Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol
Wouldn't it be great if council removed all the fucking parking meters and replaced them with car chargers. They could raise revenue by charging for the electricity instead. And that was just from my "bath tub think tank". Imagine what we could come up with of we talked to town fucking planners!
Energy disinformation is the new climate denial.
New interview with @wblau.bsky.social of Brunswick Review on why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen & arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/europe-energy-transition/
Renewables have passed coal power globally,. Global electricity generation n TWh, 2000-2025.
Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org
Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D
Fake Daily mail headline. We blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires
For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them
Susan McDonald had a bit of a cry for the gas companies saying that they really do pay a lot of tax. I decided to have a bit of a fact check on that
live.thepoint.com.au
“the AI industry raised a reported $US300 million to oppose candidates advocating AI regulation – mainly Democrats – at this year’s midterm elections.”
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".
Hi this joke is for me
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
'“If someone is a member of the International Criminal Court and a person who is wanted enters the territory of our country, he or she must be detained,” Magyar said in response to a question about Netanyahu.'
www.smh.com.au/world/europe...
Republicans introduced federal legislation literally called the Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation to give oil & gas companies immunity from laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis hageman.house.gov/media/press-...
Defence has handed Palantir more than $26 million in contracts since 2013, including a $7.6m deal awarded without competitive tender to its Cyber Warfare Division. Palantir staff are embedded in Defence. How the hell did Labor let these wolves inside?
Palantir wants a remilitarised West locked into a civilisational contest against its enemies. Sound familiar? This is exactly the logic driving AUKUS. We're not just buying nuclear submarines, we're buying into someone else's war with our neighbours.
Over his more than two decades as a clean energy entrepreneur and commentator, Jigar Shah has established himself as one of the most prominent voices calling for a more decentralized, flexible grid.
He sat down with New York Focus for a Q&A:
nysfocus.com/2026/02/28/v...
Japan raises more tax revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia does.
Japan has a tax on gas and coal imports that raises more money than Aus PRRT.
Great new research out today @australiainstitute.org.au @richarddenniss.bsky.social
australiainstitute.org.au/report/taxin...
I too endorse crumpets for breakfast.
One thing about being a parent is that having to marshal the kids in the morning means I don’t have to face other realities of the world until later in the day.
I can't quite believe (a) how quickly so many people started outsourcing their decision-making and critical thinking to machines owned by psychopathic oligarchs, and (b) how quickly that made everyone really, really dumb.
It's 2026. The question isn't which thing can we burn to produce electricity that is slightly less worse than the other things we burn.
Building new infrastructure to burn things in 2026 is peak stupidity and greed.
Luckily solar, wind and storage are cheaper.
google ai summary saying china LNG imports are expected to increase over 10% in 2026.
Google's AI won't be stealing any analysts jobs this week. This was never going to happen even before the war.
Volcanoes emit CO₂, but the amount is small compared to human emissions from fossil fuels, explains PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social in new video addressing climate change myths. Each year, human activities release 50-100 times more CO₂ from fossil fuels than global volcanic emissions.
Story from 2017 but largely unchanged - BECCS (and indeed most "negative emissions") are largely a model fudge factor to hit emissions targets that are increasingly in the rear view mirror.
Cheap and easy to put CO2 in the atmosphere, hard and expensive to pull it out.
Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.
China's March 2026 exports:
Solar cells up 80%
EVs up 53%
Lithium-ion batteries up 34%
Electricity substitutes for fossil fuels are surging.
China, an Electrostate, competes against the Petrostates that include Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
Why are all these western leaders upset at the US and courting China?
FT comments section from when the war began...
OUT: Carney's speech.
IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing
"navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused"
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...
When scientific findings threaten entrenched economic or political interests, science becomes the target. @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social identify 5 forces that generate sustained pressure on publicly funded science—plutocrats, petro-states, pros, protagonists, & the press.
China's electrification bet is paying off. Electricity now accounts for 30% of its energy consumption - 50% higher than the US or Europe.
With 1/3 of global renewable energy capacity already installed, China is structurally more insulated from rising oil prices than most Western economies.
