NEW #ProductionGap report out today! @neilgrant.bsky.social told @theguardian.com “So far, renewable energy growth has been an addition alongside fossil fuel demand, and we haven’t seen peak demand. But given the pace of change in the energy system that could change quite significantly."

‘The government’s target is not the ceiling for our ambition—it is just the floor on which we come together and build climate solutions at the scale and speed needed to cap warming at 1.5°C—which remains an absolutely non-negotiable goal.’

Vai Shah is a friend of mine, so I'm contractually obliged to love this, but also it's just objectively great. Thanks @parentsforclimate.bsky.social for giving her the opportunity!

Apparently going have lots of reforestation (>100mt p.a) 😳 Sounds like a lot of forest!

By me @realclimate.org: “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!” www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

I got more earnest - and at times lovely - "yes emotions can work like that" advice on this one than I expected. To be clear: Yes I know they can work like that. That feels like a problem we should solve with science. Or nukes. Whichever honestly. Emotions are stupid.

My dad went to hospital in an ambulance today. He's completely fine and already back home. What I want to know is how I managed to be more or less completely calm and fine supporting everyone and now - eight hours later - feel like I'm teetering on the edge of a panic attack. Emotions are stupid.

Good morning!! Here's my latest for @crikey.com.au -> one of the reasons the CCA weakened its climate target suggestions is the possibility of uncontrolled data centre growth. I found the lobbyists already working to sell them as 'climate solutions' in Aus ---->>>>>

Oh they've discovered 4chan

This is a remarkable series of events and the timeline sets out in quite vivid detail the case for sacking most staff at Australia's environmental and climate regulators to start again from scratch. None of these folks should be so much as supervising a fucking level crossing.

Great to see Australian medical researchers leading global efforts at the UN to declare healthy indoor air a human right. Australian schools have lower standards for air quality monitoring than pet shelters.

Change is coming, question is how fast. Value of Australia’s coal and gas exports could plunge 50% in five years, treasury modelling forecasts www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Well… Looks like they didn’t choose the science 🤷‍♀️

This, but also I find spite and pettiness to be adequate substitutes at a pinch.

I was pleased to chat with @australia.theguardian.com team who actually looked at the Age Assurance trial data, finding racial & other biases of concern before the trial are still very evident in the trial's actual data (downplayed in the official summaries): www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

The muppet show is returning. I repeat THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING. Kermit was my first crush this is momentous. If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:

Something very large just fell in or on my house somewhere, and for the life of me I can't find what it was! It was a bloody great big bang!

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.

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.

62% isn't a reasonable climate target for Australia, it is robbing Australian lives and livelihoods for the benefit of the ALP's coal and gas donors. The dividend on that investment was already paid in full with credulous regulators and infinite tax loopholes. This is their free gift with purchase.

The PM was proud the 62-70% by 2035 emissions reduction target is in the "sweet spot" where "some will say it's too high, some will say it's too low." Any target would be too high for Barnaby Joyce – what's important is what science demands. It's exactly what Richard wrote about in Dead Centre ⤵️

Albanese is a man that is simply to weak to lead a country through a time of crisis. We are in such a time now, and thanks to his government's pissweak efforts domestically and on the international stage across a range of issues, things will only get worse.

62% isn't a reasonable climate target for Australia, it is robbing Australian lives and livelihoods for the benefit of the ALP's coal and gas donors. The dividend on that investment was already paid in full with credulous regulators and infinite tax loopholes. This is their free gift with purchase.

Doctors for the Environment took Australia's offshore oil and gas regulator to court, making a series of principled arguments that the NOPSEMA had failed to do its job properly when it approved Woodside's Scarborough gas project. Unfortunately, the court disagreed. Chip in to help if you can:

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

God fucking damnit I think the post where I predicted that Blumenthal would be in InfoWars in a year was from my twitter but I fucking called this shit and I want an apology on my desk tomorrow for every tankie dipshit who told me this guy was a socialist Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The very weakest and most feeble of men.

this is the sound of the Australian government gearing up to set a weak 2035 climate target archive.ph/P5Of8

Mounting IKEA shelves to the wall is a pain in the fucking arse - and I had to do ten of the bastards - but at least my study is starting to look a whole lot less like a cupboard.

I'm not a patriotic fella, but this morning I had to stop by the council offices for something and they were holding citizenship ceremonies. Lots of families are other folks dressed up in their finest, excitedly waiting for it to start. It was really heartwarming. 💛

President Trump's scorn for highly respected Australian journalist John Lyons was followed up by an official White House X account branding him a "foreign fake news loser". Our research shows Australians want a more independent foreign policy. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/poll-in...

Cool space news: one of the biggest black holes in the universe is doing something WEIRD! You probably remember this picture, the first ever image of a black hole, in the galaxy M87. What you’re really seeing here is the disk of gas around the black hole. (1/n) 📸: EHT Collab.🧪🔭

gemini d-did what? 😳

More people need to talk about how fucking pathetic the National Adaptation Plan is.

Between the approval of North West Shelf, the release of yesterday's WILDLY inadequate National Adaptation Plan, the important and drastic National Climate Risk Assessment, and the certain announcement of a pissweak 2035 climate target, this is a fucked week to be an Australian climate advocate.

When @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social is on, he's on. chaser.com.au/national/gov...

"gaping Farage-shaped hole"

Reading Australia's new National Climate Risk Assessment, I am struck with the profound feeling that no-one involved wanted this to have real world relevance for everyday people. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy theory. It's just that if you wanted cut-through you wouldn't start with this.

Again and again: free speech silenced at the behest of an organised pro-Israel lobby group by weak-kneed management. If people don’t stand up to this pressure there won’t be a single institution left in which anyone can talk about the genocide in Gaza.

News Corp machine in overdrive, trying to diminish the National Climate Risk Assessment

Breaking news: The US is now a nation of 40 million people!

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

"Anthony Albanese's claim that more fossil gas is needed for the energy transition is unscientific nonsense - it is gas industry propaganda raised to the level of state policy – and reflects a stampede toward more fossil fuels rather than a transition away."

Poll numbers like this are the kind of thing you can use to do real good in the world, unless...

The world is pretty awful right now, but we had some lovely visitors yesterday evening.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue. You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist

Apropos of nothing that I can go into, we desperately need to do better raising our boys and kill all men.

Betteridge's law of headlines* strikes again. * Any headline framed as a question can very confidently be answered with the word "No".

People should really pump the brakes on assuming motives & ideology have been ruled out or in based on what little information has been shared so far. The fact that a lot of previously asserted BS turned out to be wrong doesn't itself mean unconfirmed alternatives are therefore automatically correct