Damien Irving
@drclimate.bsky.social
Climate scientist. Data science educator. Tasmanian. Interested in Green politics. https://damienirving.github.io/
Sounding more likely... 🤞
- For (7): Duigan (Lib), Edmunds (Lab), Hiscutt, Lovell (Lab), Palmer (Lib), Rattray, Vincent (Lib)
- Against (7): Armitage, Forrest, Gaffney, Harriss, O'Connor (Grn), Thomas, Webb
- Against: Farrell (Lab; President)
#politas
- For (7): Duigan (Lib), Edmunds (Lab), Hiscutt, Lovell (Lab), Palmer (Lib), Rattray, Vincent (Lib)
- Against (7): Armitage, Forrest, Gaffney, Harriss, O'Connor (Grn), Thomas, Webb
- Against: Farrell (Lab; President)
#politas
Crucial upper house independents warn Hobart stadium may be unaffordable
Two independent MLCs whose votes are crucial for the proposed Macquarie Point stadium have outlined their concerns about the project in budget reply speeches to parliament.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sounding more likely... 🤞
- For (7): Duigan (Lib), Edmunds (Lab), Hiscutt, Lovell (Lab), Palmer (Lib), Rattray, Vincent (Lib)
- Against (7): Armitage, Forrest, Gaffney, Harriss, O'Connor (Grn), Thomas, Webb
- Against: Farrell (Lab; President)
#politas
- For (7): Duigan (Lib), Edmunds (Lab), Hiscutt, Lovell (Lab), Palmer (Lib), Rattray, Vincent (Lib)
- Against (7): Armitage, Forrest, Gaffney, Harriss, O'Connor (Grn), Thomas, Webb
- Against: Farrell (Lab; President)
#politas
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As I keep saying, sucking out CO2 while still pumping it out is like giving a poisoned patient the antidote while administering more poison
The fossil fuel corporations would see this as an opportunity to dig up more oil, gas and coal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The fossil fuel corporations would see this as an opportunity to dig up more oil, gas and coal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
As I keep saying, sucking out CO2 while still pumping it out is like giving a poisoned patient the antidote while administering more poison
The fossil fuel corporations would see this as an opportunity to dig up more oil, gas and coal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The fossil fuel corporations would see this as an opportunity to dig up more oil, gas and coal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Monash Uni ends partnership with Woodside Energy!
This is a huge win for staff and students who have been campaigning for years to get this climate-wrecking company off their campus. My heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to those who have fought so hard for this.
This is a huge win for staff and students who have been campaigning for years to get this climate-wrecking company off their campus. My heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to those who have fought so hard for this.
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Monash Uni ends partnership with Woodside Energy!
This is a huge win for staff and students who have been campaigning for years to get this climate-wrecking company off their campus. My heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to those who have fought so hard for this.
This is a huge win for staff and students who have been campaigning for years to get this climate-wrecking company off their campus. My heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to those who have fought so hard for this.
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"while Labor’s support for net zero creates no danger for the fossil fuel industry, it creates significant danger for our democracy as millions of voters are tricked into believing that they are voting to tackle climate change, when in reality they are voting for fossil fuel expansion"
Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"while Labor’s support for net zero creates no danger for the fossil fuel industry, it creates significant danger for our democracy as millions of voters are tricked into believing that they are voting to tackle climate change, when in reality they are voting for fossil fuel expansion"
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It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
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Nice to be book of the day for @nextbigidea.bsky.social :) bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/debate-me-...
Debate Me, Bro. Actually, Don't—Here's A Better Way to Persuade
Arguments don’t change minds—lived experience does. Here's how to create the kind of change that actually sticks.
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Nice to be book of the day for @nextbigidea.bsky.social :) bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/debate-me-...
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New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Political Psychology?
"The point, in short, is that we need to talk less about politics (in the sense of arguing with people) and instead build a world where those people are likely to encounter more and thus change their ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
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Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
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Are you the next leader of the Green Institute? We are now searching for the next leader or leadership team. If you are interested in pitching to the Board, please express your interest! More details here ... buff.ly/lcShmhi
Expression Of Interest – Green Institute Leadership - The Green Institute
Are you the next leader of the Green Institute? Background The Green Institute is the official think tank of the Australian Greens. Founded in 2008 by Margaret Blakers OAM and funded by a…
www.greeninstitute.org.au
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Are you the next leader of the Green Institute? We are now searching for the next leader or leadership team. If you are interested in pitching to the Board, please express your interest! More details here ... buff.ly/lcShmhi
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It’s come to this. So sad for my once amazing organisation.
That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere.
New CEO literally starts tomorrow.
That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere.
New CEO literally starts tomorrow.
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
Bureau of Meteorology says current system will be phased out as it no longer meets ‘cybersecurity, stability and resilience’ standards
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Natural disaster-prone councils in south-east Queensland say the Bureau of Meteorology’s decision to axe its free real-time flood forecasting tool is a “cost shifting” exercise with “potentially deadly consequences”, with New South Wales emergency services also affected.
For nearly 30 years, the BoM has provided local governments, emergency services and water managers around the country with free access to Enviromon – a tool used to inform emergency alert systems which collects, displays and analyses data from rainfall and river level gauges for flood forecasting. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It’s come to this. So sad for my once amazing organisation.
That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere.
New CEO literally starts tomorrow.
That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere.
New CEO literally starts tomorrow.
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BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
Bureau of Meteorology says current system will be phased out as it no longer meets ‘cybersecurity, stability and resilience’ standards
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Natural disaster-prone councils in south-east Queensland say the Bureau of Meteorology’s decision to axe its free real-time flood forecasting tool is a “cost shifting” exercise with “potentially deadly consequences”, with New South Wales emergency services also affected.
For nearly 30 years, the BoM has provided local governments, emergency services and water managers around the country with free access to Enviromon – a tool used to inform emergency alert systems which collects, displays and analyses data from rainfall and river level gauges for flood forecasting. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
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“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
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In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative.
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative.
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
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1/ Unfortunately for Minister Watt, environmental & conservation science, environmental legal & political integrity experts show how untenable his boast of "stronger environmental laws" is
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
1/ Unfortunately for Minister Watt, environmental & conservation science, environmental legal & political integrity experts show how untenable his boast of "stronger environmental laws" is
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
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The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
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As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“I cannot emphasise enough that what Repacholi says in a few short sentences is both fundamentally absurd, and deeply terrifying in how it flew into the climate space without a single raised eyebrow.” @ketanjoshi.co writes.
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd)
www.crikey.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“I cannot emphasise enough that what Repacholi says in a few short sentences is both fundamentally absurd, and deeply terrifying in how it flew into the climate space without a single raised eyebrow.” @ketanjoshi.co writes.
"Mr Abetz will on Thursday launch a promised DOGE-style Efficiency and Productivity Unit to rein in costs." #politas
www.themercury.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Mr Abetz will on Thursday launch a promised DOGE-style Efficiency and Productivity Unit to rein in costs." #politas
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Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws?
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws?
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
Our dire state finances can't afford Forestry Tasmania, our climate can't afford Forestry Tasmania, our biodiversity can't afford Forestry Tasmania. #politas
Forestry Tasmania annual report hides $22.9 million loss from logging native forests – Bob Brown Foundation
Bob Brown Foundation is renewing calls for Forestry Tasmania (FT) to be abolished, and an end to native forest logging, after FT's latest annual report reveals
bobbrown.org.au
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Our dire state finances can't afford Forestry Tasmania, our climate can't afford Forestry Tasmania, our biodiversity can't afford Forestry Tasmania. #politas
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Are we supposed to act like it’s normal for Chevron & BHP to be supporting Labor's ‘environment’ laws, while climate, enviro orgs criticise them?
Labor are yet again caving to their corporate donors and fossil fuel mates.
We need laws that work for nature, not big business.
Labor are yet again caving to their corporate donors and fossil fuel mates.
We need laws that work for nature, not big business.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Are we supposed to act like it’s normal for Chevron & BHP to be supporting Labor's ‘environment’ laws, while climate, enviro orgs criticise them?
Labor are yet again caving to their corporate donors and fossil fuel mates.
We need laws that work for nature, not big business.
Labor are yet again caving to their corporate donors and fossil fuel mates.
We need laws that work for nature, not big business.
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
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BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.
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Bizarre to think that Labor used to be the party for and of the workers. #auspol
🚨BREAKING🚨
Labor has just voted AGAINST granting super to workers under 18.
The Greens amendment would have seen all workers under 18 have the right to superannuation contributions, regardless of how many hours they worked.
Labor has just voted AGAINST granting super to workers under 18.
The Greens amendment would have seen all workers under 18 have the right to superannuation contributions, regardless of how many hours they worked.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Bizarre to think that Labor used to be the party for and of the workers. #auspol