Fri 5 Sep: not content with just approving Woodside's North West Shelf Extension, Environment Minister Watt has approved his 1st coalmine extension Glencore's Ulan coalmine makes it 32🤯 new/extension approvals (& counting) Slow 👏 #LaborClimateAction #LaborValues

Wildfires have claimed 14 lives near Turkey's fourth largest city as a record 50°C heatwave grips the country.

"In 2029, The choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism. Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It's time the rest of us had one." www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up talking wealth australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-ric...

Voting in the Senate in Victoria? Keep numbering till you get to at least 11 to ensure you’ve numbered the smaller parties competing for the sixth senate seat with One Nation. Many how-to-vote cards suggest only six. But that’s a minimum not a maximum. Visit VoteClimate.net.au for other states.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

This from @kevinclimate.bsky.social was, according to the senior editor at The Conversation, "too polemical." I don't know about you, but I see a piece that's forthright but transparently referenced, and critical of the status quo. Maybe the latter is the nub of it. climateuncensored.com/1485-2/

Lighter Footprints, ACF Boroondara and KCCA have been campaigning for nature and climate for over a decade. People have been becoming more worried about global heating, and this has correlated with a change in voting patterns, moving towards voting for stronger climate action. #KooyongVotes #auspol

Community members gathered in Coburg to kick of their #Willsvotes campaign for #climateaction: It’s time for the Fed govt to rule out new coal & gas projects! #NoMoreCoal #NoMoreGas #Auspol

Labor has done a deal with the Coalition to kill off challenges by independents and smaller parties. Watch this video by @TheAusInstitute. youtu.be/ZnfPBMM7xhU?... The federal election will be the last under the old rules. It’s time to vote in as many independents and smaller parties as possible.

gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics. I'm not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data. I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation. In remembrance:

Your 'Arctic weather forecast' for today: Mostly f&%ked with regional extreme f&%kery, widespread sea-ice melting, and some locations exceeding 28°C (50°F) above average.

Will climate collapse insurance costs crash the US economy? the Australian economy? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

The visual definition of a truly timeless cartoon

"The mission of Australian think tanks should be to give frank and fearless advice that challenges government policy. That goal is jeopardised when think tanks rely on government funding." #auspol

Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky

Last year was likely the hottest year in the last 120,000+ years on this planet. Human civilization has never existed in conditions like these, and the f&%kery is just getting started. The tragedy is not the loss of human civilization, it's what humans are doing to everything else.

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:

California’s fire season has lengthened considerably in a warming climate, which has increased the overlap between “critically dry vegetation season” and the Santa Ana “offshore wind season” (Oct-Jan). A hotter climate also dries out vegetation. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

LAUNCHED‼️#DadvsAdani doco by renowned Indian journalist @Paranjoygt. It features Ben Pennings’ historic Supreme Court case and the whole #StopAdani movement ✊🏽 It will certainly cause a stir when soon released in Hindi 😎👇🏽 Watch - tinyurl.com/5n6z94a9 Chip in - tinyurl.com/3ebym4nv

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ? Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world. Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

Daily global sea surface temperatures continue to be hot, running #2 to 2024, despite El Nino ending and a mild La Nina already in place. We are now seeing what 4.8 billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heating since 2001 have done to the oceans.

Just putting this out there. Can we stop using the term 'cost of living' effective immediately and especially in the run up to the election? It's not supposed to cost something to LIVE. That's our right as human beings. What we should call it is a cost of greed crisis. Let's change the frame.

This graphic gives the 12-month running average for Mauna Loa CO₂ since 1959, with a quadratic trendline (in red). An R² of 0.9995 is overwhelming evidence that atmospheric CO₂ growth is accelerating. And at present, CO₂ is above the trendline! The climate 8-ball says: "Outlook f&%ked, try again."

Tried my best. Sorry I couldn’t pull it through everyone - we live to fight another day. ♥️

Yep.

Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 5, 2024 ~ The f&%king canary is back! “This has been the canary in the climate coalmine, and it’s now hitting households’ pocketbooks." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Compared with areas with no wetlands, wetland areas can reduce surface runoff by 15 to 30% and enhance soil retention by 30 to 50%, thereby decreasing flood peak levels by 10 to 25% and lowering the risk of mountain floods and debris flows.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

"After night temperatures up to 30C, afternoons still reach 35C in this mad absurd November in Morocco and Canary Islands, where >50%/60% of the days and night of the month have been much hotter than average summer." (Extreme Temperatures Around The World) #collapse

1. The one benefit of Brexit was a new farm subsidy system, that would pay for public goods such as ecological restoration. But now the government has frozen the new grants, while swiftly cutting off the old ones, leaving farmers high and dry. It's deeply unfair and highly destructive. 🧵

I don’t usually bother with petitions, but it’s vital to stop the diabolical proposed changes to election laws being rushed through parliament next week. These changes are designed to shut out independents and small parties. Please sign and share: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donations_bi...

Absolutely the right choice! Here's why I made the same decision - and why we all need to: www.freewheeling.info/blog/its-tim...

3. I thought for a while that the best alternative would be Threads. But Meta’s deliberate downgrading of political content and suspension of journalists on Threads rules it out as a prime platform for people like me. theguardian.com/commentisfre....

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Yesterday's global 2m surface temperature hit a new high for 2023, at 1.98°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline. Only one day since 1940 has been more extreme than yesterday. That day was Feb. 28, 2016, with an anomaly of 1.99°C. Tomorrow?

Breaking news! Climate COP-out 29 protest. Another fossil fuel dominated festival of ‘blah, blah, blah’ is under way in Azerbaijan. The world is watching, waiting, DYING! #COP29Baku #COP29Azerbaijan