With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

Imagine if we thought about stopping burning fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy instead? Imagine if we invested in tackling the climate crisis, better cyber security and better resilience towards future pandemics. We can do all of these things - we just need the right people in charge.

Look at all that farmland going to waste for the sake of renewables what a disgrace!! #auspol #renewables

The annual event is an opportunity to honour one of the world’s oldest continuing cultures, but its origins are in Australia’s first civil rights movements.

“forensic account of how the Murdoch empire bullies, intimidates and destroys individual citizens and governments” theconversation.com/getting-murd...

Albanese Government rejects majority of major UN human rights review's recommendations ->Human Rights Law Centre | More on "Albanese government UN human rights" at BigEarthData.ai | #human rights

“BP sought out researchers who were already thinking about how to address climate change without replacing fossil fuels”

"For a generation, people learning how to address global warming were taught the ideas in the “Wedges” paper. What they didn’t learn was this: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by the British oil giant BP — one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."

Ten Australians harmed by the climate crisis have filed a human rights case with the United Nations over Australia's coal and gas exports. They are represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, Environmental Justice Australia, and Earthjustice.

This is well worth reading redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/one-nation...

💚 Australia 🇦🇺 now has more battery storage per person than any other country. Why? Because it paired rooftop solar with policies that helped households install batteries at scale. The lesson is simple: when governments create the right incentives, clean technology can move remarkably fast. 🇦🇺🔋

“A report by..economist Saul Eslake backed Marinus Link as an investment in the national interest that will boost TAS energy sector development. It follows a report..which concluded business case..appears increasingly unviable due to tech & market developments” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

"Bonn: hot-takes...progress on fossil phaseout roadmaps (see Brazil’s presentation on this in Bonn here) look like the two big ticket items for COP31...may bypass an awkward consensus scrap and land in the ‘Action Agenda’ COP slot." @ed-king.bsky.social climatediplobrief.substack.com/p/climate-di...

NEW – Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/uLCxTxN

The fact that there was a 'Defend the Science: Friends of Science Press Conference' at the Bonn Climate meeting is utterly embarrassing, in 2026 we're still at square one, the process is broken - captured by fossil fuel interests www.climatechangenews.com/2026/06/17/s...

📣 The #JuneClimateMeetings ended yesterday, amid growing concerns over the ability of the United Nations climate process to deliver the scale and speed of action required by the climate crisis. Read our closing statement: www.ciel.org/news/june-cl... A 🧵

"Saudi Arabia and India were among those “undermining” climate science," from the latest mid-year UN climate conferences held in Bonn - there needs to be drastic changes otherwise the next COP is going to be another dead end

To write this without mentioning racism is a journalistic failure…also who is the audience for this?

“Waters... says her leadership style is more collaborative than the presidential style amplified in the media” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

"Another land mine is the perennial Saudi insistence that fossil-fuel-producing countries should be compensated for lost revenue resulting from climate action." I'm hoping they don't misuse the new Belém Action Mechanism - just transition for that, a tool of delay www.eenews.net/articles/oil...

With all the hand-wringing over Hanson and her "mystery" rise, it's worth remembering Nine secretly flew her to clamber all over Uluru (with disgraced chief-of-staff Ashby). Nine then labeled it a "social division" - a "culture war" that had "divided the nation"... theklaxon.com.au/ulurustitch-...

UK’s Future PM "a newly “open mind” on further drilling for North Sea oil and gas." "Burnham has been a member of Labour Friends of Israel since 2015" "vote for the Iraq war – and twice against an inquiry" "he will back home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s draconian immigration reforms"

“Fossil fuel interests influence UNFCCC decision-making at multiple levels. They shaped the UNFCCC’s founding framework, embedding rules that allow individual countries to block progress.” www.transparency.org/en/press/fos...

Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.

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“trickle-down abundance” Citations Needed: Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics, 18 Jun 2026 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...

Could Gina Rinehart go back to Singapore where she has RESIDENCY for tax purposes! #auspol

China released white paper on global governance english.scio.gov.cn/m/whitepapers/2026-06/17/content_118552858.html “Unilateralism and hegemonism cause only grave harm, openly trampling upon international law and the basic norms governing international relations”

truly a cursed timeline if this is the top story of the day...

Fafo

The NPC wasn’t bad but I prefer Gina’s poetry tbh

20yr German study of health related qual/life impacts of living within 6km of #WindTurbines finds no effects. N Germany has one of most widespread & dense distrib of turbines anywhere in the world www.nature.com/articles/s41... @cleanenergycouncil.bsky.social @simonahac.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co

If there was any mistaken One Nation's core program, it's this from Hanson: "No more wind turbines to be put in. That will be scrapped. No more solar panels on agricultural land? Gone. Put it up on your roofs? I don't care. Coal-fired power stations. Yes."

Did any journalists bring up the fact that Hanson has been found by the Federal Court to have engaged in unlawful racial discrimination? Seems salient considering a speech railing against immigrants and muslims #npc

‘One Nation has promised to withdraw Australia from the World Health Organization and to scrap regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration, rolling its “essential functions” into the health department.’ One Nation has the same brain worm as RFK Jnr #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

15-minute city conspiracy theory BS did real harm...👇 How a planning buzzword turned into backlash www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/16/n... via @nationalobserver.com "Anti-vaxx and right-wing social media channels spread the conspiracy theory to Canada..." The tyranny of walkability!

Telegraph: ‘the Young Hot Bloods: the secret terrorist wing of the suffragettes’ www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politi... Guardian: ‘We have sanitised our history of the suffragettes’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... BBC: the actress who became a terrorist www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories...

800 MW... reneweconomy.com.au/ai-giant-cho...

Hasan Piker saying the Australia beating Turkey 2-0 at World Cup was “that was revenge for gallipoli” 😆…is it worth watching??

Can’t wait for AI bubble to burst

Today is #WorldWindDay, and so a good time to remember that no one ever went to war over wind! ⁣ It's cleaner, it's cheaper and it will never get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz. Time for an #EnergyRevolution! ⁣

We've got lots of great resources on how #CommunityEnergy and Local Authorities can work together on our website here: communityenergyengland.org/guidance/how...

The world’s largest deforestation project is happening right now in West Papua. A documentary exposing it just exploded online with 13 million views. The forests are disappearing. The Indigenous people are still there. For now.

100% support this letter. It raises an interesting question. How exactly *do* we make 2026 Europe's last energy crisis?

You know, and this is only one example from an even worse litany, but if the media spent less time analysing the polls around One Nation and quite a bit more time analysing their lack of policies, candidates and credibility, this country might be a bit better off.

On #Facebook, western Victoria is nothing but a hotbed of anti-renewables #activism, but there are new efforts to unite #farmers and #developers to a single cause.. https://reneweconomy.com.au/from-wool-to-cropping-to-solar-how-renewable-energy-can-grow-the-agricultural-pie/

Three Renewable Energy Zones have been finalised for western Victoria, where are they? www.westvicbrolga.com.au/p/west-vic-r...

You don't often see this many organisations together! A LOT of people are very unhappy.

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!