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Damian Butler

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I still say 'Human-caused Global Warming' when talking about it because I know that a scientific nomenclature convention applies to all of science, not just when it's convenient, and you don't know, or care about it because of "blah, blah, blah..."

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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 · 10h

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 · 12h

Murray Watttf, Labor minister for not having environment.

Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 13h

That tells you everything you need to know.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 4d

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.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 5d

Give me whatever you're having...

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 10d

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 10d

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

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 11d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 13d

bsky.app/profile/clim...

#RateOfChange
#Albedo
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 17d

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

youtu.be

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 17d

He's a cult leader.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 17d

...to boast about his new corrupt business developments and other random crap...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17d

September #Arctic sea ice thickness by decade... ❄️🥼

Data information: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic sea ice thickness for the month of September in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Thickness is shown with colors from black at 0 meters to purple at 2.5 meters to white at 5.0 meters. Sea ice in thinning in all regions over time.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 18d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 18d

‼️ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE
TROPICAL NIGHT AT 1800M IN AUSTRIA
Min 20.4 Hahnenkamm
Never happened 250+ years of Austria history ANYTIME ANYWHERE
No summer heat wave ever made what happened today. On Sept 20th!
One of the most extreme event Europe has ever seen.
Absolutely historic

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18d

1.) Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn't been authorized for release.

2.) If you don't obey you lose your press credentials, and they are your ticket to— actually those credentials are kinda worthless now so...

NPR @npr.org · 18d

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

www.npr.org

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 18d

Unless they vote against Trump, their words are empty.

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 19d

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/19/c...

#OceanHeat
#ExtremeWeather

The ‘blob’ is back — except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific | CNN

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the water around Japan to the US West Coast. The abnormally warm “blob” of ocean water ...

edition.cnn.com

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 20d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20d

HISTORIC HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST
48.1C Jahra KUWAIT
47.7C Semawa IRAQ

Crazy MINIMUMS up to 32C at 600m asl at Iranshar,IRAN.

It's the harshest heat wave IN WORLD HISTORY
for this time of the year

And tomorrow it can be even hotter:
World record (just broken) at risk again !

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 21d

I got pages deleted and an account shutdown for saying Meta works for the CCP on their page for these awkward glasses. Lol, triggered...

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 21d

But they aren't going to stop coal and gas exports so there's that.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 21d

No, Albo is getting us into more gas and coal exports and this graph doesn't include those emissions. Like the previous targets this target is accounting fraud because it omits the massive embedded emissions in Australian fossil fuel exports. A nursery rhyme for a target.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 24d

Worth noting the timing: this was released after the North West Shelf and billion-dollar Scarborough project was nicely squared aware, Woodside was given a cosy deal over the rock art, and the Prime Minister has returned from his tour of the Pacific to try and promote regional security partnerships.

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns

Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25d

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

www.nytimes.com

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