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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 14d

UNGA is over and NYCW has drawn to a close. We have a 2035 emissions reduction target and a plans to deliver but we still don't know if we are hosting the 31st UN Climate Conference in 2026. Join us on 'The COP Drop: The latest on Australia’s role and opportunity'
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Join The Energy’s panel to hear the latest on the diplomacy agenda that will shape Australia’s future actions on climate and energy policy. Key themes include: • Outcomes of recent meetings: Pacifi...

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 26d

This episode is behind the paywall but you know what to do: Run, don't walk, to support the LMSU team and become a super-summerupperer.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 26d

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There Is Too Much: Woodside and Western Australia with Kylie Turner | Let Me Sum Up podcast

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 26d

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Once You Start Down The Wood Side, Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny

YODA (V.O.) Gas is the path to the Wood Side. Gas leads to emissions, emissions leads to warming, warming leads to suffering.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 26d

The incredible Let Me Sum Up team have summed it up for everyone and then happily continued to bang on about it in this bonus content episode of 'There is Too Much' with me playing the role of token West Australian.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 26d

To the rescue - Marian Wilkinson has written a brilliant Quarterly Essay about this exact question titled 'Woodside vs The Planet'.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 26d

I often get asked about the outsized influence of the big gas companies in WA. In the context of the approval just last week of the North West Shelf gas project extension, there is not a better time to be examining this relationship.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 27d

Avoiding the worst impacts of climate change and putting a marker in the sand for the economy we want to have is the most logical option we have for both prosperity and survival.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 27d

Australia's climate risk assessment finds projected disaster costs in even the moderate emissions scenario (+1.5°C) could total an annual cost of $AUD40.3 billion in 2049–50 (median value).

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 27d

Energy efficiency and electrification of everything, ramping up coverage of current policies, developing new policies to tackle hard-to-abate sectors and non-C02 emissions like methane, support to grow green exports, and clearly signalling the decline of fossil fuel use and exports.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 27d

It's readable, sensible, and has five indicators of ambition we should be on the look out for as Australia's sector decarbonisation plans are released this week:

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 27d

Australia's Climate Risk Assessment is out and making for sobering reading, but so is this excellent piece in @theenergy.co by @frankiemuskovic.bsky.social setting out how Australia's climate goal and plan is a signal about the economy we want Australia to have.

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Feb 27

Energetic recommendation from Americium Reeve!

Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · Feb 27

It's Friday, it's not the alternate Friday, so it's Let Me Sum Up day!

Episode 1, 2025: 100% pure nuclear, featuring Nuke Menzel, Francium Muskovic, Technetium Reed, + me.

Listen here:
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IEA Nuclear Wedge vs. CCA Atomic Wedgie | Let Me Sum Up

It’s 2025 and BOOM BOOM we’re back baby! LMSU returns with a double nuclear paper spectacular, featuring special guest Alison Reeve!

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · Feb 16

Some blue sky (and a happy doggo) just for you Bluesky.

A little moment away from the complexity and uncertainty so many of us navigate now.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Feb 13

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Jan 10

The Year is New, the Pod is Out, the NDA has expired, and it’s time to post the winner of the 2024 Wonkie Award For Best Policy Paper Covered By The Let Me Sum Up Podcast. Three guesses what it is! Well, three candidates:

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · Dec 20

In @frankiemuskovic.bsky.social we trust.

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · Dec 18

When @reevealison.bsky.social fact checks, it’s logical, 💥 on point and funny. A thread. Read ALL the way to the end for Idris Elba.. worth it.

Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · Dec 18

Hmm... This doesn't sound right ?
"in South Australia at the moment, you’re paying up to 56 cents a kilowatt hour, in Wyoming and Tennessee, where they have a similar mix of renewables and nuclear that we’re proposing, they’re paying 18 cents."
(www.peterdutton.com.au/leader-of-th...)

Let's check!

Leader of the Opposition – Transcript – Joint Doorstop Interview with Ms Nicolle Flint, Liberal Party Candidate for Boothby, Melrose Park

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Dec 17

Do YOU know someone who needs to know about climate & energy, but doesn’t have time to deal with the avalanche of policy papers? Give the gift that keeps on explaining: a year’s subscription to Let Me Sum Up, with bonus episodes galore and extra silliness aplenty! www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp/g...