AI Didn't Break the Climate

Climate change did not begin with AI—and neither did data centers.In this episode, Theo and I trace climate science from its nineteenth-century origins to the warning delivered to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. Then we examine U.S. emissions, data-center growth, dirty grids, offshored pollution, and the increasingly convenient habit of treating AI as the new face of an old crisis.Data centers deserve scrutiny, cleaner power, and responsible regulation. But AI should answer for its own footprint—not for 60 years of governmental cowardice.Support unbanked/underbanked regions of the world by joining the "at home in my head" Kiva team at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kiva.org/team/at_home_in_my_head⁠⁠ Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tracie-harris ⁠⁠Youtube:⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoS6H2R1Or4MtabrkofdOMw⁠⁠ Bluesky: ⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/athomeinmyhead.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Paypal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://paypal.me/athomeinmyhead⁠⁠RecommendedSOURCES: EARLY CLIMATE SCIENCEhttps://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/papers/Fourier1827Trans.pdfhttps://ocean.phys.msu.ru/courses/geo/lectures-addons/_/04/1999%20Fleming%2C%20Joseph%20Fourier%2C%20the%20greenhouse%20effect%2C%20and%20the%20quest%20for%20a%20universal%20theory%20of%20terrestrial%20temperatures.pdfhttps://history.aip.org/https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/who-discovered-greenhouse-effecthttps://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htmhttps://tellusjournal.org/articles/10.3402/tellusa.v9i1.9075https://amu.hal.science/hal-01467258THE 1965 U.S. WARNINGhttps://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/text/special-message-congress-conservation-restoration-natural-beauty-02-08-1965https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/31937-document-2-white-house-report-restoring-quality-our-environment-report-environmentalU.S. EMISSIONS AND CLIMATE POLICYhttps://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocolhttps://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinkshttps://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-stateshttps://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/energy-and-the-environment/where-greenhouse-gases-come-from.phphttps://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/population-growth-slows.htmlCONSUMPTION AND ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINThttps://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/how-many-earths-or-countries-do-we-need/https://footprintnetwork.org/DATA CENTERS, ENERGY, AND COALhttps://www.ibm.com/think/topics/data-centershttps://datacenters.google/locations/the-dalles-oregon/https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summaryhttps://www.noaa.gov/news/us-saw-its-4th-warmest-year-on-record-fueled-by-record-warm-decemberhttps://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2021/executive-summaryMusic Credit: “Wishful Thinking” – Dan Lebowitz: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOg3...A Silicon-Carbon Collaboration.