David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

You know what I think our cars are too small they need to be twice as big

Trump tells his audience at the Cornerstone Institute Founders’ dinner that he brought peace between Cambodia and Armenia.

'China’s new-build solar additions in the last six months are more than the US has installed in total: China Flow > US stock. Germany was once the global champion of solar. China’s new additions in six months are two times Germany’s installed capacity.' adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

"[Climateworks] CEO Anna Skarbek says its modelling has found that Australia can reach an 85 per cent cut in emissions by 2035 with solutions that are already out there." Albo is selling out the nation and our future with the cowardly 62% target.

Aust govt climate policy now aims not to do too much, banks large reductions from policy of other govts not buying our coal and gas, while continuing to approve and subsidise new coal and gas projects.

Any thoughts on why the independent CCA's recommended emissions targets are exactly the same as the government's? Surely it's a result of the utmost integrity of all involved?

Coal and gas production falls a fair bit in all scenarios behind the govts emissions reduction targets. The fact it's almost the same in each policy scenario suggests it is driven mostly not by Aust policy in the model.

"The IEA, for example, has significantly underestimated investment in solar PV" - Australian Treasury treasury.gov.au/publication/...

This range of 62-70 percent is a way to appease the fossil fuel vested interests - it’s now up to the crossbench to ensure ambition lands at the top end of that band, where the science says it needs to be to keep the places we live safe 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The ebike is absolute peak urban transportation. I can wear normal clothes, carry plenty of stuff, make it up hills with ease, and I even beat the bus on the way home today.

This you, Pete? www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08...

Peter Garret mention once the fossil fuel projects you approved challenge

Two blokes in a tinny and a vast shrine to extraction. Darwin Harbour.

Unsafe conditions, imminent risk www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906834...

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

This helps explain why the oil-and-gas industry is needing to "run fast to stay still", spending $500bn a year just to maintain current output Production rates from each field are declining increasingly rapidly 3/6

Why does the ANU Chancellor still have their job?

"let's be clear" politicians say and I keep waiting for the universal or existential quantifier

the amount of Chinese investment in green manufacturing plants around the developing world is mind boggling. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

The Vegetable Plot laying down absolute bangers at the Penrith council festival. youtu.be/4MTS1fjnSFY?...

"Vanuatu's climate change minister has criticised the expected approval of the North-West Shelf gas project as "internationally wrongful" and legally contentious, as Australia's climate record comes under close scrutiny at the Pacific Islands Forum."

"The advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice made it clear that going down the fossil fuel production expansion (path) is an internationally wrongful act, under international law… So that's something that Australia should consider." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The Government has revealed conditions for Woodside's North West Shelf gas project approval: strict limits on nitrous oxide pollution. Woodside says the conditions are "not technically feasible." If the project isn't feasible without damaging Murujuga, it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. #auspol

SunCable now wants to build a data centre next to its proposed mega solar farm in the top end. The frackers have made the same pitch. A super hot climate in the middle of economic nowhere seems the worst possible place to put a data centre. reneweconomy.com.au/suncable-say...

Proposal to help Pacific Islands get to 100 pct renewables and slash crippling cost of diesel could form key part of partnership with Australia for UN climate conference.

‬⁩@davidpocock.bsky.social says there’s ‘no faith’ in leadership of Genevieve Bell or Julie Bishop. Time for a leadership renew. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As we work ourselves into a froth about federal "approvals" processes that almost never say no, remember the North West Shelf LNG extension to 2070 took six years to approve due to the West Australian government, not the feds.

The Oz also runs at a loss, despite being paywalled. The Graun Aus has no paywall and runs at a profit.

last december i wrote that democrats needed to behave like an actual opposition www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

I’m devastated to learn - via media - that all members of the Council-appointed investigation committee into Senate evidence have met with the Chancellor. Even before I’ve met with them, or been provided the terms of reference. Due process, this is not. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

If there's a crisis of governance at the ANU, shouldn't it be the Chancellor being pushed out?

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Incoming mayor Asta Hill says she wants to "change the story" of Alice Springs, after years of negative national media coverage.

#BREAKING 🚨 Greens candidate Asta Hill has been elected Mayor of Alice Springs following the distribution of preferences 🟩 Asta Hill (GRN): 50.3% ⬜️ Eli Melky (IND): 49.7% Hill becomes first Greens mayor in the NT ever

The BCA climate targets report (not McKinsey, who disavow it in the report itself) says we will need to invest more to get a higher target and says this is a bad thing. These are the people making business decisions in Australia.

“The ANU has denied news reports that Professor Bell was actively negotiating her departure… However, it is understood that a majority of academic deans have written to the university's council to express their loss of confidence in Professor Bell.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905914...

The BCA modelling completely ignores the costs of letting climate change rip: increasingly pricey rescue and clean up from extreme weather events + massive impacts on multiple industries including agriculture, fishing, insurance and tourism. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/big-bus...

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

this seems like a very neatly identified result

Someone should tell the economic geniuses running our trade policies about the existence of inventories! 🧵

This was a Colbert joke a decade ago. Now:

Actually it's worse than this. The gas companies won't pay us anything for the waste they dump but we will underwrite their long term storage risk. We'll probably end up funding it directly too (is what the industry is crying out for.)

A million dollars for an anti semitism envoy who is basically silent about the Nazis rioting in the streets.

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

Why shouldn't Parliament look into the buy out of major Australian energy assets by a foreign government? It'll be the biggest cash deal ever in Australia and possibly in energy globally. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/ind...

The NT is a basket case, clearly unable to govern itself. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Wheatstone gas feeds an LNG facility (namesake) further away than three others. Scarborough gas goes to an LNG facility (Pluto LNG) further away than two others. Reminded of the efficiency of the gas export industry. www.boilingcold.com.au/western-gas-...

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.