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Colin D Butler

@colin-d-butler.bsky.social
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Dissident epidemiologist, Hon. Prof., Australian Nat'l Univ [PhD, MD (Aust'n. equivalent)]. Biosafety Now! advisor. Lead editor "Climate Change and Global Health. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects" (CABI, 2024). IPCC arrestee (2014). Views my own.

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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In 2019 80% of 5 candidates shortlisted as inaugural prof of climate change & health at PIK and Charite Berlin were female; to correct a perceived bias. This was undoubtedly illegal under EU law. Until so-called planetary & climate health leaders can behave ethically there will be little progress.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Canadians: don’t buy anything from the USA; it just isn’t safe.👇🏼
washingtonpost.com
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators
The Trump administration asked to remove three members of the commission that regulates the safety of consumer products and coordinates product safety recalls.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Who could have possibly predicted that Trump's half-arsed petrified look-at-me bombing campaign would have failed to achieve its objectives edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...
edition.cnn.com
Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Small methane wells leak massive amounts—but are barely tracked. Like microplastics, pesticides, and biodiversity loss, they’re invisible by design. Profit demands willful ignorance. www.vox.com/climate/4164...
vox.com
Why we’re barely keeping track of this growing climate problem
Fossil fuel sites can emit a powerful greenhouse gas long after they shut down.
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Ed Maibach @handle.invalid · 21/06/2025
Please say more.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Right before I saw the message from Trump I got a very different one from a friend in Tehran, so deeply surrounded by bombing that he was asking me to help communicate his last wishes. This is what my own taxes fund, so much pain upon my loved ones. We are complicit in so, so, so much violence.
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A new low in Australian excuses for fossil fuel expansion…apparently our coal and gas exports can be ‘netted out’ if we export enough green energy…can someone please call the atmosphere and tell it that burning fossil fuels wont harm it as long as we generate some renewables…FFS
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In 2016 Monash University said it would divest from fossil fuels. The same year it inked a deal with Woodside, Australia's biggest domestic oil and gas supplier, starting a decade-long partnership. I looked at how the institution was living up to its promises. The short answer: it's not. /1
crikey.com.au
Inside the fight to get Monash University to divorce fossil fuels for good
As Monash's partnership with Woodside comes up for renewal, the university is facing pressure from students and staff to ditch the company for good.
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Population Balance @popnbalance.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
People all over the world are saying no to the relentless pressures to have children. These four Kenyan men, for a variety of reasons, are defying the deeply pronatalist expectations of their culture to craft their own childfree lives as they want. nation.africa/kenya/news/g...
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
climateanalytics.org/comment/paki... Incompetence on incompetence
climateanalytics.org
Pakistan is boiling
But the numbers aren't telling the actual story
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
globalchangemusings.blogspot.com/2025/04/abc-...
globalchangemusings.blogspot.com
ABC Health Report and its coverage of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic
Blog on global environmental and social change, including climate change, limits to growth, ecology, health, security and reflections on the future.
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Norman Swan finally concedes origin of the SARS-2 pandemic could be from a lab!! (roughly 4 mins in). But extremely grudgingly, e.g. he mentions David Relman in support without revealing Relman warned of this in 2020. They fail to mention Daszak and EHA's disgrace.
abc.net.au
Would you trust AI to make a life or death decision? - ABC listen
When you can't make medical decisions for yourself, it's often the responsibility of a loved one, or sometimes a doctor who doesn't know you at all.  Some researchers are suggesting artificial intell...
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A year’s worth of rain falls in less than a week in an Australian region the size of Texas, triggering worst floods in 50 years. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Australian Outback Lashed by Year’s Worth of Rain in Week, Triggering Worst Floods in Half a Century
Australia’s remote outback in western Queensland has been swamped by flooding after being lashed with a year’s worth of rainfall in a week, sweeping away tens of thousands of livestock.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/04/2025
Very rare to see a research paper devoted to the topic of a post-collapse world. h/t @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It's worth noting that the term "planetary boundaries" occurs not once within Ezra Klein's 304-page Abundance book. Which is all you really need to know about the book.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/03/2025
Breaking News! Code Yikes! On March 20th, 2025, the global mean surface temperature once again set a new daily record at 14.29°C, beating the previous daily record of 14.24°C set just last year. The record global temperature should be short-lived as a global cool down is expected any day now.
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Gilles Demaneuf @gdemaneuf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Good piece by @ianbirrell on the seriously compromised Vallance: 👉🏻 On Farrar and the Lancet letter: 'Daszak [..] had submitted the letter to the influential journal at Farrar’s request – and they even tried to get it signed by Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO.'
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/03/2025
Why are these questions not front and center in every news story about this travesty?
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Gilles Demaneuf @gdemaneuf.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In an interview on @france24.com (seemingly just removed), Flo pretended that the Chinese authorities only discovered late in January that there were human-to-human transmissions in Wuhan. I could expect this from a hallucinating chatbot, not from a supposed 'fact-checker'. x.com/Florin_Unco...
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Andrew Noymer @andrewnoymer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My latest. For the Orange County Register. Please share. www.ocregister.com/2025/03/12/c...
ocregister.com
COVID likely came from a lab, and it matters enormously to prevent another pandemic
Public health dodges this question at its own peril.
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Gilles Demaneuf @gdemaneuf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Frankfurter Allgemeine explains that Lothar Wieler, ex president of the Robert Koch Institute (the German equivalent of the US CDC), now believes that a research accident is more likely than a zoonosis as origin of Covid-19. @ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
overpopulation-project.com/high-fertili... I argue 1980s reversal of opinion re relevance of rapid population growth to development and conflict in low income settings was a neoliberal "success". A view indirectly supported by Joan Robinson, yet most on the Left (and Green) fall into a trap.
overpopulation-project.com
High fertility in low-income settings: the cruelty of unfettered capitalism - The Overpopulation Project
The US government now shows clear disinterest in global development, a continuation of a trend seen already with president Reagan in the 80s
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Gilles Demaneuf @gdemaneuf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Let it be clear: Farrar did not just sign Daszak's statement of support. He also organized its publication in Lancet. This happened after he shared a taxi with Daszak back from a WHO conference in Switzerland on 12 Feb 2020. Here is the never-published proof: @JeremyFarrar #DRASTIC
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
overpopulation-project.com/high-fertili... "The schism between those who advocate human rights-based family planning in the South and those on the Left who harshly criticize such advocacy is a trap set by neoliberalism."
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid
Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
nasa.gov
NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024 - NASA
Last year’s increase was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers.
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
youtube.com
Inside the Wuhan lab-leak scandal - bioweapons, cover-ups & the Covid 'smoking gun'... | Documentary
YouTube video by The Sun
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.climatecodered.org/2025/02/coll...
climatecodered.org
Collision Course: 3-degrees of warming & humanity's future video
The climate emergency requires actions at emergency speed for a rapid transition to a post-carbon, safe-climate future.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20/02/2025
It's unbelievable. Scarborough gas project and it's 878 millions tonnes of pollution just got approved. While the world and Australia are on the precipice of catastrophic climate change, this is beyond reckless.
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 16/02/2025
As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
With the UN’s committee on aviation environmental protection (CAEP) meeting today, analysis by @influencemap.bsky.social reveals that aviation industry delegates outnumbered those from green groups by 10 to 1 at CAEP's last conference – which media & public cannot attend. @dpcarrington.bsky.social
theguardian.com
Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body
Exclusive: Firms outnumber green groups at environmental talks, with related events sponsored by fossil fuel companies
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Christopher Wright @chrisisalwright.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
NSW coal has a bigger global climate impact than…France! The numbers shocked me too #auspol #nsw reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-has-coal...
reneweconomy.com.au
NSW has coal mine methane emissions in its sights. But will the industry respond?
The NSW EPA’s new guide for “Large Emitters” puts the coal industry’s methane crisis in its sights. The big question is, how will the coal mining industry respond?
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Here's some more of Major's quotes from the R4 interview. Direct, clear and obviously very worried.
John Major quotes
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 17/02/2025
Daily Briefing | US: Trump ends climate work inside agency that responds to disasters ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/3EHSdUz ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/4fRUaL3
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Abandoned crops, fired scientists: Agricultural research hit by U.S. foreign aid freeze | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
science.org
Abandoned crops, fired scientists: Agricultural research hit by U.S. foreign aid freeze
A court ruling may temporarily ease funding problems, but for many projects the long term outlook remains uncertain
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Free speech champion!
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Gilles Demaneuf @gdemaneuf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The COVID Origin story in a nutshell:
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/02/2025
I shake my head as people actually think DOGE has identified waste, fraud and abuse in 5 days.  What they are doing is gutting programs they don’t like according to Project 2025.  They haven’t done any analysis and don’t even know the functions of the departments they are cutting.
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reuters: "China started construction on 94.5 gigawatts of coal-fired power in 2024, the highest volume of new builds since 2015”. Is there deceit and/or wishful thinking concerning the true cost of solar and wind energy, globally? Or, is China being irrational? www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
China's 2024 coal power construction hits 10-year high, researchers say
China started construction on 94.5 gigawatts of coal-fired power in 2024, the highest volume of new builds since 2015, hampering the country's transition away from fossil fuels, researchers said in a report published on Thursday.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years, says @benpurvis42.bsky.social #climatecrisis theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
theconversation.com
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
It’s better than regular jet fuel, but beware the hype.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Eager beavers: rodents engineer Czech wetland project after years of human delay - Beavers accomplish long-stalled conservation plan on former army site, sparing crayfish and taxpayers alike www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
theguardian.com
Eager beavers: rodents engineer Czech wetland project after years of human delay
Beavers accomplish long-stalled conservation plan on former army site, sparing crayfish and taxpayers alike
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New research: Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture and storage outside of agricultural areas - i.e. #BECCS has v little potential unless it takes over existing farmland www.nature.com/articles/s43...
nature.com
Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture and storage outside of agricultural areas - Communications Earth & Environment
Climate change mitigation through biomass crops for carbon capture and storage outside agricultural land is strongly limited when considering other critical Earth system dimensions, such as biosphere ...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Draining the world's peatlands for farming and mining is releasing so much CO2 that if it was a country, it would be the 4th biggest polluter in the world after China, the US, + India. And the associated losses in biodiversity are vast. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Calisher et al (The Lancet 2020) must be retracted. I also, personally, think Richard Horton (Lancet editor in chief since 1995) should resign. Explanation at colindbutler.weebly.com/uploads/4/5/... Key reasons: undeclared COIs (even after 5 years), Lancet editorial bias (gross). Circa 20M deaths.
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Raphael Ofner @raphael-ofner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The "Heartland Institute", a lobbying organization infamous for denying the overwhelming scientific consensus on manmade climate change, is getting a foothold in Europe - aided by Austrian politicians.
theguardian.com
Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties
Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies
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Colin D Butler @colin-d-butler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
rdcu.be/d89A7 It is 36 years since medical journals started to report the effects of climate change on health. The deterioration in ecological and social factors is accelerating. Many people understand this, but we collectively lack the capacity to alter our path. Collapse seems inevitable.
rdcu.be
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades
Communications Earth & Environment - Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
www.sciencealert.com/astonishing-...
sciencealert.com
'Astonishing': Hottest January on Record Stuns Scientists
Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler La Nina conditions to finally start quelling a long-running heat streak.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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