Investigative climate and tech reporter @desmog.com. Words in the Guardian, DeSmog, and the Nerve, among others.
Rei Takver
Congrats everyone: thanks to the AI boom, the US is now investing more in fossil fuel power than China, a country with four times the population.
Last night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer.
I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem.
Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
Turns out, when you delightedly tell people you're going to force something on them that will take their job, destroy their future, and ruin the environment, they ... don't like it?
God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.
Welsh Reform labelled "a retirement home for failed Conservatives", with two thirds of cabinet being ex-Tories.
By @adambarnett.bsky.social for @desmog.com
The New York Times is hiring another climate policy reporter. Come work with me! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the IEA
"fewer people believe it now than when the same question was asked in 2019 and 2022"
🤔 I wonder if this has anything to do with this travesty?
##EndClimateSilence
Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Rei Takver
TikTok may have pledged to tackle climate misinformation on its platform in 2023, but earlier this month the company sponsored the annual meeting of the right-wing Canada Strong and Free Network that featured multiple climate deniers as speakers.
By @rtakver.bsky.social at @desmog.com:
My dearest friend, one of the strongest women I ever met, wrote one of the most beautiful poems I ever read. Please have a look and share.
By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation
The majority of Reform UK’s shadow cabinet in Wales is made up of former Conservative Party politicians, including its leader, chief whip, and shadow economy minister, DeSmog can reveal. Nigel Farage’...
"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months"
lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...
Last night, doctors told me I very likely have late stage ovarian cancer.
I am 39. In the waiting room at the hospital, as I awaited that moment, I wrote this poem.
Whoever you are, wherever you read this - live your life. In all its glory. In all its pain. Live it. It is everything.
A new Heatmap Pro poll shows a rapid shift in public opinion since last fall.
