What happens when power lines get built on your farm? | Australia's energy shift explained YouTube video by The National Account

“Essentially the [power line] towers became rubbing posts for cattle and even provided a little bit of shade.”
Farmer, Michael Greenham talking about his experience of having a powerlines through his property 9:21 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6cM...

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check TV program looking at appalling mining practices in Congo says it is a blight on the renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.

TV program looking at appalling mining practices in #Congo says it is a blight on the #renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

"Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought"

AMOC collapse is the biggest threat to Europe. Not migration, wokery or similar nonsense.

#climate 🧪

BOWEN: Well, no, because what I’m talking about there is the immediate challenge. And then there are some who say the answer to this is to somehow become more reliant on fossil fuels. That’s not a view I share. It’s not a view that any ministerial counterpart around the world I’ve spoken to shares. We are dealing with a short-term issue, yes, of supply. There’s been a fossil fuel supply shock. This is a fossil fuel supply crisis internationally. The answer to that is sensible measures like the ones we’re undertaking, the Prime Minister’s undertaking. And in the longer term, if you can reduce to some degree, or a greater degree, our dependence on those fossil fuels, that’s a good thing. So, for example, our EV uptake in Australia, our number of EVs in the fleet is relatively low at the moment, high in sales terms but low as a percentage of the fleet. It takes a long time. Even with the relatively low EV uptake we have, that’s avoiding the use of 15 million litres a week of fuel. That’s a good thing. That’s 15 million litres we have available for others. That’s part of it. Now, if we have higher EV sales and higher EV penetration and higher EV percentages across the entire fleet, that figure will come down even more and provide more fuel options for those for whom an EV is not a viable option just right now. And again, I participated yesterday in the conversation on the Prime Minister’s behalf with the Prime Ministers of Japan, Singapore, East Timor or Bangladesh, India, a whole bunch of Asian and Asian-adjacent countries yesterday. It was a very common theme from the interventions by Prime Ministers and Presidents. One, we have to work together in the short term, that was the first theme. Two, this underlines and underpins one of the reasons why we’re electrifying and trying to get more sovereign sources of renewable energy, so we are less reliant on these fragile fossil fuel supply chains.

Interesting comments from Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen this afternoon. It suggests EVs will be a focus of Australian domestic policy and stirrings of regional political realignment across South East Asia in the form of a short term plan (work together) and a long term goal (electrify).

ETTE-SCLUSIVE: Data exposes The Australian’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah A sweeping data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by News Corp's The Australian targeting Palestinian-Egyptian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah...

EXCLUSIVE: A data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by The Australian targeting Randa Abdel-Fattah. The paper has written more articles on her than Nine papers, Guardian, ACM papers & ABCNews online COMBINED

www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-me...

Excellent work 🙌

People ask me all the time for my favorite Onion headline, and there are like 200 of them, but my favorite recent print headline is easily this:

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.

rdcu.be/dbFbB

Farmer braces for backlash after speaking up in support of transmission lines A farmer in Victoria's north is offering up his property for transmission lines as part of the VNI West project, saying it would give him a chance to diversify his income.

"Others didn't want it, so me and a couple of other neighbours got together and said, 'Why not bring it through our farms?'," Mr McIntosh said. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Orban's Australian sycophants Australians welcoming the defeat of our nascent religious right in the May election need to pay attention to the echoes of the American right wing strategies looming ahead of their 2024 election, and the faction in Australia that shares those goals.

Orban's crushing defeat is a huge loss for Australia's authoritarian right. His fans here include Abbott, Downer, Kevin Andrews, Brian Loughnane (former Liberal party national director) and Greg Sheridan, along with less prominent but highly influential figures

If you’re interested in why it’s so hard to achieve better cities, listen to (and share) this. It was a turning point for me…a culmination of years of increasing determination to call out lies and disinformation, and the beginning of a thought process that eventually lead to @urbantruth.bsky.social.

Just in case you’re thinking of using Chatty to edit your manuscript

Counting down to the first meeting of the Fossil Fuel Treaty in Santa Marta later this month. Many firsts will be discussed there, and most exciting is the Peoples Summit for a Fossil Fuel Free Future.

Fossil fuel wars are our 'forever wars', it's time to quit them

fossilfreerising.org/about

We urgently need to switch to renewables.

Now more than ever, we urgently need to switch to renewables.

This is about more than saving the planet; it's about peace and stability - renewables are cheaper and provide greater energy security.

"The biggest policy question in Australia right now is this: what will the government do to rapidly electrify everything?"

New from me in @reneweconomy.com.au after the events of this week and how this conversation has played out.

Connecting Pollinator Corridors: Using evidence and monitoring to deliver a Nature-Positive grid YouTube video by Renewables Grid Initiative

Connecting Pollinator Corridors: Using evidence and monitoring to deliver a Nature-Positive grid www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXT0...

Nations are now waking up to the fact that electrification = national security. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country.

"Our physiology-based survival limits show a vast underestimation of risks" "..current estimates of survivability and introduce liveability (maximum safe, sustained activity) under current and future climates."www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-4312...

This is the first oil crisis in which clean alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries — are both inexpensive and widely available.

clean technology flying off the shelves already...
nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Compare far-right leaders' responses to Trump's looming genocide deadline to that of the Senate minority leader this morning.

9 hours away

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.

The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.

Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Had to check myself, yes, the president said “A whole civilization will die tonight” - when will this madness end? Is Australia complicit through Pine Gap? truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Is Pine Gap being used for this?

If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen

Moon in between the camera and the Earth, dark side visible.

Wow.

“NASA's EPIC camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. This view shows the fully illuminated ‘dark side’ of the moon never visible from Earth.” www.planetary.org/space-images...

If 2026 was a car.

It's time to stop the expansion of fossil fuels.

🎤co-CEO Leanne Minshull

Add your name to demand strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas now! ✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_environment_laws_...