When people say climate change isn’t an issue because we have air conditioning

At $4.5bn each year extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say

Bubble watch. "The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year. AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025."

US spirits exports tumble as drinkers shun American brands, industry warns reut.rs/4h7o2Ft

ABSOLUTE INSANITY Records smashed allover Asia. OCTOBER HOTTEST NIGHTS -Minimums 28.5 Male MALDIVES OCTOBER HOTTEST NIGHT EVER again !! 28.8 Dong Hoi VIETNAM 27.9 Catarman PHILIPPINES 26.6 Palembang INDONESIA Records locally broken with 2C+ margins even in tropical coastal areas.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Can someone grill the communications on why their government keeps approving fossil fuel expansion?

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues. Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump. 📰 AFR ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social ✍️ @edmundtadros.bsky.social 🗣️ @chrisrudge.bsky.social

When people say climate change isn’t an issue because we have air conditioning

Iceland is becoming no-ice land.

Pretty much the only progress made after the burning of the carbon tax plunged us into a decade of policy vacuum

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

The NDIS Appeals Database, a project led by University of Queensland Law School students through its Pro Bono Centre, is now available for lawyers appealing decisions for people who have sought service or support through the NDIS www.qlsproctor.com.au/2025/09/new-...

The people who helped expose the Coalitions ‘crude and cruel’ robodebt scheme

America: Renewable energy doesn't work. China: Hold my baijiu.

Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Justice Rangiah in his own words in Lattouf v ABC penalty decision. The broadcaster has been ordered to pay $150,000. I was previously awarded $70,000 for hurt and distress. ABC has spent in excess of $2 million on legal fees. The real cost to Aunty is immeasurable.

I think guns and SUVs cause autism. We should ban those.

The Stupidest Speech in UN History! “Everyone’s saying so,” writes @billmckibben.bsky.social “the shots of delegates looking on in disbelief as Trump vented about broken escalators, MAGA hats, & his general greatness for nearly an hour (ignoring the 15min time limit…)” Global embarrassment. Joke.

Govt needs to put the community ahead of the fossil fuel industry’s expansion and set a strong 2035 target so we can show global leadership and push other countries to do the same. Govt should be serving the people, not the big gas exporters. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906267...

You don't have to be an expensive accountant to see that if universities need to save money they'd save a lot more by reducing annual corporate travel (even a little bit!) than cutting #Meanjin or #AustralianNationalDictionary @savemeanjin.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social

"China is turning the ‘emerging market energy leapfrog’ from concept to reality." 50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024! ~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023. ~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023. #energysky

Some people chase picture-perfect landmarks, but I chase old ruins and hidden green corners. This near-millennium-old Gothic church, damaged in the 1941 Blitz, now stands as one of London’s quietest green gems. Plants spill through its arches, it’s easily my favourite place in the city. 🌿

All super interesting, but missing the wood for the trees? A provocation then - big picture, we're already at 1.5 degrees, and even with a rapid solar build-out the likelyhood of avoiding 2 looks slim. Past 2 degrees, tipping points lead to an unlivable climate within a few hundred years or less.

Australia would be a better place had Howard never been born. A contemptible human who will not deserve any of the bullshit fawning eulogies he will get.

Map of Africa made from orange peel

“If you have firm control of Westminster and Whitehall there is no limit to the damage that can be done to our system of governance.” @davidallengreen.bsky.social on how a Trump-style leader could govern in the UK.

“It’s still hurricane season. We have half the season left, so I have no doubt at all we’ll be watching storms sooner than we want to be.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/atla...

BYD now has both cheapest and fastest EVs.

Just sent out this free post. Russia attacked Poland last night--and the NATO response indicates institutional and national failure. They were clearly not prepared, cannot even call the Russian attack an attack, and do not understand their real security concerns. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post. Start: 1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

7. AI's climate costs are a smaller worry than its social costs.

Nazis in different uniforms.

Labor saved the Great Barrier Reef once under the leadership of Gough Whitlam. They can continue this legacy by taking genuine climate action to curb global heating, and saying no to Woodside’s plans to drill for gas at Scott Reef. theconversation.com/half-a-centu...

Unfortunately, it won't apply to all, indeed most, authors whose work has been stolen. Those of us whose work is not registered under US copyright law are ineligible. theconversation.com/an-ai-startu...

We need more trad nuns like this

Amazing 🤩 www.womanalive.co.uk/i-have-been-...

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NDC Energy Commitments Tracker finds that no countries across the world yet have a plan aligning with COP28 www.renewableenergymagazine.com/panorama/ndc...

Out now: our new study shows that climate change caused nearly 1,700 heat-related deaths in Zürich over 50 years. We assessed the effects of changing vulnerability to heat, heat-mortality within and outside of heatwaves, and the contribution of individual companies' emissions to heat deaths.

The rules of political gravity may have set in for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – but the Coalition is still in a dangerous limbo

David Pope in Canberra Times

While the Trump administration is actively attacking vaccination science, and winding back access, in Australia we are *checks notes* rolling out a chlamydia vaccine for koalas. minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/media-r...

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

Last night the Polish airspace was violated by a huge number of Russian drones. Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down. I am in constant communication with the Secretary General of NATO and our allies.

Tornado in central NSW and flood rescues in Sydney as wild weather soaks south-east of Australia

EU moves to freeze some funding to Israel over war in Gaza on.ft.com/4nq2aaq

7 News just did a story on Mount Martha beach boxes and beach erosion but of course didn't mention global warming (but did mention how much one sold for last year)