Barbara Pedersen
@barbie4science.bsky.social
Climate change scientist, strategist, policy maker. #Resister #Bodysurfer #Difficultwoman Living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar country in Western Australia. Fan of Yolngu music. DoB: 313 ppm CO2
Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
#auspol We need fire fighting helicopters not submarines.
Barbara Pedersen@barbie4science.bsky.social · 2d agoWhen will Australian govt's work out it's better to budget for climate emergencies (aka "natural" disasters) than use emergency funding? Risk reduction is what's needed. Sadly this is way past politicians' vision and time frames bound by election cycles. #endclimatedenial #Auspol
Whitlam government opposed US bases on Australian soil: “There should be no annihilation without representation”. #whatisthepointofLabor #Auspol The myth of a joint Pine Gap pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
The myth of a joint Pine Gap
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian 'guards and gardeners'.
pearlsandirritations.com
Insurers Are ‘Actively Evaluating’ New Catastrophe Risks as Europe Burns Insurers, reinsurers and brokers are predicting increased premiums and bigger losses. Importantly, they see the latest bouts of extreme heat as a long-term trend... www.insurancejournal.com/news/interna...
Insurers Are 'Actively Evaluating' New Catastrophe Risks as Europe Burns
Europe's insurers are bracing for a new era of catastrophe risk fanned by rising temperatures in the world's fastest-warming continent. Insurers,
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Come on, let's go. See if all the PHONys make it to the election #Auspol
Simon@simonronalds.bsky.social · 2d agoMight buy a lettuce tomorrow and see if all the candidates last as long as it does ... al la Liz Truss #AusPol
When will Australian govt's work out it's better to budget for climate emergencies (aka "natural" disasters) than use emergency funding? Risk reduction is what's needed. Sadly this is way past politicians' vision and time frames bound by election cycles. #endclimatedenial #Auspol
Climate Risk Economics@climateeconomics.bsky.social · 2d agoICYMI: Climate's Compounding Economic Toll Is Becoming Harder to Ignore "It’s now clear that the costs of climate-related events will grow and that economies aren’t fully prepared. If and when investors look at the same information, asset prices will take a hit"... time.com/article/2026...
ICYMI: "In 2026, Climate Change Is a Core Banking Risk" Physical climate risks are becoming increasingly visible in loan books as floods, wildfires, droughts and severe storms affect property values, insurance availability and business continuity internationalbanker.com/banking/in-2...
In 2026, Climate Change Is a Core Banking Risk
Incorporating climate risk into traditional prudential oversight signifies a significant transformation in global banking. Supervisors and regulators require banks to demonstrate how climate risks inf...
internationalbanker.com
California makes the transition to net zero emissions easier for everyone. While Western Australia sniffs out subsidising profits for Indian shareholders in a new oil refinery. Who votes for ALP idiocracy? #endclimatedenial #WhatisthepointofLabor #Auspol
ClimateFran@climatefran.bsky.social · 2d agoThank you to my state, California, for a sensible climate policy that is gradually shifting our energy system to less polluting, climate-friendly technologies all while returning funds to rate-payers. My chunk of the cap and invest program lowers my annual gas and electric bill by about 6%
From Mexico! Meanwhile, the 'Albanese Labor government' is proposing development of new oil refinery in WA. Next they may bring back the horse and cart. #capturedstate #fossilcriminals #auspol #wapol
M31🍁@m31author.bsky.social · 2d agoIt is expected to cost roughly $8,500. It made its public debut June 7, when President Claudia Sheinbaum drove a prototype onto a stage near Mexico City, and manufacturing targeted for early 2027 at a proposed assembly site in Puebla. Charging from a standard household outlet is part of the plan
What right has anyone to raise hopes when those hopes were so badly misplaced? What right has anyone to offer a vision that turns out to be a mirage? Noel Pearson reminds Aust "the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing indigenous affairs must resume" #Auspol
Dr Sally@drsally.bsky.social · 3d agowww.sbs.com.au/news/article... Good bloke
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can feel a boycott coming on 🤔 #qldpol #auspol #nswpol
harkin61.bsky.social@harkin61.bsky.social · 3d ago
No new refinery would be best outcome, esp not one anywhere near World Heritage listed rock art. #endfossilfuels #oneplanet
Rex Patrick@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 4d agoWe mustn’t gift public money to a new refinery. If it needs a ‘resilience’ leg-up, it should be done by equity stake - with a senior official on the board to guard against price gouging, tax evasion and to ensure national interest is ever present. #auspol
Arsonist offers help to extinguish blaze? > Oil giant TotalEnergies "expresses solidarity with all the firefighters of France" > and says it "will cover the cost of ground and air fuel needed by fire and rescue services" #climatecrisis HT @benwinkley.bsky.social totalenergies.com/newsroom/tot...
TotalEnergies exprime sa Solidarité avec Tous les Pompiers de France | Newsroom TotalEnergies
Paris, le 31 juillet 2026 – En cet été 2026, les Pompiers de France, professionnels et volontaires, font preuve d’un engagement remarquable dans le combat qu’ils mènent face aux feux de forêt de grand...
totalenergies.com
Guess who LOVES PROFIT-BOOSTING WAR & couldn't care less about deadly heatwaves, drought, fires, floods & landslides❓ "BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies will collectively earn $45 billion in net income during April-June 2026, up from $23 billion in the previous quarter"
Big Oil fuelling global heatwaves while ‘making a killing’: Oxfam calls for windfall tax to fund adaptation
Oxfam warns that soaring profits at BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies are fuelling deadly global heatwaves, with emissions linked to a quarter of such events since 2000. It urges a...
downtoearth.org.in
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5d agoFri 31 Jul While Spain, France, Italy, Greece, UK, US & Canada BURN & Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chile, China, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, & Nigeria FLOOD Woodside Energy reaps $6 Billion fr last quarter thanks to war & fossil fuel-enabling govts like @albomp.bsky.social's
Climate models show Nov-Dec conditions likely to be worst ever (in human records - obvs dinosaurs had hotter days). How's your emergency heat/fire plan? Where's your local refuge? Aussies - be prepared (your govts aren't). #Endclimatedenial #WhatisthepointofLabor www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires
Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.
abc.net.au
Denmark receives EU payment of 1.63 billion euros for reducing CO2 emissions, energy transition, tech and ag industry support, energy efficiencies for building and moves to a sustainable economy. Australia's talk of building a new oil refinery is so last century. #endclimatedenial #Auspol
@eu-dk.bsky.social · 5d agoRecovery Fund: Denmark is first EU country to receive its entire payout https://www.europesays.com/dk/138568/ Brussels – Denmark is the first country in the European Union to receive the final payment under the…
In 2025 there were 3,034 terrorism related arrests in Great Britain. 2779 of them were linked to supporting Palestine Action after it was proscribed. 51% of them were women, 97% were white,the average age is 59. Statistically, the most dangerous person in the country is your granny. #PalestineAction
Folks, it's gunna get nasty from here on. Runaway climate change in on (despite Australian governments ignoring what's staring us in the face). #endclimatedenial #climateemergency
Jennifer Crawford@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 6d agoI wasn’t expecting the ultimate heat death of the universe so soon.
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
Who stands for you? "Against a population of more than 27 million, that means well under half a per cent of Australians hold any formal say in what the two parties that have governed this country for generations actually stand for, or who gets to run for them." #Auspol
Sue Barrett - Onward We Press@suebarrett.bsky.social · 6d agoEvery MP represents their whole electorate. That's the promise. Here's the practice. What an MP can fight for inside Parliament is bounded by what their party has already cleared as acceptable. Every constituent gets a hearing. Not every issue gets acted on. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
"The process would take about two years, estimated the company, Holtec International. Four years later, the plant, called Palisades, is not yet generating power."
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.Nuclear proving to be more difficult in practice than its glib cheerleaders predicted?!?! This has never happened before I simply don't know what to make of it.
Renewables work to lower energy prices? Really? Whoda thunk it? It'll be interesting to see how PHONy and the Coal-ition spin this. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/half-price-p...
Half-price power: record renewables push prices down - Michael West
Wholesale energy prices have fallen by more than 60 per cent in one state, powered by growing use of wind farms, solar panels and batteries.
michaelwest.com.au
Scott Morrison was referred to the NACC over Robodebt and the Govt paid his $461K legal fees. I won an #AUKUS nuclear waste #FOI challenge and the Govt is threatening I’ll have to pay their $150K legal fees. @albomp.bsky.social thinks that’s fair play! #auspol
Anger at Labor as Rex Patrick faces potential six-figure legal fee if he loses Aukus documents battle
Australian government insists legal costs should be paid by former senator as FoI fight escalates
theguardian.com
AUKUS: product of a decade of the thinkiest strategic thinkers in the country getting after it like ferrets in a Santa sack, but none of them costed out the version where there isn’t an America left to deliver anything. A zombie alliance. #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/29/d...
Australia is in a zombie alliance with Trump's America. Soon it will cannibalise itself — and us
America is already dead, though its zombie corpse still wanders the earth. So why does Australia insist on feeding it via the AUKUS agreement?
crikey.com.au