Forget "Don't be evil"; Google's true motto is a form of vulgar spidermanism: "With great power comes no responsibility." The internet's *de facto* boss is an absentee landlord. 1/
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Climate Actuary’s personal opinions on things
When the sun doesn’t shine When the wind doesn’t blow When the rivers don’t flow www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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This is a really positive development in people’s general perceptions about EV’s. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Australians cut ties with servos as EV record sales continue
Over the past year, electric car sales have tripled, as anxiety about fuel shortages and rising petrol prices continues.
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It's difficult for words to convey just how disappointing this NSW Govt decision really is. Apparently, some kinds of hate deserve criminal punishment, while others don't. And the main difference seems to be whether faith groups are doing the hating. #nswpol #auslaw www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
NSW government rejects own inquiry’s hate speech findings after months of delay
The Minns government will ignore the key recommendation of its own inquiry into hate speech laws.
smh.com.au
Falling water levels in Poland’s longest river are disrupting electricity production. Two coal-fired power stations have been forced to shut down some turbines because the Vistula no longer provides enough water for cooling.
Two Polish power plants cut output due to water shortage
The two coal-fired power stations use river water for cooling.
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British farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Farmers warn ‘brutal’ harvest could be worst on record sparking food shortage fears
The exceptionally hot, dry spring and summer could have cut the country’s cereals and oilseed harvest by 2.5 million tonnes compared to earlier forecasts, new analysis shows
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Europe shuts nuclear power plants due to drought. Now imagine putting nuclear power plants on the driest inhabited continent on earth 🙄
. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social on 🔥 2/2 “If a data centre is proposed to use only #gas, it ill not meet the minimum nat standard, it won’t be allowed to register, & it will not be able to proceed… [that] will apply across the country.” #climate #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/bowen-says-c...
Bowen says coal "isn't baseload anymore, it's unreliable," will stop states pushing gas for data centres
Bowen says data centres could rescue stalled renewables as he warns coal-fired power stations are no long reliable, and cautions northern states not to go down gas path.
reneweconomy.com.au
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines. n.pr/4yZJVPo
Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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Something happened at the Royal Commission that the Zionists baselessly don't like so because they're really smart they are now full-court baselessly suggesting the Royal Commission has actively facilitated antisemitism
And nuclear power is just going to make things worse for Europe’s rivers as the nuclear power plants essentially dry out the rivers further. Solar PV and batteries is the solution. Nuclear is the problem.
Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · yesterdayOdd piece by CB. The idea that regulation of reactor cooling water discharge back to rivers as negligible is very odd - survival of river ecology is key. New cooling towers means significant river water loss via evaporation in an increasingly water-scarce world. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ho...
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
A large language model fed exclusively on unverified blog content has begun generating cultural material of its own, most notably a four-minute Welcome to Country for Level 3 of a suburban shopping centre car park, near the trolley bay. #satire #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Westfield #Bunnings
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
“Since attacking Iran…Trump’s immediate demands have shrunk from a sprawling list of concessions involving Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, ballistic missile production and support for proxy militias to just one: that Iran allow…Hormuz to return to its prewar state.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Donald Trump trapped between escalation and an Iran deal on Tehran’s terms
US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender
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BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
A study shows male mice recovering from severe COVID-19 can pass anxiety-like traits to their offspring. The virus alters RNA molecules inside their sperm, suggesting a father's infection before conception could change how the next generation develops mentally. Source: archive.md/U7dad
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Our oil and gas belong to Australians, and we're losing as much as $50 million a day in tax revenue. It's time the government secured a fair return on our finite national resources. We have a real problem when even Donald Trump can see it, but our PM can't.
Oil and gas companies are making such obscene superprofits that even Donald Trump thinks they should share them.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Something that’s been lost in the NAPLAN reporting today: the equity gap in our school system is growing. First Nations kids, kids living in poverty, and those in regional, rural and remote communities are falling further behind. Most of them attend an underfunded public school.
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
As the First Nations Clean Energy Symposium edges closer and speakers lock in, there's still a few registration tickets available. Get in quick! Register today firstnationscleanenergy.swoogo.com/symposium/re... #auspol #vicpol #mobsky #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #firstnations #policy #invest
Speakers locking in for upcoming First Nations Clean Energy Symposium
Speakers locking in for the upcoming First Nations Clean Energy Symposium
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The US no longer has a diversified portfolio of future technologies but an all-in bet of the future of American civilization on a single speculative technology. bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr."The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
Under Labor’s funding plan, public schools won’t get their 100% SRS funding until 2034. And even then it’ll be conditional and full of loopholes. Meanwhile, the richest and most privileged private schools in the country are awash with public cash. It doesn’t pass the pub test.
There Will Come Soft Rains In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft…
There Will Come Soft Rains
In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
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