Joey Grostern
@joeygrostern.bsky.social
Investigative Climate Journalist @desmog.com in Berlin + working with Deutsche Welle and Clean Energy Wire
All my posts are very serious and important
All my posts are very serious and important
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Joey Grostern
@joeygrostern.bsky.social
· Nov 11
'If only there was a starter pack for DeSmog staff and contributors' I hear you say? Look no further go.bsky.app/B4wsEGy
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
*Car brain*
Not drivers queuing up in a new widened bike lane in Central Berlin
I left a rental bike in their way to get these people to _not drive in the bike lane_
But this is someone *getting out of their car to move a parked bike so they could drive in the bike lane*
Ahhh!! Schämt euch
Not drivers queuing up in a new widened bike lane in Central Berlin
I left a rental bike in their way to get these people to _not drive in the bike lane_
But this is someone *getting out of their car to move a parked bike so they could drive in the bike lane*
Ahhh!! Schämt euch
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
*Car brain*
Not drivers queuing up in a new widened bike lane in Central Berlin
I left a rental bike in their way to get these people to _not drive in the bike lane_
But this is someone *getting out of their car to move a parked bike so they could drive in the bike lane*
Ahhh!! Schämt euch
Not drivers queuing up in a new widened bike lane in Central Berlin
I left a rental bike in their way to get these people to _not drive in the bike lane_
But this is someone *getting out of their car to move a parked bike so they could drive in the bike lane*
Ahhh!! Schämt euch
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
Poetry 1 - 0 AI safety
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Poetry 1 - 0 AI safety
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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the real abundance agenda is to give up
Australia's opposition party just dropped its target to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, specifically citing the 'abundance agenda'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the real abundance agenda is to give up
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”
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"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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🔴 NEW - ‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood
YouTube and TikTok amplified disinformation that “sowed confusion” during the worst flood in Spain’s history, according to a new report. A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours on Valencia in ...
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🔴 NEW - ‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
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Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
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🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.
Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait.
It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.
As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”
But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.
As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”
But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
The political entertainment industry
📝 A guest essay...
writesbright.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government.
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
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He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
The Labour MP Rubbing Shoulders With the Far-Right
Labour is facing pressure after one of its MPs joined forces with a far-right group in attacking the party, DeSmog can reveal. Over recent months, Graham Stringer – who has been the MP for Blackley, M...
www.desmog.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government.
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
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What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
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How about we shift from centre-right dweebs dishonestly trying to reframe our intentions and towards actually being honest with people about how renewable energy only makes your bills cheaper, cuts air pollution and cuts greenhouse gases if politicians actually directly tackle corporate power
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
How about we shift from centre-right dweebs dishonestly trying to reframe our intentions and towards actually being honest with people about how renewable energy only makes your bills cheaper, cuts air pollution and cuts greenhouse gases if politicians actually directly tackle corporate power
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JP Morgan, comfortably in the top 3 funders of fossil fuel infrastructure on the planet and packed with some of the richest humans alive, says that all we can do is energy addition and that there's no way to transition away from fossil fuels.
They push fatalism and powerlessness for a reason folks
They push fatalism and powerlessness for a reason folks
August 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
JP Morgan, comfortably in the top 3 funders of fossil fuel infrastructure on the planet and packed with some of the richest humans alive, says that all we can do is energy addition and that there's no way to transition away from fossil fuels.
They push fatalism and powerlessness for a reason folks
They push fatalism and powerlessness for a reason folks
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Most of Westminster is still on X.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Most of Westminster is still on X.
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A machine that produces the aesthetic quality of the words of science and research with none of the human effort, accuracy, or investigation is fundamentally just automated pseudoscience
So.........it makes sense the most eager adopters are the keenest liars
So.........it makes sense the most eager adopters are the keenest liars
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm
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A conservation charity known for its anti-renewables stance has made submissions to federal and state inquiries that name non-existent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm, and cite scientific articles that the supposed publisher says don’t exist, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
Two US-based academics and experts said Rainforest Reserves Australia’s (RRA) claims in submissions about their work were “100% misleading” and “absurd”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A machine that produces the aesthetic quality of the words of science and research with none of the human effort, accuracy, or investigation is fundamentally just automated pseudoscience
So.........it makes sense the most eager adopters are the keenest liars
So.........it makes sense the most eager adopters are the keenest liars