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Fractional CTO | Sustainability, Climate & Impact

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The way AI will kill people is by making climate change worse.
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Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
It’s giving Thanos energy.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ed Miliband made a presentation at a private meeting during the UN General Assembly based on the report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of natural systems around the world would lead to conflict, migration and food shortages.
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 07/08/2026
Deliberately misleading 'Free Palestine' party name approved for Victorian election
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Deliberately misleading party name approved for Victorian election
A political party with a deliberately misleading name has been successfully registered for the Victorian election, aiming to redirect left-wing votes towards parties on the right.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
30 yrs ago today - July 8, 1996 – Australian business whining about climate change policy, of course. allouryesterdays.info/2026/07/07/j...
Thirty years ago, on this day, July  8th, 1996,

“Australian industry will argue this week that proposed greenhouse measures will slow growth in the global economy, with Australia among the countries that would be hardest hit by a fall in trade.”

“When green and gold don’t mix.” The Australian Financial Review, 8 July 1996,  

Of course they will.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 362ppm. As of 2026, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
On Friday night, Jarrod Bleijie quietly stripped teachers and nurses voices from the boards that keep #Queensland workplaces safe, and handed their seats to former LNP politicians. The people who actually understand worker safety have been replaced by mates who've never done the job. #auspol
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
what are we even doing anymore www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computer...
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Overnight, the United Nations has released another report confirming that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza. Read our full statement calling for Australia to impose country-level sanctions on Israel at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/06/jewi...
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And this is what petrostate politics looks like, literally buying firms out of wind licences instead of the other way around www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 16/06/2026
NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:
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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Kicks and screams were followed by the buzz of Taser guns, more screams, bangs on the metal container, and yet more screams. At the end of each cycle, the white door flew open, revealing a comrade ... limping, holding their chest or head or pulling their pants up, always with the same look of terror
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Fifty-two hours on an Israeli prison ship
A flotilla activist recounts his detention after Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound solidarity mission at sea.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It would be no surprise at all to see this year and next breach 1.5C - quite possibly by a significant margin - and never again drop back
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SDD (Software Design & Development) Conference @sddconf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
SDD Deep Dive 2026 - workshops announced, & registration is open! Take your pick from five intensive 3-day workshops, all presented by world-class experts - the number of places is strictly limited, and you'll save £300 if you register now. sddconf.com/agenda
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The UN verified sexual abuse of Palestinian men, women and children between 2023 and 2025. Israeli attacks included repeated gang-rapes and the use of sexual violence as a form of torture. Other violations included rape with objects, attempted rape, attacks on genitals, targeted shooting of genitals
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Israel and Russia added to blacklist for sexual violence during conflict
Rolling coverage of the international stories of interest to our readers
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026
JFC new IEA report shows: orders for fossil methane plants for data centres are bigger in the US than they for *any other country for any other reason* (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) "if data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"
gas turbine orders chartchart
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/05/2026
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
A map of the UK showing a temperature of 34.8 degrees Celsius, recorded in Kew Gardens, London on Monday 25 May 2026
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/05/2026
sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)
graph from https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding showing medicine, law, and physics as lines going up for percentage of women, while computer science goes dramatically down from the 1980s roughly
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/05/2026
Google's CEO saying that the reason there's intense backlash to AI is because humans aren't "evolved" enough to understand it youtu.be/RgV57kDzcng?...
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"You were correctly outraged by how Ben-Gvir treated your nationals. Please think of how he treats ours.”
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 20/05/2026
"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social
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Reform Deputy Leader Tice ‘Fundamentally’ Rejects Climate Science
In an extensive interview about climate change and energy policy, Richard Tice dismissed the threat of global warming and doubled down on fossil fuels.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reform UK won the most seats in May local elections and is polling at the top across the UK. If it gets into government, it will upend decades of climate and energy policy. On Zero, I asked deputy leader Richard Tice what evidence shapes those stances. Listen: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Reform Deputy Leader Tice ‘Fundamentally’ Rejects Climate Science
In an extensive interview about climate change and energy policy, Richard Tice dismissed the threat of global warming and doubled down on fossil fuels.
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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 20/05/2026
Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...
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npm granular access token invalidation to prevent supply chain attacks · community · Discussion #196340
As initially announced on npm’s X channel, we have invalidated granular access tokens with write access that bypass two-factor authentication. This action was taken to help prevent supply chain att...
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Kudos to whoever made this.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
After the 2023 marine heat wave, 70-75% “of our Caribbean sites had tipped from net growth into net erosion. They are now losing calcium carbonate faster than corals can add it. The threshold that earlier models had suggested might be crossed over during the next decade or so has already arrived.”
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/05/2026
This is big. Former leaders, executives and professionals of the oil and gas industry are urging the government to reject the expansion of fossil fuel dependence. 👏👏👏 Read the open letter: theaus.in/4u2HOYc
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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Next week, on 13 May 2026, my office of all women at Johnson Legal will be heading to the High Court of Australia in Canberra for the first ever climate hearing in this Court. The judicial system is open to the public. More info here 👇👇👇 www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
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MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group — Johnson Legal | Australian Environmental Lawyers
In the first High Court of Australia hearing on climate change, Johnson Legal is acting for DAMSHEG defending the landmark decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Denman v MACH Energy. The Court found ...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The NT government tortures children, with spit hoods, isolation and a youth ‘justice’ policy designed to take children from family and country. It’s all paid for by the Commonwealth that funds 80 cents in each dollar the NT spends. Time to make them accountable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Tough-on-crime NT government snubs youth incarceration Senate inquiry
The inquiry heard calls for more scrutiny over how Commonwealth money is spent in the NT, which is trending backwards on seven Closing the Gap targets.
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 30/04/2026
Last night, Israel seized 22 civilian boats and kidnapped ~180 activists in international waters. This includes several leaders from the Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee. List of abductees: globalsumudflotilla.org/sos/ (I count 180 here - Israel says they have 175, Greek media reports 211)
Black and white photo of the deck of a small sailing ship, taken from behind the captain's wheel, showing about half a dozen crew members sitting in life jackets with their hands up as 2 Israeli soldiers step onto their boat.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"every single day there are Israeli strikes.. 3 civil defence responders were trapped under the rubble & then declared killed in what appeared to be a double tap attack. These are not Hezbollah operatives, these are first responders" Lina Sinjab reporting from Lebanon.
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James Crowley @jamescrowley.org · 29/04/2026
Standards! Love 'em or hate em? 😁 10 grants of €5,200/month is on offer for open source maintainers to participate in standards development at the IETF, W3C, and ISO - applications close 19 May. Thanks to German govt @sovereign.tech that's deployed €24m into strengthening open source infrastructure
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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Last year a fossil fuel advocate said it was "complete and total paranoia" and "pure fiction" when climate groups warned Big Oil was lobbying for legal immunity. One year later, same guy says "we look forward to working with" Republican sponsors of the bill to give Big Oil immunity. 🤔
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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026
I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Invisible things. My @smh @ theage cartoon.
Single frame containing two panels. Title: “INVISIBLE THINGS” First panel. Empty frame, captioned “Australian gas, extracted and exported by large multinational companies.” Second panel. Identical empty  frame, captioned “The benefit to Australia from the export of our gas.”
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
. @richarddenniss.bsky.social opens by pointing out that the Japanese govt actually raises more revenue from Australian gas than does the Australian govt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVp...
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Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources | 21/04/2026
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔
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James Crowley @jamescrowley.org · 15/04/2026
A bumper year so far for data centre commitments = a bumper year for fossil gas, from the same hyperscalers supposedly committed to rapid decarbonisation. mail.latitudemedia.com/gas-for-data...
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 12/04/2026
This is a very interesting comparison for Australia 🇦🇺, which uses real-time petrol prices and Amber’s electricity prices, and makes the most of EV smart charging, to compare the running costs of popular combustion-engine cars with those of electric models elitre.com.au/dollar
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How far on a dollar — 13 April 2026
How far can $1 of petrol take the average car vs $1 of electricity in an EV? Live comparison using real fuel and electricity prices in Melbourne.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
TONIGHT IN TEL AVIV: Ben Gvir’s police violently broke up an anti-war demonstration, arresting Standing Together co-director Alon-Lee Green & activist Nadav Oren. No matter how much they try to silence us, we refuse to stop protesting against Netanyahu’s cynical forever war!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🧵 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies often cited in UK media stories on oil and gas But how independent is it? Its staff includes director of major sanctioned Russian gas firm and researcher accused of pushing Kremlin talking points New on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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The Oxford energy institute with a Kremlin problem
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies is cited across UK media as an independent expert on oil and gas. Now its Russian ties are under scrutiny.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/04/2026
Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️ Information on methods: wgms.ch/products_ref...
Line graph time series of glaciers around the world for cumulative mass change since 1950 from a reference period of 1992. All areas are decreasing.
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New reporting from @roycerk2.bsky.social shows US- and Japan-funded think tanks pushing for Australia to keep growing its gas industry. drilled.media/news/japan-t...
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U.S. and Japanese Government-Funded Foreign Policy Think Tanks Want Australia to Keep Pumping the Gas
One former staffer raised concerns about Japanese influence on Australian climate and energy policy saying it would not be tolerated if China were responsible.
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