Just received a heartwarming email from a friendly environmental organisation with the subject, Why we need you now more than ever, %FIRSTNAME% Very moving.
David Hutchinson
@dkhutch.bsky.social
Paleoclimate modeller at UNSW, visitor at ANU
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Global warming may have accelerated since 2015. After accounting for El Niño, volcanoes, and solar variability, researchers estimate the warming rate increased from ~0.2°C/decade to ~0.35°C/decade. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming
Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C p...
sciencedaily.com
I took my kid to an urgent care clinic with a gnarly cut to his head. They said it needed stitches and they didn’t do that there. So we went to the children’s hospital emergency dept. They said it didn’t need stitches and put some glue on it. It didn’t fill me with confidence in urgent care clinics.
‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Urgent care clinics failing to relieve pressure on hospitals, say doctors
Frontline health workers say taxpayers are funding an expensive system that leaves emergency departments overrun and regular GPs struggling.
theage.com.au
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
📐by my calculations Renewable energy deployment has avoided ~68x as much dangerous climate pollution in Australia than carbon capture has 🤨 This = more in my latest for The Point -> thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
"Housing affordability is a bullshit, made-up term that was invented to help politicians avoid answering hard questions." Co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the government's recent changes to investor tax breaks on the latest episode of 'What's the Point?' 🏡🏡🏡 #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
This is so good. It's the norm for every other human-influenced catastrophe and should be the norm for climate! - Centres human choice to burn fossil fuels - Uses images that depict the reality of heat disasters rather than imagined fun - Doesn't bury either down in the 15th paragraph
Sarah Martin has been absolutely all over the grift that is One Nation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation withdrew more than $800,000 of election spending claims after AEC inquiries
The Australian Electoral Commission is examining if party breached laws in its $6m public funding claim after the last election, documents show
theguardian.com
Last minute but if you can plz make the time to send a submission to the senate inquiry into AI + Data centres before Friday using this guide, that would be immensely helpful in staving off the tech-bro-pocalypse a little longer thankyou good evening and good night www.foe.org.au/ai_datacentr...
Urgent: Send a submission to the AI Data Centre Inquiry Now
Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...
foe.org.au
#PeteWhishWilson Nobody is talking about this... We all need to wake up to this! The rise of #OneNation is so off the charts it defies usual political explanations. #Greens won't let this potential foreign interference slide by unchecked. Nothing less than our democracy is at stake. #AUSPOL
🚨On Monday July 27 at 2pm AEST, every phone in Australia will get very loud. 🚨 If you are vulnerable, with a phone as part of your escape plan, please make sure that you take steps to protect yourself. If you aren't vulnerable, please help get the word out to protect those who are.
ausalert.gov.au
@amyremeikis.bsky.social on “Bulldozers, Bond and batsh—tery: We can only wonder what’s going on in secret” Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
We should pay attention to Margo Kingston. She understands how the One Nation fascism movement works: margokingston.substack.com?r=9ffe6&utm_...
🔥 Margo Kingston - No Filters | 🔥Margo Kingston💧 | Substack
Musings on Pauline Hanson's second coming. Click to read 🔥 Margo Kingston - No Filters, by 🔥Margo Kingston💧, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
margokingston.substack.com
We cannot be spectators in this fight and let these grifters take hold because the two old parties have done nothing. I've spent a decade taking on One Nation and their racist politics of fear, in parliament, in the streets and in the courts. I'm not done fighting.
Wow, Press Club jumps on board the fascist train.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2mo agoPosted at 1:56pm, got an email at 3:03pm from Jane Norman cancelling my membership of the press gallery
Mr Hitler, will you release the costings of the construction of the concentration camps before the next election?
How's this for a feedback loop? Ice sheets build up lowering sea level → reduced water load leads to increased mid ocean ridge volcanism after a 10-20 kyr lag → volcanism releases iron → iron causes plankton blooms → atmospheric CO₂ goes down → ice sheets build up www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ocean iron fertilization from enhanced mid-ocean-ridge volcanism due to ice-age sea-level falls - Nature Geoscience
Increased hydrothermal iron inputs from mid-ocean ridges, triggered by ice-age sea-level falls, supported higher surface primary productivity during the last two glacial terminations, according to pro...
nature.com
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
404media.co
This is the image I sent to a few scientists this week, with some questions. The area between the orange line and the coast should be covered in sea ice. It is about the size of France. Here’s the story that come from the image. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Stay vigilant. The only thing people should care about with abortion is that it is accessible and safe. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
There's nothing 'reasonable' about these rebooted abortion battles
It is no coincidence that that anti-choice movement is growing in relevancy at the same time as the normalisation of One Nation.
thenewdaily.com.au
A cool paper (that I reviewed😎) by Rui Ying et al. modeling how global darkness impacted marine plankton (and thus ecosystems) after the Chicxulub impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns - Nature
Trait-based ecosystem modelling shows that impact-driven darkness and body-size-dependent extinction thresholds, rather than carbon-dioxide increase or acidification, drove most of the observed end-Cr...
nature.com
Labor turns to Howard to shake-up job placements www.thenewdaily.com.au/work/2026/05...
Looking to shake-up job placements, Labor turns to ... John Howard
Instead of scrapping an unfair system and building one to serve people, Labor has kept Howard's status quo, but made it a bit more palatable.
thenewdaily.com.au
Very eloquent way of saying that Solar Radiation Management would never work
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/3 "The narrow viability boundaries we identify lend quantitative support to concerns raised by proponents of a non-use agreement, which contend that the systemic risks of SRM may be unacceptably high in a real-world context of geopolitical instability and failed cooperation"
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
On a quick visit to Sydney after a long time away. They have been busy! Expanded light rail (George St is so much better!) lots of separated bike lanes, and an ever expanding heavy rail network with frequent services. Makes Brisbane feel pretty backwards with its buses that pretend to be a metro...