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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 05/10/2026

I just watched Big Little Reno on YouTube. It's a pilot home renovation show focused on improving homes on a small budget, and is hosted by Canberra energy efficiency doyen Jenny Edwards. Definitely worth the time. I like to think I know a bit about energy, but even I learned stuff.

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We Transformed This 1970s Home for Under $50K | Big Little Reno

YouTube video by Impact TV

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only effective & equitable control of our excessive emissions has been the Gillard Labor Govt’s 2012 price on carbon, enacted with the Greens. Erased by Abbott in 2014, returning to sham ‘carbon credits’ ever since, doing nothing to curb our global pollution, enabling greedy miners

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Renters' rights are just a thing to circumvent and real estate agents plus the associated tech are enabling the circumventing. We know that but bears repeating. And also am so fucking over this shit! Is this real the best we can do with tech? Oppress the most vulnerable into oblivion over and over

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Palawa nation demands a Free Palestine! No more genocides anywhere!

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just think of all the talent, time, and treasure that has gone into producing nonsense — NFTs, Bitcoin, “prediction markets”, fast fashion, data brokers, most social media, and a good fraction of AI “solutions” — that could have been used to make the world better instead… What a lost opportunity.

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harkin61.bsky.social @harkin61.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More from the disaster zone that is the #QldLNP State government

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great articles. I wonder if something similar is happening on the Gold Coast. Or pretty much all over Australia if we combine all the climate risks. I mean am not wondering too hard, it is happening. What happens for the last buyers though? The ones that can't off load, insure, or live there...

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Australian social security has been built atop the idea that it is only possible to help people up by kicking them when they are down. Every death is treated as a cost saving.

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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Experts believe opaque commercial deals between the Korean tech giants Samsung and LG and Murdoch's media empire could be pushing News24 content into households that would never choose to watch the channel. www.ettemedia.com/pay-for-play...

ettemedia.com

‘Pay-for-play’: The hidden deals putting News24/Sky News first on your smart TV

Experts believe opaque commercial deals between the Korean tech giants and Murdoch's media empire could be pushing News24 content into households that would never choose to watch the channel.

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here come yet another monster! Of all things we could build, this is what we end up with. Harm upon harm upon harm, to make some billionaire more billionaire. #EatTheRich

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026

OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj

OpenAI’s ultimatum: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables
The ChatGPT creator threatens to walk away from local training facilities unless Labor backs down on creative industry protections.
Noah Yim
,
Greg Brown
and
Matthew Cranston
4 min read
September 14, 2026 - 9:29PM

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14/09/2026

⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence...

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم
@btselem
Israel is dismantling Palestinian collective life in the West Bank.

A catastrophe is unfolding across the West Bank. Checkpoints, expulsions, killings and land takeovers are not separate events or isolated human rights violations. They are part of the same system. It is time to connect the dots.

Our new report, The Elimination Project, shows how these mechanisms form one political project: dismantling Palestinian collective life while expanding Israeli control and Jewish presence.

Since late 2022, and especially since October 2023, this process has accelerated and become more openly violent. Palestinians live under constant threat from soldiers and armed settler militias. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,107 Palestinians, including 245 children. State-backed settler farms and outposts seize vast areas, communities are expelled, and movement restrictions fragment Palestinian space.

Israel is also strangling the Palestinian economy, criminalizing political and social organizing, shutting down civil society organizations and arresting journalists and activists.

Together, these mechanisms cut Palestinians off from land, livelihoods and one another, dismantling the conditions they need to exist as a people – with institutions, leadership, shared history and a political future.

The Elimination Project is not new. Its logic has shaped Israeli policy for decades through dispossession, fragmentation, military rule and apartheid. In 2017, Bezalel Smotrich published the “Decisive Plan,” centered on making Jewish-Israeli control irreversible. It gives Palestinians three options: relinquish their collective aspirations and live under Jewish supremacy, leave, or face military repression. Under the current government, central elements of this vision are being translated into policy, budgets, powers and practices. In Gaza, this logic has reached its most extreme manifestation: the genocide Israel is committing there.

The international community must stop treating Israel’s violence and violations as isolated incidents, stop enabling Israel’s crimes, and end the impunity that allows the Elimination Project to continue.

Connect the dots. See the system.

Read more in our new report.
https://btselem.org/the_elimination_project/?lang=en

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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The science shows regenerative grazing simply doesn't work And I get it, it's a captivating well funded story ($200M from McD's otw), and it's easier to convince many that small tweaks are all that's needed vs. actual systemic changes away from beef 🧵here's 8+ reasons why this won't make beef eco

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

The data centre boom is the exact opposite of everything the energy transition should stand for. It is the opposite of clean, of climate justice, of community benefits, of electrification and technological efficiency. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/11/b...

foodandwaterwatch.org

“Bring Your Own Power” Schemes Won’t Fix Data Centers

"Bring Your Own Power" fails to address the rising costs or pollution driven by data centers' exploding energy demands.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

Just so it's absolutely clear for everyone: the rate of renewable growth and the rate of fossil fuel phase-out is nowhere near high enough right now. Shrugging it all off because 'renewables are inevitable' = complacency and failure. We need to do way, way more www.wri.org/research/sta...

a screenshot of a table with many 'right direction but off track' items for climtae action

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not sure people understand how bad El Niño already is. In Southern California today, we had an offshore pacific hurricane (not normal) take out homes and beaches. We had temperatures topping 111°F with high humidity. There's a fire in LA. And we are just getting started with El Niño.

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gas BS No export tax and higher bills. "As the customer base shrinks, the bills for remaining consumers grow — landing hardest on the people least able to do anything about it: renters with no right to swap appliances, apartment dwellers tied to a shared hot water system, and low-income households"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/09/2026

This is an understandably popular take here but there is basically no evidence for this sort of opposition-contagion Also: why wouldn't it apply equally to the several hundred gigawatts of planned gas facilities data centre developers are choosing to build? I don't think it works like this

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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Beetaloo Day!!!

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Huge congratulations to the wonderful @davidshoebridge.bsky.social and the @greens.org.au for THIS 👇 important win. Outstanding. #auspol #Coles #Palantir

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/09/2026

I refuse to get involved in this debate. I count as close friends principled, decent and brilliant campaigners on both sides of it, and I won't be picking between them. We hear a lot from one side of this debate. I am sharing this only because it is the best articulation I have seen of the other.

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It’s time to end native forest logging - Greenpeace Australia Pacific

The vast majority of Australians agree that Australia should end native forest logging but there is significant disagreement about how this transition should come about.

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How is this a Senior Climate and Energy editor? How does a senior anything understand so little their own the subject matter and the impact of their choice of headline and focus on opinions and actions?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026

It is very much not a good thing that this was the key take-away from the UNEP's latest report. It's a nice illustration of the effect that carbon removal has on media. The promise of fixing a threat without changing the status quo is just the exact fantasy being sought out

Renewables are
no longer the
key solution for
climate change
Tim McDonnell
Semafor Climate and Energy Editor
The United Nations Environment Programme issued a stark
assessment Wednesday of the trajectory of global temperatures. The
target cap adopted by the 2015 Paris Agreement — I .5 degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial levels — is guaranteed to be overshot, the report says.
To completely avert disastrous conditions for human lives and livelihoods
is no longer possible. Our best shot is to brace for a much hotter world,
and then try hard to cool things off. And for that, the report concludes,
"rapid upscaling of CDR is critical."
I-N agencies and international scientific panels have endorsed carbon
dioxide removal (that is, withdrawing C02 from the air rather than
preventing its release) before, but rarely framed it as such a foundational
need. The field ranges from the ultra-low-tech — i.e., plant more trees —
to all manner of cutting-edge carbon-sucking contraptions. Today about
2.2 billion metric tons of C02 are withdrawn annually through these
methods. Fixing the climate will require that figure to rise as much as ten-
fold by 2100, the UN report finds.
The report is clear that replacing fossil fuels in the energy system is still
essential; every ton not emitted now is one less that has to be drawn out
later. But renewable energy, while we could certainly always use more of
it, is basically doing fine. Global investment has jpped down from a 2024
peak, but not plunged. Costs continue to fall rapidly. AI, EVs, and air
conditioners are driving an historic surge in power demand where evelY
electron is welcome. Even in the US, with vanishing tax credits and a
hostile government, I rarely hear any serious investors describe clean
energy (except offshore wind, for now) as uneconomic.
CDR is a different story. The trouble is, it requires huge amounts of land,
time, and/or cash. "Even if global fossil C02 emissions reached zero and
deforestation were halted entirely, i…

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

37 coal and gas mine approvals under Labor is 37 too many. The Albanese government has today approved the extension of a coal mine in Queensland that will allow them to keep digging until 2055, and threaten critical koala habitat.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Worst Labor federal government in Australia's history. Also has the lowest first-preference support of any Labor government in Australia's history ... 125 years.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Big Four consulting firm Deloitte has been handed a $2.1m contract to provide “management advisory services” to the Illicit Tobacco and E-Cigarette (ITEC) Commissioner despite a decades-long relationship with the tobacco industry. New from me for @deepcutnews.bsky.social.

deepcutnews.com

The government just gave Deloitte $2.1m to help with tobacco crackdown, despite …

… the consulting firm’s decades-long history of advising the tobacco industry.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bikes are an economic disaster. The only things I bought for my bike in the past year were brake pads. At this rate, how are corporations going to make money? How are they going to buy politicians? How will I ever go into debt? Who are we going to bomb? The whole foundation of our economy is shot.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“that while you're doing it tough, they're doing just fine.” We need Change. #Auspol

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fuckwits.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Physics teacher demonstrates how to inflate a bag with a single breath using Bernoulli’s principle. [📹 Wolf_science] Original post

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

C'mon Queensland Museum‼️ London Science Museum's ended decades of BP sponsorship--you too can shake off the shameful yoke of Shell's fossil fuel sponsorship‼️

theguardian.com

London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership

Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“We need a moratorium on data centres & we need it now, before it’s too late. While dozens of data centres are in the pipeline & the tech bros close in on us because our regulations are lagging behind - it’s our communities & our power, & our water resources that will be impacted the most.” #Auspol

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Jess Saphia @jesssaphia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Housing insecurity affects kids #education. Anything that disrupts stability at home affects learning. #edusky #auspol

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/08/2026

The fossil fuel economy has always been structured around talking as if it's serving basic human needs but actually subsisting on stimulating wild overconsumption 100x greater than actual need. This is why generative AI fits so perfectly in with the fossil fuel industry.

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MyRadar @myradar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An incredible supercell tornado occurred in the department of Aude, France around 4:25-4:30 p.m. local time Monday. It was very likely a significant (EF2+) tornado, and may have caused EF3 damage. Winds probably exceeded 150 mph (240 km/h).

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

.. I certainly knew we were not on track for ISP projections (and the 82% RE target for 2030) - but have to say was rather shocked by how much behind the eight ball we really are 😬🥲 (based on the latest generator information data from AEMO)

Figure that compares existing RE projects (and project pipeline) to the 2030 ISP projections (which are aligned with 82% RE target).

Figure shows the current in service and reasonably prospective projects (i.e. projects that have some degree of progress with respect to planning and contracting) are well behind the ISP projections.

Wind:
Existing + in commissioning + commited + anticipated = 21GW, c.f. ~30GW in 2030

Solar:
Existing + in commissioning + commited + anticipated = 22GW, c.f. ~31GW in 2030

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sick. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Four frames. 1. Terns on a beach. One says to another, “I feel sick.” 2. A fur seal on a beach beside lots of dead birds thinks, “I feel sick.” 3. A woman reads a series of news headline placards with “BIRD FLU JUMPS SPECIES”, “MORE HEAT WAVES, FIRES”, “NO END OF WARS”; she thinks, “I feel sick”. 4. The world, with fires and explosions everywhere, thinks, “I feel sick.”

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Peter Singer at the top and both Claire Lehrman and her editorial staff included. Not exactly the A-team here, but a helpful self-identified list of people who think eugenics is real and the world works like a role playing game.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1/ A UN investigator’s daughter is a U.S. citizen. She can’t send her mom money to live on. Francesca Albanese was sanctioned for doing her job. Now her whole family is locked out of banks, insurance, even hotel bookings. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Cellular Landscape" Animation Credits: Lead Scientific Animators & Illustrators: Evan Ingersoll & Dr. Gaël McGill. Production Studio: Digizyme Inc.

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