Duncan McLaren
@duncanmclaren.bsky.social
Independent Researcher, previously #UCLA, #Lancaster, climate politics, climate geoengineering, environmental justice.
Reposted by Duncan McLaren
This is a really good @desmog.com post on this topic btw, featuring a bunch of friendly norwegian fossil fuel people
www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.
www.desmog.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is a really good @desmog.com post on this topic btw, featuring a bunch of friendly norwegian fossil fuel people
www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Thanks for highlighting the source. Nature should be ashamed to publish this hype-ridden excuse for analysis. The first test of any evaluation of AI is if it defines what it includes in that term. This fails…
August 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Thanks for highlighting the source. Nature should be ashamed to publish this hype-ridden excuse for analysis. The first test of any evaluation of AI is if it defines what it includes in that term. This fails…
Revealed preference WITHIN a system predicated on growing consumption, that is, amongst those lacking agency to change the system…
May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Revealed preference WITHIN a system predicated on growing consumption, that is, amongst those lacking agency to change the system…
I thought that was the mainstream, conventional interpretation not an “interesting take” …
March 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I thought that was the mainstream, conventional interpretation not an “interesting take” …
Having said that, funding CDR development through offsets is a fool’s errand, resulting directly in mitigation deterrence, and sustaining counterproductive market ideologies in climate policy.
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Having said that, funding CDR development through offsets is a fool’s errand, resulting directly in mitigation deterrence, and sustaining counterproductive market ideologies in climate policy.
Not quite. Removal offsets could exist only for genuinely impossible to abate emissions. At the same time, taking net-zero seriously, with all possible-to-abate emissions eliminated, there could be no avoidance offsets (as no one would have further cuts they could make to generate credits).
March 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Not quite. Removal offsets could exist only for genuinely impossible to abate emissions. At the same time, taking net-zero seriously, with all possible-to-abate emissions eliminated, there could be no avoidance offsets (as no one would have further cuts they could make to generate credits).
With Kevin Surprise, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, @inamoller.bsky.social, JP Sapinsky and @doreenstabinsky.bsky.social I warned about such profit oriented geoengineering recently ...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Profit-seeking solar geoengineering exemplifies broader risks of market-based climate governance
Despite uncertainties about its feasibility and desirability, start-up companies seeking to profit from solar geoengineering have begun to emerge. One…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
With Kevin Surprise, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, @inamoller.bsky.social, JP Sapinsky and @doreenstabinsky.bsky.social I warned about such profit oriented geoengineering recently ...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...