70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up. C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.” allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

Trump pushes World Bank to finance more fossil fuel development on.ft.com/3VvYW9l

100% renewables on a grid is impossible and will result in the collapse of all things holy 🤷‍♀️ Well, it won't and SA hit 155% renewables on the weekend and is still, as far as I know (‪@sedvitae.bsky.social‬?), functioning. So there's the answer to your doubters #energy

1) 🧵The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's $19B USD bid to take over Aussie fossil fuel giant Santos unexpectedly fell apart last week. But you might've missed this exclusive story that I wrote, which explains exactly how it happened & how it will impact Australia's climate goals... #Greensky

There are estimates that nearly $28 billion-worth of wind, solar, EV and battery projects have been delayed or cancelled since Trump took office, with a potential 19,000 jobs chopped. finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-maj...

Re-sharing the statement posted to the Anthony Albanese Twitter account on the recognition of the state of Palestine -- there were errors in the one apparently shared to BlueSky.

I spent a few years writing profiles of Australians from all different walks of life, which forced me to think about this to some extent. I have no good answers but the sense I have is that colonial Australians don't really associate themselves with, or engage with place.

"On Friday, a hard-fought global treaty to protect the “cornucopia of biodiversity” living there cleared a final hurdle and will become international law...The High Seas Treaty allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

Someone canceled a ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND dollar wedding

How the 'Cult of the Entrepreneur' and the 'God in a box' are distorting long term investment and climate solutions @roycerk2.bsky.social @mkblyth.bsky.social @lukepbeasley.bsky.social polqat.ghost.io/how-the-cult...

Because LNG can no longer compete with the cost of solar+storage, we could see a significant drop in global LNG imports in the second half of the 2020s, just as the U.S. is ramping up investment in export terminals. Meanwhile the EIA just assumes importers will keep buying?

Demand led economic transformation coming fast

Ausgrid slashes safety inspectors after report finds cheaper to pay permanent disability injury compensation

Actual quote "Lockheed Martin is grateful for the opportunity to help bring the President's vision to reality and make this addition to the People's House, a powerful symbol of the American ideals we work to defend every day."

Argentina spends $1bn to defend peso as Milei’s crisis spirals on.ft.com/4gtNFzW

incredible detail: ‘Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a "Godfather of AI" recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT.’

I regret to inform that AI slop has come for the cute animal videos.

Sigh

'“Water is the most precious thing in the desert,” she says. “You know, we all need water – animals and insects and people and land. It’s what sustains us. Every living thing depends on it.”' Words and photos by Isabella Moore.

One upside to the present moment is a revival in protest songs.

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

Australia's new NDC is out. Others have commented on the headline target, so here I'll focus on the "transition away from fossil fuels" elements. 🧵 unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

The new emissions target, when framed as an additional reduction of 19 to 27 per cent between 2030 and 2035 is laughably vague. The range is so wide, it renders it a bit meaningless for giving a policy or investment signal (other than the minimum needed to meet the bottom end of the target).

Yes, 62-70% is timid and craven, and if you're not prepared to go big when you've got this sort of political capital - thumping majority, hollowed-out opposition in disarray - you just don't care. But it's also a sign that post-Rudd Labor's instincts are exactly wrong for the 2020s electorate.

Government messaging on the 62-to-70% emissions reduction target is already emphasising how it is "responsible", "sensible" and "practical" days after its National Climate Risk Assessment found 1.5m Australians will have water lapping at their door from sea level rise in 2050.

With a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70%, I think we can say Ketan called it.👇

"I welcome this contribution to our national political debate but I would encourage these young leaders to go further and do less."

Israel’s minister of culture announced plans to cancel the funding for the country’s top film award ceremony after a 90-minute drama about a Palestinian boy won best feature on Tuesday night. nyti.ms/4mla5oe

"In Denmark, well-established heat planning mandates that gas and district heating networks do not overlap. The country has a decommissioning fund to cover the costs of removing gas supplies from homes and offers a scheme for free disconnections for private residences." medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

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.

Important thread.

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

Hadn't heard of this one but it says something that at a time when the media industry can't hang onto its best people we have industry plunging money into projects this free local paper.

Trump makes a Bond Villain look like a cute kitten. In hock to the fossil fuel industry, his administration is systematically seeking to destroy the renewable energy industry in order to restore "carbon dominance". This is risking the lives of millions of people for financial and political gain.

Hey man, what

A new analysis of European plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has revealed that their real-world emissions are five times higher than official tests would suggest.

A Palestinian guy escaped to Europe on jet ski and used ChatGPT to plan, including how much fuel was needed. A funny thing that's buried is that they ran out of fuel 20km from their destination -- presumably because ChatGPT's estimate was wrong? lmao www.reuters.com/worl...

AI "companies with budgets orders of magnitude bigger than the public sector, run by man-children with massive egos betting the farm on making a God in a box chimera where all it can do is to bugger up higher education and people's ability to write things." - @mkblyth.bsky.social Great interview 👇

"Where is the world? Where are the Arab nations?" This Palestinian girl broke down as she described an Israeli attack that targeted her family’s shelter in Gaza City.

Woah

* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ $ORCL

New @iea.org report: both oil and gas are seeing *RISING* decline rates - ie, you need to burn more cash every year just to get the same volume. If we don't exit this 19th century absurdity ASAP we're going to be paying for it, very literally in this case iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/0edbe...

On Monday, JD Vance attacked @thenation.com magazine and said (falsely) that it was funded by Soros. I’m currently at a media-law conference, and his remarks struck many lawyers as an opening salvo in an attack on the funding sources for media outlets. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

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/...

Someday someone will have to explain to me how international investment law #ISDS gets nation states sued for taking climate action & has chilling effect but international humanitarian law is entirely toothless as hundreds of thousands of people are massacred in Gaza. Schrödinger's international law

It's hard to overstate just how off the charts warm the Pacific is right now. The swath of the basin from California to Japan (a HUGE area) from 25N to 60N is ~3F (1.6C) above normal. To put it into math terms that is 6 Sigma/ standard deviations above the mean. More… 1/