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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20h

The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.

But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.

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CLIMATEWIRE
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking
disasters to global warming
By LESLEY CLARK, SARA SCHONHARDT, CHELSEA HARVEY | 10/09/2025
06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose
work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Table 12.12 | Emergence of CIDs in different time periods, as assessed in this section. The colour contesponds to the confidence of the region with the highest confidence: white cells indicate where evidence is lacking or the signal is not present, leading to overal bu confidence of an emerging signal.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

Deforestation is a global catastrophe in slow motion. Despite the good intentions of many, it is still accelerating, as humans continue to gnaw, like termites, at the very foundations of the Earth’s life support system. @JulianCribb #TheHumanFuture #deforestation

The Earth uncloaked – A catastrophe in slow motion

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. – GP Morris 1837

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 2d

Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing

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

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 2d

Do you remember the deal @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social did with the LNP remnants to establish a # NACC
…and how has that turned out?
Not hard to forecast the effect of a duopoly ‘deal’ on environmental protections (a political oxymoron)
#auspol

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Still nothing. Hilarious.
Imagine being a media reporter who can't/won't report on this.

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

BTW this National Press Club story hasn't been reported in any major news outlet yet. Indies like Lamestream, We Used to Be Journos, Pearls and Irritations etc all over it.

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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

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sasansandy.bsky.social @sasansandy.bsky.social · 2d

Important conversation. Wish we could hear more like this in msm. Key question is 'why not'

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Some frank words about the hollow rhetoric that now stands as Labor’s climate policy, and how its PR-first strategy has been rewarded by the media. Thanks to 7am

How Albanese killed the climate wars

Podcast Episode · 7am · 08/10/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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sasansandy.bsky.social @sasansandy.bsky.social · 3d

'Wishful thinking' as distraction....
It's appalling that he should pretend and thus deceive...

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3d

I asked if the Government would take steps to stop Australians fighting in the IDF while it is perpetrating a genocide

The Minister says he wishes for peace. What??

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking

m.youtube.com

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 4d

Actually Albo .. didn't Australia abstain from a ceasefire vote in Oct 2023, saying "We can affirm Israel's right to defend itself"?

Just saying bc your second last par says "consistently part of intl pressure for a ceasefire in Gaza"

Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 4d

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Candy Apple Grey @colourmepink.bsky.social · 6d

So the National Press Club - an association of journalists - doesn't wanna talk about all the journalists being deliberately targeted and murdered during a genocide because . . . it might upset the people that are targeting and murdering the journalists who were reporting on a genocide?

Umm, WTF?

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 6d

"I, along with every other reporter I know who has worked in Gaza ... have reported a reality in Gaza that bears no resemblance to how it is portrayed by Israeli politicians, its military and many media outlets that serve as Israel’s echo chamber."

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

johnmenadue.com

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 5d

bsky.app/profile/cath...

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 6d

You said it, Ronni.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9d

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united...

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 7d

If you wake up many days with a degree of dread, even though by all accounts, you're living a good life.
It's most likely because your brain and gut are having difficulty with this masquerading bullshit used by our politicians that they label social cohesion while themselves breaking it.

#auspol

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 7d

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

theshot.net.au

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6d

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 7d

Considering over 60% Australian children go to public schools, over 90% disabled and special needs children, and those the private schools exclude, this is a deliberate act of bastardary.

C’wealth govt funds 80% private schools and 20% public schools. The States and territories unequal funding.

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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · 6d

Chris Hedges of all people. He is a courageous wonderful award winning foreign correspondent. Now a wonderful protagonist for decency. How dare the #NPC do this? As you say in their cancellation they prove their lack of morality and point to increasing fascism in Australia.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 7d

If you aren’t brave enough to tell the truth get tf out of the profession of journalism, because you’re ruining it for everyone.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 7d

Would sure be great if any aspiring scholar on the immensely important topic of climate obstruction would study the 193 (!) submissions to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. Many from lobby groups ...
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Submissions

www.aph.gov.au

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9d

New article! On criminal complicity -- and some other things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united...

The United States of Flying Carp

The stupidest way to get injured.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 8d

This is so insane. Public education needs a massive boost, not cuts. Almost all non-gov schools are religiously affiliated in some way- why are we outsourcing education to religious orgs? Education is compulsory- we should have pride in and strengthen our secular public schools, not undermine them.

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 8d

Labor during the election: “we’ll fully fund public schools”

Labor after the election: “actually we meant private schools soz”

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 9d

The Trump plan is indeed a mongrel. It is clearly divorced from Palestinian and Arab realities as to be almost laughable. #auspol #Israel #palestine

Trump’s mongrel punt

In the Australian vernacular, a mongrel punt is an erratic kick forward of a football which leaves those participating in the game with an awkward choice between contesting possession (possibly at the...

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 9d

The Peace Plan states "Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours", no deradicalisation of Israelis. #auspol #PeacePlan

Peace without justice

We are told that Trump's Gaza Peace Plan envisages a potential pathway to a future Palestinian state.

johnmenadue.com

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sasansandy.bsky.social @sasansandy.bsky.social · 10d

Explains a lot, truly outrageous

Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 21d

THERAD: Jillian Segal was announced as Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism on 9 July 2024.

She signed a Conflict of Interest form on 8 July 2024, the day before the announcement.

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