“More than 34,000 dead marine animals have been logged (on beaches) – while, of course, far more have gone unobserved.” The true death toll - silent and unseen - is billions of marine animals and plants. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Regional West Oz. I read about climate and overshoot. Wish my MP did. Generally wtf
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“More than 34,000 dead marine animals have been logged (on beaches) – while, of course, far more have gone unobserved.” The true death toll - silent and unseen - is billions of marine animals and plants. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mossad working with ASIO …
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change. The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth. grist.org/justice/in-t... #Wisconsin #Youth #Climate #Courts
Ad Standards rules Alcoa's claims about rehabilitating WA's jarrah forest are not truthful or factual, and are unclear, overstated and without reasonable grounds A key plank of the US miner's campaign to win public support for expanded mining in WA has crumbled www.boilingcold.com.au/alcoa-lied-a...
Well that’s a win!
When scientists tell you gas is as bad as coal they aren’t accounting for this kind of leakage. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Couldn’t but he’ll notice the slow BYD Sealion 7 charge rate in left versus model 3 LRR 2022. WA Kempower at Jurien. Why so slow?
just found ABC quoted me in their story about Starlight (copied from my website lol) "Co-ops aren't for everyone & cliques form. I'd say they work for people who can play well with others." The sentence was ... "can play well with people who rip up your fruit trees" www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...
We’re not going to make it
Opinion | The Trump administration has humiliated Richard Marles. But don't expect any change — or greater accountability — around AUKUS as a result, writes Bernard Keane.
Many people have a hard time accepting this leahy.substack.com/p/one-third-...
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Great stuff 👍
This is really interesting. 1/3 of all energy is from renewables. More than 60% of energy generated by fossil fuels is lost as waste heat and can’t be USED. Less than 40% of the energy produced by fossil fuels can actually be USED.
After a massive public response to its plans, Alcoa chief executive Bill Oplinger will look to shore up state government support for his vital WA mining, which is facing public scrutiny for the first time. www.boilingcold.com.au/record-59-00...
Thought this was about America for a minute Despite promises of moderation and inclusion, four years later, the Taliban has established a repressive, exclusionary regime – one that has dismantled institutions of law, justice and civil rights with ruthless efficiency.
The oil & gas industry has a methane problem. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to help hide it. Great piece by @hannahstoryb.bsky.social for @prospect.org:
We’re doomed
Good old Willy Wag tails are always there to cheer us up 😃
Discounted energy storage systems installed under #Australia Cheaper Home Batteries program sailed past 40,000, in just eight working weeks. That’s 714 megawatt-hours (MWh) worth of capacity. onestepoffthegrid.com.au/remarkable-r...
IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust - important for confidence in future projections. The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Incredible❗There are so many financial links to universities it's hard to keep track—there're ones in @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List that aren't in the @australiainstitute.org.au report & vice versa & then there's fossil fuel funding of Education initiatives... 👀 www.chumpslist.org/chumps
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Private health insurance is a dud product with the majority of Australians preferring not to have it. The reality is we should be offering better public health services. 📺 Senior Economist Matt Grudnoff @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol
Stop using AI to do useless fucking shit.
I hope you used paint and not AI for that
Sadly, there are documented cases:
Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
Fuck why did I buy a windows laptop. AI spam wear with laptop maker spam wear icing on top. Back to Apple. Even if Cook is a Trump butt licker
With misinformation nearly everywhere, one professor tested a simple fix of 150 minutes of fact-checking homework – and it worked, boosting the students’ ability to spot misinformation by nearly 20%.
Oh boy. Big tech most definitely have no chance of winning the “AI environmental not so bad narrative”.
Wow. He’s a machine! Sure he isn’t AI?
This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates. Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Sadly, expanding grass fed beef is even worse for climate change than feedlot beef — as bad as that is. More methane emissions and a much higher land footprint, which overrides the soil carbon benefits. The answer is less beef, less waste, and a smarter food system.
50% doesn’t reach the plate! So is food waste on top of this? How does that 30% of food waste fit into this Jonathan? 🙏
Biofuel and expanding meat production 🫨
Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them: Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition. With the world’s most powerful man helping them at every turn, it’s crit...
The start of the algal bloom off the South Australian coast began like a horror film and only grew worse from there. I took a direct look at the role of climate change in making this disaster in my home state for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
“While dismissal of Hubbert logic by economists, with faith in technology to increase oil production, has been seemingly supported by the fracking revolution of the last decade and a half, this had little impact on the longer-range inevitability of oil depletion driven by global resource limits”
Read more ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/big-ute...
This pissed me off. Those of us who do the right thing are being offset by Trump loving RAM drivers
US shale executives expect to drill significantly fewer wells this year than planned at the start of 2025, as lower oil prices and uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt profits
‘The number of crews fracking shale oil and gas wells — a crucial barometer of the industry’s activity levels — hit a four-year low last week and producers have wiped about $1.8bn from capital spending plans over just two quarters.‘ www.ft.com/content/e3bc...
My story about Revolution Wind dropped. Trump just halted construction of the offshore wind farm due to "national security." NEW: Navy, Army Corps, and Coast Guard raised "no major military issues" during a 2009-2015 federal task force that sited Rev Wind where it's now being built, says insider.
The peaking of conventional oil took the world by surprise, prices skyrocketed, worries about the state of the economies were high. It was in 2000-2008. Saudi Arabia has reconfirmed annually that its reserves remain unchanged at 260 bn bbl despite pumping over 120 bn bbl since 1988. A 😭 🐺 story
“The difference between my kids and those kids in Palestine is geography”, one attendee says, as thousands turn out for marches www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Good crowd.
Free Palestine Geraldton today
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“Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person-as wealth continues to rise, so does her power & influence. But what does she want? Senior correspondent Sarah Martin explores the impact Rinehart could have on Australian politics. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Didn’t know that
Gina Rinehart is a global parasite. Not just here in Australia. She’s a Trumpette. She’s expanding coal mining in Canada’s pristine mountains . What else? Regional areas are fertile ground for her climate misinformation. #oligarch
Chevron ceo Mike Wirth briefly visited Australia last week and pushed a false line that Labor's policies were thwarting expansions that were never going to happen. His real aim was to block any policy that might leave more value from his projects in Australia www.boilingcold.com.au/chevron-boss...
This is happening in Australia too: a huge surge in battery storage projects creates the impression of progress but stalling *generation* projects, particularly wind, is an extremely serious concern. Batteries unlock / enable existing gen, but the main game is new gen!!! www.ft.com/content/926a...
Eleven days ago, Israel assassinated a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist. Anas al-Sharif documented the relentless Israeli assault on civilians, breaking down on camera as he reported on the gathering famine. He was 28 years old www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Australia Post has temporarily suspended its transit service to the US and will no longer accept transit items containing goods destined for the United States of America PutinTrump chaos
Yes I was just talking to some wheat farmers. The stubble is important for soil health as you say.
JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
Remember Google’s 2030 100% renewables pledge?
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart, Canberra, Newcastle, Central Coast, Katoomba, Port Macquarie, Tathra, Bathurst, Pine Gap, Geraldton, Townsville, Cairns, Warrnambool, Canberra, Coff’s Harbour March for Palestine. Be there.
Alcoa’s mining has 21 high risk pathways that can contaminate Perth’s water supply, according to an independent expert study done for the US miner. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
For solar, recycling may outperform reuse? A 2025 solar module can deliver ~3x capacity of 15yo panel Old 150W panel’s silicon can make a new 400W panel Recycling old panels now yields economic and environmental benefits, leveraging higher-value materials like silver used inefficiently in the past
Great take Ray
An economy based on carbon waste? Don’t laugh. It might just save us.
Corn ethanol is a scam. All farm-grown fuels are scams–and they’re land scams. When we use crops for fuel instead of food, we need to grow more crops to replace the food, which means more deforestation and more eating of the earth.
Hey I am curious about your thoughts on bio ethanol from waste like wheat straw? Less problematic?
I am negative about biofuels but I learnt 1 tonne of wheat straw can produce 300 litres of bio ethanol or 400 kWh of electricity. Maybe biofuel from waste not so bad…
Well I think the most interesting tech is healing country. Agriculture has gone to far. River catchments need to be healed. The tech we need is biodiversity. Also maybe that farm machine has peaked in size. Smaller electrified autonomous machinery seems to be the way forward.
Low hanging climate fruit. ❌Biofuel on food land. ❌Meat. ✅Plant trees (proven at scale CCS)
Peter D Carter EARTH EMERGENCY - LOSS OF BIOSPHERE INTEGRITY Planetary Boundaries research. Loss of bipsphere integrity is accelerating. The biosphere-integrity planetary boundary is exceeded for 60% of global land area. 15 August 2025 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Tim Wilson went! he ran the IPA’s saturation campaign of media hot pieces to ‘axe the carbon tax and Kyoto’ (UN Climate Treaty) from 2006-2013, paid for big oil and praised by the #AtlasNetwork head office in Virginia USA.. I believe then Woodside CEO Charles Goode was on IPA board at the time.
Was stunned by @emmashortis.bsky.social' recent vid of a nightmare gas rig near a major natural site in Vic, Australia. So: pretty wild to find out Victoria (a) exports more gas than it burns and (b) is burning less gas! There is no 'gas shortage' -->>>> australiainstitute.org.au/post/victori...
Looks familiar
DuPont knew. Plastics knew. We can't recycle our way out of the plastic problem. Earthday.org calls for global cuts in plastic production, citing latest findings by @desmog.com
NRAR, Australia's National Resource Access Regulator, has paused all environmental water for the Murray Darling Basin. No environmental flows means no water for the fish or animals. Cotton Barons have been pushing for this for a long time. Get angry. 😡
Something to do with Murdoch’s Sky News being broadcast to regions or gas oligarchs owning all of WA’s papers. Regional MPs standing up for fossil fuels and little else?
PERTH! Join Konrad from Punter's Politics and Mark from the Australia Institute as they discuss the gas industry, its influence on the government and what we can do about it! 🗓️Tue 9 Sep 6pm 📍WA Museum @punterspolitics.bsky.social @markogge.bsky.social #auspol Get your ticket! 🎟️👇
Not good
I'd be interested to know whether any of the people complaining about solar being deployed on farmland are aware that solar is many orders of magnitude better for nature and biodiversity than almost all conventional agriculture.
More about distraction: www.amazon.com/Beyond-Petri...
“Distraction is a force of evil. When we are distracted, we can miss out on the most obvious facts and details. We can miss out on entire genocides. Those whose jobs are to distract us on a daily basis know this well” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Downfall of empire
When we talk about authoritarian oligarchs, Putin is the model. He is worth some $200 billion, kills dissidents and rigs elections. And he started this horrific war in Ukraine. We all want peace. But any peace talks must include the Ukrainians. It’s their country.
This is the only good tipping point going down atm
REQUIEM FOR OUR REEFS TELL WA MUSEUM: CUT TIES WITH WOODSIDE Fossil-fueled climate change is killing our coral reefs. So why are WA Museums accepting sponsorship from Woodside? JOIN US: 10am, Sunday August 17th WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle Presented by Go Beyond Gas
Protests in Anchorage, Alaska against the Trump and Putin meeting and in support of Ukraine against the fascist invaders. #3E #StandWithUkraine #AlaskaWithUkraine
Some Western Australian electrification gurus talking EV’s #electrifyag25 @drcgjones.bsky.social @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au
Hopefully this cements South Australian’s resolve to never elect another fossil fuel aligned government.
Excellent vibrant turnout at Electrify Ag 25 in Perth today. #agsky #agzero ⚡️🔋🌾
With traditional polystyrene boxes taking more than 500 years to decompose in landfill, an innovative project in Western Australia aims to develop a biodegradable alternative that could transform how
It is absolutely incredible how our elites fall for every bloody scam the world throws at us--AI for productivity! Abundance! Nuclear subs! Ban kids from social media! Neoliberalism!--and they have the nerve to accuse other people of living in a bubble.
Yep. They capitalism in a nutshell.
Didn’t realise it was a housing developer profitability round table. Freeze building codes, remove red tape. Sounds Trumpian.
And then there is Facebook which is as bad as x
What the hell is wrong with … ahh capitalism ☝️
Highly recommend Australian Ethical Super. Not only do they not invest in fossil fuel projects, they advocate that others don’t too. #divest Oh and the returns have been excellent.
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
Anyone thinking or reporting that next year will definitely have free and fair mid-term elections, or that Trump is likely to leave in 2028 is so naive as to be dangerous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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