Although media interest in climate change is crashing, apparently lots of people still want governments to act.
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Bloomberg Net Zero Obituary: “Even at the peak of its popularity, net zero looked far-fetched”
Bloomberg was until recently Net Zero’s chief champion. But now it was always obvious that Net Zero ambitions were not grounded in reality.
United Nations Launches New IPCC for Artificial Intelligence, Bernie Sanders Issues Dire Warnings
Out with the old scare, in with the new.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Climate Action is Like Preventative Cancer Surgery
Sabine Hossenfelder is a high profile science influencer. I’m a fan – except for her misconceptions about climate change.
FOE Accuses Big Tech of Lying about the Climate Benefits of AI
But who is the real target audience of big tech climate propaganda?
Claim: AI and Air Conditioning are Threatening Renewable Energy Dominance
“… Achieving a genuine and sustained global-scale energy transition … requires greater emphasis on reducing energy demand …”
Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur: Powering Data Centers with Renewables is “Against Physics”
“Even after 3 or 5 years more innovation?” “It’s against physics”.
Guardian: Fossil Fuel Generators Powering the “Unbelievable” AI Boom are Still “Stranded Assets”
Fumbling the narrative: “if there’s a huge source of energy demand that wants to grow, it will land on these stranded fossil fuel assets.”
Trump Shook Up Energy Policy In 2025. Disaster Could Still Strike In 2026
Though the second Trump administration has pivoted from the Biden administration’s aggressive and climate-centric policies, Americans could still face a year of rising electricity costs and potential energy bottlenecks in…
CFACT comments on using AI to understand big bodies of research
The singular ability of language and reasoning models to analyze huge bodies of technical information opens up new ways to understand and advance research.
Could the AI Dash for Gas Energy Boom Actually Be an Underestimate?
Researchers have discovered trying to make AI reason like humans leads to between a 30x to 700x rise in energy consumption.
Aussie Climate Scientists Demand Their Own Energy Guzzling Supercomputer
… making good decisions about Australia’s future requires us to be self-sufficient …
Google’s Wild Plan for “Sustainable” Orbital Data Centers
Sadly they decided to call the project “Suncatcher” rather than “Skynet”.
AI is Killing Australia’s CO2 Emission Plans
A surge in data center demand is forcing politicians to revise energy transition roadmaps.
Fear of AI Beats Climate Change in Aussie Poll
Aussies are more worried their toaster will become self aware than they are worried about climate change.
As China launches an AI Manhattan Project, US AI Support is buckling under High Energy Prices
“… While American AI researchers struggle with a fragile power grid, Chinese developers now treat energy availability as a solved problem. …”
OpenAI Urges US Government to Fund 100GW of New Energy Per Year to Beat China
“… China is outstripping America in constructing new capacity, adding 429 GW in 2024 compared with just 51 GW achieved by the land of the free. …”
Nuclear Fusion: Big AI’s Fig Leaf to Cover their Fossil Fuel Energy Splurge?
Don’t pay attention to all the fossil fuel, that’s just a stepping stone to our glorious AI enabled green energy future.
Aussie AI Industry Demands Subsidies for Unspecified Reasons
… The tech industry has been pushing the government to … subsidise AI processing power through multi-billion dollar deals …