When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive
The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years
Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago
The long term problem with farm bankruptcies is who buys them up. Greater control of food production in fewer hands😬
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Change is coming, question is how fast.
Value of Australia’s coal and gas exports could plunge 50% in five years, treasury modelling forecasts
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"Anthony Albanese's claim that more fossil gas is needed for the energy transition is unscientific nonsense - it is gas industry propaganda raised to the level of state policy – and reflects a stampede toward more fossil fuels rather than a transition away."
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export project is a disaster on five fronts:
🟠 Driving up WA energy prices
🟠 Threatening WA's domestic gas reserves
🟠 Paying even fewer royalties - down to just 0.6% of WA revenue in 2027-28
🟠 Corroding Murujuga rock art
🟠 Wrecking the climate
Read:
Impt NEW systematic attribution study finds that of 213 major heat waves that occurred betw 2000-2023, ALL of the studied heatwaves were made more intense due to collective carbon pollution by carbon majors
55 in the set were made "at least 10,000 times more likely" from human-caused climate change
"genuine efforts to tackle antisemitism must be grounded in universal human rights and solidarity against all forms of racism, not in attempts to shield Israel from accountability". - Max Kaiser, EO Jewish Council of Australia
Just in case you were not sure how off the previous scale Australia’s ocean temperatures were in the last Financial Year (July 2024 - June 2025) I plotted it using the previous FY graph
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Fixed it for you @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
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Marinus Link is one of AEMO’s huge blunders in discredited ISPs. It must be reviewed before the Feds, Vic and Tas give go ahead to this mill stone around Tas neck. reneweconomy.com.au/marinus-link... #auspol
Climate change is really, really bad for farmers
“Oh but they’re not as bad as the other mob”
Sorry, if this gets approved the ALP are announcing that they are climate change deniers with a hatred of Australian culture and history.
No surprise here: re-elected Labor has no intention of reining in fossil fuels.
Sadly - Scott Reef, Ningaloo, the Great Barrier Reef - and the people who depend on them - are among the many victims of greenhouse gas pollution.
Visit them while you still can.
Here I was thinking that one nation was a shambles. 🤣🤣🤣
Labor Party will go the way of the Liberal Party if they ignore climate science, and the need for fundamental reforms to their policies, especially on energy.
There can be NO new fossil fuel projects if we’re to maintain a liveable planet/climate.
You might fool voters, but you can’t fool physics.
Updated fossil CO2 emission estimates from @robbieandrew.bsky.social
Based on the latest data, we estimate fossil CO2 emissions went up 0.9% in 2024.
Listen to his presentation here (starting about 8:55): cicero.oslo.no/no/arrangeme...
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Twiggy Forrest says 'net zero' is a "f---ing con".
He wants Fortescue to reach what he calls “real zero” by 2040 – where fossil fuels are no longer used because there are better alternatives.
“I believe net zero is a f---ing con,” he says. “Real zero is serious. Just stop burning fossil fuel.”’
On the contrary
It’s turned Dutton and his party into an unacceptable fringe voice
Showing up for Goldstein on 7.30 tonight. Interview with Sarah Ferguson here at the link
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The real outrage in all this is that both parties are treating as kryptonite a policy that would actually do something to help the housing affordability crisis. #abc730.
Computer models have been accurately predicting climate change for 50 years yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/comp...
Labor is now the only party that hasn’t rebutted the multi-national gas exporters’ ridiculous claim that there is a shortage of gas in Australia when we are exporting huge quantities of it.
Media release: australiainstitute.org.au/post/peter-d...
Nationals leader says children who commit crimes don’t deserve civil rights. Wow.
@australiainstitute.org.au @amyremeikis.bsky.social #ausvotes
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The Coalition’s gas modelling contains a big admission: we don’t need new gas to increase gas supply.
They plan to lower prices by diverting uncontracted gas for export to the domestic market. New projects are not needed.
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A humiliating backdown on an ideologically driven policy that would have hurt services, ppl working from home & pushed the ACT into recession.
I'll keep fighting against public service cuts but have no confidence Coalition won't keep attacking Canberra.
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Dutton's Liberal party selling Darwin Port to China on a 99 year lease.
So when they claim to be the party of national security and get all hysterical when a Chinese vessel sails past, it's all amateur theatre BS. #auspol #insiders
This is exactly the kind of permanent cost-of-living relief I’ve been pushing this whole term alongside others on the xbench like @helenhainesindi.bsky.social & builds on the suburb-wide electrification projects I negotiated with govt ⚡
What size solar system have you matched with that?
