#RewiringAustralia CEO Francis Vierboom on what #governments can do to help renters cut their energy #bills, like giving them access to portable #solar and #battery options. Plus news of the week.. https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-insiders-podcast-renters-and-the-right-to-plug-in/#RewiringAustralia

Albanese’s office among departments blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds

Did not expect to see this at oilprice.com but the economics are very clear at this point. "But where do renewables fit in? They are doing to gas what gas did to coal: they provide the same product (electricity) at a much cheaper price (and obviously in a more environmentally benign fashion)."

Honestly big tech is eating itself

UK urged to invest much more to tackle risks of drought, flooding, heat - Climate Change Committee report - Report urges 11 billion pounds annual investment to tackle #climaterisk -Inaction could ​cost up to 260 billion pounds per year www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

More AUKUS chaos. This is the worst decision the Labor govt has made. A conveyor belt of our money to the military industrial establishment. No guarantee of delivery. Weekly horror stories of delays, incompetence and production problems. Marles presiding over a defence disaster.

Coal Jobs for your children. Not that you’ll be alive to train them.

The Liberals still have a boner for coal 🪨 My budget reply-reply #auspol

Friends @ #CDNpoli: Are you watching @matthewremski.bsky.social’s reels. He’s doing a great job explaining Carney as the neoliberal wrecker he is. Like #NZpol and Bolivia, you’re right now being “restructured” for corporate predators. @kwardvancouver.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DXHF2a0...

Conflict results in surging coal use in Asia. South ​Korea's coal-fired power supply rose 39.7% annually to 10,733 GWh in April.

I mean coal use may decline by 2030 says IEA. So much for the critical decade.

So RCP 8.5 is dead. Explain it to me? Emissions rising at increasing rate. Gas is worse than coal and expanding. Deforestation unprecedented. Data centres. Tipping points. And err… measured climate sensitivity in line with worst cases.

Oil and gas industry must run some insane employee indoctrination hey. A fellow lecturer who worked in the industry for a couple of decades *still* tried to tell me that solar cell manufacturing consumed more energy than they produce, and that low recycling rates were reason to question their value.

Gaza en 2023 // Gaza en 2026

I've been reporting on local communities opposing massive new data centres. An update on one of the ones I covered. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hmm. Geothermal 2.0 looks a heck of a lot like fracking? Lots of water use, hydraulic fracking with fluids. Surely some 🚩s?

The WA premier campaigned hard against a 25% tax on gas exports. You'd think he'd look at his state's own Budget Papers and see how little gas royalties the WA govt gets and how fast it is dropping thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

@news.abc.net.au has landed. Now if they could cease embedding X posts in their articles.

Data centres could account for as much copper demand as EVs 🫠 www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

There is going to be a LOT of bullshit about trusts. So let's keep our eye on the ball. Bugger all people use them. But millionaires do and they get a LOT of income through them And they do that because they can avoid paying tax.

Big announcement: We’re supercharging green and blue spaces to bring nature back across the capital, with local communities leading the charge. It’s not just about restoring our natural world - we’re making London more climate resilient, too.

Oh - and this: Will we design and allow systems that amplify truth, or noise? We all need deliberate disinformation to be unlawful, subject to prosecution through judicial review Lying is not freedom of speech, it's just license to pollute bsky.app/profile/prof...

Simple steps to mitigating shark attacks. Don’t swim off the edge of the continental shelf with kilos of dead fish trailing your ass.

BREAKING, PERTH Commuter chaos: heavy delays on Mitchell / Kwinana Fwys Lucky we spent all that money on fuel excise relief instead of bolstering public transport, encouraging more personal mobility options The fuel crisis could last for a while, batteries not included bsky.app/profile/prof...

Moscow’s man takes to the streets of London…

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Global Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycles by Humans www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XvD...

A few months back, I wrote a nice thing about an Australian architect who, back in the 70s, started thinking about how to build without obliterating the environment around his structures. It's now live over at The Guardian.

Germany having a red hot crack at looking beyond the straight too

This is a pretty serious bit of rebate. Sort of cash Australia reserves for diesel 🤦🏻.

Absolutely LOVE EV heavy truck charging hubs with solar and battery that are off the grid, even with megawatt charging!

I wish this surprised me, but it doesn’t. It turns out that the *less* you know about how AI really works, the *more* likely you are to fall for its crazy promises. A technological Ponzi scheme… gwern.net/doc/psycholo...

New Zealand/Aotearoa is being taken apart for (foreign?) vulture capitalists to pick over. That’s why the 8% party (an Atlas Network think tank) exists. This could be One Nation’s role, #Auspol #NZpol

New CDP report on extreme weather: Companies project $898 bn in future losses, inc. $527 bn from flooding The largest single financial risk effect is lost revenue from reduced production capacity: "operational disruption is the defining financial exposure" www.cdp.net/en/insights/...

"Government says climate litigation undermines business." Buddy, just wait till you find out what climate change does to business.

Meanwhile the Government is allocating $124 million to Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) as part of the response to the Bondi shootings, for ECAJ to allocate that funding as it sees fit. Labor says this is for social cohesion.

How about climate change? We've barely spent anything, for years, on climate. Let's see how much extra the govt has committed... . . Oh wtf they've CUT funding how is that even possible? "Savings of $2.2 bil over 14 years (from) across the Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio"

You can just blame climate change for climate change. Deforestation is conveniently forgotten. Exhibit a: a biotic pump annihilated. Just add fracking.

“I had planned to just have a few investment properties to set me up for retirement, but I guess now I’ll be operating an offshore LNG platform instead”. theshovel.com.au/2026/05/13/h...

Barnaby honestly could not have done better for the fossil fuel industry than Albo. He will get an AO and front page in the West Australian to be sure! thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Great investigation by ABC on profit shifting by big gas.

From the UK.

So David Farley was a Nats member, who tried to be the Labor candidate, then tried to be The Voices of Farrer candidate, got rejected by all of them, and ended up as the One Nation candidate. Has the phrase "Any port in a storm" ever been more appropriate. #shitshow #auspol #farrer

So I hear Gina Rinehart was elected in Farrer #auspol

But they have 93.994% electric vehicles. 🙄

There is something really off with Hagens and this rather well regarded podcast. This week he has an oil and gas engineer telling us renewables are a pipe dream. Meanwhile fossil fuel use has peaked. Unsubscribe

Western Australian Budget 2026-27 Summary: Infrastructure Yes, Climate Action No WA Government budget delivers impressive renewable energy hardware but dodges the policy framework needed for real decarbonisation. More www.linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

Trump has caused an oil 🛢 slick emanating from karg Island in the straight of hormuz now. Can we say ' environmental disaster in the making?' Now he's killing the Arabian fisheries too. What a freakin' stupid ass. How much destruction will republicans let him do?