jsheph01.bsky.social
@jsheph01.bsky.social
Medical Physicist, sometimes guitarist, dachshund owner
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"Destroy Fascism"
Mural seen in Adelaide, South Australia
September 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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🇦🇺 needs a strong 2035 target to protect the people & places we love. Climate scientists tell us it must be a min of 75%

The Govt have an opportunity to show leadership & put long-term wellbeing ahead of vested interests

History will judge them on this.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor’s 2035 emissions target a ‘sliding doors’ moment for future generations
Australia must lead other nations in committing to 1.5C pathway for safety, security, prosperity and the environment, experts say
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export project is a disaster on five fronts:

🟠 Driving up WA energy prices
🟠 Threatening WA's domestic gas reserves
🟠 Paying even fewer royalties - down to just 0.6% of WA revenue in 2027-28
🟠 Corroding Murujuga rock art
🟠 Wrecking the climate

Read:
Woodside's North West Shelf gas export project: a disaster on five fronts
Australia Institute analysis reveals Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export project is driving up WA energy prices, threatening the state's domestic gas reserves, paying even fewer royalties, corrodin...
australiainstitute.org.au
September 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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“Approving new fossil fuel exports is destroying the future. It isn’t just a betrayal of our Pacific neighbors, it is a betrayal of all Australians, putting the profits of foreign-owned fossil fuel corporations ahead of our wellbeing, security & prosperity,” said @richarddenniss.bsky.social. #auspol
September 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Successive Australian Govt’s haven’t been telling the truth about the huge costs of not acting on climate.

Good to see the Albanese govt has finally released the National Climate Risk Assessment.

They need to back it up with a 2035 target of at least 75%.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns
Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia. #auspol

Media release:
Devastating climate risk assessment shows fossil fuel exports must end
Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating conseque...
australiainstitute.org.au
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Last week the Express ran with the following front page.

So obviously I had to take a look!

Is it true?

How does it compare to other professions?

Because anyone familiar with British RW media discourse knows they reserve a special venom for civil servants…🤷🏼‍♀️

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September 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Do Fox News hosts and commentators agree with their colleague Brian Kilmeade that the United States should "just kill" homeless people?

He still has a job. No apology. No retraction.

Just let us know, Fox.
September 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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“ExxonMobil made 51 heatwaves at least 10,000 times more likely than in an unheated world”

ExxonMobil knew they were cooking our world 50 years ago, & then CHOSE to spend decades funding doubt & denial.

People made this choice.
People who will be responsible for billions of people.
Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time
Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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This chart is wild. Near vertical direction on solar capacity globally, led by China.

And as Ember notes in a new report today, that trend is accelerating with nearly 400GW new capacity in first 6 months of 2025.
September 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations
September 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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New report from @ember-energy.org finds the world installed 380GW of new solar power in the first six months of this year, which is up 64 percent from the same period last year. Which was of course a record-breaking pace, because that's all solar does now is break records and blow past forecasts
September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I’m once again working with a city writing new integrated transportation & land use policy, and we’ve been discussing whether to PRIORITIZE walking, biking and transit, or achieve “BALANCE.” This is a key conversation where I sometimes give a fast and simple answer, but the truth is more complex. 1/
September 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"The high costs and long timelines of new nuclear power plants severely limit any impact on near-term decarbonization goals. Wind and solar are achieving rapid scale and greater cost-effectiveness, making them central to immediate emissions reduction"

globalenergymonitor.org/report/nucle...
Nuclear outpaced fourteen to one by wind and solar in Europe
Key points Limiting warming to 1.5°C is the internationally recognized target of the Paris Agreement, as reaffirmed at recent UN climate summits. However, scientific assessments indicate that this thr...
globalenergymonitor.org
September 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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That’s exactly what this feels like!
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Anyone talking about housing affordability not mentioning the capital gains tax discount is not talking about housing affordability.
September 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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“This cover-up is a national scandal. It confirms that Australia’s key regulators are either incompetent or captured by the gas industry, or both,” said @markogge.bsky.social.

“That there are no consequences for gas companies failing to act on a major leak of methane for 20 years is a disgrace."
Gas leak cover-up shows Australian governments are captured by the gas industry
It's been revealed that Santos’ Darwin LNG gas export terminal has been leaking large amounts of climate-destroying methane gas for 20 years - and gas
australiainstitute.org.au
September 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
August 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. 

Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around.

Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM