@climatem4tters.bsky.social
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A new study from a group of scientists, including Climate Council fellow Dr Wesley Morgan, has found a way to calculate the climate impact of individual fossil fuel projects.
We must urgently cut climate pollution to ensure a safer future for vulnerable communities and generations to come.
We must urgently cut climate pollution to ensure a safer future for vulnerable communities and generations to come.
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A new study from a group of scientists, including Climate Council fellow Dr Wesley Morgan, has found a way to calculate the climate impact of individual fossil fuel projects.
We must urgently cut climate pollution to ensure a safer future for vulnerable communities and generations to come.
We must urgently cut climate pollution to ensure a safer future for vulnerable communities and generations to come.
It’s not surprising that Democrats needed 2 terms to get a substantial number of chargers installed. Unionisation and good regs clearly matter too. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream
We never got those promised EV chargers — but we did get a future for EVs.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s not surprising that Democrats needed 2 terms to get a substantial number of chargers installed. Unionisation and good regs clearly matter too. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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The legacy of the Olympics in Brisbane is going to be less greenery, more flooded housing and less affordable housing.
Perfect!
Perfect!
So…let me get this straight…rules aimed at preventing billion dollar disasters (ie ‘red tape’) are “unecessary restrictions”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Flood risk put on residents as flood measures relaxed in housing push
Experts say changes by the Queensland government could ease construction costs by removing what the property industry describe as "unnecessary" restrictions, while residents could be left wearing the ...
www.abc.net.au
October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The legacy of the Olympics in Brisbane is going to be less greenery, more flooded housing and less affordable housing.
Perfect!
Perfect!
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So…let me get this straight…rules aimed at preventing billion dollar disasters (ie ‘red tape’) are “unecessary restrictions”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Flood risk put on residents as flood measures relaxed in housing push
Experts say changes by the Queensland government could ease construction costs by removing what the property industry describe as "unnecessary" restrictions, while residents could be left wearing the ...
www.abc.net.au
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So…let me get this straight…rules aimed at preventing billion dollar disasters (ie ‘red tape’) are “unecessary restrictions”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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It's why they love to call it an "approvals" rather than an "assessment" process
See also the laundering of fossil fuel industry as "energy" industry (& media who're obediently towing the line)
See also the laundering of fossil fuel industry as "energy" industry (& media who're obediently towing the line)
Just heard Murray Watt arguing changes to environmental laws were needed so we can export more minerals. Murray, what? They’re for environment protection!
Julia Thornton, Surrey Hills
The Age, letters
Julia Thornton, Surrey Hills
The Age, letters
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's why they love to call it an "approvals" rather than an "assessment" process
See also the laundering of fossil fuel industry as "energy" industry (& media who're obediently towing the line)
See also the laundering of fossil fuel industry as "energy" industry (& media who're obediently towing the line)
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Labor's EPBC reforms:
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
Greens say Labor’s nature laws revamp ‘worse than status quo’ with climate impact of fossil fuel projects overlooked
Greens say Labor’s nature laws revamp ‘worse than status quo’ with climate impact of fossil fuel projects overlooked
Private briefings confirmed how Labor intends to deal with some contentious elements of rewritten Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
Labor has confirmed the climate impact of fossil fuel projects still won’t be considered before they are approved under a revamp of federal nature laws, with the Greens labelling the government’s plan “worse than the status-quo”.
The Greens, opposition and select environment and business groups have been briefed on parts of the long-awaited re-write of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Epbc) Act ahead of its introduction to parliament in the upcoming sitting fortnight. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Labor's EPBC reforms:
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill)
👎NO climate trigger
👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea)
👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets
Revamp IS worse than status quo
This is worrying. theconversation.com/a-crucial-st...
A crucial store of carbon in Australia’s tropical forests has switched from carbon sink to carbon source
The woody biomass of Australia’s tropical rainforests has already switched from carbon sink to carbon source – and the reason is climate change.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is worrying. theconversation.com/a-crucial-st...
#auspolitics I don’t want mediocre environment laws agreed to by the dying LNP. I want environment laws that The Greens and David Pocock and other like minded independents will support. If you agree, sign this petition.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
PETITION: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas
The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
#auspolitics I don’t want mediocre environment laws agreed to by the dying LNP. I want environment laws that The Greens and David Pocock and other like minded independents will support. If you agree, sign this petition.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
Sign the petition. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year.
Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
October 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sign the petition. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
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Dude can afford the best speech writers money can buy, has unparallelled access to the world‘s top scientists, supposedly received an Ivy League education, and yet *this* … this codswallop… is what he decides to say while addressing the UN. Make it make sense! 😵💫
“It used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and 1930s they said, ‘Global cooling will kill the world,’” Trump said. “Then they said ‘global warming will kill the world.’ But then it started getting cooler … It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” 🤷🏻♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Dude can afford the best speech writers money can buy, has unparallelled access to the world‘s top scientists, supposedly received an Ivy League education, and yet *this* … this codswallop… is what he decides to say while addressing the UN. Make it make sense! 😵💫
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"Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland are predicted to be pushed outside the “human climate niche” — that is, the temperature and humidity conditions in which humans can survive."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
October 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland are predicted to be pushed outside the “human climate niche” — that is, the temperature and humidity conditions in which humans can survive."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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She is fearless...love it.
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
She is fearless...love it.
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"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ... What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Vale Jane Goodall (1934-2025).
October 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ... What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Vale Jane Goodall (1934-2025).
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PSA: the Coalition's pronouncements on climate & energy policies (actually any policies) are irrelevant
We're up to 32🤯 new/extensions fossil fuel approvals--why is the majority Labor choosing life- & planet-destroying actions?
We're up to 32🤯 new/extensions fossil fuel approvals--why is the majority Labor choosing life- & planet-destroying actions?
Coalition is moribund
Let's talk about why Labor says it accepts the reality of climate change but approved 31 🤯 NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects & counting
~80% of 🇦🇺’s contribution to global C emissions is embodied in fossil fuel exports
Read @timinclimate.bsky.social for the gory details👇
Let's talk about why Labor says it accepts the reality of climate change but approved 31 🤯 NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects & counting
~80% of 🇦🇺’s contribution to global C emissions is embodied in fossil fuel exports
Read @timinclimate.bsky.social for the gory details👇
Australia Emissions 101: It’s the exports.
Where I step through the emissions impact of Australia’s fossil fuel exports so you don’t have to.
timinclimate.medium.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
PSA: the Coalition's pronouncements on climate & energy policies (actually any policies) are irrelevant
We're up to 32🤯 new/extensions fossil fuel approvals--why is the majority Labor choosing life- & planet-destroying actions?
We're up to 32🤯 new/extensions fossil fuel approvals--why is the majority Labor choosing life- & planet-destroying actions?
Make mining cos pay for government to check and clean up these 150,000 or so holes. Mining cos knew methane is far worse for climate than CO2. The sooner the uncapped drill holes are capped, the sooner methane turns into not as bad (🙄) CO2. @albomp @larissa waters www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Boreholes leaking methane? Not as funny as it sounds | First Dog on the Moon
It is in fact actually quite dangerous
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Make mining cos pay for government to check and clean up these 150,000 or so holes. Mining cos knew methane is far worse for climate than CO2. The sooner the uncapped drill holes are capped, the sooner methane turns into not as bad (🙄) CO2. @albomp @larissa waters www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We don’t need to mine the deep ocean floor. Mine waste can supply virtually all the metals USA needs for clean energy. Then there’s recycling from clean energy and e-waste.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines
An analysis of active US mines finds they already collect virtually all of the minerals the country needs for batteries, solar panels and wind turbines – but these critical minerals mostly go to waste
www.newscientist.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We don’t need to mine the deep ocean floor. Mine waste can supply virtually all the metals USA needs for clean energy. Then there’s recycling from clean energy and e-waste.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
“Australian Conservation Foundation climate program manager Gavan McFadzean said: “If the Albanese government keeps approving new coal projects, then its climate policy is to make the climate crisis worse.”
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Environment Minister Murray Watt criticised for approving coal mine expansion
The decision comes as the federal government considers its 2035 emission reduction target under the Paris Agreement.
www.smh.com.au
September 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“Australian Conservation Foundation climate program manager Gavan McFadzean said: “If the Albanese government keeps approving new coal projects, then its climate policy is to make the climate crisis worse.”
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Who says solar waste is a problem without a solution? Coordinating re-use locally still needs work, though.
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-recycl...
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-recycl...
reneweconomy.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Who says solar waste is a problem without a solution? Coordinating re-use locally still needs work, though.
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-recycl...
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-recycl...
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"Politicians and policymakers significantly underestimate the public’s willingness to contribute to climate action, limiting the ambition and scope of green policies, according to research."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Politicians and policymakers significantly underestimate the public’s willingness to contribute to climate action, limiting the ambition and scope of green policies, according to research."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wow, USA could supply all its electricity by covering all corn methanol land with solar. news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/10/26/s...
Solar Panels Reduce CO2 Emissions More Per Acre Than Trees — and Much More Than Corn Ethanol
A response to a recent essay in the New York Times.
news.climate.columbia.edu
September 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Wow, USA could supply all its electricity by covering all corn methanol land with solar. news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/10/26/s...
This deliberate destruction of cultural and botanical heritage in July 2025 make it clear that the IDF are driven by deep hatred of everything Palestinian. They had an acceptable hostages for ceasefire deal last year. Seed banks benefit all humanity. viacampesina.org/en/2025/07/i...
Israeli Forces Demolish Seed Multiplication Unit of UAWC’s Seed Bank in Hebron | Via Campesina
Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants' Seeds In a grave escalation of its assault on Palestinian agricultural sovereignty, food sovereignty and Indigenous Seed Heritage, Israeli military forces carri...
viacampesina.org
August 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This deliberate destruction of cultural and botanical heritage in July 2025 make it clear that the IDF are driven by deep hatred of everything Palestinian. They had an acceptable hostages for ceasefire deal last year. Seed banks benefit all humanity. viacampesina.org/en/2025/07/i...