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Living here on this absolute jewel of a planet. Thank you First Nations. PhD in sustainability, equity & health. Former policy adviser ALP & Greens. Banned from Greens 20 yrs ago by silly rule they’ve now gotten rid of, but still waiting for apology! …🙄
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· Jun 23
What lies beneath … the jewelled sea in my profile picture suffered a marine heatwave this year, there was an algal outbreak and most of the sea life died.
Four years ago bushfires burned through nearly half the island, now this.
We must change our way of life, no matter how hard it is to accept
Four years ago bushfires burned through nearly half the island, now this.
We must change our way of life, no matter how hard it is to accept
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@readfearn.bsky.social:"The loss of corals at Ningaloo was part of the 4th & worst global mass bleaching event on record that exposed >80% of reefs in >80 countries to temperatures high enough to cause bleaching."
2024 was 1st calendar year w mean 🌏 temp exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial level
2024 was 1st calendar year w mean 🌏 temp exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial level
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
@readfearn.bsky.social:"The loss of corals at Ningaloo was part of the 4th & worst global mass bleaching event on record that exposed >80% of reefs in >80 countries to temperatures high enough to cause bleaching."
2024 was 1st calendar year w mean 🌏 temp exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial level
2024 was 1st calendar year w mean 🌏 temp exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial level
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A coalition of countries from global north and global south are calling for a commitment to a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels (following on COP28) in the #COP30 final text. Powerful speeches at a press conference this afternoon in Belém. #fossilfuels
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A coalition of countries from global north and global south are calling for a commitment to a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels (following on COP28) in the #COP30 final text. Powerful speeches at a press conference this afternoon in Belém. #fossilfuels
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#COP30 press conference today – Media Advisory: ‘Health Leaders call for Life-saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels’ cape.ca/press_releas...
COP30 - Media Advisory: ‘Health Leaders call for Life-saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels’ - CAPE
Belém | Brazil I November 17, 2025 – On Tuesday, November 18, health leaders, representing millions of health workers around the world, will issue a collective call at the joint ‘Health Leaders call f...
cape.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#COP30 press conference today – Media Advisory: ‘Health Leaders call for Life-saving Transition Away from Fossil Fuels’ cape.ca/press_releas...
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Press conference room absolutely packed at #COP30 as 20+ ministers gather to call for a roadmap away from fossil fuels to be a key outcome of this summit
(Many more countries have expressed their support behind the scenes)
(Many more countries have expressed their support behind the scenes)
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Press conference room absolutely packed at #COP30 as 20+ ministers gather to call for a roadmap away from fossil fuels to be a key outcome of this summit
(Many more countries have expressed their support behind the scenes)
(Many more countries have expressed their support behind the scenes)
Asking Peter Khalil MP some tough questions at the Vigil to end Fossil Fuels in Wills today
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Asking Peter Khalil MP some tough questions at the Vigil to end Fossil Fuels in Wills today
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Sabotaging & smashing our biggest & best science & research organisations is exactly what our worst enemy would do. Why can't we have a govt which creates hope, creativity & cleverness & a better future instead of a festival of fossil fuel and Trump toadying? Boo. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Sabotaging & smashing our biggest & best science & research organisations is exactly what our worst enemy would do. Why can't we have a govt which creates hope, creativity & cleverness & a better future instead of a festival of fossil fuel and Trump toadying? Boo. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
CAM artists at Merri-bek Summer Show: Love in Crisis climateactionmerribek.org/2025/11/16/c...
CAM artists at Merri-bek Summer Show: Love in Crisis
We are delighted to report that two artists from Climate Action Merri-bek — Maggie Cowling and Nina Killham — are exhibiting their artwork in the Merri-bek Summer Show: Love in Crisis, now showing …
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November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
CAM artists at Merri-bek Summer Show: Love in Crisis climateactionmerribek.org/2025/11/16/c...
State of the world 2025 - need a magic pill to stop cows farting so Bill Gates can keep flying round the world telling people how to do agriculture and eating cheeseburgers
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
State of the world 2025 - need a magic pill to stop cows farting so Bill Gates can keep flying round the world telling people how to do agriculture and eating cheeseburgers
I am calling once again for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) to be taken out of emissions reduction reporting.
Including LULUCF in reports is misleading, particularly in Australia
#ClimateChange #Emissions
www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Including LULUCF in reports is misleading, particularly in Australia
#ClimateChange #Emissions
www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/defaul...
www.dcceew.gov.au
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I am calling once again for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) to be taken out of emissions reduction reporting.
Including LULUCF in reports is misleading, particularly in Australia
#ClimateChange #Emissions
www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Including LULUCF in reports is misleading, particularly in Australia
#ClimateChange #Emissions
www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Just because we need beauty and a reminder what we’re working so hard for (as well as people)
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just because we need beauty and a reminder what we’re working so hard for (as well as people)
This is great news, hope the Aust govt is paying attention
The NSW Net Zero Commission recently advised the NSW Government that export emissions and local climate harms must be considered in proposed coal expansions.
The science and the law is clear - business as usual is no longer an option.
The science and the law is clear - business as usual is no longer an option.
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is great news, hope the Aust govt is paying attention
Won’t stop can’t stop being annoyed by #BoM new website - it’s not just that it‘s been dumbed down but even minor details like the pretentious name ‘The Bureau’ - what are they, the CIA or something
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Won’t stop can’t stop being annoyed by #BoM new website - it’s not just that it‘s been dumbed down but even minor details like the pretentious name ‘The Bureau’ - what are they, the CIA or something
The weird thing about car culture in Naarm/Melbourne is that I live without a car here, and people who know me, who know how I live, tell me that it can’t be done
(I think they mean it can only be done by people like you who are foolhardy - normal people won’t do it.)
(I think they mean it can only be done by people like you who are foolhardy - normal people won’t do it.)
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The weird thing about car culture in Naarm/Melbourne is that I live without a car here, and people who know me, who know how I live, tell me that it can’t be done
(I think they mean it can only be done by people like you who are foolhardy - normal people won’t do it.)
(I think they mean it can only be done by people like you who are foolhardy - normal people won’t do it.)
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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The economic case for methane action is clear.
- Global methane abatement yields large net global economic benefits.
- The benefit-cost ratio of methane action is at least 3—rising to more than 6 when health cobenefits are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Global methane abatement yields large net global economic benefits.
- The benefit-cost ratio of methane action is at least 3—rising to more than 6 when health cobenefits are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The economic case for methane action is clear.
- Global methane abatement yields large net global economic benefits.
- The benefit-cost ratio of methane action is at least 3—rising to more than 6 when health cobenefits are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Global methane abatement yields large net global economic benefits.
- The benefit-cost ratio of methane action is at least 3—rising to more than 6 when health cobenefits are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An incredible moment for Australia. Congratulations to all the First Nations leaders who worked so tirelessly to make this happen, and to the Victorian Government and Parliament for embracing the opportunity to show genuine national leadership. #Treaty #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
An incredible moment for Australia. Congratulations to all the First Nations leaders who worked so tirelessly to make this happen, and to the Victorian Government and Parliament for embracing the opportunity to show genuine national leadership. #Treaty #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reading Bill #Gates memo, what struck me most was the lack of any feeling for the natural world. He is a ‘good’ patriarch, a ‘good’ imperialist, who wants to ‘help’ poor people and show them how to do things better through technology. But there is no sense of the wonder of the world.
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Reading Bill #Gates memo, what struck me most was the lack of any feeling for the natural world. He is a ‘good’ patriarch, a ‘good’ imperialist, who wants to ‘help’ poor people and show them how to do things better through technology. But there is no sense of the wonder of the world.
Week 21 of Vigil to End Fossil Fuels climateactionmerribek.org/2025/10/29/w...
Week 21 of Vigil to End Fossil Fuels
Photo by Val Kay Tuesday the 21st October marked the 21st week of the Wills Vigil to End Fossil Fuels. We meet every Tuesday, 11 am – 1 pm, outside the office of Wills MP Peter Khalil, 466-46…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Week 21 of Vigil to End Fossil Fuels climateactionmerribek.org/2025/10/29/w...
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Anyone else had trouble interpreting information on the latest, very expensive, Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) website?
If you haven’t already had an look, take a few minutes to be totally bewildered 🤪
The only logical explanation possible, for this ineptitude, is that they want to privatise the BOM
If you haven’t already had an look, take a few minutes to be totally bewildered 🤪
The only logical explanation possible, for this ineptitude, is that they want to privatise the BOM
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Anyone else had trouble interpreting information on the latest, very expensive, Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) website?
If you haven’t already had an look, take a few minutes to be totally bewildered 🤪
The only logical explanation possible, for this ineptitude, is that they want to privatise the BOM
If you haven’t already had an look, take a few minutes to be totally bewildered 🤪
The only logical explanation possible, for this ineptitude, is that they want to privatise the BOM
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It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.
Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".
Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".
The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.
Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".
Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".
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The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.
October 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.
Ok another #AI weird claim for those interested - I was just searching for ‘cities on 38S’ (ie latitude 38 South) and Google AI told me Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand is one.
Dunedin is 46S - entire South Island of Aotearoa/NZ is further south than 38! How could it possibly get that?
Dunedin is 46S - entire South Island of Aotearoa/NZ is further south than 38! How could it possibly get that?
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Ok another #AI weird claim for those interested - I was just searching for ‘cities on 38S’ (ie latitude 38 South) and Google AI told me Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand is one.
Dunedin is 46S - entire South Island of Aotearoa/NZ is further south than 38! How could it possibly get that?
Dunedin is 46S - entire South Island of Aotearoa/NZ is further south than 38! How could it possibly get that?
Maybe all technologies are great and useful up to a certain point, and then they get too much and harm us?
Asking as a historian who has thought a bit about this kind of thing
Asking as a historian who has thought a bit about this kind of thing
October 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Maybe all technologies are great and useful up to a certain point, and then they get too much and harm us?
Asking as a historian who has thought a bit about this kind of thing
Asking as a historian who has thought a bit about this kind of thing
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How to take an informative website and fuck it. Bureau of Meteorology I’m looking at you.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
How to take an informative website and fuck it. Bureau of Meteorology I’m looking at you.