“Australia is the world’s 3rd largest fossil fuel exporter, its outsized role in the climate crisis calls for serious action. Every shipment of coal that leaves this port contributes to more devastating bushfires, floods and cyclones,” - story Jordyn Beazley www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The cost. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Comparing the costs of net zero to the cost of delaying or not taking action? "At least three recent analyses have found that it is far cheaper for Australia, and the world, to make a well-coordinated effort to reach net zero by 2050" @nickevershed.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Air temperatures 30km above the Southern Ocean & Antarctica have climbed to 30C above average, driving a hotter, drier SE Australia. Last time this phenomenon occurred was 2019 - you may recall what happened next.... By @petrastock.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'It’s time for outfits that attack science and scientists to pay the price for the threat they pose to human civilisation.' Alas no. Rather, Lachlan gets promoted and the siblings who might have contained him take the $1bn+ buyout. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And in other news ... "catastrophic consequences for generations to come ....The research shows the accelerating effects of climate change – even if it is limited to 2 degrees – are placing the West Antarctic Ice Shelf in “severe” risk of collapse". www.smh.com.au/national/emp...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

The dark cruelty of a contrarian small press that has pledged to print history "as is" defending its decision to remove the secret code this guy used to document his murders from his diaries as "unprintable", and so censoring the destruction of a people by editing history, is just next level.

It also found that the legal consequences for states that breach these obligations could include paying reparations to injured states. Truly a moment of hope #ICJAO www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Last night, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion, finding that states must take appropriate action to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees, and that a failure to do so may constitute a wrongful act. www.greenpeace.org.au/news/worlds-...

Never thought I'd see this day! A #carbon price back on the policy menu? It’s always been the best approach for companies to get to #netzero - let’s do it! Thanks @riotinto.bsky.social (wait...did I actually type that?). www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne... #auspol

I wrote something about the Pabai case for Crikey: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/16/t...

World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say #climatecrisis news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night. Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing. apnews.com/article/texa...

'Too many people in power or with platforms "have not yet understood that we’re in a war of language – and a war of the truth – about the climate", she added (Luisa Neubauer, a German activist from Fridays for Future). “And too few of us are actively standing in the way of that.”

Just started reading Syntony and Spark by Hugh H.G. Aitken, 1976. Lovely bit on creativity; interesting to reeamine in light of claims in AI.

Frustrated with what they describe as the Australian Government’s failure to protect them from catastrophic global heating, a group of young Australians are taking their concerns to the United Nations. If Canberra won’t listen, they say, perhaps Geneva will. @ashleighwyss.bsky.social reports.

Carli Reeve is part of a grassroots movement gathering data, asking questions about the environmental implications of seismic surveys, in particular on little penguin colonies, and urging a national moratorium on the practice. Theoné van der Merwe reports. Co-published with @crikey.com.au

Atul Gawande, a former senior official at USAID, wrote online: “This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children’s lives a year – and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Seismic blasting is the first step in offshore oil and gas exploration — but little is known about its effects on marine life.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Seems more relevant now than ever. @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social

A new addition to my TAS investigations. This is one of the most egregious cases of govt negligence I’ve ever come across. Tasmanians need to question how their child protection bodies are run. It’s a disgrace. #politas

A clear illustration of how the Australian diplomatic corps were the first to understand the value of modelling and put it to work to derail attempts to address climate change. For more on this, check out the story I published with @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the origins of ABARE and this idea.

Another piece about heat waves around the world that does not mention climate change...

This is an excellent visual for how bad the North West Shelf extension is www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Instead of actually protecting Murujuga from Woodside’s acid gas emissions @australianlabor.bsky.social lobbies UNESCO to change their findings. Oh… and chose not to even consider the 4 BILLION tonnes + of greenhouse gas emissions. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Starting in August 2024, an unprecedented heatwave has swept across Western Australia’s reefs, turning corals white from the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo all the way to Ashmore Reef, about 1,500km north-east.

I guess the govt could approve *more* gas fields...

Your taxpayer dollars, no longer at work: "Local social welfare authorities and police shared their observations of sharp increases in intimate partner violence, child abandonment, child marriage, and trafficking in persons in the food-insecure areas they serve" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

With Bradfield now called, @skyelark.bsky.social points out that the 2025 election was the first time where the votes for independents and minor parties were *larger* than for one of the ALP or LNP #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-202...

Excellent column by Ross Gittins "If you want to govern Australia effectively – you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to stand up, but still wants to enjoy the spoils of office." www.smh.com.au/business/the...

This article does a really good job of laying out the damage being done to American leadership in science. Gift link 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

If Australia is serious about reducing emissions and tracking towards net zero by 2050, we need to tackle a series of inconvenient truths about fossil fuels theconversation.com/australias-l...

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

Embarrassing: “The newly approved North West Shelf expansion (until 2070) would not jeopardise emissions goals because the site is legally required to ratchet down its own emissions toward net zero”. Of course, the ‘site’ doesn’t include exported emissions. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Nuts! This project makes no sense from Australia’s national interest and climate change point of view. Double nuts!: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/01/north-west-shelf-gas-extension-australia-lng-woodside-project-little-rent-tax?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A wild carbon credit boondoggle in which Chevron bought credits for a project on Indigenous land that residents didn't (and still don't) know anything about, painstakingly documented by the great Andres Bermudez-Lievano @elclip.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social drilled.media/news/CLIP-Ch...

Anyone wondering what collective action by scientists looks like when the science is under attack, look 👏 no 👏 further 👇

Last minute callout Melb ppl! I'm headed to PNG on Sunday to do some work w. PNG Greens. I promised I would bring them some old smartphones but haven't organised this but have just thought maybe its not too late You would need to drop them off in Footscray by Sunday early arvo.DM me if you can help

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

A decision scientists say could release up to 6bn tonnes of greenhouse gases, a “carbon bomb” that could blow up the Paris climate agreement. That gives $200 billion+ of gas royalty free to Woodside. And this is the treatment in The Age, Pg 17. A paper I was once so proud to work for.

Forgive my language please, but how long will it take Australian voters to recognize that “drill baby drill” also means “Fuck the Great Barrier Reef”?

Approving this would be the greatest giveaway of Australia’s natural resources ever. $200 billion +of Australia’s gas given royalty free to Woodside. It is against Australia’s national interest. Selling Australians out to corporate interests. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As a political economist and historian, I know how powerful fossil capital is. I know we're going to blow past our COP targets. I know that liberal net zero politics is insufficient. I know that there is a huge global fossil fuel production gap. But its still a gut punch to see it play out.

Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions. And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy