Matt Kean / CCA on "preserving" renewable energy for data centres.. (via @ryancropp.bsky.social "Explosive AI growth a threat to Labor’s climate ambition" - www.afr.com/policy/energ...)

Residual fossil emissions still quite significant in 2050 in the treasury modelling, as it turns out

Some good news. Belated and so much more to do. But good news www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Absolutely horrific concepts for the university sector from Bill Shorten, now VC of the University of Canberra. A vision for the utter decimation of higher education

Replacing some of the student degree debt bondage with bursary chains to a boss for a vocational cert (I think that’s what is suggested, it’s buzz word bingo murky TBH) seems pretty unappealing

Two remarkable assumptions in the modelling for Australia's new climate target #1 (via @tomswann.bsky.social) - a very significant drop in demand for coal and gas supplied by Australia (and a subsequent drop in domestic emissions because digging that shit up is so profoundly dirty)

Okay so maybe also the Department thinks hydrogen rail is a good idea (.... at least not light rail, I think)

.. actually the timeline in step-change largely reflect the constraint of a carbon budget (which - once again - we don't have in the real world). (This one's from the CCA)

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 brilliant @ketanjoshi.co on how datacentre lobbyists are pushing governments (very much including our Federal ALP) to shrink or drop their emissions targets. This helps explain the pissweak, useless target just announce by @australianlabor.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/19/d...

It should not be possible to be this wrong

fyi Treasury modelling assumes we're going to hit 82% RE by 2030 and be consistent with ISP (i.e. input not output)

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

This is kind of funny

I see. The CCA's reduction in the lower bound to account for uncertainty, including that related to data centre load growth 🫠🫠🫠 Job done.

Applying for a rental property in Australia currently requires you to hand over a horrifying amount of personal and financial information and I'm yet to get an adequate answer from a real estate company about how they protect the information of current and prospective tenants

I signed this as a long-time supporter of many Australian ENGOs. I hope this Open Letter will help the largely silent Australian Environment Movement find its voice Thank you to the good people who drafted the letter for circulation 🙏 Staff, workers, volunteers & supporters all welcome to sign

David Pope in Canberra Times

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Nearly 200 shipping companies said Monday they want the world’s largest maritime nations to adopt regulations that include the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases to reduce their sector’s emissions.

Meanjin should be saved somehow. Hope that still happens

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.

UPDATE: Our ad has been pulled. While the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun talk about freedom of speech all the time, they've decided that they won't be proceeding with our ad tomorrow. We still hope they will run our ad at a later date, because we need to broadcast the message, end the genocide!

For all those folk in Vic, you might be interested to know that the wild winds we've had last few days has resulted in the lowest 24hr period of brown coal generation on record 🎉

Both of these stories are accurate - The US is breaking renewable energy addition records - The US is also seeing huge jumps in greenhouse gas emissions The explanation is pretty simple...... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lol this is funny and non-sensical

“[hastie] has picked a hell of a day to say he will die on the hill of net zero… millions of australians were just warned about the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change and he is saying to them ‘i don’t give a stuff’.” 🍿 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

Different names, same story.

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural. This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it. doi.org/10.25911/MWW... A thread:

MUP insist that Meanjin was shut because it wasn’t financially viable, but when their chief executive and publisher as quoted in this article states that “the journal is not for sale” it sound a lot more like a silencing. Writers and readers need, and deserve, absolute transparency.

Not only are combustion engine "hybrid" cars a pretty nasty marketing scam run by car companies to trick well-meaning consumers into burning fossil fuels, the gap between reality and their claims is getting *worse* every year: www.transportenvironment.org/articles/plu...

Just a reminder that the approval of North West Shelf does *nothing* to aid transition in the domestic electricity sector, in Western Australia or elsewhere.

"The project will be required to reduce its emissions every year and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 under the Albanese Government’s strengthened Safeguard Mechanism." This is only true if you ignore emissions from burning gas the project produces, which is pretty much all of them.

"the eventual replacement of fossil fuels with cleaner alternatives is inevitable, but it is the rate of change, not the end point, that decides exactly how screwed we are by the combustion of coal, oil and gas" ...another great piece from @ketanjoshi.co www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/w...

The fact that all the climate orgs are right on top of condemning political violence around the Kirk shooting, before any details are known, but many have yet to say a word about Gaza is a pretty good illustration of why the climate movement has repeatedly failed to build an actual movement.

I just saw this and truly, what the fuck I'm at a total loss

Have some new AI auditing thing at our uni that rejected an expense claim, that was generated using the same same companies AI expense claim input thing 🥲 The system works! #productivity

If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."

If MUP can't keep Meanjin running for "financial" reasons but the property is not for sale, which would clear the liability from their balance sheet, there is no "financial" issue. Either they're killing it, or the plan is to refloat it later -- without its current editorial leadership.

Was surprised to learn at the rally today that MUP wouldn't countenance transfering ownership: Why? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

August Update! 🔌💡

Bishop needs to go as well. There is no sensible governance arrangement where she gets to lead appointing a new VC. A new Chancellor / Chair and then a deep breath followed by a proper process to appoint a new VC / CEO needed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Queensland LNP vows to burn coal “for many decades” .. what a headline for the year 2025 reneweconomy.com.au/queensland-l...

Over the course of the ill-fated Byron Writers Festival I spoke on a panel with Geoff Cousins and Simon Holmes à Court about the politics of nuclear power that was recorded for ABC Radio National's Big Ideas series. You can give it a whirl here:

Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.

August Update! 🔌💡

Rally to save Meanjin happening now at 715 Swanston st! (Pics via @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social ) @savemeanjin.bsky.social

What do we want? An uninterrupted, uniquely Australian and historically significant stream of literary consciousness. When do we want it? Now. Protest against the closure of Meanjin. 9am, MUP Swanston St.