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The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

"The report.......substantiates claims the country's gas export industry could be hampering global efforts to decarbonise, according to climate and energy analysts" A leaked report confirms carpet-bombing other countries with fossil fuel exports actively stifles renewable energy development -->>>

"coal & oil supply more than 70% of primary energy demand in Asia. Replacing coal & oil with LNG exported from Ksi Lisims LNG would result in a reduction of global carbon emissions" Unsubstantiated industry talking point even while studies showing otherwise grow www.lngindustry.com/special-repo...

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war -top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back -talk of "very likely" US liability -Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

I'd add that none of this is helped by a media and societal culture that associates wealth with smarts. Lots of people don't give a fuck about being rich! They just want to be comfortable and they like being teachers, nurses, gardeners, whatever. But we never ask what those people think

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

While I completely agree with all of this I'd like to read more of it from people who aren't Dame Anne Salmond- looking at you, men with a platform. She's sticking her neck out over and over; help her be part of a choir on this #nzpol

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

I think this is a really crucial point- we've not done well for our environment either, for example, and while we've made steps towards addressing inequity for Maaori and Pacific peoples there's still huge disparities. Important to see that the direction of travel wasn't great before these vandals

too bad they got the scientific facts wrong, though (cf multiple quoted posts below) bsky.app/profile/doct...

I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.

This way of viewing the world is straightforwardly immoral

They're giving a big middle finger to their own election promises (which were lies), our global commitments, and most especially to our children and grandchildren. Govt’s climate strategy: Let it burn newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Stories abound these days showing that global warming exceeding 1.5C is now part of science's best estimate. What does that mean for the #ParisAgreement 1.5C goal? A good time to revive a thread about a piece we wrote earlier this year on this topic in @science.org 👇🌍🌡️

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

For a few years, climate science denial seemed to have been replaced by “delay-ism” (“it’s real but not urgent”). Now, just as renewables start defeating fossils by being more cost-efficient, delay-ism morphs into defeatism: “it’s real, it’s urgent, but can’t be paid for”. All three are propaganda.

There are a lot of wonderful, passionate people on the centre/left in AoNZ who sincerely think once you get into office, you *have* to be more moderate, less outspoken, govern The Proper Way, and that's one reason (out of many) the 2017-2023 govts didn't achieve as much change as we all hoped for

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

Who would have thought that the announcement of the BYD Atto 1 selling for under $30k NZD would anger so many people on Facebook? It's crazy. Me and the other moderator have removed so many seething comments from people who feel threatened by this smöl car. 🤷

Don't think you need to be a WEO nerd or even read anything into IEA politics to see the problem here. The energy commentariat is apparently so denuded we just get to keep hearing the same old voices and lines getting high profile runs again and again (see also Yergin on Odd Lots last week).

Ahead of #COP30 a new article from me, unpacking whether New Zealand's 2035 Paris Agreement target (a 51-55% reduction) meets Paris Agreement criteria. TLDR lol no. (outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)

We treat our young people like shit and look away in horror when they choose death over living in this shit country. New Zealand is divided by age into boomers with universal basic income and young people who need to stop whining and get a job. I fucking HATE this piece of shit country #nzpol

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

He's desperate to give off the Illusion of leadership by making his problems and people disappear!

Thank god we're doing something about all the crime from *checks notes* homeless people

OpenAI has lost the crucial “dunce” vote.

@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...

We've seen this dynamic before on climate change, where poll after poll shows the public overwhelmingly support action but underestimate how much society agrees. Media's pursuit of false balance had a lot to do with that. Now that climate change itself isn't debated, denial has shift to RE.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

In our new report, based on the data, we suggest that we are hurtling toward climate chaos if trends continue. Thanks are due to my coauthors @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social and others. You decide if you agree by reading the paper for yourself here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Why is female joy so terrifying to weirdos and losers?

I know I've said this before, but from advertorials to false equivalence the media really needs to own up to its role in warping the climate issue. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

It has been 60 years, to the day, since LBJ released a report to the public about pollution. I wrote about appendix Y4 of that report. "The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

I have been voting since the 1978 election. Including Muldoon who was very bad this coalition is the worst government we have had for decades. They are actively vandalising all types of social and political frameworks. They need to go and Labour especially needs to step it up especially on climate.

I can be sure of one thing, we HAVE to vote these economic and ecological vandals out next year, or we're really in trouble #nzpol

Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’ newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

One of the things that grinds my gears about the Nats is the whole "rarely say anything overtly racist, but dog whistle by purposefully mangling the pronunciation of Māori/Te Reo words" There's no reason for Chris Bishop to be saying "Mowree" at his age other than he's a racist cunt. #nzpol

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

"Don't give up" isn't a plea for hope or optimism. I mean it like: "you don't need to run head first into that wall over there". Fossil fuels are an avoidable fuel source....you don't need to build comfort from painful self-destruction: it's a huge, ugly lie you've been told

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that our opponents (Trump and the GOP) talk about climate change all 👏 the 👏 time👏—always using relentless disinformation to make Democrats look bad. You HAVE to have a plan for that or else you're going to lose. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.