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"There needs to be funding to continue doing what Indigenous people have always done voluntarily."
At COP30, an expert argues that Indigenous rights are a key step towards dealing with climate change
Indigenous peoples rely on natural indicators to assess the impacts of the climate crisis. The signs show in the forests, the plants, and the waters.
globalvoices.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"There needs to be funding to continue doing what Indigenous people have always done voluntarily."
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A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
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So now it’s clear who the Liberals are representing. Not the farmers, not business and tech but billionaire Gina Rinehart.
www.afr.com/companies/mi...
www.afr.com/companies/mi...
Gina Rinehart puts blowtorch on Rio Tinto, BHP over net zero spending
Australia’s richest person has criticised her company’s joint venture partner, Rio Tinto, for torching shareholder value on the “green altar” of net zero.
www.afr.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So now it’s clear who the Liberals are representing. Not the farmers, not business and tech but billionaire Gina Rinehart.
www.afr.com/companies/mi...
www.afr.com/companies/mi...
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This is power sector emissions only but still that is A LOT
Still sort of mind-boggled by a climate person who recently dismissed this as a "rounding error"
If you're rounding to the nearest ten gigatonnes, I guess??? Or if you're using teratonnes????
Still sort of mind-boggled by a climate person who recently dismissed this as a "rounding error"
If you're rounding to the nearest ten gigatonnes, I guess??? Or if you're using teratonnes????
BNEF: global CO2 emissions "are expected to be 3.5 gigatons greater over the next ten years because of the additional fossil-fuel power generation required by data centers. That’s the equivalent of 10% of today’s total global emissions." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why So Much Is Riding on the Data Center Boom
In pursuit of revolutionary advances in AI, tech companies are plowing billions of dollars into massive new facilities. The projects are straining power grids, environmental resources and, potentially...
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is power sector emissions only but still that is A LOT
Still sort of mind-boggled by a climate person who recently dismissed this as a "rounding error"
If you're rounding to the nearest ten gigatonnes, I guess??? Or if you're using teratonnes????
Still sort of mind-boggled by a climate person who recently dismissed this as a "rounding error"
If you're rounding to the nearest ten gigatonnes, I guess??? Or if you're using teratonnes????
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Headball > Bazzball
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Headball > Bazzball
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Australia's renewable revolution is 'unstoppable' but it is EXTREMELY slow-downable
Emissions are ending up comfortably worse than even recent projections. And it's not likely to get better soon. First step = admitting there's a problem! Me in @crikey.com.au -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/w...
Emissions are ending up comfortably worse than even recent projections. And it's not likely to get better soon. First step = admitting there's a problem! Me in @crikey.com.au -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/w...
September 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Australia's renewable revolution is 'unstoppable' but it is EXTREMELY slow-downable
Emissions are ending up comfortably worse than even recent projections. And it's not likely to get better soon. First step = admitting there's a problem! Me in @crikey.com.au -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/w...
Emissions are ending up comfortably worse than even recent projections. And it's not likely to get better soon. First step = admitting there's a problem! Me in @crikey.com.au -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/w...
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
September 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
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An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight.
But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.
But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.
But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.
Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.
drilled.media
August 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
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🚨BREAKING! 🚨
🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.
Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️
More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.
Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️
More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
August 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🚨BREAKING! 🚨
🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.
Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️
More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.
Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️
More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Au contraire! The fastest animal on earth relative to its body size is an ex-Minister for Resources running to their new job at a mining company.
Interesting.
"Hummingbirds are the fastest animals on Earth, relative to their body size."
www.theguardian.com/science/2009...
"Hummingbirds are the fastest animals on Earth, relative to their body size."
www.theguardian.com/science/2009...
Hummingbirds outpace fighter jets
The birds are faster than fighter jets relative to size and withstand g-forces that would make the average human black out
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Au contraire! The fastest animal on earth relative to its body size is an ex-Minister for Resources running to their new job at a mining company.
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V v important new @globalenergymon.bsky.social + @creacleanair.bsky.social report on coal in China:
"Coal power construction and commissioned projects remain high, with no clear signs of slowing"
Renewables *are* displacing coal to some degree - but the pipeline of new projects threatens that
"Coal power construction and commissioned projects remain high, with no clear signs of slowing"
Renewables *are* displacing coal to some degree - but the pipeline of new projects threatens that
Coal is losing ground but not letting go: Structural inertia and the struggle to shift coal’s role in China’s power system – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
energyandcleanair.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
V v important new @globalenergymon.bsky.social + @creacleanair.bsky.social report on coal in China:
"Coal power construction and commissioned projects remain high, with no clear signs of slowing"
Renewables *are* displacing coal to some degree - but the pipeline of new projects threatens that
"Coal power construction and commissioned projects remain high, with no clear signs of slowing"
Renewables *are* displacing coal to some degree - but the pipeline of new projects threatens that
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You're likely to hear a lot about Australia and climate and emissions next month.
Here's part of the backdrop.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here's part of the backdrop.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What is happening with Australia’s emissions? Electricity is improving. Transport is not
According to latest government figures, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4% in the year to March
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
You're likely to hear a lot about Australia and climate and emissions next month.
Here's part of the backdrop.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here's part of the backdrop.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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My favourite stat is that Australia’s domestic use is equal to that of the gas used to compress gas into liquid for export.
Australia’s gas industry uses more of its own gas than any other sector of the economy, in a self-reinforcing demand cycle, according to a new report by climate finance group Market Forces.
Latest from me in @reneweconomy.com.au:
Latest from me in @reneweconomy.com.au:
Australian gas industry is the biggest user of Australian gas, says new report
New report finds the gas industry alone burns more gas just to operate LNG export terminals than the entire Australian manufacturing sector.
reneweconomy.com.au
August 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
My favourite stat is that Australia’s domestic use is equal to that of the gas used to compress gas into liquid for export.
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The Norwegian Oil Ministry and several fossil fuel companies celebrating the approval of 19 new oil/gas projects with ice creams and big smiles.
Collectively, the projects will unlock > 800MTCO2-e of emissions; more than Germany emits in 1 year. The longest-running will pump out oil+gas until 2060.
Collectively, the projects will unlock > 800MTCO2-e of emissions; more than Germany emits in 1 year. The longest-running will pump out oil+gas until 2060.
June 29, 2023 at 10:34 AM
The Norwegian Oil Ministry and several fossil fuel companies celebrating the approval of 19 new oil/gas projects with ice creams and big smiles.
Collectively, the projects will unlock > 800MTCO2-e of emissions; more than Germany emits in 1 year. The longest-running will pump out oil+gas until 2060.
Collectively, the projects will unlock > 800MTCO2-e of emissions; more than Germany emits in 1 year. The longest-running will pump out oil+gas until 2060.
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TREATY NOW, jesus christ how long are we supposed to wait
Shame! we still don’t have one! shame!
Shame! we still don’t have one! shame!
🥁 Hottest 100 of Australian songs: #36
#Hottest100 #AusHottest100
#NowPlaying
🕓 4:13 pm
🎵 Treaty
🧑🎤 Yothu Yindi
💿 Tribal Voice
🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music
📝 Lyrics
#Hottest100 #AusHottest100
#NowPlaying
🕓 4:13 pm
🎵 Treaty
🧑🎤 Yothu Yindi
💿 Tribal Voice
🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music
📝 Lyrics
July 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
TREATY NOW, jesus christ how long are we supposed to wait
Shame! we still don’t have one! shame!
Shame! we still don’t have one! shame!
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Happy National Moth Week. I've been mothing for many years now and I love them so much.
July 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happy National Moth Week. I've been mothing for many years now and I love them so much.
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Join the dots.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)
July 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Join the dots.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)
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Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
This is a good article, worth reading.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
This is a good article, worth reading.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
This is a good article, worth reading.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
This is a good article, worth reading.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
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It's quite remarkable & maddening how essentially nothing that Ken Henry is saying is at all new. There's been so little progress by Labor & LNP governments, & now we're placing huge hopes in highly questionable market-based solutions & saying 'nature positive' a lot. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Ken Henry calls for urgent environmental protection overhaul
Australia's environment protection laws have both failed to stop the degradation of nature and also held back economic growth, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry warns.
www.abc.net.au
July 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's quite remarkable & maddening how essentially nothing that Ken Henry is saying is at all new. There's been so little progress by Labor & LNP governments, & now we're placing huge hopes in highly questionable market-based solutions & saying 'nature positive' a lot. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...