Glen
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Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social
Australian snow and snow weather, hydrology, climate ... other stuff. I reciprocal follow, and block abusive posters.
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What was inflation in October, from the ABS's new 'full monthly' measure? Perhaps the 3.8% headline 12-month number (3.9% seasonally adjusted, whatevs)?

Nope, on trend, seasonally adjusted annualised, it was 4.7%. The headline annual increase is actually the 12-month average centred 6 months ago.
Pyro-not-cumulus.

Annual burning is a big part of Central Queensland cattle production, mostly for control of native vegetation regrowth — you pull it down first, with a dozer chain, let it dry, then burn.
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What was inflation in October, from the ABS's new 'full monthly' measure? Perhaps the 3.8% headline 12-month number (3.9% seasonally adjusted, whatevs)?

Nope, on trend, seasonally adjusted annualised, it was 4.7%. The headline annual increase is actually the 12-month average centred 6 months ago.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
What a strange, gentle, Marr interview with far-from-the-worst character from the mass-murder state: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Haaretz editor, Aluf Benn, on Netanyahu's political survival - ABC listen
Golda Meir fell after the Yom Kippur War. Menachem Begin quit after the disaster of the 1982 Lebanon invasion. But despite the trauma of October 7, Benjamin Netanyahu remains — still the dominant figu...
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"Japanese buyers also prefer U.S. supply because it comes without destination clauses, offering greater flexibility, and as they seek to reduce dependence on Australia and Russia."

Is Australian gas sold with 'destination clauses', meaning restrictions on resale? It's widely on-sold, by Japan...
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Oh. "He's lucky he's dead."
I have bailed out. My life is so difficult personally that I can’t bear to hear anything and rush to turn it off. Mark would be shocked, but hey he’s lucky he’s dead
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...

I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.

ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...

#PlantScience
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Except that it'll be an AI-slop machine, not a bureaucrat.
"How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus?" asks Richard Denniss.

"That’s the kind of calculation a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’".

Read Richard’s full piece: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
So AI-run banks. What could possibly go wrong?
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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The future of Earth-observing satellites is far from certain, but scientists have shown how old-school altimetry can potentially shore up future data loss.

eos.org/articles/bri...

Read more in our year-end issue: bit.ly/Eos-Nov-Dec2025
Bridging Old and New Gravity Data Adds 10 Years to Sea Level Record - Eos
The remarkable agreement between the two techniques shows how scientists can bolster state-of-the-art gravimetry instruments with old-guard altimetry satellites.
eos.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Never trust an economist who speaks of "governments spending taxpayers' money"

They are either lying to you, playing you, or else just plain old incompetent
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
That'd be Mt Nardi, the most unreliable major broadcast transmitter in the country.
Still no Optus service.
WiFi-calling won’t work through Telstra.
ABC Radio National, Lismore has been playing a recording apologising for lack of service for six hours now, and reception webpage still reports no problems.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If, ABC News, "the aim is to provide more timely information on inflation trends", why the absolute fk would you report the data 12-month trailing, so it's automatically, inherently, at least 6 months old? WHY DO THAT?
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Bluesky too? My radar says yes, now widespread.

Best response: Don't engage.
“Fascinating to look through every account I’ve disagreed with and find out they’re all fake...”
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Climate Realism Is a Delusion
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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another rave review of NOCK LOOSE, this time in the final ever edition of Meanjin. see replies for my full statement haha
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What a surprise...
"ETH researchers estimate the cost of removing 1 tonne of CO2 from the air in the year 2050 to be between 230 and 540 US dollars. This is twice as high as previous estimates"
"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped.

This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I asked the Prime Minister to allow Labor MPs a free vote on banning gambling advertising. His response? The same old guff to sidestep the uncomfortable reality that he’s the one holding this reform back #auspol #politas
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Wow.
This year's #Arctic sea ice freeze-up is clearly the latest on record for the Baffin Bay region (located between Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago). The extent of ice cover is a record low for the date there.

Data from @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
No one seems to have written about the One Nation political party corporate structure for a long time. Why is that? Has it changed? Doubt it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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How’s this for a photo of the storm
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM