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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 11h

If actions speak louder than words, it’s clear @albomp.bsky.social couldn’t really give a sh!t about all his pre-election rhetoric.

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 19h

@albomp.bsky.social is sending billions to US & UK shipyards for #AUKUS and then can’t find money to support the core science necessary for future industry innovation, protection of the environment and improved quality of life. He’s short-changing our future. #auspol

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

www.theguardian.com

bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 11h

I reckon we can pretty much ignore any position the Victorian Opposition takes. They have made themselves irrelevant.

Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 12h

What a despicable bunch of backwards looking sods.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 13h

Victorian Coalition vows to scrap Australia’s first statewide treaty with First Nations peoples if it wins government

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 11h

Yep, it’s crazy, it’s devoid of evidence based decisions, it’s ‘out of sight - out of mind’ and it’s all too common across Victoria.

‘Fuel reduction burning’ is a perfect example of thinking in words - empty words. The practice has little relation to reality on the ground.

Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 18h

FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.

'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'

www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...

The Burning Industry is Out of Control

Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...

www.geco.org.au

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

"When these capabilities are delegated to machines, we create a population that consumes and regurgitates information without actually processing or understanding it.” collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

collectivefutures.blog

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Today's environmental movement stands upon the shoulders of giants, but something has gone terribly wrong ... Mainstream environmentalists now overwhelmingly prioritize saving industrial civilization over saving life on the planet."

www.amazon.com/Bright-Green...

Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living)

Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living) [Jensen, Derrick, Keith, Lierre, Wilbert, Max] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living)

www.amazon.com

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John Russell @johnrussell40.bsky.social · 21d

This is the picture I use. This is what Nigel Farage wants the UK to look like when he allows fracking. I don't think people realise the density of wells needed to extract gas from an area.

$Picture shows multiple well heads over a large area needed to extract fracked gas.$

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Gasper Zejn @hruske.bsky.social · 21d

Photo by Dennis Dimick
www.flickr.com/photos/ddimi...

Wickett, Texas

Oil and gas drilling (fracking, hydraulic fracturing) pads at Wickett, Texas (upper left center). Wickett is west of Odessa. April 2, 2016. Interstate 20 crosses center of image. This is a multi-image...

www.flickr.com

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 21d

Here is a coal mine, tiny, isn't it 🤥

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 21d

JFC!!
Give us farms covered with solar panels (and grazing) anytime.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21d

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site).

But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

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Mickey Blue @poornhonest.bsky.social · 24d

Proof beyond doubt that Santos doesn't care about the environment, Australian public safety & that Gas is not a safe transition vehicle to renewables. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social get with it Chris. Stop fossil fuel subsidies, divert them to free rooftop solar, use surplus for free green hydrogen.

Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 24d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Secrecy over gas leak backfires as $36b Santos takeover scuttled

Secrecy around a major methane leak helped Santos avoid public scrutiny for years. It backfired after a prospective bidder reportedly found out via an ABC News report.

www.abc.net.au

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 26d

Island haven a ‘genetic trap’ without intervention

news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/09...

Island haven a 'genetic trap' without intervention

Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks like a conservation success story. However, new […]

news.flinders.edu.au

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 26d

Want to make an economist orgasm? A Pigouvian tax on immobile resources - gas and thermal coal - at 1% by market value for the first year, increasing by an additional percent every year. Add metallurgical coal in 2030. Resource companies live in sunk cost fallacy - let us milk it for three reasons.

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 28d

🌏 Have never before seen an Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea), one of the highly social mud-nest builders, so habituated to human presence. I guess he/she gets out more than I do!
#Australia

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nest-boxes and Tree Tactics

The Caveat Forest, location of The Last Stand project on the Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), is healing, slowly. One of the main consequences of 150 years of settler farming is that the forest is young and has relatively few big, old trees, aka habitat…

Nest-boxes and Tree Tactics

The Caveat Forest, location of The Last Stand project on the Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), is healing, slowly. One of the main consequences of 150 years of settler farming is that the forest is young and has relatively few big, old trees, aka habitat trees - more on the disturbance history of the forest in a later post.

strathbogierangesnatureview.wordpress.com

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 25

A great piece by @juliancribb.bsky.social tackling and summarising very technical concepts. What chance ANY consequential decision makers will bother to grapple with the detail? 🫤🙁🥹 Even though the consequences for 🌏 are beyond dire.

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · Aug 25

Two of the few practical answers to the biodiversity crisis are renewable food – which would see half the Earth returned to nature, and a Stewards of the Earth program in which indigenous people and ex-farmers are funded (from defence budgets) to restore natural ecosyst ...

The great dying

The heedless march of man has now laid waste to 60% of the planet’s land surface area, putting humanity’s own future at risk, the latest science reports.

johnmenadue.com

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 25

A pertinent message for Senator Murray Watt, though as Environment Minister, addressing the environmental crisis seems to be beyond his portfolio.

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · Aug 25

Two of the few practical answers to the biodiversity crisis are renewable food – which would see half the Earth returned to nature, and a Stewards of the Earth program in which indigenous people and ex-farmers are funded (from defence budgets) to restore natural ecosyst ...

The great dying

The heedless march of man has now laid waste to 60% of the planet’s land surface area, putting humanity’s own future at risk, the latest science reports.

johnmenadue.com

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · Aug 23

A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae.

Credit: Sinclair Stammers

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 17

A perspective completely absent in the legacy media that have no skin in the game.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjkV...

Michael von der Schulenburg: Alaska Meeting Was a "Game Changer"

YouTube video by Glenn Diesen

m.youtube.com

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Last Stand – Final Wrap

Join us on Sunday 24th August, 2-4 pm at the Highlands Community Hall Beginning in late 2024 Strathbogie Ranges Conservation has been probing some of the secrets of the Caveat Forest to shed light on one of its secretive and rare inhabitants – the Southern Greater…

The Last Stand – Final Wrap

Join us on Sunday 24th August, 2-4 pm at the Highlands Community Hall Beginning in late 2024 Strathbogie Ranges Conservation has been probing some of the secrets of the Caveat Forest to shed light on one of its secretive and rare inhabitants – the Southern Greater Glider. What have we been doing? 30+ km of nocturnal wildlife surveys 100+ ha of drone surveys…

strathbogierangesnatureview.wordpress.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 14

Monitoring climate variables through 2024 - what long-term trends and variability do you see? 📈📉

#SOTC2024 #StateOfClimate Page S8: doi.org/10.1175/2025...

Screenshot of many climate variables and their observational time series from the State of the Climate 2024 Report

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 13

At 5% GDP, consumption will double in about 15 years! For a country with over 1B people, that rate of ‘growth’, alone, could break the biosphere.

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · Aug 13

Kickstarting China’s domestic demand requires the authorities to give much more attention to reversing the negative trends in the real estate and the local government sectors. The central government realises the problem. #auspol #eastasiaforum #chinaeconomy

China’s consumption weighed down by weak expectations

China’s economy registered a respectable GDP growth rate of 5.3% in the first half of 2025.

johnmenadue.com

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · Aug 13

An update on the real #climate trouble we are in from the granddaddy of public understanding of this matter, NASA’s James Hansen.

mailchi.mp/caa/seeing-t...

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Surely some leader of the world could sign an Executive Order, call in the National Guard and stop this madness!!

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is no natural disaster - it is a crime scene, a catastrophe knowingly perpetrated by oil companies

Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe

Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87%

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've wanted to make this video for literal years, and finally summoned the courage.

Is permafrost *really* a climate time bomb?

Thank you @davidamckay.bsky.social for the input!

youtu.be/97-egzC-xjk

Is Permafrost Really a Climate Time Bomb?

YouTube video by ClimateAdam

youtu.be

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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · Aug 6

Seriously tragic. But for a moment I thought it was a pic of Gaza.

The Independent @the-independent.com · Aug 6

Eighty years later, John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’ is more pertinent than ever

www.independent.co.uk

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