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Val team earth

@valakay.bsky.social

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Living here on this absolute jewel of a planet. Thank you First Nations. PhD in sustainability, equity & health. Former policy adviser ALP & Greens. Banned from Greens 20 yrs ago by silly rule they’ve now gotten rid of, but still waiting for apology! …🙄

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · Jun 23

What lies beneath … the jewelled sea in my profile picture suffered a marine heatwave this year, there was an algal outbreak and most of the sea life died.

Four years ago bushfires burned through nearly half the island, now this.

We must change our way of life, no matter how hard it is to accept

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 7h

Just out of curiosity, do you mean the northern hemisphere (not the western hemisphere as you said)? The part of the earth that’s moving into winter while the other part (southern hemisphere, where I live) moves into summer? Or is there some significance to ‘western hemisphere’ that I haven’t got?

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 2d

I hate it because it’s a colonial northern hemisphere thing about autumn and the coming of winter, when it’s actually spring/poorneet season here. The British came here and put all their festivals over the top of the actual seasons of this country and people here just keep doing it

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 2d

I really don’t like the way these colonial northern hemisphere traditions have been imposed on our seasons

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 2d

some people may object to it as American but the more important thing is it’s a colonial northern hemisphere import - it celebrates the autumn harvest (eg pumpkins) and tells spooky stories about the coming of winter. But here it is spring or Poorneet (tadpole) season in Wurundjeri country

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 2d

The economic case for methane action is clear.

- Global methane abatement yields large net global economic benefits.
- The benefit-cost ratio of methane action is at least 3—rising to more than 6 when health cobenefits are included.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Net present value of climate benefits (market and nonmarket), air-quality cobenefits, and abatement costs under five methane abatement cost scenarios. Horizontal black lines show net benefits. The dashed line indicates the switching value threshold and available cost headroom before net present value is reduced to zero. The discount rate is 2.5%.

Methane emissions and effect on global mean temperature of methane action scenarios.
(Left) Methane emissions. (Right) Effect on global mean temperature. Background emissions scenario is SSP2-4.5. The shaded area is the 90% confidence interval of temperature outcomes pertaining to the central methane action scenario, based on parametric uncertainty in META sampled by 1000 Monte Carlo runs. “Methane action – high” and “Methane action – low” describe methane action scenarios resulting in high and low emissions, respectively. Specification includes tipping points.

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 2d

Slipping quickly over the places where people won’t live and thrive, like the islands that will be beneath the ocean or the millions of people, even in my own wealthy country, who will be at risk from rising seas.

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juswhe.bsky.social @juswhe.bsky.social · 2d

An incredible moment for Australia. Congratulations to all the First Nations leaders who worked so tirelessly to make this happen, and to the Victorian Government and Parliament for embracing the opportunity to show genuine national leadership. #Treaty #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives

www.theguardian.com

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 2d

I am moved to be in Victoria where this has happened. It is only a start but at least it is a start. Victoria has a bloody and brutal history towards First Peoples. We can acknowledge that and learn how to go forward

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

… controlled and manipulated, and I think we need to understand that in order to counter it.

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

I think it’s worth us (as climate scientists and advocates) looking at what he is saying, to try to understand it. My thoughts (which I’ve already posted) are that he lacks any feeling for the natural world. Men like him and Musk et al gain power because they see the world as something to be

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

He can’t say it because it would threaten his status as a wealthy white man who flies around the world telling people what to and (so the internet tells me) likes eating cheeseburgers

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

The other very obvious thing of course is that we don’t need a lot of the technologies. We don’t need genetically modified crops, patented seeds and magic pills to stop cows farting. What we need is better and fairer use of the food systems we already have - but he can’t say that

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

I am not sure how we overcome this, but I think we need to articulate it. We can find their technologies useful, but clearly say that they are not more important than the natural world.

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

I imagine he would think you could grow new coral in a lab, or even recreate extinct animals - if that’s important to you.
Ordinary people are at a real disadvantage compared to these men, because these men’s way of seeing the world as something to be controlled and manipulated gives them power

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Bill #Gates memo, what struck me most was the lack of any feeling for the natural world. He is a ‘good’ patriarch, a ‘good’ imperialist, who wants to ‘help’ poor people and show them how to do things better through technology. But there is no sense of the wonder of the world.

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Bill Gates‘ memo, what strikes me is the absence of any love or even feeling for the natural world. I think men like Gates and Musk and probably many like them don’t have that. They see the world as something to be controlled, manipulated, turned to their ends - and that’s it. Bleak.

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 4d

In Melbourne on shared paths some people get cross with you for using your bell and some people get cross with you for not using your bell, hard to get it right really

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 4d

Week 21 of Vigil to End Fossil Fuels climateactionmerribek.org/2025/10/29/w...

Week 21 of Vigil to End Fossil Fuels

Photo by Val Kay Tuesday the 21st October marked the 21st week of the Wills Vigil to End Fossil Fuels. We meet every Tuesday, 11 am – 1 pm, outside the office of Wills MP Peter Khalil, 466-46…

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Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 6d

The daily, monthly and yearly observation data for rainfall, temperatures and sunshine is now available under Weather and Climate/Past weather and climate/Climate data online. I’ve been told it will continue to be. DK about other data though

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 6d

The daily, monthly and yearly observation data for rainfall, temperatures and sunshine is now available under Weather and Climate/Past weather and climate/Climate data online. I’ve been told it will continue to be. DK about other data though

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 6d

The daily, monthly and yearly observation data for rainfall, temperatures and sunshine is now available under Weather and Climate/Past weather and climate/Climate data online. I’ve been told it will continue to be. DK about other data though

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 7d

Yes I’ve had confirmation from BoM that Climate Data Online will continue to be available. bit clunky and some info I can’t seem to get now (date ranges of choice) and graphing facility doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone, but I understand the rationale. Not sure re other data availability tho
Thanks

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 7d

Yep looks like they want to make the public website a basic forecasting service like weather apps and charge for everything else (data that used to be free and readily accessible, and still is on the old site, but I guess that will be closed to the public soon)

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strewellp.bsky.social @strewellp.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone else had trouble interpreting information on the latest, very expensive, Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) website?
If you haven’t already had an look, take a few minutes to be totally bewildered 🤪
The only logical explanation possible, for this ineptitude, is that they want to privatise the BOM

Val team earth @valakay.bsky.social · 7d

Yep, looking like that. And you don’t have to be a cynic, just look at what they’re doing