Bill's Climate Catch-up #11

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Former defence leaders say Australia is already in a fight with its biggest threats Australians are already deeply emersed in a global disinformation war about fossil fuels and climate change, former defence leaders say in an extensive new review.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Mondelēz: Stop stuffing Oreos with deforestation Mondelēz is double-stuffing its Oreo cookies with bulldozed orangutan habitat. The candy giant knows its palm oil is wiping out Indonesia’s last rainforests, but it’s falling short of real action. No

Tell Mondelēz to quit its villain era and stop stuffing Oreos with deforestation: action.eko.org/a/mondelez-s...

Jim Chalmers: Make Gas Giants Pay! getup.to/NoYapGhLC79wTA

Petition: Launch a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS

The AUKUS deal will cost taxpayers at least $368bn to build nuclear submarines for the U.S. with zero guarantee of a single submarine for Australia. Join me in signing the @australiainstitute.org.au petition demanding more scrutiny nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia...

The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

From the other place....

Priceless 😂😂

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The worst possible news

This means 2C will likely be breached in the late 2030s

So much for us being on track for a 2.8C rise by 2100

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you think we are living in a wild west world, this is nothing compared to what #climate breakdown is set to bring

Nasty little wars, even nastier big wars, biblical migration, civil strife, plummeting food supplies and clean water availability, and ever more extreme weather

All coming to you...

Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp European democracy”. According to the Financial Ti...

🔴 NEW - Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund

UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social, @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

The core case for gas plummets into a screaming death spiral - Part 1 For decades, fossil fuel advocates have been pushing the line that we “need” to burn methane as a ‘vital component of the energy transition’. It is an ancient talking point, predicated on the idea tha...

The core case for gas plummets into a screaming death spiral - Part 1
thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Albanese is funding a delusional, deeply dangerous Trump. It has to stop Australia is giving the Trump administration billions while it sets about attacking our allies and trashing the norms of western democracies. And all America's apologists can say is "keep your head down".

Anthony Albanese is paying Trump billions of dollars as the US president destroys the international order. It's time to stop, writes Bernard Keane.

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #1 2026 Open access notables

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #1 2026 #Climate

More than 1,160 dead after extreme flooding across Asia Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka are reeling from flooding that has killed hundreds in each country and destroyed communities.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Floods kill at least 1,100 people across south and south-east Asia – video Authorities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia race to help victims of devastating flooding

Floods kill at least 1,100 people across south and south-east Asia – video #Climate

Sydney’s mean spring temperature is 3C above the long-term average (and Brisbane +2C)

That’s insane

Ongoing heatwave to fuel further extreme weather on east coast An ongoing heatwave along Australia's eastern seaboard will fuel further extreme weather this weekend, and its longevity is now breaking long standing records.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

That’s an amazing and damning statistic

“For every dollar of wealth created since the year 2000, 41 cents have gone to the richest 1% of people, while just one cent has gone to the bottom 50%.”

Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: the world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions There is a great institutional need for strong inequality analysis. That’s why the world needs to establish an International Panel on Inequality.

Global inequality is as urgent as climate change

@josephestiglitz.bsky.social

theconversation.com/global-inequ...

Coalition's no-zero, pro-coal policy will kill hundreds (and it has nothing to do with the climate) Decades of well-established science shows that keeping coal-fired power stations going longer will kill hundreds of people every year — with taxpayers funding it.

Coalition latest policy - to use tax payer dollars to subsidise more ill health and death in their own electorates
#airpollution
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/20/c...

Astounding that ABC News could publish more than 1,000 words on LNP climate implosion – in the top story on its app – & not even mention the context of #COP30 that is now underway
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disinformation is costing lives and the health community is fighting back ahead of COP30 - The Global Climate and Health Alliance “We must fight the coordinated disinformation campaigns impeding global progress on climate change.” — António Guterres, UN Secretary-General By Shweta Narayan For the first time, ‘information integri...

🌟‘Information integrity’ is on #COP30 official agenda!
👉 @cop30brazil.bsky.social recognises that disinformation is destroying global cooperation & having a devastating impact on human health.
👉 Our lead campaigner @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social explains: climateandhealthalliance.org/blog/why-dis...

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Société Générale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal Société Générale brags about its so-called coal ‘exclusion policy’, but behind the scenes, it’s bankrolling one of the world's most corrupt, climate-wrecking coal giants: Adani. Rings a bell? Yes, it’

Société Générale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal
action.eko.org/a/societe-ge...

Today in the Newcastle Herald, DEA member Dr John Van Der Kallen explains why Australia urgently needs stronger environmental laws ⚖️🌳

A ban on combustion engines may be a tough ask – but it’s needed Introduction by Croakey: The Electric Vehicle Council called this month for an end to the sale of new petrol and

A ban on combustion engines may be a tough ask – but it’s needed
By Professor Hussein Dia
www.croakey.org/a-ban-on-com...
#AusPol
#HiAP
#publichealth

Farage: epic grifter

How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war

“I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals, the relentlessness of the repeated attacks, the indifference to the consequences of the attacks for patients and staff” - Len Rubenstein

www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com