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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 9h

Another Liberal Party not "shite-lite".

Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 1d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Dave @daveb23.bsky.social · 9h

"And look, no offence to Sora’s “creators”. I often walk through art galleries and realise the stuff on the walls would be so much better if I simply stole it and drew hilarious penises on it or whatever"

Great article about AI.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 11h

4 billion human lives lost if we don't act yesterday.

actuaries.org.uk/media-releas...

Current climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

The global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 unless immediate policy action on risks posed by the climate crisis is taken, warns a new report by the IFoA.

actuaries.org.uk

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 12h

#JustCheckingWithABrickwall

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just checking to see if embedded emissions in Australian fossil fuel exports are now included in Australia's emissions reduction target and that historical anthropogenic emissions are included in the target too...

#DenierrheaStripes

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 12h

"my cats too old... I feed my cat heaps... It doesn't hunt when I look at it... I vote ALP because they're the lesser of two massive turd piles... I feed kookaburras, butcher birds and currawongs what's the problem?"

Kade @namelessactivist.bsky.social · 13h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 12h

Every ALP voter has. Buyers remorse.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry @thejuicemedia.com they are #AnotherFnLiberalParty not "shite-lite" or whatever lesser of two turd piles names you have for them..

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 14h

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15h

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 23h

esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

#Oscillations
#ENSO
#Currents
#AMOC
#OceanHeat
#TippingPoints
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations

Abstract. Continued anthropogenic pressures on the Earth system hold the potential to disrupt established circulation patterns in the ocean and atmosphere. In this narrative review, we investigate tip...

esd.copernicus.org

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 21h

The ABC are obsessed with keeping the obliterated LNP relevant.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 1d

Lucky if they turn up in some places.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

The ALP needs the LNP to remain relevant. But they are Another Liberal Party not "shit lite" or anything tepid like that. You reach a level of shitness and thereafter there's no fn difference. The ALP are well beyond this point. Convince me otherwise.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 2d

Murray Watttf, Labor minister for not having environment.

Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 2d

That tells you everything you need to know.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

Where are the people demanding Hamas accept the peace deal?

youtu.be/RvleFnYUIBU?...

2 Years Since October 7 - with Sam Harris

YouTube video by Call me Back Podcast - with Dan Senor

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

The @iea.org's guess at the variable renewable energy share in various countries by 2030 - Denmark will be around 78%.

None of this was meant to be even remotely possible!!

iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/48ecc...

a chart showing various VRE shares by region

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 6d

For more details and videos of extreme climate and weather events, go to:
x.com/weathermonit...
x.com/volcaholic1
x.com/arab_storms
bsky.app/profile/fire...

#Precpitation
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 6d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 7d

Record warm ocean temperatures continued in September across the North Pacific Ocean, with a number of consequential impacts (including on downstream weather patterns).

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every September from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each September from 1850 through 2025 for only the midlatitude region of the North Pacific Ocean. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2025 is a record high.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 7d

Give me whatever you're having...

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 12d

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14d

As South Australia's 💔 fossil-fueled algal bloom lays waste to marine ecosystems, SAPremier Malinauskas & Woodside declare their 🤎 4 each other:

"he said his support for gas is underpinned by his support for net zero.
At Woodside we wholeheartedly agree. Increased gas supply is a net zero solution"

Screenshot of a Woodside Energy LinkedIn quote-post of a post from Liz Westcott

It reads:
"Our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Australia Liz
Westcott caught up with the South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas at The Australian's Energy Nation Conference and thanked him for his powerful endorsement for the role of gas."

Liz Westcott's post reads:
"It was great to catch up with Peter Malinauskas at The Australian's Energy Nation Forum in Sydney.

The Premier shared a compelling example of the role gas can play in decarbonisation.

He said that the Whyalla steelworks transitioning from a blast furnace burning metallurgical coal to using gas for direct iron production would halve the annual emissions of the steelworks.

But the Premier said to achieve it, South Australia will need a lot more gas than is currently available.

To put it another way, he said his support for gas is underpinned by his support for net zero.

At Woodside we wholeheartedly agree. Increased gas supply is a net zero solution.

Thank you for your unequivocal advocacy Premier."

Image shows a smiling Liz Westcott (left) and a smiling Peter Malinauskas (right)

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 12d

True. Also words like "scientific nomenclature conventions" and "one term per scientific phenomenon". Undergraduate level knowledge.

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 13d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 16d

bsky.app/profile/clim...

#RateOfChange
#Albedo
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 16d

Breaking News!
Code UFB!

The 36-month running average for Earth albedo (reflectivity) hit another record low as of the latest data release for July, 2025 by CERES.

In other words, the darkening of the planet is growing stronger.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15d

100 years of average June-July-August temperature departures over land areas through 2025... Check out how summers are warming over the Northern Hemisphere! 🥵

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 19d

The cheapest and probably most effective way to sequester historical anthropogenic emissions isn't even being talked about by Leviathan emitters like the Albanese government.

youtu.be/yPl7PNF-APU?...

How to End the Climate Crisis by 2050 | Peter Fiekowsky | TEDxTaftAvenue

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 19d

He's a cult leader.

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