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Rhydian Cowley

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's not "Wanting to ban evil rooms full of servers because of what America does", it's legitimate concerns about data centres, and there are lots of them. Whether the govt deals with them properly is a different thing but dismissing concerns as performative or shallow is just wrong.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2026
Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2026
Australia's transport policy should: - Have WAY more federal support for active / public transport - Should have put limits on road tanks YEARS ago instead of subsidising them! - Should close the massive loopholes in efficiency standards - Should close loopholes for fossil+battery cars (hi BYD)
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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy
Australia’s government has released a new transport climate policy. But it doesn’t deal with the problem of car bloat: the main driver of rising emissions.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2026
Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Consumer software that generates text, images and videos are uniquely energy inefficient,” says Ketan Joshi, an Oslo-based climate analyst associated with the Australia Institute, due to the “vast datasets and computational strain of pattern-matching that happens underneath the hood”.

Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason, he says, a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.

“You might still get the shopping done, and that single trip alone may not even look all that bad in terms of cost or emissions, but what happens when that’s all of your trips, and when all of society starts doing this?”
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 28/11/2025
"There needs to be funding to continue doing what Indigenous people have always done voluntarily."
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At COP30, an expert argues that Indigenous rights are a key step towards dealing with climate change
Indigenous peoples rely on natural indicators to assess the impacts of the climate crisis. The signs show in the forests, the plants, and the waters.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
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Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
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Dr Sophie Scamps MP @sophiescamps.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So now it’s clear who the Liberals are representing. Not the farmers, not business and tech but billionaire Gina Rinehart. www.afr.com/companies/mi...
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Gina Rinehart puts blowtorch on Rio Tinto, BHP over net zero spending
Australia’s richest person has criticised her company’s joint venture partner, Rio Tinto, for torching shareholder value on the “green altar” of net zero.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/11/2025
This is power sector emissions only but still that is A LOT Still sort of mind-boggled by a climate person who recently dismissed this as a "rounding error" If you're rounding to the nearest ten gigatonnes, I guess??? Or if you're using teratonnes????
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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Stay safe Darwin mob
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Rhydian Cowley @rhydiancowley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Headball > Bazzball
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/09/2025
Australia's renewable revolution is 'unstoppable' but it is EXTREMELY slow-downable Emissions are ending up comfortably worse than even recent projections. And it's not likely to get better soon. First step = admitting there's a problem! Me in @crikey.com.au -->> www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/w...
A CHART SHOWING RENEWABLE OUTPUT VS PROJECTIONS
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 05/09/2025
Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
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Cool Down @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🚨BREAKING! 🚨 🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown. Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️ More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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Jay @duniagamemaster.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Au contraire! The fastest animal on earth relative to its body size is an ex-Minister for Resources running to their new job at a mining company.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/08/2025
V v important new @globalenergymon.bsky.social + @creacleanair.bsky.social report on coal in China: "Coal power construction and commissioned projects remain high, with no clear signs of slowing" Renewables *are* displacing coal to some degree - but the pipeline of new projects threatens that
energyandcleanair.org
Coal is losing ground but not letting go: Structural inertia and the struggle to shift coal’s role in China’s power system – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
You're likely to hear a lot about Australia and climate and emissions next month. Here's part of the backdrop. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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What is happening with Australia’s emissions? Electricity is improving. Transport is not
According to latest government figures, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4% in the year to March
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My favourite stat is that Australia’s domestic use is equal to that of the gas used to compress gas into liquid for export.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/06/2023
The Norwegian Oil Ministry and several fossil fuel companies celebrating the approval of 19 new oil/gas projects with ice creams and big smiles. Collectively, the projects will unlock > 800MTCO2-e of emissions; more than Germany emits in 1 year. The longest-running will pump out oil+gas until 2060.
a group of people smiling and eating ice creams in front of TV screens. Mostly men in suits.
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 26/07/2025
TREATY NOW, jesus christ how long are we supposed to wait Shame! we still don’t have one! shame!
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 21/07/2025
Happy National Moth Week. I've been mothing for many years now and I love them so much.
A comic called Types of Moths. A small green and white moth is labeled bird poop. A moth with huge antennae is labeled gets wifi. A huge moth is labeled large friend. A tiny micromoth is labeled beautiful pattern, probably. A tussock moth is labeled impossible to ID to species. A generic brownish beige moth is labeled tha tone, you know, with the thing - arg, I forget the name. A pink and yellow moth is labeled stuffed toy. A sphinx moth is labeled so dizzyingly complex that it consumes your soul. A green moth is labeled ooh, green.A drawing called puppy vs moth. A cute puppy and a fuzzy moth are both labeled cute, fuzzy, and small but only the moth is labeled quiet.Arched Hooktip (Deprana arcuata), American Dagger (Acronicta Americana),  ?, Bold-feathered Grass Moth (Herpetogramma pertextalis)

Black Zigzag Moth (Panthea acronyctoides), Drexel's Datana (Datana drexelii), Harris' Three-Spot (Harrisimemna trisignata), Waved Sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)

Painted Lichen Moth (Hypoprepia fucosa), Scarlet Underwing (Catocala coccinata), Large Lace-border (Scopula limboundata), Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda)

?, Red-fringed Emerald (Nemoria bistriaria), Large Maple Spanworm Moth (Prochoerodes lineola), Clemens' Grass Tubeworm Moth (Acrolophus popeanella)
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Join the dots. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. This is a good article, worth reading. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
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Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It's quite remarkable & maddening how essentially nothing that Ken Henry is saying is at all new. There's been so little progress by Labor & LNP governments, & now we're placing huge hopes in highly questionable market-based solutions & saying 'nature positive' a lot. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Ken Henry calls for urgent environmental protection overhaul
Australia's environment protection laws have both failed to stop the degradation of nature and also held back economic growth, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry warns.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2025
The fact that Equinor (a fossil fuel company, not an "energy giant") recently dropped its renewable energy targets feels kind of relevant to this article, but isn't mentioned www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Energy giant drops offshore wind project amid global 'headwinds'
International energy companies are reconsidering their investments in Australian offshore wind projects as the Trump administration's disruption of the industry causes global uncertainty.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Remember when conservatives hated 18C for its curtailment of the ‘right to be a bigot’? Good times.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
What we should really be talking about is how the steady warming of the planet--which will continue until carbon emissions cease--is leading to increasingly dangerous, damaging & deadly heat and weather extremes. That's where my messaging is focused right now. #TheTruthIsBadEnough
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You don't understand! The ALP government has to support Israeli genocide, US war crimes, the destruction of the rule of law, and the north west gas shelf, because it only has a 51 seat lead on the Coalition. Something something Murdoch. They're really progressive, I swear.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Just remember, when you see arguments lamenting the ‘cost of the transition’ that cite apparently eye watering figures, that we continue to spend even more each year on the continued expansion of fossil fuel production.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
4pm 🕓 Tally for the #WorldRefugeeDay #Telethon powered by the #ASRC. ❤️🙏🏼 4 ways to support: 💜 CALL 1300 692 772 (1300 MYASRC) 💜 TXT ‘HOPE’ to 0476 000 111 to donate $20 💜 DONATE ONLINE at asrc.org.au/telethon 💜 Bid on an auction item at asrc.org.au/auction
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌏. A message for @albomp.bsky.social, Senator Watt, & Labor, we urgently need: * The long promised but yet to be delivered environmental law reform, & reform that’s strong & consistent with the recommendations of experts. theconversation.com/5-things-we-...
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5 things we need to see in Australia’s new nature laws
A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Australia: This cozy partnership with a Commonwealth agency just received a 45yr extension: “An enduring partnership which has contributed to the long-term sustainable use of Western Australia’s North West Shelf” No mention of using the atmosphere as a sewer. www.aims.gov.au/information-...
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Sadly, CEOs can’t order massive super yachts from Temu. Also no amount of money will buy back their souls.
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Statement from EnergyAustralia: “Offsets do not prevent or undo the harms caused by burning fossil fuels for a customer’s energy use.” www.energyaustralia.com.au/about-us/med...
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government. Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised. theconversation.com/australians-...
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Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list
Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/05/2025
I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
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Rhydian Cowley @rhydiancowley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just blending in with the tree bark, nothing to see here. #birds #birdsky
A Tawny Frogmouth sits on the branch of a gum tree, blending in to its surroundings by looking like a piece of the tree. Blue sky can be seen behind the leaves of the tree.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'the wealth of the richest 200 Australians has risen from the equivalent of 8.4% of the nation’s GDP in 2004 to 23.7% of GDP in 2024' Neither party addresses this. We just tinker around the edges and rhetorically crush the possibility of imaging better. australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/04/2025
"“The words that have replaced ‘energy transition’ are ‘AI’ and ‘data centers’.....we’re transitioning from the energy transition to the energy reality … we’re going to need a lot more oil and gas" Just a great big straight line connecting data centres + fossil fuels @oilchange.bsky.social
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Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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