Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co

Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability

Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/

Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.

If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
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Please stop using it unless your goal is PR assistance for one of the richest companies on the planet šŸ˜­
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Nvidia made up the phrase "AI factory" last year to give hollow, jobless data centres pumping out soul-crushing digital bloat the fake vibe of steaming industrial production and thousands of blue-collar workers building real, useful things
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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social
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"Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications."

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2026/04/11/exclusive-former-anu-vc-accused-serious-misconduct
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HECTOR LIVES
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DeSmog @desmog.com
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šŸ“ NEW šŸ“ ā€œFossi" is a new childrenā€™s book character who reframes fossil fuels as unfairly blamed. But critics arenā€™t buying it: ā€œThe idea that fossil fuels are the ā€˜newā€™ kid deserving of sympathy is almost laughable." buff.ly/JcqgrNg
#BaseloadCapital @TJjordan.bsky.social #fossilfuels
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French friends: this is v good right?
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu
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The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:

- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030
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Bell could've just spent the last five years cruising through answering hollow questions about AI for media and setting up over-funded institutes

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2026/04/11/exclusive-former-anu-vc-accused-serious-misconduct
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Imagine the poll that asks: "Do you want more renewables, even if that means your bills go down?" (I imagine editors did imagine what those responses would say, and that's why they chose the lie, instead).

www.politico.eu/article/poll-europeans-back-renewables-despite-higher-energy-costs/?reg-wall=true
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One day, in the distant future, we will see a poll that actually reflects what happens when renewables are built (power bills go down). *EVERY* poll currently adopts a brazen lie in question framing, for shamelessly ideological reasons.
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imagine how much fun local papers are going to have when a neighbour named David stands up to oppose this project
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"For every $100 in hyperscale data centre investment, Australiaā€™s direct take as it stands currently is painfully thin. The way it shakes out, we get $10 to $15 retained, modest tax income and a handful of jobs"

www.smh.com.au/technology/for-every-100-in-data-centres-80-leaves-australia-almost-immediately-20260331-p5zkb5.html
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social
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Trumpā€™s energy strategy, in a nutshell:

āœ… Block cheaper clean energy
āœ… Subsidize failing coal plants
āœ… Stick taxpayers with the bill

In other words: higher costs, dirtier air, and more preventable deaths.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org
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Trumpā€™s use of a WWII-era power to prop up coal is ā€œillegalā€ according to one expert, and it also makes electricity more expensive.
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Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social
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talking w @eroston.bsky.social for this article was fun bc it combined my two special interests: climate and what markets are good (bad) at. but I definitely didn't supply the best quote:

šŸŽ: Do Weather Prediction Markets Work

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/what-are-weather-prediction-markets-and-do-they-work?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NTgyNDM3NiwiZXhwIjoxNzc2NDI5MTc2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURDlLTzZLSUpISUQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxOUMyQjJBQkI3NjY0MDQxQTA4OTFEODhFQkE0MEQxMiJ9.jwTN50kpA5s7ZAki1xdojr7xsX5X46qWHd7gh8biByo
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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social
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Much of oil and gas pollution is invisible without an optical gas imaging camera. This is how the industry gets away with claiming its methane emissions aren't a problem.

They are.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social
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This story was long-coming, and I learned so much from the experts who offered their time to talk about the ins and outs of America's bedrock environmental law, and to envision what revitalizing NEPA would require.

Thanks to @prospect.org for including in their April issue alongside the very best.
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But some costs of fossil fuels definitely DO show up in electricity bills, namely the costs of infrastructure repairs after extreme weather, which get passed on to ratepayers.

(This is one reason electricity is relatively expensive in CAā€”repeated wildfires.)

The AI hides these & thatā€™s bad.

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Once again the AI summary, this tine at the top of a @bloomberg.com piece, spreads misinformation by getting things wrong.

On the left: a professor says, essentially, that SOME costs of fossil fuels donā€™t show up in electricity bills.

On the right: the AI says that THE costs donā€™t show up.

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This is way before we even get into the fact that it is *harder* to add load from electrified transport, homes, industry if supply chains, connections, cash and political capital are all being carpet bombed by sloppy data centre projects
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Jon HernƦs @jonher.bsky.social
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Haha! Dagens heltšŸ¤£
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Another warm congraulations to every person who has fought to delay, kill and weaken climate policies to gradually reduce fossil fuel reliance, over the past few decades.

Now you get to experience sudden, unplanned, unfair and painful fossil fuel restrictions instead.

www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/2026-energy-crisis-policy-response-tracker
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If enviro / climate groups were universally and ideologically opposed to any sort of load growth they'd..................hate renewables and electrification?

But....they do not hate those things???
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Data centres are the opposite.

It's sudden, unregulated (and even fast-tracked), concentrated and acute, it essentially universally increases fossil fuel use, it tends to contribute to rising power bills, and the products are used to make everything we value worse (as GenAI degrades all digital)
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Electrification is gradual, controlled, geographically dispersed and, more important than all of these things: brings about economy-wide emissions reductions and cost-of-living reductions. The energy products are used for things we value: moving around, keeping warm, cooking food, making products.
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Something I find increasingly frustrating is this idea that all forms of load growth are identical. I really don't think they are.

www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-circuit-have-we-run-out-of-big-ideas-to-fix-the-grid/
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the most remarkable thing about the Claude Mythos marketing is that OpenAI did exactly the same thing in 2019

www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction
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Still waiting for AI to cure cancer šŸ« 

archive.ph/wip/pmMDq
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Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have announced a "Click to Cancel" rule.

The rule would make NYC the first city in the nation to ban subscription traps and force companies to make it just as easy to cancel subscriptions as it is to enroll.
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Yeah, well *I'm* fed up with politicians who took until 2026 to realize an energy system which relies on constant extraction of resources sets you up for this very thing to happen one day.

Alternatives are here! We've been talking about them for decades now!

It's not that complicated!
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