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“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There’s no ‘patch’ for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.” — @michaelemann.bsky.social

Agriculture drives about 1/3 of GHG emissions around the world, and Brazil has made it a priority at next month’s COP30. This increased pressure is fueling disinfo and greenwashing... By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social.

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways. But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit. I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...

The Trump regime wanted to give King Charles one of President Eisenhower’s swords. The head of the Eisenhower Library objected and suggested a replica, since the swords are owned by the American people now. The Trump regime got pissed and the head of the Eisenhower Library has now resigned.

One for the “who could have seen this coming “ crowd

In Canberras Parliament House nearly a quarter of all registered lobbyists are from the fossil fuel industry. Yet FF workers represent only 1% of the workforce. Could explain why even new MPs fire back FF talking points when we visit them ie ‘gas is a clean transition fuel’.

Here's the bigger picture that contextualises Minister Bowen's boast—a well-substantiated, truthful perspective on what the @albomp.bsky.social govt's unending approval of new/extensions of Coal+Gas projects (32 🤯 & counting) means for 🇦🇺's Pacific friends "on the front line of climate change"

Reporter: “Is mainstream media complicit in the genocide in Gaza?” Francesca Albanese: “What is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.”

In mid-latitudes, 1°C warming shifts climate belts >150km away from equator, toward poles Closer to the poles means bigger shift Most plant, animal species, etc live in 2°C temp range In WA, 2°C moves Margaret River and Karri forest 300 km south What's 300km south for you? bsky.app/profile/prof...

Gotta love Australian universities these days. There's a federal senate Inquiry into University Governance right now, for good reason.

10/ imagine being a world expert in whatever - , quantum physics, multi-regression statistical analysis, sociology of work and organisational studies, ancient history, political science.... and being treated as though we are stupid and don't understand the issues or the numbers.

8/ And do you know why? I'm told the bean counters in the chancellory with their consultants apparently had the brainwave that each discipline major can be taught by just 3 staff if they get rid of all the content. And that will save money.

3/ My own discipline of sociology is losing 11 of 14 academics yet we have had a 65% increase in student enrolments this year and have more students than areas not being cut. Same story for other areas being hit with staff cuts.

2/ Journalists should challenge management claims of 'declining enrolments'. And budget crisis. Management and their consultants cherry pick data. I dont know the UTS situation but at Macquarie university they are cutting areas with growing enrolments.

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

7/ Specialist teaching is replaced with generic faculty wide units with 1000 + students, mostly online and no F2F tutorials. Macquarie wants to introduce a 'common first year' to the BA - so discipline content will be confined to 2nd and 3rd year - six units in total. No electives/option sets.

The 2035 Climate Target announced today by @albomp.bsky.social is not good enough. Read our media release here www.parentsforclimate.org/weak_2035_cl...

Australia's new and unambitious 2035 #climate target is "baffling" considering the climate risk assessment released earlier this week, says @billhare.bsky.social This graphic shows level of warming if all countries were to take similar action. Full press release here bit.ly/CA_Aus2035_t...

The Govt just set a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62–70%. That’s below science & flies in the face of the duty we have to protect the people & places we love. State commitments have 🇦🇺 headed for ~70%. This lowers the bar & makes it harder to push for more global ambition.

Oh yeah, that was weird

The “to reconsider” is the part that remains extremely damaging to the Royal Society. In the face of all the evidence presented and weighed to date … what is there to even “consider”? This should be an easy decision.

Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and Norway all present a target with an absurd "range". This is just..................not how a target works? Like, are they going to kill climate policies if emissions fall too much? Not a coincidence the worst greenwashers are the ones doing it........

Australia is so generous to the gas industry that more than half of our gas is being given away to foreign-owned companies. “Japan are buying gas from us and then selling it to other countries and making a buck out of it.” - Richard Denniss, Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Labor falls short on climate action again, jeapordising our kids' and the planet's future. Not happy Albo...

The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

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.👇

Australia's going to release its 2035 target today....here's my prediction. Going off remarks, rumours and murmurings it might end up with a much lower actual target (in the low 60s), with an even more egregious aesthetic 'range' to make it sound more ambitious

Nearly all of Australia's 'on paper' emissions reductions come from land use. This is largely because Aus chose 2005 as the baseline year from when 'reduction' starts. In 2005 there was very high land clearing which soon stopped. This is counted as a huge reduction, while polluters keep polluting.

“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”

Fuck I'm so fucking tired. Please go comment on this thing. I've been working in public higher education for 13 yrs, & I'm still not cleared under EXISTING PSLF rules (adjuncting is a motherfucker), & they want to do this to everyone coming up after us? Being both exhausted & enraged feels so weird.

Begging the media to stop using the word “crackdown” to describe the illegal and immoral activities of the Trump regime.

The odds of the Democratic Party being banned by 2028 are not zero. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The way the @albomp.bsky.social govt "acts" on climate is TERRIFYING: ⚠️>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration ⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS ⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond ⚠️32🤯 approvals of NEW/EXTENSION Coal+Gas projects ⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

So what they’re openly admitting is that Twitter — the apparent arena of ideas and conversations — has become overrun with Nazism, misinformation and toxicity? Have I got that right? Even the people who are running the joint are admitting this? Ok. So why would orgs/institutions stay there?

“This isn’t a one-off glitch ... It’s yet another symptom of a company that has hollowed out its internal capacity and outsourced critical functions all to save money,” one pilot tells Crikey.

NEWSFLASH - "FUEL and power subsidies, poor planning and political inaction have slowed Australia’s drive to cut its greenhouse emissions, a government advisory panel has warned." Oops, sorry, that was 29 years ago today.

a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it 2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth

It took an FOI request, but finally the 2024 ANU staff sentiment survey has been made available…on Reddit. I can see why leadership didn’t want these results out in the public. Not much love for leadership or the way the place is heading. 😬 www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...

The BoM CEO is taking up a new job as CEO of one of Australia’s biggest coal ports. gpcl.com.au/gpc-welcomes...

Cool, cool

The whole world is warming, but the rate has not been the same at all locations or in all seasons. Europe, more so than any other continent, has seen a rapid increase in June-August temperatures (i.e. Northern summer) during recent decades.

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

Well, this is extremely frightening.

Western Europe summer high temperatures have increased ~2.6 °C (4.7 °F) during just the last 50 years. That's in a world with only 1.4 °C of global warming.

I'm starting a series running through the 101s of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Here is the first part, digging deep into the emissions impact of Australia's fossil fuel exports, with a lot of interactive charts for you to play with.

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...