“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

This submission by David Brophy is hilarious and demonstrates how poorly drafted the hate speech bill is

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

See also “integration” and “assimilation”

DELICIOUS

"This isn’t even venture capital anymore. Venture capital means you take a risk. High risk, high reward. If there’s no risk, that’s not venture capital." —@anildash.com sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...

Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Labor is rushing a 144-page omnibus mess through parliament with just 48 hours for public submissions. Communities are fearful this is designed to criminalize people calling out genocide in Gaza. You have my word that we won't let Labor silence dissent.

It’s a matter of time before Tesla automatically generates non-consensual images of people in revealing clothing as you drive past them.

I tried to warn people. They even signalled it. Labor is little better than the other mob when it comes to emissions.

Increasing carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels means hotter, drier conditions with reduced cool season rainfall totals BUT it also means increased frequency & intensity of extreme rainfall events Learn more about extreme rainfall events at Victoria's Climate Science Report 2024👇

It genuinely is good and important. And it still represents one of the best things about the Web.

Now that the economics are extremely obviously in favour of solar and batteries, it is entirely obvious that any individual still expanding fossil fuel use isn’t doing so for financial gain but because they’re part of a death cult.

Fires on the Rise in the Far North science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.

Never a good look when authoritarian regimes start lecturing democracies on how to do things.

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Cathy Wilcox SMH

I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway

At the time, no one thought that the laws introduced post September 11 attacks would be used to stop climate protests, but they are. Can we learn that history lesson and seriously question new laws that seek to limit freedoms of speech?

Nothing beats the horror of a teacher at your child’s school being arrested on charges of child sexual abuse.

Even by Trump's standards, his comments on the global wind turbine market were incredibly misguided, so was really happy to contribute to this fact-checking piece. To be fair, many smarter people have also gotten the wrong idea due to all the hype about China's dominance of clean tech.

orange peril

We are calling on the Federal Parliament to reject the Federal Government's new proposed legislation, the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. Read more: bit.ly/49kBGTu

When the green team and the blue team are saying similar (but not the same) things you absolutely know there’s something wrong with the red team’s proposal. Thank your stars I’m not a political commentator.

Flash flooding hits Victoria’s Great Ocean Road as cars washed out to sea www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

unfortunately the Sizzle was ruled not compliant 😩

Here's the data:

Reminder: ocean heat content is a BETTER metric of global heating than surface temperatures (which are far more prone to fluctuations due to El Nino/La Nina), and unlike surface temperatures, it set a NEW RECORD THIS PAST YEAR:

"Australia’s longest waterway is under such dire threat of collapse that the entire lower Murray River ecosystem, which stretches nearly 1000 kilometres from western NSW, through Victoria and to the sea in South Australia has been classified as critically endangered." www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The Liberals are stuck in past. They say that renewable energy is unreliable and you can't store the energy. Meanwhile battery projects are going up across the country, and hundreds of thousands of Aussies are putting in Cheaper Home Batteries.

I mean, if they can’t avoid a massive tree, what else would they have done wrong?

What Nick said. Rushing through a bill like this comes from the same place as constricting FOI or persecuting and prosecuting whistleblowers or setting up a toothless NACC or keeping all the info about AUKUS secret. It is a perversion of democratic processes. #auspol

@alexbhathal.bsky.social good to see you here.

Imagine a political ideology so evil, so despised, so racist and murderous, so globally unpopular - but also so entrenched in Western establishment depravity - that your government (with the opposition), would seek to make criticism and protest of it illegal. Imagine that.

"Uncertainty is the watchword, given the biggest economy in the world is being run by a somnolent autocrat who is the pettiest grudge holder in world history." My column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Trump isn't intentionally trying to weaken the US, than he and his team are just profoundly dumb. Neither is good. But have you seen his ballroom?!

Every single day in 2025 was hotter than the same day in 1974 - the year I was born.

Yep arguing about how much of the last 2-3 years is forced is at the bleeding edge of the science, and certainly not settled enough to use as justification for large scale geoengineering.

My favorite t-shirt says, “tech will not save us.” And yeah. After reading those climate tech takes, even more true. Tech, climate or otherwise, is not going to save us.

I went to the leading property catastrophe and reinsurance conference in Australia last year, and the key note was given by an eminent Australian climate scientist. She spent 45 mins talking about temperature impacts on people. She didn’t realise that that’s not insured. …

Yep "we should do more research" "let's talk about governance" Noooope this is not a message that should be coming from the financial sector, sorry

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

We are now living on a fundamentally different planet thanks to our failure to curb our fossil fuel addiction.

Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the Paris climate agreement by the end of the decade

What does it say that the wealthiest people in society don't want us to talk about climate anymore, just like they don't want us talking about race or gender or poverty or inequality. Everything is just something to profit off of before they, too, die.

Bild reports Germany plans to deploy its first Bundeswehr personnel to Greenland as early as this week, starting with a small advance team ahead of a broader presence.

Most economists disagree with extreme voices on debates about climate risks, and yet we keep providing fuel to both sides. This article tries to explain why. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...