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Rosemary Vass
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Climate Action! That’s everything you need to know. As ProfMann says every part of a degree is worth fighting for.
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Quite possibly the biggest “yeah, nah” in the history of “yeah, nah”
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15h
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
The Huaneng Longdong coal plant is boasting of a 1.5 mtpa carbon capture facility: but the most recent Global CCS Institute report says the pipeline can only transport 0.2 mtpa. What happens to the other 1.3???

www.globalccsinstitute.com/wp-content/u...
Huaneng Longdong: A global benchmark for decarbonising coal-fired power Key Impacts • Scale and Integration: Integrated with the 2 × 1000 MW Zhengning coalfired power plant and paired with 6 GW of renewable energy, the project creates a hybrid energy infrastructure that balances fossil fuel reliability with renewables and CCUS. This ensures deep decarbonisation of the “last mile” of CO₂ emissions, setting a precedent for coal-to-clean transitions. • Cutting-Edge Technology: At its core is Huaneng’s proprietary HNC-7 hybrid solvent technology, which reduces energy consumption (≤2.3 GJ/ tonne CO₂) and solvent consumption while minimising its environmental footprint. This breakthrough achieves a decarbonisation cost of under Yuan 220/ton CO₂, positioning it as a commercially viable, globally competitive solution. • Full-Chain CCUS Demonstration: The facility showcases China’s first large-scale, full-chain CCUS facility in the power sector, featuring the nation’s deepest saline formation storage well and a supercritical CO₂ pipeline network capable of sequestering 200,000 tpa (rising to 500,000 tpa in Phase II). Real-time dynamic monitoring demonstrates permanent storage, enhancing trust in geological carbon management. • Global Commercial Blueprint: By demonstrating mature, scalable CO₂ capture technology and a sustainable business model, Huaneng’s project can help accelerate the global commercialisation of CCUS. It offers developing economies a pragmatic template to reconcile coal reliance with climate goals by illustrating that lowcost, high-efficiency carbon capture is achievable. Catalyst for action The Longdong Energy Base project illustrates China’s leadership in CCUS innovation and helps to redefine the outlook for coal-powered energy. Its success underscores the critical role of advanced carbon capture in achieving net zero targets, offering a replicable framework to decarbonise heavy industries and fossil-dependent grids. As the most advanced commercial-scale …
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Hey er - has the Petra Nova CCS plant in Texas stopped capturing CO2 again? Or did they just stop reporting data from 2025 onwards?

www.eia.gov/electricity/...
electricity data browser for petra nova a table from the website
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Good column by Sean Kelly on the ALP needing to not waste the idiocy of the Libs

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
You thought climate was a Coalition problem, but Albanese may rue his enemy’s low ebb
Before Labor becomes too smug, it should heed the warning of its president, Wayne Swan: Complacency is “the handmaiden of decline”.
www.smh.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Some extremely strong words on the gas industry by Mike Rann speaking at the @australiainstitute.org.au’s Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture

thepoint.com.au/news/251116-...
Gas lobby using tobacco tactics, former SA Premier warns
The fossil fuel sector is using “tobacco industry tactics” to maintain a bipartisan commitment to supporting gas expansion in Australia, former South Ausralian Labor Premier Mike Rann has said.
thepoint.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Oh geez, Ferguson has destroyed her with the question on how can renewables be increasing the cost of electricity when gas is the driver of the marginal cost #abc730
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d
“Prices going through the roof” errr have you seen the price of coal and gas? #Abc730
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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euanritchie.bsky.social
Disgraceful & tragic what governments have done to this once science powerhouse! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"Federal Science Minister...Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing the efforts of the CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel...in Australia."
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
10 years ago hydrogen buses were hyped and many cities ordered them.

Today the picture is clear: electric buses rule, hydrogen buses whither.
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines.

Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.

Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Rann said there were “battalions of lobbyists” in Brazil for COP 30 this week, “desperate to avoid any commitment to phase out the cause of the problem that threatens billions of people on our planet”.
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Mike Rann, former Premier of South Australia nails it

The fossil fuel sector is using “tobacco industry tactics” to maintain a bipartisan commitment to supporting gas expansion

“gas has become the lifeline that vaping was for the tobacco industry"

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Latest news headlines locally from Australia and the World. Get breaking news, politics, finance, entertainment, lifestyle, sport, weather and more .
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November 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
how good is the Abundance Agenda

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TransportPublished: November 13, 2025 Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s $450 million megayacht is so big that just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it quietly devours enough electricity every day to light up 580 average American homes, even when the billionaire is not on board by Sayan Chakravarty
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Trends in November #Arctic sea ice thickness over the last four decades. Unsurprisingly, ice is thinning across the entire Arctic Ocean.

Simulated data from PIOMAS. For more information: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
Polar stereographic map showing Arctic sea ice thickness trends in November over the 1979 to 2024 period. All areas are observing thinning ice using PIOMAS.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Another dataset confirms that last month was the warmest October on record in the #Arctic. The previous record was 2024. This is already a month with a very large increasing temperature trend (i.e., Arctic amplification). Not good.

Data from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 (data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/).
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Nothing is safe trom Trump:

The Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas will be removed to comply with a directive from the Trump regime to rid the public roadways of any political messages or artwork.
Buddy Holly crosswalk in his Texas hometown to be removed following order on road safety
“It’s such a tasteful cross section and people like it. But what do you do?” City Council Member Christy Martinez-Garcia said of the crosswalk that depicts Holly's iconic glasses.
www.nbcnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Journalists face challenges in reporting on climate interventions because the science is complex and the issues are often multifaceted. But the reporting should avoid sensationalism and try to present risks proportionately, help the public understand uncertainty, and avoid oversimplification.
The non-scientist’s guide to reporting on climate repair
Journalist Rebekah White from New Zealand unpacks the challenges for a better climate repair reporting.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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zacklabe.com
Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...

Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
Map showing the change in average winter temperature in degrees Fahrenheit by county for the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2025. Nearly all areas are warming.
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Frankie the flamingo is all of us:

“As the weather turned cool this autumn across England, Frankie the flamingo had apparently had enough.

“On a blustery Sunday morning this month, the juvenile bird vanished from the zoo in Cornwall where she was born.”
On a Clipped Wing, Flamingo Escapes a British Zoo for a Life in France
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲
Boeing has a carbon emissions problem. Startup Charm Industrial is cleaning up. | TechCrunch
The deal will see Charm Industrial collect forestry waste and transform it into a bio-oil it buries underground.
techcrunch.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Javier Blas is so visibly excited about the future where we burn so much fossil fuel that we literally destroy the planet's life support systems

No one denies the possibility of continued fossil fuel: that possibility is why we're fighting, you absolute turnip

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction Can’t Remain Taboo November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM GMT+1 By Javier Blas Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Hide The International Energy Agency is no longer sure that fossil-fuel demand will peak this decade, as it previously predicted, due to governments backpedaling on their clean-energy commitments. The agency's new report says "the world remains thirsty for energy" and "there is less momentum than before behind national and international efforts to reduce emissions". The energy transition is currently one of addition rather than substitution, where renewable sources of energy top up fossil fuels rather than replacing them, and this addition phase may last for 25-plus years. Suggesting that fossil fuels will stay around for a long time remains taboo in the energy debate. In climate change gatherings, the world has agreed to “consign coal to history” and “transition away” from oil and natural gas. It has signaled, too, “the beginning of the end” of the fossil-fuel era and a “swift” transition to renewables. That’s all very well meaning but there’s a problem: With apologies to Margaret Thatcher, fossil fuels are not for turning. Just two years ago, the International Energy Agency unequivocally said that fossil-fuel demand would peak before the end of this decade. It was a black-and-white statement that left no wiggle room. “The world is on the cusp of a historic turning point,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said at the time, adding: “This is the first time that a peak in demand is visible for each fuel this decade — earlier than many people anticipated.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Greenhouse gas data is finally rolling in again, and my dashboard is back up-to-date. Unfortunately, the story hasn’t changed... 📈

More climate change indicator graphics at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through October 2025. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 425 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1928 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Hell, yes!
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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November 16, 2009 – who is going to PAY for CCS? Well, you, obvs.

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Sixteen years ago, on this day, November 16th, 2009, A recently-released report by the World Coal Institute (WCI) on how to finance the experimental Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology for power stations, reminded me of a cartoon from years ago by the Australian cartoonist, Patrick Cook. In the cartoon, a huge bloated budgie (parakeet) with the letters “BHP” emblazoned on its chest, was holding a gun to its own head while proclaiming to a cowering politician, “Hand over the loot or the budgie gets it.” (At the time, BHP — which owned iron ore mines and steel mills — was haggling for government support for its ailing steel operations). Burton. B. 2009. The Coal Industry Wants Your Cash to Save Them. PR Watch, 16 November. http://www.prwatch.org/news/2009/11/8696/coal-industry-wants-your-cash-save-them The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 387ppm. As of 2025, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events.
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Fossil Ads

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November 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

newrepublic.com/article/2028...
a slop generated baby hippo swimming in water In 2021, every active Meta user cost around one kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e—a way of measuring greenhouse gases—in terms of direct and unadjusted power grid emissions. By 2024, that had risen to 1.8 kilograms of CO2e. Similarly, every $1 million of revenue caused about 26 tonnes of CO2e in 2021. That’s now 36 tonnes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Meta’s push to force-feed advertising slop into every single corner of the massive digital space it controls could not have worse timing. The country it’s headquartered in is pouring cash into resuscitating coal and accelerating gas. The United States just saw the first two half-year periods with an increase in coal generation for at least half a decade (probably longer), as the Trump administration sets about pouring millions into keeping coal on life support. meta's emissions rising fast
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM