It’s already been bad with this Luxon government already on so many issues, but it got even worse now.

this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"something I can't report on" - great #ausmedia journalism as always

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

LNG exports around the world need to be scrutinised for claims of displacement of coal. An earlier Biden admin study had also found that additional exports of LNG from the US would displace renewables; not coal drilled.media/news/DOE-LNG...

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.

"Exports of Australian gas carry “substantial risks” of slowing the move to cleaner energy in Asian countries, according to a confidential report for the Western Australian government that undermines the government’s own narrative that the industry helps cut global emissions."

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:

The biggest sell-through in this shitty paper’s history is coming tomorrow

Dick Cheney, who died at the age of 84 on Monday, never addressed the worst transgression of his decades in politics and government: his deployment of lies to grease the way to the Iraq invasion that led to the deaths of more than 4,400 US soldiers and 200,000 or so Iraqi civilians.

"The breakthrough research, which is undergoing the process of academic peer review, also shows it to have been the dominant species for the majority of the bloom's existence and one of five Karenia species present."

As Julia points out, this is a local government presenting a public relations position as if it were journalism, and relying on the naive, the hopeful and desperate not to ask too many questions. There is a difference between journalism and public relations, and it matters.

“parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws that have been proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply as well!” electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

just....enjoy this

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Renewables projects in 2024 will save $billions in fossil-fuel costs. And more than 90% were more cost-effective than any new fossil fuel alternatives. leahy.substack.com/p/how-china-...

This is amazing news. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: ExxonMobil CEO warns EU sustainability law could end Europe operations reut.rs/4qGyk3A

I took a look at what the submissions to the Australian Senate's climate misinformation inquiry had to say for @drilledmedia.bsky.social. The more you look, the more it looks like anti-renewables groups kicked an own goal in the rush to flood the process.

Now this is interesting…

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.

South Australia has announced a $17.5m fund to subsidise half the cost of new gas projects in the state - the same state that leads the country in renewables uptake. The decision has been welcomed by Australian Energy Producers.

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life” Discovered in Turkey

The head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission will step away from all defence-related corruption referrals following questions over his handling of perceived conflicts of interest.

High-level US representatives are staying away from the UN climate negotiations in Brazil, even as President Donald Trump seeks to influence energy policy globally.

The wild thing is that certain sections of the media scold Gen Z like they used to scold Millennials, proving that the only real throughline is a hatred of young people.

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

Holy moly. Isabelle Boemeke had "input" on draft orders aiming to deregulate nuclear power in America. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... @roycerk2.bsky.social's piece in @drilledmedia.bsky.social on Boemeke is here: drilled.media/news/rad-fut...

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

Great story on ABC about the campaigns of bullying and intimidation experienced by farmers hosting renewable energy. Michael McCormack's response? "I'm not going to take any responsibility. I'm sorry. I'm just not". Absolutely shameful. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

A final decision was expected on the institute's controversial closure by this Friday, but given “the level of detail in some of the feedback received”, that deadline was pushed back until November 14.

Excellent by @ketanjoshi.co "Australian gas exports don’t cut coal overseas, and here are the charts to prove it" thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Everybody's talking about Dem strategy, so here's something to add to the mix. I start with this premise: The best and most reliable indicator of whether someone will vote red or blue is the density of the place they live. More dense, more likely to be blue, & vice versa.

when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...

Question mark leads by a landslide What a complete mess our political system is in. Just an utter laughable debacle.

Vietnam's former imperial city floods after record rains. Centuries-old buildings in Vietnam's former imperial city of Hue, a UNESCO world heritage site, are flooded by brown water as heavy rainfall inundates the country's central coastal region since the weekend

A marine ecologist's discovery two years ago that sparked a restoration project becomes a key element to South Australia's response to the devastating algal bloom.

Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.

"Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned."

Australia’s most advanced renewable grid hits new wind and solar records, with batteries also playing a key part and gas relegated to a minor role.

Stunning satellite imagery of Hurricane Melissa tonight.

"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA. Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮 www.iea.org/commentaries...

Did you know that a seriously wealthy immigrant family from the USA, the Lennon family, and in particular the grandson is behind the anti- immigration rallies? Ironically the family business Peet owns something like 48,000 properties that they land bank and do not rent out.