Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago. Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?” But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth. You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars. Capitalism is fucked

Safe to say, socialism has been the answer since at least 2016...

"Turn the Volume Up" 🙌

Look, not saying its the wrong thing to do in this moment, but its not a greater indication of the health of American democracy...

wtf Staten Island.

Fuck Yeah!

wtf does 'salutation-focused' mean?

A new edition of the UNEP's Emissions Gap Report is out. It shows countries making little progress in ramping up ambition, and the very low likelihood of current commitments limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. We're probably avoiding 3 degrees, but there's much more to do. www.unep.org/resources/em...

Ok, NYC. Don’t fuck it up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

This 'free solar hours' announcement is smart politics, associating free electricity with renewables. It's also reflects the real market, with wholesale electricity prices dropping below zero every day this week in NSW and QLD during the solar peak. explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nsw1/...

A member of the Senior Executive Services (SES, i.e. a senior public servant) within the climate and environment department accepted a gift ticket from Woodside to attend an industry conference. Question is why even accept this when tickets were just $150. Conflicts of interest come pretty cheap.

Can you help raise funds for the RSPCA NSW? I'm hoping to raise $3,500 as part of my plan to take on the Sydney Marathon next year - using it as a good excuse to support good causes. I'd love any support you might be able to give! sm26.grassrootz.com/rspcansw/mic...

I know this type of analysis clichéd, but imagine how the optics of renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold, while wanting to withhold food stamps, would play out for anyone other than Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

There’s a non-zero chance that by 2029, that Plaid Cymru could control the Welsh Senedd while Nigel Farage is the British PM, and the only logical way forward is Welsh independence.

The 76ers are a perpetual bin fire, but, in back-to-back drafts, have somehow selected players who could very easily be/have been the rookie of the year.

Hey Sydneysiders, and others in the line of fire for today's epic heat: Please don't fuck about. - Drink plenty (not booze). - Cancel your outside plans. - Dress appropriately. - Hot weather kills even healthy people. Don't be one of them.

"The gas and oil lobby is just the latest beneficiary of EY’s ability to find whatever answer its clients are after." Piece in the AFR citing analysis, commissioned by Climate Integrity, of EY's gas market 'modelling'. www.afr.com/rear-window/...

The Sydney edition of the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge has been cancelled due to forecast extreme weather…

The JP Morgan Corporate Challenge (a fun run for corporate types) is planned for Sydney tomorrow. I think the climate might be about to deliver some karma for some participants…

Very excited to be starting today as the new Head of Corporate Accountability with Climate Integrity. There's no better time to be doubling efforts championing the climate and pushing our biggest companies to ramp up their ambitions and integrity in climate committments. climateintegrity.org.au

We are living in a very strange timeline.

Just a reminder that no one needs to eulogise Barnaby Joyce’s political career. As a politician he took way more than he gave back in terms of public service, he undermined his colleagues and his private life was a shambles. His only real material achievement was somehow getting re-elected.

The holiest of miracles. He is risen!

Admitted as a lawyer today! More exciting climate-related career updates coming soon.

Climate attribution science is destroying the ‘drop in the ocean’ defence fossil fuel companies have relied upon to obfuscate the harms caused by individual coal, gas and oil projects. It’s also a potential pathway for holding them legally liable for climate damages.

“it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter.” theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

"The so-called 'independent research' gives vested interests a veil of credibility, which they exploit to lobby parliamentarians and the broader public, distorting the framing of policy debates" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ACT went first and fastest to 100 per cent renewables: It now looks like the smartest policy of all reneweconomy.com.au/act-went-fir...

It’s just magic pudding fossil fuel projects, whereby no project ever causes climate change.

I’m keen to chat to people in Australia working on climate attribution science and economics. Particularly, the quantification of climate losses and linking to specific sources of emissions. Can anyone point me in the direction of anyone doing this work in Australia?

The 'statement of reasons' given by enviro minister Murray Watt approving the North West Shelf gas project extension contains some astonishing mental gymnastics. He assumes the same level of emissions could occur even if the project didn't proceed epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/_entity/shar...

I can guarantee you this was not the first time, nor the last time, government data has been fed into ChatGPT. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

One Battle After Another is an excellent movie and it is wild that it was filmed in the first half of 2024.

Robbins Island wind farm is one project, that doesn’t need to be built where it is. But, Australia is a big country with plenty of places to build wind and solar without compromising high value biodiversity sites.

This is not Larissa Waters’ best interview. #Insiders

Would be nice to live in a timeline where it was possible to state that there was zero possibility for Donald Trump and Nigel Farage to be the leaders of their respective countries in 2029. Because it’s certainly not this one.

Dude complains about the cost of milk at a CVS in Manhattan, and then claims NYC has lost its touch compared to Sydney. Also, Sydney’s trains might be new and shiny, but at least the NY subway keeps running when it rains… www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...

I don’t think that’s a metaphor. It’s hard to think of more literal diplomatic isolation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

Just an absolute peak Canberra day today.

Happy Sydney Marathon ballot entry day.

jfk, these people... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

lmao www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The disturbing thing about the collapse of American democracy is how quickly some companies and institutions like Universities have fallen over themselves to facilitate it. Preemptive obedience is just a shortcut to authoritarianism, not a way to avoid it.

The new emissions target, when framed as an additional reduction of 19 to 27 per cent between 2030 and 2035 is laughably vague. The range is so wide, it renders it a bit meaningless for giving a policy or investment signal (other than the minimum needed to meet the bottom end of the target).

Just a reminder that the federal court recently found the Australian government has a track record of failing to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the best available science.

So the report (which Bowen didn’t write) is ‘out of the playbook’ of… conservative political leaders? Like John Howard and Scott Morrison?

News Corp machine in overdrive, trying to diminish the National Climate Risk Assessment

Just a little observation that the metadata on the website for the National Climate Risk Assessment shows the report was uploaded on Thursday last week, but effectively withheld from public visibility until today.

It also received advice from the Climate Change Authority on what the 2035 target should be on the same day.