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Australian stellar astrophysicist. Concerned about the climate crisis - there is no planet B.
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Puget Bob
12 days ago
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Brent Toderian
13 days ago
āHereās the thing, Bill Gates: Thereās no āpatchā 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 diggingāand burningāfossil fuels.ā ā
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You canāt reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward arenāt legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-cant-reboot-the-planet-if-you-crash-it/
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Covering Climate Now
12 days ago
Agriculture drives about 1/3 of GHG emissions around the world, and Brazil has made it a priority at next monthās COP30. This increased pressure is fueling disinfo and greenwashing... By
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Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit ā even though the sector drives a third of global warming.
https://buff.ly/HduI7pH
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Michael E. Mann
13 days ago
"You canāt reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for
@thebulletin.org
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thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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You canāt reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward arenāt legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-cant-reboot-the-planet-if-you-crash-it/
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Tim Baxter
15 days ago
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...
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Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit
Did you hear about that āone low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizersā?
https://timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-gates-knows-he-is-full-of-shit-662183355a21
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Matt Novak
about 1 month ago
The Trump regime wanted to give King Charles one of President Eisenhowerās 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.
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Greg Jericho
about 2 months ago
One for the āwho could have seen this coming ā crowd
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends
about 2 months ago
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 āgas is a clean transition fuelā.
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Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List - Comms Declare
Comms Declare and Clean Creatives today released the F-List 2025, exposing the scale of fossil fuel influence in Australiaās advertising, PR, lobbying and media sectors.
https://commsdeclare.org/2025/09/25/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-flood-canberra-as-agencies-and-media-exposed-in-2025-f-list/
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Yung En Chee
about 2 months ago
Here's the bigger picture that contextualises Minister Bowen's boastāa well-substantiated, truthful perspective on what the
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govt's unending approval of new/extensions of Coal+Gas projects (32 𤯠& counting) means for š¦šŗ's Pacific friends "on the front line of climate change"
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Paul Eric Scannell
about 2 months ago
Reporter: āIs mainstream media complicit in the genocide in Gaza?ā Francesca Albanese: āWhat is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.ā
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Prof Ray Wills
about 2 months ago
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?
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Gotta love Australian universities these days. There's a federal senate Inquiry into University Governance right now, for good reason.
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about 2 months ago
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Prof. Amanda Wise
about 2 months ago
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.
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Prof. Amanda Wise
about 2 months ago
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.
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Prof. Amanda Wise
about 2 months ago
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.
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Prof. Amanda Wise
about 2 months ago
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.
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Prof. Amanda Wise
about 2 months ago
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.
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Prof. Amanda Wise
about 2 months ago
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.
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Parents for Climate
about 2 months ago
The 2035 Climate Target announced today by
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is not good enough. Read our media release here
www.parentsforclimate.org/weak_2035_cl...
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Climate Analytics
about 2 months ago
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
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David Pocock
about 2 months ago
The Govt just set a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62ā70%. Thatās below science & flies in the face of the duty we have to protect the people & places we love. State commitments have š¦šŗ headed for ~70%. This lowers the bar & makes it harder to push for more global ambition.
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Oh yeah, that was weird
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about 2 months ago
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CosmicRami š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø
about 2 months ago
The āto reconsiderā 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 āconsiderā? This should be an easy decision.
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Ketan Joshi
about 2 months ago
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........
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The Australia Institute
about 2 months ago
Australia is so generous to the gas industry that more than half of our gas is being given away to foreign-owned companies. āJapan are buying gas from us and then selling it to other countries and making a buck out of it.ā - Richard Denniss, Executive Director
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Labor falls short on climate action again, jeapordising our kids' and the planet's future. Not happy Albo...
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about 2 months ago
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Michael E. Mann
about 2 months ago
The concluding paragraph of
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Royce Kurmelovs
about 2 months ago
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.
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Royce Kurmelovs
about 2 months ago
With a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70%, I think we can say Ketan called it.š
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Ketan Joshi
about 2 months ago
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
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Hayden Starr
about 2 months ago
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.
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Matt Novak
about 2 months ago
āThe Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ācorrosive ideology.āā
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Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved manās scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ācorrosive ideology.ā
https://wapo.st/4mnNDLt
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! ⦠It's All For You!
about 2 months ago
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.
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Charles Johnson
about 2 months ago
Begging the media to stop using the word ācrackdownā to describe the illegal and immoral activities of the Trump regime.
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Greg Jericho
about 2 months ago
The odds of the Democratic Party being banned by 2028 are not zero.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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JD Vance threatens crackdown on āfar-leftā groups after Charlie Kirk shooting
Vice-president says White House will pursue those who praise Kirkās death and groups that āpromote terrorismā
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-podcast
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Yung En Chee
2 months ago
The way the
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govt "acts" on climate is TERRIFYING: ā ļø>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration ā ļøSea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS ā ļø
#FutureGasStrategy
to 2050 & beyond ā ļø32𤯠approvals of NEW/EXTENSION Coal+Gas projects ā ļø$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 2 months ago
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.
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CosmicRami š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø
4 months ago
So what theyāre openly admitting is that Twitter ā the apparent arena of ideas and conversations ā 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?
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GROK CHATBOT MIRRORORED X USERS '' EXTREMISTIC Views' in anti -Semitic posts, XAI says - Tech Word News
Elon Musk Artificial Intelligence Company, Xai, said that his Grok Chatbot relied too much to entry from the users of his social media platform after the code
https://techwordnews.com/grok-chatbot-mirrorored-x-users-extremistic-views-in-anti-semitic-posts-xai-says/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Crikey
4 months ago
āThis isnāt a one-off glitch ... Itās yet another symptom of a company that has hollowed out its internal capacity and outsourced critical functions all to save money,ā one pilot tells Crikey.
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'This isnāt a one-off glitch': Qantas pilots blast airline over data hack of 6 million customers
With Qantas now admitting hackers stole data from nearly 6 million customers, for some disgruntled pilots, it's further proof of operational rot as customers are left picking up the pieces.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/10/qantas-data-breach-pilots-vanessa-hudson/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1752127728-2
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All Our Yesterdays
4 months ago
NEWSFLASH - "FUEL and power subsidies, poor planning and political inaction have slowed Australiaās drive to cut its greenhouse emissions, a government advisory panel has warned." Oops, sorry, that was 29 years ago today.
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Micah
4 months ago
a point I make over and over re: climate change is that thereās no point at which itās 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
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Dr Liz Allen
4 months ago
It took an FOI request, but finally the 2024 ANU staff sentiment survey has been made availableā¦on Reddit. I can see why leadership didnāt want these results out in the public. Not much love for leadership or the way the place is heading. š¬
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Andrew B. Watkins
4 months ago
The BoM CEO is taking up a new job as CEO of one of Australiaās biggest coal ports.
gpcl.com.au/gpc-welcomes...
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GPC WELCOMES NEW CEO - Gladstone Ports Corporation
GPC WELCOMES NEW CEO %
https://gpcl.com.au/gpc-welcomes-new-ceo-2/
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Ben Eltham
4 months ago
Cool, cool
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Robert Rohde
4 months ago
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.
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Bill McKay
4 months ago
There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. Thereās no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but theyāre just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.
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Faine Greenwood
5 months ago
Well, this is extremely frightening.
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Robert Rohde
5 months ago
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.
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Tim Baxter
5 months ago
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.
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Australia Emissions 101: Itās the exports.
Where I step through the emissions impact of Australiaās fossil fuel exports so you donāt have to.
https://timinclimate.medium.com/australia-emissions-101-its-the-exports-a608459c76c0
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Joseph Cox
5 months ago
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...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/
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