🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
The costs of climate are increasing and will hit local governments hard, our new research shows.
Rather than communities being forced to pay the escalating costs of repair work after fires, floods and storms, we could put a levy on gas and coal exports to help pay for the costs of climate change.
Coal royalties are a tiny part of NSW Government revenue, despite what the industry might tell you
There's been some worry about the Aussie dollar falling, but don't panic just yet.
As Chief Economist Greg Jericho explains on the latest Dollars & Sense, it's a lot to do with Trump's tariffs, and is NOT a reason to delay a rate cut.
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The first Dollars & Sense pod of the year is up - with guest co-host @adamchalksitup.bsky.social
Talkin' exchange rates, interest rates and how I chose a bad time to visit the USA
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Okay @grogsgamut.bsky.social, maybe we overstated things...
Also, Dollars & Sense is back for 2025. 🥳
Listen via the link (or wherever you get your podcasts).
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Great to guest host Dollars & Sense pod today w/ @grogsgamut.bsky.social
Episode out tonight!
Charging giant vehicles more to park seems like common sense public policy to me
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...
2025 is set to be a big year.
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Here's a handy starter pack:
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"The NSW Government is far more focused on promoting coal than helping communities move away from it." - Rod Campbell, Research Director
Read the research from Evie Simpson, @adamchalksitup.bsky.social & @rodcampbell.bsky.social:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/nsw-gov... #auspol #climate
The NSW Gov is greenwashing coal by funding carbon capture and storage #nswpol
New report out today w/ @rodcampbell.bsky.social & Evie Simpson:
imagine if behind the curtain, the ACCC was just coles + woolies, and they decided to give themselves big fat taxpayer grants and to squeeze aldi + IGA out of the market!
…well, labor + the coalition are doing something very similar to indies + minor parties.
it basically #FinancialGerrymandering.
Here's some homework ;)
"The one thing that will not be maintained in the next 10-20 years is the status quo."
Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social on the moral choices that Australia must make in the face of climate change at #climateintegrity Summit 2024 #auspol
They should really stop letting me write the titles for these...
Anyway go sub to the @australiainstitute.org.au newsletter, now with extra @amyremeikis.bsky.social !!
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There is widespread support for banning gambling ads on free-to-air media. The main objection is free-to-air networks can’t afford to lose the $$.
As @amyremeikis.bsky.social explains, there's a simple solution. A 2% levy on gambling revenue could more than replace all the lost ad income. #auspol
Here are 8 things you need to know about the Government's electoral reform bill, and 8 ideas to make it better, from our Director of Democracy & Accountability, Bill Browne.
@browne90.bsky.social #auspol
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A constant defence of fossil fuel suppliers is "don't attack them, they're just meeting demand for their products", which is ultra-naive LinkedIn-Men absurdity
The suppliers of fossil fuels create demand for their product: through politics, marketing, economics and often just flat-out corruption
When you're teaming up to rush through electoral reforms you know are undemocratic:
theaustralian.com.au/nation/peter...
Rushed donation reforms are a major party stitch-up that exclude independents and minor parties.
Democracy is too important to risk (case in point: the US).
Sign this petition to put pressure on the gov to send the reforms to a parliamentary inquiry.
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For someone who spends a lot of time online, not much surprises me. But this headline was not one I expected to see today.
@theonion.com buys InfoWars.
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NSW, Australia's most populous state, is forecast to fall well short of emissions reduction goals for 2030,2035 and 2050 (let alone the total carbon budget), a government agency says. #cop29
www.productivity.nsw.gov.au/sites/defaul...
This is exactly what I was hoping for. Not an echo chamber of consistent opinions, but an echo chamber of consistent respect. It feels like coming home.
Have created a starter pack of folk from @australiainstitute.org.au.
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inb4 Aus 2035 NDC kicked into the weeds until after the election.
Speaking to the times
