The end of a very hot day & RFS is reporting 103 fires across NSW. Houses have been lost on the coast. The heat was intense. Far worse inland. 43.9°C at White Cliffs aka 111.02°F. Natural weather is one thing. But, #FossilFuel knows they’re driving global heating, & are responsible. #MakeThemPay 🇦🇺☀️🔥

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... This is the story recounted by Palestine 36 – one that British schoolchildren are never taught, and one that the British media never offer as context for today’s crimes in historic Palestine.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Across NSW, more than 75 fires burning on Saturday afternoon, with 19 yet to be contained. At least a dozen homes destroyed by a fire burning at Koolewong on the Central Coast, with emergency warning issued by the RFS in place as of 5pm on Saturday.

Finally. More of this from other police chiefs 👏👏

Can we talk about Christians getting ready to celebrate the birth of a baby they would have had deported? 😬✝️🛑❄️ #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays

At least 12 homes were destroyed as 75 bushfires burn across NSW. Fires are burning in several states. But let's ignore the impacts of #ClimateChange and focus on protecting the #FossilFuelsIndustry and their profits. #auspol

Woodside are expanding fossil fuels during the climate crisis. They have chosen to be the bad guys. We shouldn't let them launder their reputations through our community institutions. Student & staff members of @stopwoodsidemonash campaigned fearlessly against Woodside's partnership at Monash Uni.

HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

I can't compute how someone can read a story like this and still think "the problem is that there are too many regulations and environmental protections", when it comes to the energy transition. The problem is blatantly that corporate developers remain weirdly excused from scrutiny or culpability

Remarkable to see this finally being uttered out loud but I'm wondering why it took half a decade (including three years under the Labor gov't) for it to be even acknowledged as a problem. The Free Market sucks at causing a rapid energy transition. Gov't policy can potentially not suck.

Datacenters are increasing growth... so good???... but err they're going to take up a tenth of energy use so that's pretty bad. My column on how we need to think about the shape of the economy, not just the growth www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

An entire article on fuel security in Australia that just cannot bring itself to mention - Regulating oversized urban tanks or even discouraging their purchase - Just....not driving and using active / public transport? - Fixing EV incentives, getting rid of loopholes and retiring ICE cars early

Going since Abbott's first act of governance. www.climatecouncil.org.au

Australia really needs a truly independent climate accountability body. The Climate Change Authority is basically just a pro-government advertising body at the moment, just as much as the dep't of environment is.

How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Warning to attendees of #AGU25 next couple weeks

It honestly feels kind of mean to keep going. How did no one stop her from doing this? I read bad books for a living and I've never seen such a trainwreck.

Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore. reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again

I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo. He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it. "He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."

I guess what I'm saying is, for all the theatrical cruelty & dumbassery you see on your screens every day, there is 10X that amount of damage being done behind the scenes. Simply getting these fucks out of office won't fix all this -- repair will take many decades.

The shift to EVs is happening—fast. Manufacturers can either embrace the long-term transition or chase short-term gains by clinging to petrol and diesel. China is choosing the long view. Many in Europe aren’t. The risk? Ending up with cars no one wants, lost market share, and shuttered factories.

See what happens when government policy creates incentives? More of this please! www.aemc.gov.au/sites/defaul...

The shape of the economy matters as much as the size…investment in renewables & coal mines both lift GDP, but one improves the future & one harms it…our MPs should talk as much about the shape of economic activity as its rate of growth Great podcast thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...

How weird…one minute we are supposed to have a gas shortage (hint: we didn’t) and now we are going to let AI data centres build new gas fired electricity generators to ensure they have enough electricity… Its as if everything the government says about gas is BS #climate

Oh no, we got a moonshot here folks www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...

An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour. - Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times - 10% of daily German household use - 5.5 hours of Netflix - ~4hrs of gaming This is probably a huge underestimate www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...

If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch. Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

How someone could write this and still have the effrontery to call themselves a journalist is beyond me

You really need an acid bath after reading this puff piece shit

The only thing Segal should be asking is for the PM to accept her resignation

I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.

"views which have been probably accepted without debate" bsky.app/profile/john...

This comprehensive article shows the origins of Australia's high #gas and #electricity prices. We face an energy price crisis driven by gas prices as a cartel of producers starve the domestic market and wreak havoc on domestic consumers and industry www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Excellent article for reminding everyone why new gas fields need to be banned and gas companies need to be taxed out of existence. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.

A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Excellent short video on Australia' s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality when it comes to #fossilfuel Buy the way when will we kick #coal and #gas lobbyists out of the COP talks? Way past time to get the fox out of the hen house youtube.com/watch?v=aQDS...

Thousands of climate activists launched kayaks and small boats into a major Australian harbour on Saturday as a flotilla protest entered its second day. #RisingTide #NoNewCoal #TaxCoalExports #FairTransition #ClimateAction #Flotilla #FossilFuel #Protest #Newcastle www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

Rising Tide Protestival is underway. These Nanna faces do the talkin’. (See the red line on the ship? It shows the ship is empty if visible. The load of coal is heavy, the red is underwater, the ship is full of Coal. Off to offload its Scope 3 emissions elsewhere. Not our concern, they say.)

Local commercial TV News in Newcastle says “All eyes are on Rising Tide Blockade this weekend”. You bet! #RisingTide #ClimateAction #Newcastle Keep up with us Knitting Nannas at RT right here: knittingnannas.org/rtprotestiva...

I love direct action

News from the Nannas on day one of the Rising Tide Protestival knittingnannas.org/2025/11/28/r...

Zack Schofield of Rising Tide with the flotilla (and police) in the background. #PeoplesBlockade.

"Thousands gather in Newcastle Harbour as Rising Tide flotilla blocks coal exports" #RisingTide 👇🏽 www.news.com.au/national/nsw...