Can we trust no one? #EcologicalEmergency #ClimateAction #auspol michaelwest.com.au/ndas-for-nfp...

NDAs for NFPs? Environmental groups hide funding from carbon credits advocate - Michael West

Are Australian environmental protection charities being funded by a foundation that heavily promotes controversial carbon credits?

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Climate disaster and record fossil fuel profits because of a war? How did that happen! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon

Mission accomplished

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I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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Good morning with good news: UK's fully electric vehicle sales skyrocketed 49% in July, reaching 27% market share. Plug-in hybrids rose 36% for 15% market share. BEV & PHEV were 42% of market. Petrol vehicle sales fell 8% and diesel fell 11% storage.googleapis.com/public_downl... #energysky

Rebecca Hendin on Britain’s air con debate – cartoon #Climate

Rebecca Hendin on Britain’s air con debate – cartoon

Half of England and the whole of Wales are officially in drought, and July is set to be the driest month on record

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True, but let me nominate this one! economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down

In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.

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Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d ago

About time! www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fixing-one...

ABC management hung out confidential sources on another story too: ABC handed footage to police from the Four Corners program of them protesting against Woodside. They’re earning themselves a reputation…

Not sure about Media Watch outing confidential sources and then being surprised that they don’t admit to serious crimes when their face is blazoned across tv screens

"The worst so far"

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Western Europe is on fire. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, blazes are burning in France, Spain, Greece and Türkiye. Authorities are already calling it the worst fire season in modern history.” The worst so far. #ClimateCrisis

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 · 3d ago

It 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

Victorians turn out in massive numbers to denounce Pauline Hanson’s “racism and fascism” — swarming her fundraiser to demand she get out of the state.💥 This should be the greeting she gets everywhere she peddles her hate. Well done Victoria. #auspol

Why do we keep voting for them? The 'Albanese Labor government', all the state Labor governments. They told us they were going to do better than the broken, denialist Coal-ition. They lied.

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy@meckeringboy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Almost every B grade science fiction movie starts with the world’s leaders ignoring eminent scientists warning of imminent threats to life on Earth. Life Is a B Grade Movie. Who knew?

Good morning with good news: Global solar capacity reached 3 TW in April 2026. It was 100 GW in 2012; 1 TW in March 2022; 2 TW in August 2024. BNEF forecasts 9.4 TW of solar by 2036. Solar adds 1 TW every ~20 months for 10 years! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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Do you like well-reasoned arguments and pithy retorts? Well bad luck because it's time for the great climate debate hosted by disgraced breakfast flake Karl Whatsisface! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon

What a vibrant marketplace of ideas

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Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

Anne Applebaum brings some expert wisdom to the awful scenes in Spain's #Ceuta and the ghoulish pile-on that accompanied them. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...

The Far-Right Playbook in Action

It works, every single time

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Genuinely remarkable to see the huge war-driven surge in EV purchases in Australia but.........I cannot get past how petrol + diesel have surged as well (not to the same extent). Why!!!!! robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?la...

These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.

When will the 'Albanese Labor government' and the 'Cook Labor government' wake up to reality and end subsidising #fossilfuels? #capturedstate #fossilcriminals #auspol #wapol reneweconomy.com.au/a-new-oil-re...

A new oil refinery commissioned in the mid-2030s is just burning money that makes emissions

Isn’t there something better that we should be doing than ensuring we have full tanks of diesel and petrol? The reform task isn't storing more oil — it's exiting it.

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Thanks again @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social! #EcologicalEmergency #ExistentialEmergency #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon

What a vibrant marketplace of ideas

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“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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Paddy Cullen had a letter published in The West Australian newspaper: “Let's use our solar Kalgoorlie is sprinting ahead with renewable energy initiatives to cover its shortfall. Why not the rest of the State? Why are we pushing ahead with more gas projects and a gas-fired power station? 1/5

We have the answers to clean, safe, cheap, stable energy supplies. All we need is the political and business will to get it done faster. Electrify everything with renewable power. Ban all new gas connections. And swap out and retro fit electrical appliances asap wherever possible.

Always ... a Difficult ... Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈@scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 4d ago

"What happens when Australia backs itself? 460,000 home batteries installed in twelve months, a world-leading rollout from a standing start. And, default power prices are already coming down in NSW, Queensland & Victoria."

The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.

Naarm/Melbourne has again showed up in force to protest Israeli atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, grotesque Australian government and corporate complicity, and the silence and indifference of the husks posing as human among us. From the river to the sea.

Oh piss off. You are only worried about how hollowed out your beloved Liberal Party had become. You look upon your works and despair. Go rot.

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie went into the 2024 Queensland election promising no new Games stadium. Like 2 schoolboys working on a project, they've now released more concept designs without details & demand we build their fantasy Colosseum. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Queensland reveals concept plans for Brisbane Olympic stadium precinct – but critics say they are ‘fantasy vision’

David Crisafulli says ‘Queenslanders will enjoy for generations’ as opponents point to lack of detail

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But the 'Albanese Labor government', which says it "accepts the science" keeps approving #fossilfuels and fails on enacting real environmental regulation. #capturedstate #fossilcriminals theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy@meckeringboy.bsky.social · 4d ago

“…when extremes now…strike from a hotter, more dangerous…point. Climate pollution from burning coal, oil & gas is overheating our atmosphere & oceans, loading dice toward more intense heat, heavier rainfall, flash drought & more dangerous fire weather.” www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/br...

"The public conversation needs to catch up with the science. If we are serious about limiting future warming, we must rapidly reduce fossil fuel emissions while making our homes, infrastructure and communities more resilient to the climate change that is already here."

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d ago

“The question is not whether #ClimateChange caused the heatwave, but how much hotter and more dangerous heatwaves have become because of GHGs, primarily from burning fossil fuels.” “The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions.”