It’s a very good article but The Guardian (presumably a sub-editor rather than Graham Readfearn) seems to be referring to the female scientist, Zoe Richards, who is quoted at length in it as ‘he’ in the intro. Please do better @theguardian.com cc @readfearn.bsky.social

Otherwise you will get a rash of people saying ‘Solar has stopped growing!’ Etc etc

need to be careful in use of terminology around ‘growth’ vs ‘rate of growth’. if something has been growing at an ’increasing rate’ and then slows down to grow at a ‘steady rate’, it is still growing (eg diagonal line vs exponential curve)

Sorry but I think that answer is a bit confusing - shouldn’t it be ‘the rate of growth has been continuously increasing but the IEA assumes the increase will stop and it will grow at a steady rate from now to 2035’ (I know more complicated but I think more correct?)

Siri in my iPhone used to ‘think’ my name was Andrew (possibly because he was first in my contacts) and my grandkids used to delight in asking it unanswerable questions so it would say ‘I can’t answer that Andrew’
Moral: if it can be outsmarted by a 5yo it’s not that smart

I don’t see Bowen there for Australia - not a surprise I guess - but I fervently hope this will put pressure on the Australian government to develop their own road map away from fossil fuels - including exports!

This is so sadly true - there is an entire industry (or multiple industries) built around ‘oh isn’t it awful being a woman’ - as you say it’s good to talk freely about problems but we don’t have to be defined by them

I’ve been doing this fancy nut loaf thing which is not at all dry the last couple of years - I substitute mushrooms or other nuts for the chestnuts (though you could get tinned etc) otherwise do the recipe much as is
www.gazoakleychef.com/recipes/fest...

The whole debate in #AusPol could be so much more realistic if we reported emissions directly and LULUCF separately.

As figures from latest reports show, there has been little net change in emissions since 2005 (Australia’s reporting period under Paris Agreement) if you take out LULUCF.

The only sector where there’s been much progress is electricity, with a little bit in agriculture and waste

This seems like really big news with implications for the federal govt also? Surely their view that they don’t need a climate trigger in the EPBC Act must be shaken by this?

Oops meant as a reply to your next comment not the one I actually replied to- anyway hope the connection is clear

… and the premier basically told people they could do whatever they liked with water again. All the learning and achievement from the time of scarcity was wasted. Democracy as a political popularity contest causes some real problems

Reminds me of another example - we had a long drought here (Victoria Australia) in the early 2000s and there was a major campaign to reduce water use - lot of appeals to people’s better nature, small amount of regulation, v small amount of enforcement - worked very well. Then the drought ended …