Colin D Butler
@colin-d-butler.bsky.social
Dissident epidemiologist, Hon. Prof., Australian Nat'l Univ [PhD, MD (Aust'n. equivalent)]. Biosafety Now! advisor. Lead editor "Climate Change and Global Health. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects" (CABI, 2024). IPCC arrestee (2014). Views my own.
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In 2019 80% of 5 candidates shortlisted as inaugural prof of climate change & health at PIK and Charite Berlin were female; to correct a perceived bias. This was undoubtedly illegal under EU law. Until so-called planetary & climate health leaders can behave ethically there will be little progress.
In 2019 80% of 5 candidates shortlisted as inaugural prof of climate change & health at PIK and Charite Berlin were female; to correct a perceived bias. This was undoubtedly illegal under EU law. Until so-called planetary & climate health leaders can behave ethically there will be little progress.
July 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In 2019 80% of 5 candidates shortlisted as inaugural prof of climate change & health at PIK and Charite Berlin were female; to correct a perceived bias. This was undoubtedly illegal under EU law. Until so-called planetary & climate health leaders can behave ethically there will be little progress.
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Canadians: don’t buy anything from the USA; it just isn’t safe.👇🏼
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators
The Trump administration asked to remove three members of the commission that regulates the safety of consumer products and coordinates product safety recalls.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Canadians: don’t buy anything from the USA; it just isn’t safe.👇🏼
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Who could have possibly predicted that Trump's half-arsed petrified look-at-me bombing campaign would have failed to achieve its objectives edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...
Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...
edition.cnn.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Who could have possibly predicted that Trump's half-arsed petrified look-at-me bombing campaign would have failed to achieve its objectives edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...
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Small methane wells leak massive amounts—but are barely tracked. Like microplastics, pesticides, and biodiversity loss, they’re invisible by design. Profit demands willful ignorance.
www.vox.com/climate/4164...
www.vox.com/climate/4164...
Why we’re barely keeping track of this growing climate problem
Fossil fuel sites can emit a powerful greenhouse gas long after they shut down.
www.vox.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Small methane wells leak massive amounts—but are barely tracked. Like microplastics, pesticides, and biodiversity loss, they’re invisible by design. Profit demands willful ignorance.
www.vox.com/climate/4164...
www.vox.com/climate/4164...
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Please say more.
We don’t agree that Ireland is showing climate leadership. If anything, we’re a laggard.
June 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Please say more.
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Right before I saw the message from Trump I got a very different one from a friend in Tehran, so deeply surrounded by bombing that he was asking me to help communicate his last wishes. This is what my own taxes fund, so much pain upon my loved ones. We are complicit in so, so, so much violence.
June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Right before I saw the message from Trump I got a very different one from a friend in Tehran, so deeply surrounded by bombing that he was asking me to help communicate his last wishes. This is what my own taxes fund, so much pain upon my loved ones. We are complicit in so, so, so much violence.
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A new low in Australian excuses for fossil fuel expansion…apparently our coal and gas exports can be ‘netted out’ if we export enough green energy…can someone please call the atmosphere and tell it that burning fossil fuels wont harm it as long as we generate some renewables…FFS
I'm genuinely surprised @aunz.theconversation.com would publish such a misleading article. This is not 'journalism you can trust' it's propaganda.
theconversation.com/australia-co...
#auspol #climate
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#auspol #climate
June 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A new low in Australian excuses for fossil fuel expansion…apparently our coal and gas exports can be ‘netted out’ if we export enough green energy…can someone please call the atmosphere and tell it that burning fossil fuels wont harm it as long as we generate some renewables…FFS
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In 2016 Monash University said it would divest from fossil fuels. The same year it inked a deal with Woodside, Australia's biggest domestic oil and gas supplier, starting a decade-long partnership.
I looked at how the institution was living up to its promises. The short answer: it's not.
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I looked at how the institution was living up to its promises. The short answer: it's not.
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Inside the fight to get Monash University to divorce fossil fuels for good
As Monash's partnership with Woodside comes up for renewal, the university is facing pressure from students and staff to ditch the company for good.
www.crikey.com.au
June 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In 2016 Monash University said it would divest from fossil fuels. The same year it inked a deal with Woodside, Australia's biggest domestic oil and gas supplier, starting a decade-long partnership.
I looked at how the institution was living up to its promises. The short answer: it's not.
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I looked at how the institution was living up to its promises. The short answer: it's not.
/1
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People all over the world are saying no to the relentless pressures to have children. These four Kenyan men, for a variety of reasons, are defying the deeply pronatalist expectations of their culture to craft their own childfree lives as they want. nation.africa/kenya/news/g...
June 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
People all over the world are saying no to the relentless pressures to have children. These four Kenyan men, for a variety of reasons, are defying the deeply pronatalist expectations of their culture to craft their own childfree lives as they want. nation.africa/kenya/news/g...
climateanalytics.org/comment/paki... Incompetence on incompetence
Pakistan is boiling
But the numbers aren't telling the actual story
climateanalytics.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
climateanalytics.org/comment/paki... Incompetence on incompetence
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Norman Swan finally concedes origin of the SARS-2 pandemic could be from a lab!! (roughly 4 mins in). But extremely grudgingly, e.g. he mentions David Relman in support without revealing Relman warned of this in 2020. They fail to mention Daszak and EHA's disgrace.
Would you trust AI to make a life or death decision? - ABC listen
When you can't make medical decisions for yourself, it's often the responsibility of a loved one, or sometimes a doctor who doesn't know you at all.
Some researchers are suggesting artificial intell...
www.abc.net.au
April 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Norman Swan finally concedes origin of the SARS-2 pandemic could be from a lab!! (roughly 4 mins in). But extremely grudgingly, e.g. he mentions David Relman in support without revealing Relman warned of this in 2020. They fail to mention Daszak and EHA's disgrace.
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A year’s worth of rain falls in less than a week in an Australian region the size of Texas, triggering worst floods in 50 years.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Australian Outback Lashed by Year’s Worth of Rain in Week, Triggering Worst Floods in Half a Century
Australia’s remote outback in western Queensland has been swamped by flooding after being lashed with a year’s worth of rainfall in a week, sweeping away tens of thousands of livestock.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A year’s worth of rain falls in less than a week in an Australian region the size of Texas, triggering worst floods in 50 years.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Very rare to see a research paper devoted to the topic of a post-collapse world. h/t @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
April 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Very rare to see a research paper devoted to the topic of a post-collapse world. h/t @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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It's worth noting that the term "planetary boundaries" occurs not once within Ezra Klein's 304-page Abundance book. Which is all you really need to know about the book.
March 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's worth noting that the term "planetary boundaries" occurs not once within Ezra Klein's 304-page Abundance book. Which is all you really need to know about the book.
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
On March 20th, 2025, the global mean surface temperature once again set a new daily record at 14.29°C, beating the previous daily record of 14.24°C set just last year.
The record global temperature should be short-lived as a global cool down is expected any day now.
Code Yikes!
On March 20th, 2025, the global mean surface temperature once again set a new daily record at 14.29°C, beating the previous daily record of 14.24°C set just last year.
The record global temperature should be short-lived as a global cool down is expected any day now.
March 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
On March 20th, 2025, the global mean surface temperature once again set a new daily record at 14.29°C, beating the previous daily record of 14.24°C set just last year.
The record global temperature should be short-lived as a global cool down is expected any day now.
Code Yikes!
On March 20th, 2025, the global mean surface temperature once again set a new daily record at 14.29°C, beating the previous daily record of 14.24°C set just last year.
The record global temperature should be short-lived as a global cool down is expected any day now.
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Good piece by @ianbirrell on the seriously compromised Vallance:
👉🏻 On Farrar and the Lancet letter:
'Daszak [..] had submitted the letter to the influential journal at Farrar’s request – and they even tried to get it signed by Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO.'
👉🏻 On Farrar and the Lancet letter:
'Daszak [..] had submitted the letter to the influential journal at Farrar’s request – and they even tried to get it signed by Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO.'
March 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Good piece by @ianbirrell on the seriously compromised Vallance:
👉🏻 On Farrar and the Lancet letter:
'Daszak [..] had submitted the letter to the influential journal at Farrar’s request – and they even tried to get it signed by Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO.'
👉🏻 On Farrar and the Lancet letter:
'Daszak [..] had submitted the letter to the influential journal at Farrar’s request – and they even tried to get it signed by Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO.'
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Why are these questions not front and center in every news story about this travesty?
These men were not just deported, they've been incarcerated without trial in a brutalist megaprison.
What is the plan for them now? Are they awaiting trial? Where? Are they facing sentences? How long?
What is the plan for them now? Are they awaiting trial? Where? Are they facing sentences? How long?
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Why are these questions not front and center in every news story about this travesty?
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In an interview on @france24.com (seemingly just removed), Flo pretended that the Chinese authorities only discovered late in January that there were human-to-human transmissions in Wuhan.
I could expect this from a hallucinating chatbot, not from a supposed 'fact-checker'.
x.com/Florin_Unco...
I could expect this from a hallucinating chatbot, not from a supposed 'fact-checker'.
x.com/Florin_Unco...
March 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In an interview on @france24.com (seemingly just removed), Flo pretended that the Chinese authorities only discovered late in January that there were human-to-human transmissions in Wuhan.
I could expect this from a hallucinating chatbot, not from a supposed 'fact-checker'.
x.com/Florin_Unco...
I could expect this from a hallucinating chatbot, not from a supposed 'fact-checker'.
x.com/Florin_Unco...
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The Frankfurter Allgemeine explains that Lothar Wieler, ex president of the Robert Koch Institute (the German equivalent of the US CDC), now believes that a research accident is more likely than a zoonosis as origin of Covid-19.
@ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
@ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Frankfurter Allgemeine explains that Lothar Wieler, ex president of the Robert Koch Institute (the German equivalent of the US CDC), now believes that a research accident is more likely than a zoonosis as origin of Covid-19.
@ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
@ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
overpopulation-project.com/high-fertili... I argue 1980s reversal of opinion re relevance of rapid population growth to development and conflict in low income settings was a neoliberal "success". A view indirectly supported by Joan Robinson, yet most on the Left (and Green) fall into a trap.
High fertility in low-income settings: the cruelty of unfettered capitalism - The Overpopulation Project
The US government now shows clear disinterest in global development, a continuation of a trend seen already with president Reagan in the 80s
overpopulation-project.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
overpopulation-project.com/high-fertili... I argue 1980s reversal of opinion re relevance of rapid population growth to development and conflict in low income settings was a neoliberal "success". A view indirectly supported by Joan Robinson, yet most on the Left (and Green) fall into a trap.
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Let it be clear:
Farrar did not just sign Daszak's statement of support. He also organized its publication in Lancet.
This happened after he shared a taxi with Daszak back from a WHO conference in Switzerland on 12 Feb 2020.
Here is the never-published proof:
@JeremyFarrar #DRASTIC
Farrar did not just sign Daszak's statement of support. He also organized its publication in Lancet.
This happened after he shared a taxi with Daszak back from a WHO conference in Switzerland on 12 Feb 2020.
Here is the never-published proof:
@JeremyFarrar #DRASTIC
March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Let it be clear:
Farrar did not just sign Daszak's statement of support. He also organized its publication in Lancet.
This happened after he shared a taxi with Daszak back from a WHO conference in Switzerland on 12 Feb 2020.
Here is the never-published proof:
@JeremyFarrar #DRASTIC
Farrar did not just sign Daszak's statement of support. He also organized its publication in Lancet.
This happened after he shared a taxi with Daszak back from a WHO conference in Switzerland on 12 Feb 2020.
Here is the never-published proof:
@JeremyFarrar #DRASTIC
overpopulation-project.com/high-fertili...
"The schism between those who advocate human rights-based family planning in the South and those on the Left who harshly criticize such advocacy is a trap set by neoliberalism."
"The schism between those who advocate human rights-based family planning in the South and those on the Left who harshly criticize such advocacy is a trap set by neoliberalism."
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
overpopulation-project.com/high-fertili...
"The schism between those who advocate human rights-based family planning in the South and those on the Left who harshly criticize such advocacy is a trap set by neoliberalism."
"The schism between those who advocate human rights-based family planning in the South and those on the Left who harshly criticize such advocacy is a trap set by neoliberalism."