i did): Between the gratuities case (Snyder v U.S.) and the homelessness case (Grants Pass v. Johnson) was this case where far right attorneys general blocked EPA rules limiting ozone pollution (Ohio v. EPA) saying EPA used a “dictatorial approach”: www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supr...
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Ketan Joshi
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We Are Lady Parts season 1 was v v good but somehow season 2 is just incredible. Please make sure you give it a go (and stream it legally if you can so they get their numbers up!!)
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Ketan Joshi
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Just adding a negative reply here to muck with your dataset: Katharine I think that the recent realistic version of the Lion King should never have been made. Sequels are fine but it should've been the 'cartoon CGI' style of Madagascar or Happy Feet.
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Lloyd Alter
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I keep slinking back to look at Twitter, thinking I need the exposure and I should stop; it is a sewer.
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Ketan Joshi
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"The other curious omission in the research paper of course is that Google itself is one of the major companies rapidly developing and deploying generative...tools that cause harm" Google's new paper shows that harm is a feature, not a bug, of generative software (doesn't stop 'em pushing it tho)
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Ketan Joshi
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this post is nothing more than a big hug for all my american friends going through an absolute shitball of a time right now
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Ketan Joshi
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omg K how did I miss this whole thread!! Fantastic analysis. Will share it around with colleagues and friends. Every time I have a dark little moment of 'hmm maybe I should give X another go' I spend even a brief moment lurking there and it is SO dark
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Katharine Hayhoe
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I already invite people on X to join us here weekly. But thanks to this analysis, I've decided to re-create my "scientists who do climate" list here this summer, and manually invite each of the 3,000 members on X to join us. If you're still on X, pls consider inviting your followers to join us too!
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Since I had such a large sample (nearly a hundred), I analyzed X comments by category. 47% said climate wasn't changing, I was lying, ignorant, or not really a scientist 15% said I was in it for the $ 14% were insults Content warning: Please don't read the fine print if you're sensitive.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Normalized responses -- the total number of likes and shares, divided by number of followers -- were highest here (yay!) and lowest on X.
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Ketan Joshi
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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
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www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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Zeke Hausfather
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Global temperatures were extremely hot in June 2024, at just over 1.5C, beating June 2023's previous record-setting temperatures by 0.14C and coming in around 0.4C warmer than 2016 (the last major El Nino event). Now 2024 is very likely to beat 2023 as the warmest year on record
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David Weiskopf
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"Electrify Everything" is going to be even harder to sell ppl on if the power keeps going out every time the weather sucks and the weather keeps sucking more often and worse.
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Media Matters for America
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Climate Analytics
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Extreme heat and humidity led to the tragic deaths of over 1,300 Hajj pilgrims this year. For the Hajj to remain physically possible during summer, we must adopt effective adaptation measures and move away from fossil fuels, writes Dr Fahad Saeed in our latest blog.
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Ketan Joshi
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One year ago
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Ketan Joshi
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⚠️NEW POST⚠️
Aus' opposition party has been rightly rinsed for planning to drop 2030 targets. If that matters: why doesn't it matter that the gov't will meet its 43% goal using dodgy accounting?
On the real danger that the media narrative of "climate wars" obscures:
ketanjoshi.co/2024/06/16/t...
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Dylan McConnell
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Oh ps - the Department projections have NEM emissions declining ~11.75 million tonnes from FY23 to FY24 ..about a 9.5% reduction. (They were basically flat...)
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Ketan Joshi
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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...
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Ketan Joshi
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Do you want to be a country that stops earning blood money by supplying the cause of disasters, or do you want to be Norway?
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Ketan Joshi
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If the problem with fossil fuel exports is that there aren't enough royalties /taxes on them...... Would you be fine with huge fossil exports if there were huge royalties? What if fossil exports were to crater due to climate action overseas leaving huge holes in state budgets?
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Dylan McConnell
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...This is what it is supposed to do FYI:
bsky.app/profile/dyla...
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Dylan McConnell
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So NEM coal generation for FY24 very slightly up on FY23 😬 (... and also up quite a bit this year calendar year +2.3 TWh c.f. same time last year 🥲) Remnder: supposed to go *down* (and down quite alot - in >10TWh per year, to hit emissions goals etc)
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Ketan Joshi
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For a party obsessed with The Optics.....
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Ketan Joshi
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Ohhhh I thought this was days before not days after!
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luke the myoclonic jerk
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They just come straight out and say it and nobody listens
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Ketan Joshi
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Honestly that seems like a fair projection to have made then
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Ketan Joshi
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"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*
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Ketan Joshi
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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...
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Ketan Joshi
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like when Musk just picked a young climate activist and absolutely sicced his army of abusive, pasty incels on her, there were a bunch of actual climate people (more from the US climate tech space) who actively participated.
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Ketan Joshi
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I wish there were some way to verify this but I am pretttttyyy sure that full-time soaking in what X has become has a very significant impact on people we thought were progressive allies (whether it's changing them or just making them more honest, I guess it doesn't matter that much)
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Ketan Joshi
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astonishingly similar to the trend in Australia, wonder about the same analysis in Norway
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Dr Seán DOOLAN
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A depressing point about the disappearance of climate from the political discussion is the way in which the fossil fuel lobby has bought its way to the fore. 'Environment' probably now appears as water quality, not wider issues.
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Ketan Joshi
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Shout out to Google for optimising the PDF of their new sustainability report (10 MB, 86 pages), relative to the utterly irresponsible netflix (121 MB, 81 pages)
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Ketan Joshi
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To me it's sort of interestingly linked - an illustration of how vital it is to always view the "we should just do the research" calls in the context of where research ends up
This is an example from my alma mater (offsets sold to fossil co's, fossil partners etc)
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
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Ketan Joshi
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Live feed of Occidental Petroleum waiting to buy David Keith's solar geoengineering company so they can do SRM offsets for their new oil and gas sites
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Ketan Joshi
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I guess this is because Shell's CCS facilities are working very well and bringing huge returns to the business
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Ketan Joshi
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'Shell's greenwashing scam was bad because it wasn't profitable enough' is a take
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Moira Birss
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I'm thrilled to share my new LPE blog on insurance, where on take on the prevailing media & policy narrative that the answer to the US's home insurance crisis is protecting insurance companies. Instead, we must focus on ensuring housing safety & affordability.
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Peter
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to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited
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Ketan Joshi
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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...
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Ketan Joshi
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Just quickly translating this pretty misleading graphic into a real-life version of how CCS actually operates
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Ketan Joshi
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Generally pretty good guide from Eurelectric here on protecting biodiversity while siting large-scale wind and solar
(thought does leave the door open for biodiversity offsets - and no, gently asking companies to avoid first offset later won't stop them offsetting first)
powerplant.eurelectric.org
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David Sacerdote
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This is the climate policy we get with a court system invested in a dictatorship of Republicans: the President has total immunity and absolute power...unless he's a Democrat & does something good for the country.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/c...
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Ketan Joshi
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He's been consulting to them for a few decades and they still share / advise. JPM rely heavily on his latest paper for their most recent "aw shucks we just gotta burn it all" content (replete with AI vomit visuals, of course)
privatebank.jpmorgan.com/eur/en/insig...
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