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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 1d

160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇
👉global-tipping-points.org

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 1d

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
www.su.se/english/news...

Widespread mortality of coral reefs - Stockholm University

Widespread mortality of coral reefs Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is now underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released...

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Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 1d

Global warming from Woodside’s massive Scarborough gas project off WA would lead to 484 additional heat-related deaths in Europe alone this century, and kill about 16 million additional corals on the Great Barrier Reef during each future mass bleaching event, go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 8d

“Australia is facing a steeper-than-anticipated 25% slump in LNG export earnings by next financial year, dragged down by a slide in crude oil prices and oversupply that is starting to hit global gas markets, according to the federal government’s commodities forecaster.”

www.afr.com/companies/en...

Australia faces 25pc slump in LNG export earnings

New data reveals an $11 billion drop in expected LNG revenue, with gold set to overtake gas as our second most valuable export.

www.afr.com

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Keith Alexander @keithalexander.bsky.social · 8d

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 6d

For one, the loudest climate deniers sure do love to tell you about their credentials. Another is the extent to which individual anti-renewables groups are spamming submissions to create the impression of much more opposition or frustration than there actually is.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 6d

Working through the submissions to the Senate inquiry on climate misinformation and the patterns emerging sure are interesting.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 5d

File under: The Great Acceleration…

Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 5d

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 4d

It really does say something when an article about reactions to a coal power plant continuing to operate says nothing about climate change, the existential threat it poses and the need to phase out oil, gas and coal.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 4d

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

Plan to extend life of coal-fired power stations sends 'mixed messages'

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

www.abc.net.au

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 3d

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 3d

The report predicts that Fossil fuel exporting countries—including the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia, among others [such as Australia]—are likely to block or significantly weaken references to fossil fuels and commitments to take action.

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Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 3d

The International Energy Agency’s Net Zero scenario hammers home the fact there can be no new fossil fuel projects if we’re to align our economies with science.

Yet here we are with a Labor Government approving over 30 new coal mines or extensions.

Does the Labor base approve this?

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Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 3d

Oil, gas, and coal are responsible for 75% of greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of CO2 emissions. UNEP assesses that countries are on track to expand fossil fuel production to levels that would result in 110% more emissions than what might keep us within 1.5C

thebulletin.org/2023/12/at-c...

At COP28, Vanuatu and Tuvalu lead the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to address climate crisis

If global leaders can’t agree on a course of action to phase out fossil fuels, countries should do so independently by signing on to a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 4d

An utterly shameful list of murderous, ecocidal, omnicidal acts by a government that loves to claim it cares

The strategy of trying to get Labor and the bureaucracy to act is an abject failure. Government is a failed institution, most clearly when it comes to climate.

Time to build the next system

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5d

Fri 10 Oct: Enviro Minister Watt "nears deal with Coalition" on EPBC laws but rules out a 'climate trigger'—that would be mighty inconvenient for all the Coal & Gas projects the @albomp.bsky.social govt keeps approving (32🤯 & counting!) including Woodside's North West Shelf Extension carbon bomb 💣

Protestors outside Labor MP Josh Burns' St Kilda office
In the centre of the image, a lady holds up a placard saying IT'S TIME TO SPEAK OUT JOSH

Protestors hold up a banner and placards across the road from Josh Burns' office
Dark orange banner on the right says STOP NORTH WEST SHELF GAS
From left to right, the placards say HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION, DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY and HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION

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Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 4d

This is why we need to work hard to make sure the next federal election is a climate focussed one.

That is our goal in the ACT.

Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 5d

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 5d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Canberrans against coal and gas @cbrvscoalandgas.bsky.social · 4d

Overall, Australia’s nature laws are crap. They will be overhauled.
But Watt want a BIPARTISAN approach- ie the tiny noalition - not the greens!

“nature laws that don’t stop new gas and coal projects are as useless as a screen door on a submarine.”

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This shocking deal is a gross betrayal of millions of voters

I've been lucky enough to complete a few multi-day hikes overseas in the past few years. Every morning, I woke up in my tent with the feeling that

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 12d

This is democracy for hire. Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber voices for the planet, while agencies and media help spin delay instead of action.”

John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 14d

Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List
"nearly a quarter of all 468 federally registered lobbyists – were working for fossil fuel clients"
commsdeclare.org/2025/09/25/f...

Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List - Comms Declare

Comms Declare and Clean Creatives today released the F-List 2025, exposing the scale of fossil fuel influence in Australia’s advertising, PR, lobbying and media sectors.

commsdeclare.org

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LouisViljee @louisviljee.bsky.social · 12d

If only Australia were able to step up and find some #PoliticalWill to secure our future. Sadly, #fossilcriminals still own our 'governments'.
#EcologicalEmergency
#ExistentialEmergency
#ClimateAction
#auspol
#wapol

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13d

@dmacsyd.bsky.social: Australia’s new National Adaptation Plan"reads like a masterclass in good intentions—grand visions, glossy case studies & majestic statements about whole-of-society collaboration" BUT it's silent on how, who's responsible, "who pays, who acts or what happens if nothing changes"

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18d

There's no point in our governments setting 'ambitious' emissions reduction targets if they won't actually take reducing emissions seriously.

Expanding fossil fuels and relying on bogus carbon credits is NOT taking it seriously.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 15d

September 30, 1991 – Hawke’s ministers * "Ecologically Sustainable Development"

"the heads of the ESD working groups warned that the community must be more closely involved if the plan to write sustainable policies for resource-based industries was to succeed"

allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/29/s...

Thirty four years ago, on this day, September 30, 1991,

The cost of repairing damage to the environment must be included in the price of resources, the Federal Government was told yesterday.

The message was delivered to senior ministers during a private meeting with the heads of the Government’s working groups on ecologically sustainable development.

They warned that the community must be more closely involved if the plan to write sustainable policies for resource-based industries was to succeed.

The working group heads put their views directly to ministers and the Prime Minister, shortly before Mr Hawke had talks with representatives of business, unions, and green groups.

1991 Peake,R. 1991. Report Backs Green Levy On Consumers. The Age, 1 October, p.18.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 355ppm. As of 2025, 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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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 13d

Big congrats to Santos Ltd!!

10 years. $46.7 billion in sales.

ZERO TAX

New ATO data out today.
@markogge.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 13d

“There’s been a cover-up, there’s been a decision made in the interests of a multibillion company rather than the community.”

How a methane leak that remains unchecked helped derail a $36 billion takeover of Australia's second-largest fossil fuel company. satpa.pe/sZr2VCx

Secrecy over leaking gas tank sinks Santos deal

A methane leak that remains unchecked helped derail what would have been the biggest all-cash takeover in Australian corporate history.

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 14d

Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List
"nearly a quarter of all 468 federally registered lobbyists – were working for fossil fuel clients"
commsdeclare.org/2025/09/25/f...

Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List - Comms Declare

Comms Declare and Clean Creatives today released the F-List 2025, exposing the scale of fossil fuel influence in Australia’s advertising, PR, lobbying and media sectors.

commsdeclare.org

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