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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

This is how Israel treats foreign nationals.

And there is evidence of far worse treatment received by Palestinians under indefinite detention, often without charge.

This is the behaviour of a rogue state who behaves with impunity.

Because it is never held to account.

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 1d

Russian terrorists are “liberating” the Donbas: in Sloviansk, they shelled a residential area, wounding seven people, and in Kostiantynivka they burned down the Holy Dormition Church.

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 22h

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero? #Climate

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?

Only 15 of 100 MPs surveyed knew of IPCC report that CO2 needs to peak this year to keep global heating to 1.5C

www.theguardian.com

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 15h

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says.
#climatecrisis #gas #energy #auspol 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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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

September 2025 was the 3rd warmest September on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). The last 12-months have been about 1.51°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... via @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. This visualization shows North and South America. Most areas are warmer than average.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Africa, Europe, and western Asia. Most areas are warmer than average.

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Australian Renewable Energy News @solardirectory.bsky.social · 1d

Australia's energy transition in flux amid struggle to build major transmission arteries

#auspol #energy

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Extension cord to nowhere' looms large as Australia’s energy transition evolves

Touted as a model for the energy transition, a "quick and easy" high-voltage powerline project linking South Australia directly to New South Wales is running dramatically over time and over budget.

www.abc.net.au

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

Saving forests is climate action - and right now, that’s one of the most urgent low-hanging fruits we have.
#ClimateEmergency #saveforest #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/saving-...

Saving Forests Is Climate Action

I stuck this sign up on the ACT-NSW border today as I crossed the Brindabella mountains on my way to #CitSciOz25 in Melbourne, where I’m keynoting on Monday morning. I left Canberra early, and pedalle...

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Australian Renewable Energy News @solardirectory.bsky.social · 1d

Australians have a new choice in high-power rooftop solar panels; one that appears to be built particularly tough for our often-harsh conditions — TW Solar’s 470-Watt TWMNH-48HE470.

#solarpanels

www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/tw-sola...

TW Solar's Rooftop Panel For Punishing Australian Conditions

Australians have a new choice in high-power rooftop solar panels; one that appears particularly tough - TW Solar's 470-Watt TWMNH-48HE470.

www.solarquotes.com.au

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Carmen Harris🇿🇦 @carmenharris.bsky.social · 1d

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

The Climate Risk Assessment was released in a week when it was impossible to ignore the impact of climate change on sport. This was particularly true if you were a competitor at the World Athletics Championships in Japan.
#ClimateCrisis #sports #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Heat and humidity: Why sport needs a climate risk assessment

If sport becomes harder, more expensive, and happens on degraded facilities, then there will be lower participation and worse health outcomes.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 3d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 2d

“Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way?” That truck is climate change.

Great to speak with @theguardian.com’s Maya Goodfellow about my new book, #RunLikeAGirl.

Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism

Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’

www.theguardian.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide

apnews.com/article/clim...

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

apnews.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

Steel and aluminium manufacturers are feeling the effects of high gas prices driven up by exports.

Australia Institute research shows gas exports have TRIPLED Aus gas prices and DOUBLED electricity prices.

📺 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on ABC News Breakfast
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 2d

Facts are facts, and no amount of superlatives will change them!
The Courier 2 Oct 2025
#climatecrisis #LNPfail #auspol

Fossil quartet are more active
Facts are facts, and no amount of superlatives will change them!
The Courier 2 Oct 2025

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 2d

Political and media attacks on renewable energy and climate action in Australia in recent months have come “out of the climate obstruction playbook” that has been honed over decades around the world by fossil fuel interests.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 3d

New preprint on the switch of the terrestrial carbon sink into a source

Its simple: ever more system show not a declining carbon uptake, but they switch into a source...

One more temperature jump to go....

#earth #climate

Decadal sink-source shifts of forest aboveground carbon since 1988

As enduring carbon sinks, forest ecosystems are vital to the terrestrial carbon cycle and help moderate global warming. However, the long-term dynamics of aboveground carbon (AGC) in forests and their...

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 3d

The costs of extreme weather events such as floods, bushfires and storms have nearly tripled in Australia since the 1990s, insurers have warned, with poorer communities disproportionately burdened.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

At $4.5bn each year, extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say

‘The trajectory is only up, in terms of insured costs,’ professor of climate risk warns

www.theguardian.com

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 3d

Solar and Wind Overtake Coal for the First Time #Climate

Solar and Wind Overtake Coal for the First Time

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 4d

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does.

The more extreme climate events and disasters that occur around the world – the higher Australian insurance premiums will be.

It's why we're calling for compensation levy on gas & coal exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 3d

The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research by the climate thinktank Ember.
#renewableenergy #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 5d

Fascists deny climate change because they cannot control it. They can’t bend the laws of physics to their ideology. And so they pretend it isn’t real. Our task - as citizens, as voters, as people of conscience - is to prove them wrong.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/why-are...

Why Fascists Reject Climate Science

At the United Nations last month, Donald Trump stood before global leaders and the world and declared again that climate change is a hoax. He did this while floods and fires are ravaging communities, ...

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 6d

“The destruction of Western Australia’s northern jarrah forests for bauxite mining will push a threatened black cockatoo “to and beyond the brink of extinction” if governments allowed it to continue, conservationists have warned”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’ Stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion

BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 6d

Some real nonsense here. If the parliament is expanded there's no strong reason to think either major will benefit or not benefit proportionally. Sure if people voted like in 2025, ALP would win more new seats than L-NP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWi...

The plan that could wipe the Coalition off the electoral map | 7NEWS

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia

www.youtube.com

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