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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This is why we need more induction cooktops and electric oves, so the roast turkeys can mop up the curtailed solar...

Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

He's somehow managed to live on this planet for the last 20 years and yet never see a single episode of Grand Designs...

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Seeing as I'm in sarcastic shout-out mode, I'll also give a big one to the rat that has died in an obscure part of my ceiling in the middle of a heatwave, leaving me to choose between opening the doors and windows and suffering the heat, or staying cool and suffering the smell.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

And some sort of vaccuum cleaner thing, also running off the gen-set and making a VERY LOUD sucking noise.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Big shoutout to my next-door neighbour who is maximising the amount of legacy feed-in tarrif (90c/kWh) he gets from his 10kW rooftop solar system by cleaning it with two leaf blowers and a pressure washer running off a gen-set. Cannot hear myself think RN.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Wombat Echidna Kiwi Pretty-face wallaby Long-nosed fur seal

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

There's a level of wealth above which you don't get happier, and there's a level of wealth above which you think physics no longer applies to you.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I'm going to call on my friend @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social for a definitive answer, but my first reaction is no. As far as I know, price spikes happen because of large (coal) generation dropping out, and gas having to step in. But there could be more to it than that.

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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🤓 GRATTAN’S 2025 WONKS’ LIST 🤓 In addition to our Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List, our Wonks’ List highlights some of the year’s best technical policy reads. Here are our picks for 2025. buff.ly/YcFqGwm #auspol #ausecon

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Spicy take from a professor of economics, suggesting that the way to get power prices down is to build more of the most expensive form of electricity

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Net Zero scenario is where we want to go. That's what we should plan for. The WEO tells us how big the gap is, it's up to us to act to fill it.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The thing that is unsaid in the WEO is that no-one wants to live on a planet where the Current Policies scenario plays out. Stated Policies wouldn't be that nice either. In both these scenarios, we fail to limit global temperature rise, and we suffer more climate change as a result.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The NET ZERO scenario does NOT project forward - instead it sets the goal of getting global energy-related to net zero by 2050, and solves backwards to work out what the path might look like. The purpose of this scenario is to contrast with the other two scenarios and highlight the gap.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This scenario also projects forwards. If you think that governments won't make commitments beyond what they've already made, this is your scenario. Wouldn't be using it to guide investment either

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The STATED POLICIES scenario includes everything in Current Policies, plus takes a stab at the effect of things that have been announced but not implemented yet, and other policy documents that indicate the direction of travel. For example, 2035 climate targets.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

(Current Policies is commonly interpreted as "look, fossil fuels are going to grow!". If you buy gas or coal shares on the back of this scenario, or decide to base your resources policy on it, you are a fool)

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you think that governments are world wide will not introduce one new energy or climate policy between now and 2050, nor make any changes to the ones they already have, this is the scenario for you. This policy is a forward projection - start with where we are, run the model, see where we end up.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The CURRENT POLICIES scenario includes all policies that are in place already, and assumes there are NO NEW POLICIES.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happy World Energy Outlook day to all those who celebrate. Here's your annual reminder about what the different scenarios mean (journalists and sub-editors: looking at you in particular).

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A portrait to put in my attic, except instead of aging on my behalf it has severe grass pollen allergies

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

you can find our calculation in the appendix of our latest report grattan.edu.au/wp-content/u... I can't speak to your personal circumstances.

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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Oh: - The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July. - China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period. By @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/10/2025

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

First they came for the renovators, and I did nothing, because I'm not a renovator...

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

On why Trump is wrong on climate, renewable energy, the next economic growth cycle, on powering data centres cost-efficiently, and on geo-economics. Very good by the FT‘s Gillian Tett. on.ft.com/3KkjVcU

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Wonder if Starmer will find room in his speech to acknowledge the objective fact a century of escalating climate impacts means global migration will massively increase. We either find a way to effectively and humanely manage that fact, rather than deny it, or things will get very dark very quickly.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

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Saturn Ion commercial

YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton

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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Learn what makes good public policy at our October ‘Changing public policy’ course. Grattan policy experts Peter Breadon and Trent Wiltshire will teach you how to communicate evidence and navigate reform blockages. Register now: buff.ly/QOXuUOX

A promotional graphic promoting the Changing public policy course, featuring pictures of the two speakers Peter Breadon and Trent Wiltshire.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"I saw the message on her son’s t-shirt: Always be kind. ...that word 'always,' on a boy’s chest in the middle of a city that has been pounded for three years, has to be there, as a reminder that ideals are ideals, and that they are part of reality." snyder.substack.com/p/always-be-...

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Always be kind

An unexpected wartime slogan

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2025

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

(1) is not worth engaging with. My response to (2) is - Australia is the developed nation with the most to lose from climate change - so if you're outsourcing the response, that implies you think China and the US have our best interests at heart...

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Climate Risk Assessment Report: 💀 400% increase in heat deaths 🔥 1m homes uninsurable by 2050 🥵$211 billion in lost wealth from reduced labour productivity. Uninsurable means unsellable, means ppl lose wealth, reduced tax revenue & economic recession for all www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #auspol

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One million homes at 'very high risk' will be effectively uninsurable by 2050

One in 10 homes could be effectively uninsurable by 2050, while lost labour productivity to extreme weather could wipe $211 billion in household wealth, the Climate Risk Assessment warns, with tourism...

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

At what point are we going to realise that the wealth we will lose from reducing fossil fuel exports is trivial compared to the wealth we will lose from pumping all that CO2 into the atmosphere? Will it be too late by then? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #aupol

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What happens to Australia when the world warms by 3C? It's revealed in this report

For the first time, the government has modelled the threats from climate change on Australia's future. What’s the point of a document like this, and can it help us avoid the worst-case scenarios?

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Helen Haines MP @helenhainesindi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

These findings are alarming, but not surprising. Regional Australia is depending on strong climate action. The Government’s carbon emission targets must reflect the severity of the findings released yesterday. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

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Tony Wood @tonyrwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The hard work of giving Australians a view into a future world of unchecked climate changes has been done by the Australia Climate Service. It reinforces the current world of floods and fires for many Australians. We must act on the science and the facts - www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

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National Climate Risk Assessment

Learn about Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Re-upping this thread following the National Climate Risk Assessment and the latest LNP ructions. If you want to aspire to any leadership position in this country, you must have a serious, coherent plan to respond to climate change. That's table stakes.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"Each year, nuclear adds as much net global capacity as renewables add every two days. Soaring renewables generate three times more global electricity than stagnant nuclear... …China added 197 times more solar and wind than nuclear capacity, at half the cost." www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...

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Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it

Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Salty! in more ways than one....

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