“The quickest way to generate more power is to roll out wind and solar. Trump is actively intervening to obstruct this.” www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Scott Morrison should never have been PM. What appalling lack of judgment to jump even more enthusiastically on the MAGA train. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups. Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

The official retirement of a US flag involves burning it to ashes

The New Zealand government may be about to weaken our 2050 emissions targets. New Zealand already excludes methane from agriculture and waste from the overall net-zero 2050 target: biogenic methane has a separate 24-47% reduction target for 2050. 1/-

Still struck by a Merriam-Webster IG post I saw on legal doublets: artefacts of the bilingual Norman legal system. The English synonym went first in the pair law (English/Germanic) & order (French/Roman) cease & desist all & sundry lewd & lascivious breaking & entering free & clear will & testament

Looking at 100 years of October sea ice - I am sure you can guess what will happen next... Summary of ice reconstruction: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p...

NEW – Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Svetlana Onye w/ comment from @zacklabe.com Read here: buff.ly/TBQ7aL8

“Dozens of Americans are seeking asylum in Australia as their US homeland becomes increasingly fractured and politically volatile during Donald Trump’s second presidency.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hey Dave, I've got a deal for you.

The Libs are flogging the dead nuclear horse. It appears little was learned from the election result.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

“Australian voters have backed the level of ambition of the Albanese government’s 2035 emissions reduction target.” #auspol #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's important to call this stuff out.

Senate inquiry told that astroturfing campaigns are inflaming divisions in communities, driving up bullying, harassment and intimidation. I've seen this in far too many communities, and it is so damaging. reneweconomy.com.au/bullying-har...

Andrew McLachlan complains CAAD’s Alex Murray has singled out Canavan, Rinehart & One Nation for spreading climate disinfo & says there’s nothing wrong with Senators selling Rinehart’s product in the Senate Peter Whish-Wilson “does she disclose her funding against net zero…?”🔥 #Estimates

Far right journo Chris Uhlmann on #SkyAfterDark tells Peta Credlin that just bcoz he believes climate change is “the largest scare campaign in human history”, it doesn’t give people a right to label him a climate denier or to say that he’s “denying the science.” Yes it does.

QUT DM Research Centre’s Carly Lubicz-Zaorski says a “complexity” with the climate debate is while most Australians believe in c/change, it’s mostly Progressive voters who do & relates to media “ppl who consume SkyNews are less likely to think that climate change is real” True😒 #Estimates

Carly Lubicz-Zaorski uses Gina Rinehart as an example of why we need greater disclosure laws on who funds Anti Climate groups such as Advance & the IPA, after we only found out Rinehart funds the IPA bcoz it was revealed in court Michelle Ananda-Rajah “2.3 million?”😳(in 1 year) #Estimates

This shouldn't need to be said, but coal is failing in the year 2025 because it is more expensive than alternative solutions. You can't polish this lump.

Alexa, what happens when you put a fracking executive in charge of the Department of Energy?

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

‘The US Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an email issued Friday and obtained by POLITICO.’ www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“Of all the billionaires who could have acquired a stake in TikTok, Murdoch has what is probably the least transparent and most extreme political agenda. It’s not hard to guess what kind of political content will be amplified, and what will be censored.” www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

All latitude bands were warmer than average over the last 3 months. This was particularly notable across the Antarctic around the South Pole (austral winter). Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). GISTEMPv4 data using their 1951-1980 baseline

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

Is that party going to reclaim the centre by leaving conventions against torture and slavery?

It’s always satisfying seeing Clive Palmer lose, whether it’s elections or vexatious legal proceedings.

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

“China is moving at lightning speed to secure a stranglehold over the industrial supply chain of nuclear fusion, aiming to leapfrog the US as technology advances from theoretical science to actual power for the grid.” www.smh.com.au/business/the...

And this was just last week!

"If we see emissions peak and fall in China, then we will see them fall everywhere" says Dr Wesley Morgan, Climate Council fellow. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/26/china-first-emissions-reduction-target-announced-global-impact

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

“Australia’s horrifying climate future in four charts – and how we can avoid the worst” #cliimatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

“Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with only coal and gas.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

After abolishing USAID, Trump resumes foreign aid - to his political buddy in Argentina. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

After abolishing USAID, Trump resumes foreign aid - to his political buddy in Argentina. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Very insightful piece.

China announces it will reduce its carbon emissions by 7 to 10% from peak levels (i.e., now) by 2035. This is the first emissions reductions pledge from the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and a hugely important step forward.

Peter Thiel: "[environmental concern & Islamic Shariah law are] the only thing people still believe in in Europe" - casts both as the Anti-Christ Trump: "I hate to see [Europe] devastated by [green] energy and immigration, that double-tailed monster that destroys everything in its wake" #hymnsheet

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

Farmers group supportive of renewable energy is seeing the effect of mis- and disinformation on its work, and says it has been targeted in a social media attack.

"Why the biggest threat to net zero is right-wing misinformation" #auspol #climatecrisis www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Dickhead politicians & cranks given a run up as "quirky" or "contrarian." Decades of reporting of climate change as if there was any real doubt about the science. Coddling anti-vaxxers. Telling people that "doing their own research" is like being the TGA. It all adds up.

A bad one.

Coalition MPs say Australia’s emissions are a fraction of the world’s total. What kind of argument is that?

Last month observed particularly large temperature departures across the #Antarctic near the South Pole, but all latitude bands were actually warmer than average. Another visual of a warming world. Data: GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 baseline (data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/).

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.