In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.

He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1

Arrow withdraws plans for CSG wells on four farms - Grain Central Arrow Energy has withdrawn plans to drill wells on four cropping properties in the Springvale region of Qld's Darling Downs. ..Read More

Darling Downs farmers will continue to fight to protect their groundwater & farms from destructive coal seam gas mining.

It may be a David v Goliath battle,but we have a legacy to fight for - the generations that have come before us & our kids' farming futures.
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Before Trump deletes it:

NOAA’s bleaching forecast for the northern Great Barrier Reef in March is the most severe since 2016 - when 51% of the corals fried.

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Finally, some media coverage in Australia on the mass mortality of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in 2024.

The government’s cover-up is crumbling.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The U.S. is trying to unravel a hacking plot that targeted climate activists The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Not by Gandhi but still very appropriate in these times.

Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.

Owners of Australia’s coal power plants say they cannot keep their ageing fossil-fuel electricity generators running long enough for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to build his planned fleet of nuclear reactors."
#auspol
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John Menadue on Rupert Murdoch, the Last Mogul - Pearls and Irritations We have a major problem with the damage that Rupert Murdoch has done to newspapers in Australia.

We have a major problem with the damage that Rupert Murdoch has done to newspapers in Australia, and any self-respecting government should take steps to correct that as soon as possible. #auspol #media

The climate-crusading lawyer who sued Switzerland over global warming — and won Cordelia Bähr is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.

I love that the lawyer who connected climate attribution to health risk science is one of @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s 10 people who shaped science in 2024.

She led the lawsuit against the Swiss govt for violating the rights of older women by failing to take steps to prevent climate change.

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies Guardian Australia was told firm disclosed its private sector work, but it is not known which clients were listed

"The firm was asked to provide “a robust evidence-base to inform and guide the department to develop a cohesive package of policy measures”!!!

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I haven't made one of these for a while, so here's a heatmap that shows the monthly global temperature anomaly for 1880–2024.

This shows the difference between the average temperature in each month and the 20th century average for that month.

Data from NOAA: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

Santos calls alleged greenwashing case a ‘biased retelling’ of its net zero aspirations Fossil fuel giant’s lawyer says the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility is ignoring years of work by Santos

Worth following this case in Australia - one of the country's biggest fossil fuel companies is having its climate claims and promised tested in court:

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Are my eyes deceiving me or is Gina Rinehart really wearing a "Drill Baby Drill" bib?

I suppose bibs are useful for leaks and spills - a sign of what's to come in the gasfield? 🤔

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Senex Surat Basin gas facility official opening.

The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action.

This is a very important and interesting read about Australian climate change policy:

“The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive”

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The extent of #CSG mining occurring in Qld is totally unsustainable and an assault on intergenerational equity. Our next generations will look back and ask why on earth did we let a foreign #gascartel impair Qld's most precious resource - water 💦

As our surface water evaporates and lessens in a warming climate, our groundwater will become ever more critical. If we allow the gas industry to stuff up Qld's regional groundwater resources, we are stuffing them up for our future generations. 🧵

When we live on the most arid inhabited continent on earth, it really makes one ask if allowing foreign-owned gas companies to extract thousands of megalitres of water per yr from the Great Artesian Basin, in order to export GHG emitting fossil fuels, really is a wise move⁉️ 🧵

'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levels NASA satellites discovered that Earth's surface has lost enough water to empty Lake Erie two and a half times since 2015. And the problem could be here to stay.

Earth's total fresh water has plummeted to an alarming new low, and it could be a sign that climate change is pushing the world into a dangerous phase of global drying, according to a new study. 🧵
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

#Arctic sea ice volume was 54% below the average in this data set for October 2024. The animation shows changes in both sea ice volume (bar) and sea ice thickness (map) in October

+ Graphic available: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Data from: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Move by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries

ICC issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in the Gaza conflict

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

We need electoral reform, but not in the form of a stitch up that favours the 2 party system and locks communities out of democracy. The government’s electoral reform bill needs proper scrutiny. Watch. Part 2.

About 2 weeks ago (on the old place) a number of people highlighted that Macca on Australia All Over was allowing misinformation about climate change and renewable energy to go straight to air without balance or fact-checking

So many of you responded by complaining to the ABC - here's the result

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Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says ALP denies reforms rushed into parliament are designed to target Simon Holmes à Court and Clive Palmer Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s two major political parties will more than double their public funding at the 2028 federal election to reap a combined $140m under the government’s proposed changes to electoral laws, according to the organisation which funded successful teal independent candidates at the 2022 election. Climate 200 has calculated the likely increase in the amount the Labor and Liberal parties could claim in public funding at the 2028 election, after the proposed new system is slated to take effect. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says

EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam The Video The Media Doesn’t Want You To See

EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam

We are not jumping at shadows when we say that #CSG mining risks adversely affecting the future of the Darling Downs and its precious groundwater forever.

So many scientific unknowns remain, and yet gas companies like Arrow Energy have been granted approval to drill 💯s of gas wells in some of Qld's most sensitive locations.

The legislated obligatory precautionary principle has been tossed out of the window 🪟
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All aided and abetted by:

🔺️existing geological contact,
🔺️faults & fractures,
🔺️uncapped legacy coal exploration holes, and
🔺️the integrity failure of gas wells due to microbiological influenced corrosion, which creates immense fluid & gas leakage pathways.

All present and correct ✔️
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Extracted from Klohn Crippen Berger's report for the CSG Compliance Unit of the DNRM (Qld) 2016 entitled "Potential effects of free gas on bore water supply from CSG development"

Extracted from Klohn Crippen Berger's report for the CSG Compliance Unit of the DNRM (Qld) 2016 entitled "Potential effects of free gas on bore water supply from CSG development"

Extracted from Klohn Crippen Berger's report for the CSG Compliance Unit of the DNRM (Qld) 2016 entitled "Potential effects of free gas on bore water supply from CSG development"

Standout risks from the surrounding #CSG depressurisation include depletion of the water table and contamination from the migration of free gas. 🧵

Diagram showing the subsurface formations of the Great Artesian Basin (Surat Basin) and how vulnerable the Condamine Alluvium is, sitting directly on top and incised into the target coal measures.

For anyone interested in the existential threat that coal seam gas mining poses to good quality aquifers, like the Condamine Alluvium💦 in the #DarlingDowns, information is provided in this Qld Science Network link: scienceqld.org/2024/09/19/c...
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