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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 11h

Fri 10 Oct: Enviro Minister Watt "nears deal with Coalition" on EPBC laws but rules out a 'climate trigger'—that would be mighty inconvenient for all the Coal & Gas projects the @albomp.bsky.social govt keeps approving (32🤯 & counting!) including Woodside's North West Shelf Extension carbon bomb 💣

Protestors outside Labor MP Josh Burns' St Kilda office
In the centre of the image, a lady holds up a placard saying IT'S TIME TO SPEAK OUT JOSH

Protestors hold up a banner and placards across the road from Josh Burns' office
Dark orange banner on the right says STOP NORTH WEST SHELF GAS
From left to right, the placards say HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION, DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY and HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. Sigh.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 1d

At last. A politician talking about cheap all but untaxed #australia export gas being onsold for a profit
#japan #auspol #energy
At last a #news headline about it #media #journalism
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says

Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast

www.theguardian.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

Better to have him grind it publicly than not. Need more ALP backbenchers speaking up and pushing the cabinet.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 2d

“We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national & commercial interests”
#politics #democracy
aeon.co/essays/we-ne...

We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays

We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests

aeon.co

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 3d

Is that the truth? Or did Sky News tell you?
Anti-Sky News sticker. It prints out on A4 sticker stock (Officeworks #australia)
#media #journalism #disinformation

Is that the truth? Or did Sky News tell you? Sticker text

ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 3d

The Sky News segment demolished by Media Watch is unbelievable in all senses of the word. Check it out: www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
#media #journalism #disinformation

Ep 26 - Europe has fallen - Media Watch

A Sky News report falsely sounds the alarm on migration anarchy in Europe.

www.abc.net.au

ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 4d

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/cli...
Where Progress Is & Isn’t Being Made. How far we have to go, and a tool to assess how much we can change
#climate #environment
global transition away from fossil fuels, deforestation, greenhouse-gas pollution & melting ice can be measured with precision and clarity

The Data Behind Climate Change: Bloomberg Green

From global emissions to energy investment, these are the numbers behind climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 26d

Gladstone's LNG plants produce about 5% of the world's total LNG, and are the reason why gas prices have sky-rocketed on the east coast. Sucking the nation dry, driving up emissions and enriching a few executives and offshore investors, while local manufacturers are driven to the wall.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Maybe its the times, but this trip has really focused the sheer beauty and incredible wonders of Australia - but also the long term scars from the dispossession and violence against indigenous nations and the corresponding rampant extractivism which continues to damage country in so many places.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5d

Fri 3 Oct: week 19 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of Woodside's North West Shelf Extension to 2070, secured by secret negotiations of pollution conditions acceptable to WoodCIDE

'Enviro Champion' Josh Burns totally MIA as Labor backs fossil fuels & ever ⬆️ C+GHG pollution

Protestors hold up large banners opposite Labor MP Josh Burns' St Kilda office
Orange banner says PHASE OUT COAL & GAS EXPORTS
Dark orange banner says STOP NEW GAS IN WA AND NT

A collection of placards laid out in front of Josh Burns office
From left to right, they say:
IT'S TIME TO SPEAK OUT JOSH
END FOSSIL FUELS
LABOR IS ASLEEP ON CLIMATE
DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
LABOR GREENLIGHTS WOODSIDE CLIMATE BOMB

Image of a crinkled poster of Josh Burns pictured next to a seal
It reads: Environment Champion Josh Burns
A rosette badge on the lower right says 'Seal of Approval'
Bottom of poster reads: LEAN Labor Environment Action Network

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 5d

Some very interesting details about the machinations of the ultra wealthy and the far right in Australia.
#media #disinformation #journalism
We ignore the pernicious influence of Sky News at our peril. Their reach is greater we think. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Australia's mega rich are fomenting civil war

Pouring gasoline on the fires of bigotry is more dangerous in the USA where guns are ubiquitous. It is still deadly dangerous in Australia.

open.substack.com

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 7d

#auspol
#auspol2025

Australians need to vote ONLY for those who will work tirelessly and incorruptibly to ban fossil fuel industry donations and other corporate donations to political parties.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember

Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...

ember-energy.org

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · Mar 18

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Fire 🧵

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

From 1987...

“Beer says the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 had driven interest inside CSIRO for research. A national bushfire research unit was established, and he moved to Melbourne to work.”

'What could I have done?' The scientist who predicted the bushfire emergency four decades ago

Dr Tom Beer’s pioneering 1980s research into bushfires and climate change has, to his dismay, proved all too accurate

www.theguardian.com

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 9d

Daylesford side-street, 4:30pm 30Sep:
2x Triple Jinkers fully loaded to go & 3rd Double on way from log-dump to join convoy! Recent logging from Osborne Rd, Wombat State Park 🪵

National Park legislation to be introduced to Parliament in November #australia #nature #trees #animals #logging

Huge pile of mature tree logs removed from Wombat State Park

First photo: huge trucks fully loaded with logs that were recently 80 year old native tree habitat & carbon sinks.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10d

Genuinely revealing & fascinating talk all the way up to the end of question time

Very clarifying historical research that exposes the intellectually dishonest roots of market fundamentalism & the deep coordination used to propagate & embed policies & norms favourable to the powerful

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 14d

Finally found the link to this EXCELLENT talk by @naomioreskes.bsky.social moderated by the great @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social . Prof Oreskes covers her book The Big Myth co-authored with Eric Conway. Essential reading-viewing.
video.ethz.ch/events/2025/...

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 10d

🔴Why logged forests burn hotter & spread fires faster
🔴How post-fire practices worsen biodiversity loss & community risk
🔵Strategies to reduce fire danger while protecting species
#nature
📆October 09, 2025
⏰6pm - 7pm
📌Online via zoom

Information & registration:
www.nature.org.au/logging_and_...

Logging and Bushfire Risk: An Online Conversation with Professor David Lindenmayer AO

Since 1955 the Nature Conservation Council has been the voice for nature in NSW. We advocate and campaign to protect nature and for a safe climate.

www.nature.org.au

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 10d

biofuels are as disastrous as offsets or all the other greenwash rubbish
#climatechange #forest #energy #environment
In any case, what 'waste'? Sawdust goes to poultry houses. What they are saying is they want more profit from sawdust, & want govt to fund it as well

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Ambitious plan to convert forestry waste into fuel for ships and planes

With biofuels earmarked as a way to power the transport sector in the future, one industry says its waste can be converted into aviation and shipping fuel.

www.abc.net.au

ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 11d

#usa researchers tracked how dark money & fossil fuel interests fund a network of climate denial think tanks, that start & spread climate disinformation.

[dark money = influence bought by hidden donors & where spending is hard to trace]

#australia too

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/against...

Against the Wind: A Map of the Anti-Offshore Wind Network in the Eastern United States

Today, we released "Against the Wind: A Map of the Anti-Offshore Wind Network in the Eastern United States," which provides an unparalleled window into how fossil fuel interests are working with clima...

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 11d

They are determined to prove renewable energy can replace fossil fuel as reliable, baseload energy. Fortescue is building its own energy grid in the Pilbara. The project is a test case they can export to the world at scale.
#energy #climatechange

www.afr.com/companies/mi...

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Forrest: No regrets ‘speaking truth to power’ on Trump’s climate claims

Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest says he has no regrets after accusing US President Donald Trump of lying about climate change.

www.afr.com

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 11d

Know your enemy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#climatechange #money #politics #auspol

Trump-style 'climate hoax' playbook spreads to Australia

US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.

www.abc.net.au

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 12d

super-clear explanation of how forests do cooling *in addition* to their role in carbon drawdown & sequestration. Every politician & journalist should watch this! The destruction of the Amazon - and forests more generally - is a huge issue.
#climate #forest #nature
youtu.be/B-oJyInmTTo?...

How Plants Cool the Planet

YouTube video by Jimi Sol

youtu.be

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 14d

Wonderful development. If only we can get rid of the redundant damaging fossil fuel based industries hanging onto their money teat.
#greensky #energy #climate
newatlas.com/energy/large...

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

newatlas.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15d

Every time I hear climate/enviro folks casually say the 1.5°C target is dead, I think of Asad Rehman's 2020 post on Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping's intervention in the Copenhagen talks in 2009—“certain death for Africa”, “climate fascism” imposed on Africa by high carbon emitters

19 Nov 2020 tweet from Asad Rehman

"When I hear net zero 2050 l always remember Ambassador Lumumba (the Chair of the G77) at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009 when he said 2c "certain death for Africa", & a type of "climate fascism". The UK, EU, Obama's US supported by big northern NGOs opposed 1/1.5c target.
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Image shows 3 men, the gentleman in the centre is lead G77 negotiator, Lumumba Di-Aping of Sudan

Screenshot of a thread of 3 tweets from Asad Rehman continuing from previous tweet (19 Nov 2020)

"He sat silently, tears rolling down his face, put his head in his hands & said "We have been asked to sign a suicide pact." & that Africa is being asked to "celebrate" this deal for $10 billion. "$10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins". This is a colonisation of the sky 2/"

"The global North want to ignore historical emissions & allow their citizens to carry on emitting & prevent African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. "It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we are still considered disposables"."

"I would rather die with my dignity than sign a deal that will channel my people into a furnace." He called for "One Africa, One degree" & "Two degrees is suicide". It was clear then that rich country govts & big NGOs were more than happy to sacrifice the global South. 4/"

Screenshot of a thread of 3 tweets from Asad Rehman continuing from previous tweet (19 Nov 2020)

"Now despite the science, the urgency, the devastating impacts we are told that 2030 targets are radical & we should be pragmatic. Anti-racists & #climate justice activists should not accept 'channeling the people of the global South into the furnace' by supporting net zero 2050"

"In 2009 global South countries were calling for cuts of 80% by 2030 by rich countries & to pay their climate debt because even then the IPCC said 2c globally means 3.5c across every region of Africa. Since then the science is even clearer that preventing a breach of 1.5c is key"

"Today the UK is 16th highest global emitter, 6th highest historically, responsible for 3.5% of global emissions. Just to meet it's fairshare of emissions cuts for the 1.5c budget - it would be -200% by 2030 so it would need to be at zero by 2030 & transfer £1 trillion to the poor"

Image shows an infographic on the UK's Climate Fair Share from waronwant.org

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 15d

Nice speech but 32 new coal & gas development approvals while in government, some of the biggest after this last election. The dissonance between words and actions is real, it hurts my head & heart.

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