Jo Chandler
@jochandler.bsky.social
Journalist Nature, YaleE360, ABC, Guardian, NYT, The Atlantic, The Monthly, Age & Sydney Morning Herald. Journalism educator @ University of Melbourne. ALARMED warminista. Science enthusiast. PNG lukim yu; TB survivor & advocate www.jochandler.com.au
"A landmark ruling in the High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels overseas when approving projects." This is a big deal, surely.
NSW coalmine climate ruling a massive shake-up to Australia's oil and gas
Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.
abc.net.au
Very dangerous famine emerging in Papua as El Niño related drought and frost has killed subsistence crops. This is where El Niño can get deadly. Article: www.detikpapua.com/daerah-kuyaw... Translated: share.google/aimode/c1j3P...
Daerah Kuyawage Dihantam Kekeringan dan Hujan Es, Tokoh Masyarakat Minta Bantuan Hingga 2027 - DETIK PAPUA
DETIKPAPUA.COM : TIOM — Bencana alam akibat cuaca ekstrem dan hujan es kembali melanda Daerah...
detikpapua.com
FOLKS - when we stop burning fossil fuels, oversizing agriculture and killing nature, the warming of Earth also stops worsening No floppy optimism here; no hollow appeal to hope. The laws of physics that created this problem also govern the fact we can choose to stop it.
Hope was the thing with feathers 💔 ... near Apollo Bay today. Note the tern is surrounded by paw prints, despite all the warnings around keeping dogs away/leashed. #Birdflu
Lovely to chat to @nickfeik.bsky.social on RRR about my essay for The Monthly on gas industry expansion in the Otway Basin. www.themonthly.com.au/may-2026/ess...
The upwelling
As the government encourages gas exploration off Victoria’s coast, seismic testing is harming marine life already under stress from climate change
themonthly.com.au
This is an excellent piece on social capital the important role charities and non-profits play in Australian society. Add it to your reading list!
Andrew Leigh MP@aleighmp.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn a scratchy age, charities turn strangers into neighbours. My Saturday Paper piece on why Australia needs more joiners: volunteers, donors and local groups that help civic life knit itself back together. https://www.andrewleigh.com/opinion_piece_charity_in_a_scratchy_age_27_june_2026
#DailyGlimmer Neil the seal Just take him in - all of him!
"That grimmest of calls – 'told you so!' – is screaming out from nature itself. Yet collectively we remain deaf to it. The assumption that we would acknowledge reality when we were experiencing it, often in the most dramatic and devastating ways, has turned out to be false." - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O'Toole: Red alerts issued by Europe’s met offices must also be issued by citizens to their governments
At a fundamental level, we do not believe what we are experiencing: the catastrophic effects of global heating
irishtimes.com
The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
propublica.org
Another excellent example of how corporate funding and influence has distorted science, and how leading universities have been complicit. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
propublica.org
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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@jochandler.bsky.social's excellent (& 💔) essay in @themonthly.com.au gives a glimpse of the remarkable marine environments, ecosystems, krill, whales & other ocean denizens directly at risk from the @albomp.bsky.social govt's opening of areas for offshore Oil & Gas exploration 👀excerpt next post
The upwelling
As the government encourages gas exploration off Victoria’s coast, seismic testing is harming marine life already under stress from climate change
themonthly.com.au
Andrew Wilkie MP@andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Fed Govt is seeking to open up new areas of ocean between Tas and Vic for the oil and gas companies. This priceless natural environment is already under threat from the twin climate and extinction crises. We should end this madness now. #auspol #politas
Meanwhile in South Australia... The Algae Bloom www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Whyalla wipeout fears: cuttlefish usually gather in their thousands, but few have appeared since a massive algal bloom
Divers have observed just a ‘couple of dozen’ of the cephalopods along the heritage-listed Cuttlefish Coast in South Australia, causing locals and marine scientists to worry
theguardian.com
Thanks @yungenchee.bsky.social - there's a free link here, you will need to register (and a plug to all - do consider subscribing to support deep-dive climate journalism wherever you find it): www.themonthly.com.au/may-2026/ess...
The upwelling
As the government encourages gas exploration off Victoria’s coast, seismic testing is harming marine life already under stress from climate change
themonthly.com.au
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat's threatened when the @albomp.bsky.social govt opens 46,000km2 for offshore Oil & Gas exploration❓️ Jo Chandler's excellent essay connects this abstract statistic to the remarkable marine environments, ecosystems, krill, whales & other denizens directly at risk Do find a way to read it
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social urges us to tell more stories of "victories and possibilities, because the defeats and disasters are more than adequately covered". So here's one from a small Australian coastal town with a big heart. #WorldRefugeeDay By Ben Doherty www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Afghan family who are safe at last and full of hope, thanks to an Australia Pauline Hanson will never know
In International Refugee Week, two speeches paint starkly different visions of the country
theguardian.com
New on The Climate Brink: How fossil-fuel interests are attacking Extreme Event Attribution science www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...
Merchants of Doubt and the attacks on Extreme Event Attribution science
Doubt is still their product
theclimatebrink.com
Endangered pink cockatoos travel with a "packed lunch", and excavate hollows that shelter themselves and other animals. But two fires in 12 years wiped out most of the nesting trees in Wyperfeld national park, their largest Victorian breeding site 🪽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive?
Two fires in 12 years wiped out all but a handful of the mature native pines in Victoria’s Wyperfeld national park, a key breeding ground for endangered pink cockatoos
theguardian.com
Data centre builders are using dodgy offsets, loopholes and loose regulations to shirk their renewable energy responsibilities. We need a moratorium on all data centre developments. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/10/m...
We need a moratorium on Australia's data centre development
Do you expect AI companies to build the renewable energy actually needed to offset their energy demand — or fight tooth and nail to shirk regulation?
crikey.com.au
During the festival’s too-warm autumn days, the vibe is upbeat, despite being punctuated with frequent references to climate shifts, the ongoing drought, vulnerability to future fires and floods, and the entwined precarity of income and mental health. mnth.ly/ofwmdhm
True to farm
At an annual festival of alternative agriculture, producers gather to share experiences, expertise and enthusiasms in regenerative, biodynamic farming
mnth.ly
Nature-friendly farming has long been derided by many conventional farmers as, well, hippy bullshit. But with exploding fertiliser & fuel costs, plus climate extremes, the crazies are enjoying the whiff of something sweet. Validation. My yarn for @TheMonthly www.themonthly.com.au/june-2026/na...
True to farm
At an annual festival of alternative agriculture, producers gather to share experiences, expertise and enthusiasms in regenerative, biodynamic farming
themonthly.com.au
Continuing a series looking at grassroots responses to climate heating and environmental shifts on Victoria's Otway coast and ranges. Welcome to Yan Yan Gert West Farm Grounded #farming #climate
The Monthly@themonthly.com.au · 5mo agoWill this crisis persuade conventional farmers to make the leap? Big call, but a representative of Ocean2Earth, which produces biological fertilisers from seafood waste, tells the crowd that since the war started “the phone has been ringing off the hook”. mnth.ly/YVCsPNK
Will this crisis persuade conventional farmers to make the leap? Big call, but a representative of Ocean2Earth, which produces biological fertilisers from seafood waste, tells the crowd that since the war started “the phone has been ringing off the hook”. mnth.ly/YVCsPNK
True to farm
At an annual festival of alternative agriculture, producers gather to share experiences, expertise and enthusiasms in regenerative, biodynamic farming
mnth.ly
June issue out Monday (online now for subscribers), featuring the need to redefine patriotism, why we keep locking up children, fascism and ‘Wuthering Heights’, remembering David Malouf, plus Elly Varrenti, Sofija Stefanovic, Margaret Simons and much more. mnth.ly/hNnhcex
