NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Thanks to @annegdelaney.bsky.social at @reneweconomy.com.au & @readfearn.bsky.social @ Guardian for capturing the brazen arrogance of IPA reps at the #Auspol senate hearing yesterday. lucyham29.substack.com/p/arrogance-...

Would the Australian Government act if the algal bloom was in Sydney Harbour? It's time to act, to reduce emissions, prepare and fund real mitigation efforts. #WhatIsThePointOfLabor #ClimateResilience #Auspol

🧵 Must read. #AtlasNetwork partners were boasting in an Australian parliamentary hearing & emails about their destruction of climate action in Australia. They claimed it. They were triumphant, arrogant about the law not forcing them to reveal donors. #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/dead-man-wal...

As COP30 (UN meeting on climate change) begins, 10 years into the Paris Agreement, US emissions are about as high as ever, due substantially to methane pollution from oil and gas systems. The US is the world's worst cumulative climate polluter, nearly 2x China, and is not participating in COP30.

The mayor of Tamworth Council is a very old mate of Barnaby Joyce's and a National party member No surprises this backward collection of red-necks drags their council to court on their ratepayers' money to oppose a wind farm - and even then can't get their legal arguments right

Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change

Oh I like this. And I shall use it 🙏

And the US is going to miss out

How do you feel about climate change – and how can we best talk to one another about global warming? 🗣️ Scientist drkatemarvel.bsky.social studies the physics of the planet using computational models. But climate change is happening in the real world, to us. 🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/4ofYCs3

Few things have become quite as dangerous as the simulation of action under Labor’s vibes-based climate agenda, writes Ketan Joshi.

Who are UN climate talks really serving? 🤔 What we see: 🚩 Big polluters as sponsors 🚩 Fossil fuel executives in presidency teams 🚩 Multinationals included in negotiation 🚩 Fossil fuel phase-out missing from the agenda 🚩 Spotlight on corporate-driven "solutions" e.g. carbon offsets #COP30 (1/3)

Big Beef and big oil. Will they party together at #COP30? Is there some special compound they get locked in? Wish I was in charge.

A good Oz climate weather research account to follow

The 2025 State of the Climate Report has been released, indicating that 22 of the Earth’s 35 vital signs are being pushed to critical levels, as the planet reaches its hottest temperature in the last 125,000 years. Led by Oregon State University, read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/the-earth-is...

As a crop insurance broker, I worry about the future of hail cover. If it gets to expensive to insure, does crop get planted in the future? #climatebreakdown

That didn’t age well Roger the gas fired Dodger

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FWIW: the idea of "gas as transition fuel" is a very old industry talking point. While researching my book, Slick, I found industry figures talking about the need to treat gas as a "bridging fuel" starting around the mid-90s when the gas producers joined APPEA.

The Cook WA Labor Government was told by Deloitte a year ago that gas exports could slow down Asia's energy transition. It did not hinder their determination to allow Woodside Energy to operate its North West Shelf LNG plant until 2070. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘The report's findings mirror the national science agency's (CSIRO) own findings in a report commissioned by oil and gas giant Woodside in 2019, which found increasing gas supply to Asia could have "no change" or "no net benefit" in reducing emissions in most cases.’

The fact this report was withheld during the North West Shelf approval is very WA Labor. I wonder if the report covers off on how gas exports increase power prices and rob industrial capacity from the WA transition. #auspol #woodside #rogercook #murraywatt

Pauline and Gina hanging out at Nazi headquarters

Basil and the WA Nationals leader, Shane Love, doing the Chevron junket tour. Hey guys, could you check in on progress of the $billion taxpayer funded Barrow Island clean up while you’re there at least!

The duopoly just joined forces in the Senate to vote down an #AUKUS inquiry. Never mind the political, technical & management risks associated with the program, or the $365B price tag - the two major parties are happy sleepwalking with your national security and money. #auspol

Good to see an Australian insurer doing this work. IAG 👏 It’s been an ok couple of years for cat claims, but it’s not going to last. Insurance is going to get more expensive while covering less. Meanwhile some insurers and banks keep enabling fossil fuel projects. Not AIG.

The Centre for Independent Studies and Institute of Public Affairs (Atlas partners) are running this US/UK scam to break public education so they can stop students learning to critique their tosh. Academies/charter schools allow the plutocrats much more control over what is taught. #Auspol

WA’s gas: 80% EXPORTED Only 10% used domestically. Rest is burnt by gas industry to convert gas into liquid for overseas markets.🔥 Gas companies pay little to NO tax or revenue to state or fed Australian govts. Australia Institute’s research on WA gas: 👇 australiainstitute.org.au/report/gas-i...

Centre for Independent Studies submission to the misinformation inquiry. You get a mention @jeremywalker.bsky.social.

Musk filling low obit with Junk pisses me off

Latest batch of Palestinian bodies returned by Israel 'mutilated, unrecognisable.' I find it utterly obscene that our Western mainstream news media rptedly refuses to report Israel's atrocities. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine share.google/R0B2EQIxaRNZ...

I am the guest at BBC Climate Question this week. Check it out 👇

Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels

Woah .. like over double some existing flight calcs!

29 November 2018 while Queensland burned with bush fires, Senator Canavan thought it would be smart to tweet this:

90% of gold mined is used for banking and bling. Only 5% is used for electronics. Most of it should stay in the ground.

Electrification is mining. Mining is ecological destruction. It’s getting harder to believe we’ll come out ahead.

Coal seam gas has turned tens of thousands of square kilometres of QLD into industrial gas fields. For what?….export by foreign owned gas corporates who don’t even pay tax in Australia.

Are you watching the #SundayShot? Streaming now. #Auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyYQ...

Australian coal miners, including a company owend by Gina Rinehart, have teamed up to extract tens of millions of dollars from the Albertan provincial government after it flipped-flopped on whether to allow open cut coal mining in the Rockies. Story by way of @johnvaillant.bsky.social.

Hail this size. If it’s the future, then a lot of things won’t be able to get hail insurance. Crops, cars, renewables … etc

Another day, another captured Labor gov. Peter Malinauskas.

Unbelievable. Putin wouldn’t do this

Societal Collapse is a feature of Growth. Success brings collapse.

CBS firing most of its climate team is another very, very important reminder that there needs to be a massive effort to set up cleanly-funded media outlets immune to takeover, to avoid those fired jumping into the Substack bonfire where they'll be exploited and enshittified in a new way

What’s the story with Clive Hamilton?

welcome to the 51st state of USA. aUStralia. When the government doesnt stand up to USA corporate lobbyists and support Aussie musos or movie productions, all we do is import culture from the USA... Is this what we want?

Nature laws seem to be progressing well 😬

WA fishing industry kicking back at seismic blasting approval in prime lobster and octopus fisheries