The betrayal is that the NSW ALP have promised this park since 2015, budgeted for it (and started using the $), then shifted the goal posts in 2025 to make it hostage to generating carbon offsets for big polluters. #ALP broken promises #auspol

The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 8h ago

Exclusive: Chris Bowen says it would be a betrayal of native forests for the Greens to team up with the Coalition and One Nation to strike down a new emissions accounting which has split climate progressives and raised alarm in the logging industry. trib.al/4iKn7wa

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This is fantastically bad for California, particularly the Imperial Valley, and we potentially have a major interstate water law, agricultural economics, and infrastructure crisis if hydrology doesn’t improve. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US imposes deep Colorado River water cuts to California, Nevada and Arizona

The U.S. government on Friday finalized a two-year plan to slash water supplies to California, Nevada and Arizona to manage ‌the drought-stricken Colorado River, while leaving open the possibility of ...

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Moving towards circular wind energy manufacturing in China. “The process improved the turbines’ performance significantly, it added, with core components approaching the standards of comparable new equipment.”

In China first, project breathes new life into ageing wind turbines

State-owned recycling group says work has begun on remanufacturing 25 turbines in Gansu province.

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Today is the last day of E&E News, and this is my last story (with the great Sara Schonhardt and Zia Weise) before we transition to our new Energy and Enviro teams on Aug 31. Glad to have one last spotlight in Climatewire, which has been my home for the past 9 years. www.eenews.net/articles/ami...

Amid record heat and wildfire, countries resort to drastic steps

Governments have sunk barges in the Danube, evacuated thousands near wildfires and invented new words in a summer of climate extremes.

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AI undermines stepping stone learning by making home-work too easy; universities should have weekly or fortnightly pen and paper tests. Class participation needs to be emphasised. Will be tough for Australian unis - stingy with class times and sizes - to pull off.

I know what they’re like. I grew up with them. This is about poverty, class, boredom, radicalisation and the boys I used to know. I didn’t want to paywall an article about poverty, so this is free. If you can afford to subscribe, I’d appreciate it! supertanskiii.substack.com/p/the-men-wh...

The Men Who Shout at Hotels

What happened to the boys I grew up with? The far right has even privatised working-class identity.

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Shoebridge said the Israeli government, through a section of its military intelligence called Unit 8200, is running an Artificial Intelligence program, called Lavender. That tent was bombed after data was aggregated from people’s mobile phones and facial recognition software.

Andy Hazel@andyhazel.bsky.social · yesterday

Palantir staff are embedded in the ADF and the company has achieved “protected level” in the Australian Signals Directorate’s information security registered assessors’ program. Great work from Jude Alexander in @greenleftonline.bsky.social

Gas left behind as solar-charged batteries step in to the breach Ray Wills & Peter Newman Australia’s NEM increasingly a renewables+storage system, with diminishing fossil fuels, especially gas, associated with the costly end of the market reneweconomy.com.au/gas-is-getti... @reneweconomy.com.au

Same issue here in Australia - public broadcaster championing the far right wing

Media Tell The Truth@mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s a big allegation but a fair one.

We already knew that the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church worked en masse to support the Liberals at the last election.

Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election

A digital trail of evidence and political and church insiders have revealed how the wealthy Christian sect mobilised influencers around the country to track and heckle candidates.

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#Auspol @albomp.bsky.social

DuchessFrida aka Deb@duchessfrida.bsky.social · yesterday

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada. No Australian support here 😡

Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced bills to Federal Parliament to end two harmful practices in criminal legal systems across Australia: the strip searching of children and the shackling of people during childbirth.

Lidia Thorpe bills aim to abolish shackling during childbirth and strip searching of children

Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced bills to Federal Parliament to end two harmful practices in criminal legal systems across Australia: the strip searching of children and the shackling of people dur...

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Pynchon quotes Byron’s Song for the Luddites is this, and here’s another stanza for you: When the web that we weave is complete, And the shuttle exchanged for the sword, We will fling the winding sheet O’er the despot at our feet, And dye it deep in the gore he has poured.

Dustin 𓅃@librarydust80.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another opportunity to post this: Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite? By THOMAS PYNCHON archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Who are the executives, owners, and major shareholders of fossil fuel companies? Who held those roles 20, 50, 80 years ago, and who inherited the money they made off of polluting the atmosphere? Pretty hard questions to answer, but taxing the rich to fund climate action would catch most of them.

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2d ago

The headlines this summer make it easy to feel as if nothing can be done: record heat and wildfires continue, while fossil fuel companies rake in billions. But feeling powerless is exactly the trap, and this week there's new science on how to avoid it. Read on!

The headlines this summer make it easy to feel as if nothing can be done: record heat and wildfires continue, while fossil fuel companies rake in billions. But feeling powerless is exactly the trap, and this week there's new science on how to avoid it. Read on!

Polluters should pay, not taxpayers | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Resisting climate doom, Big Oil’s $45 billion quarter, and how you can make polluters pay If you’re a regular Talking Climate reader, you kn

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After Plymouth Brethren Director Lloyd Grimshaw tries washing his hands of election interference to benefit the Liberal Party, Corinne Mulholland corners him with hard evidence, “You, yourself, are a member of these chats!”💥 #auspol

Thiel-linked ‘race science’ network penetrated Cambridge, targeted Jason Arday Nafeez Ahmed reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/peter-thiel-race-science-cambridge-and-jason-arday/

This is, quite simply, brilliant. 👏👏👏

Simon Oldridge@sioldridge.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked The Pentagon Papers exposing the lies told to the public about the disastrous Viet Nam war, forever becoming a hero in history. Now... someone PLEASE leak #TheEPSTEINFiles & end the biggest coverup scandal of all-time! 🙏

Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday

'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting

"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.

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When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Trump regime is looking for immigrant detention camps big enough to hold up to 3,000 children. At an industry roundtable discussion, officials wouldn't say exactly where or when they need them, only that they’re expecting a “surge.” New from me in @prospect.org.

Can't relate to shows about a cool guy with a sense of justice who rights various wrongs. Our media should feature true heroes, titans of industry. Flabby middle aged guys who do fraud and post hateful memes online

AB's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #FlyingHigh A galah soaring into the misty Mooloolah Valley #photography #birds #landscape #mist #nature #wildlife #galah #BaldKnob #gift #ECK

What in the country fried fuck does this even mean 🤷

if there is one graphic I could get people who are trying to get folks to take any kinds of political action to look at, it's this one. if the goal is action, and you are cultivating feelings in the left hand column with your messaging, you are shooting yourself in the foot.

PHON, NATS, Libs vote against mentioning climate change in report. 'It is disappointing to see MPs, who are meant to serve the interest of their constituents, reject mainstream science in favour of allegiance to climate change denial'. australianfirefightersclimatealliance.org/2026/08/20/l...

Libs, Nats and PHON abandon regional communities to worsening disaster

The 2025/6 summer fires had a devastating impact on communities across Victoria. ‘More than 440,000 hectares of land were burnt. 451 homes were destroyed, a further 1,110 outbuildings lost, and man…

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"recent data of the amount of heat energy trapped within the Earth system—the energy imbalance—indicates that Earth may actually be warming faster, aligned with models that forecast higher temperatures." #ClimateEmergency

Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · last wk.

Radiation Trends Point to Higher Future Warming How sensitive is the climate to increasing CO₂ concentrations? Our new paper led by @ggyuleva.bsky.social with @retoknutti.bsky.social and @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social adds a new piece to the puzzle agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

This is the final vote on the ASIO Bill. Labor and the Coalition in lock step. We WILL remember this at the next election. The Greens opposed these laws in EVERY vote. Barnaby Joyce voted for this but in the Senate One Nation was dragged to vote against it due to significant community pressure.