Tim Baxter
@timinclimate.bsky.social
Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. More anarchist with every passing climate disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy.
To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.
To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.
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Tim Baxter
@timinclimate.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.
You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?
A long article and accompanying 🧵
You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?
A long article and accompanying 🧵
Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility
After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…
medium.com
I'm really glad that people found so much good in this piece. As I said in the thread, I was pretty nervous about it.
If you enjoyed it or learned something from it: Thank you! 💛
If you enjoyed it or learned something from it: Thank you! 💛
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What a cheeky fella.
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What a cheeky fella.
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"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint
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#ThePoint
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Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change
Fewer than a quarter of young Australians trust the nation's political leaders on climate
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint
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I don't love finding out that our new home that now has only one gas appliance left (ducted gas heating) has somehow used 470 MJ of gas in 12 days during a time when I am certain no-one has used the heater (because the control panel looks like this 👇).
Whatever that answer is, it is bad.
Whatever that answer is, it is bad.
I've gone peak Dad-mode on the ducted heater control panel.
It's gas, so I'm kind of hoping that it is never turned on again after this. Hopefully, I will have saved up the $6k I need for an electric replacement before next winter.
It's gas, so I'm kind of hoping that it is never turned on again after this. Hopefully, I will have saved up the $6k I need for an electric replacement before next winter.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I don't love finding out that our new home that now has only one gas appliance left (ducted gas heating) has somehow used 470 MJ of gas in 12 days during a time when I am certain no-one has used the heater (because the control panel looks like this 👇).
Whatever that answer is, it is bad.
Whatever that answer is, it is bad.
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(New from us)
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
How Pacific nations plan to go from spending up to 25% of GDP on fossil fuels to running on 100% renewables
Pacific nations spend billions each year importing fossil fuels for electricity. Now the region’s leaders are aiming for energy independence.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
(New from us)
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
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Very strong 2009 climate policy vibes today, but I still very much feel 16 years older.
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Very strong 2009 climate policy vibes today, but I still very much feel 16 years older.
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After ditching Net 0 the Liberal Party has become the thing they fear most — a minority.
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
After ditching Net 0 the Liberal Party has become the thing they fear most — a minority.
Even Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton, a deeply weird pair of massive losers, adopted net zero policies.
Because it is popular and because it makes sense in basically every way you could name.
Imagine being more fucked than those two.
Because it is popular and because it makes sense in basically every way you could name.
Imagine being more fucked than those two.
If anyone ever had any doubt at all that the Liberal Party are the biggest pack of losers and weirdos you might ever have the misfortune to meet - convinced of nothing more than their right to fail - now is the time to abandon that idea.
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Even Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton, a deeply weird pair of massive losers, adopted net zero policies.
Because it is popular and because it makes sense in basically every way you could name.
Imagine being more fucked than those two.
Because it is popular and because it makes sense in basically every way you could name.
Imagine being more fucked than those two.
If anyone ever had any doubt at all that the Liberal Party are the biggest pack of losers and weirdos you might ever have the misfortune to meet - convinced of nothing more than their right to fail - now is the time to abandon that idea.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If anyone ever had any doubt at all that the Liberal Party are the biggest pack of losers and weirdos you might ever have the misfortune to meet - convinced of nothing more than their right to fail - now is the time to abandon that idea.
Even before you consider the impacts of climate change on vulnerable places like Australia, and given the evidence that most emissions reduction policies - and certainly all of the ones our federal government is pursuing - save money long term, push polling like this simply amounts to lying.
Badly worded poll published by the SMH, which implies that it’s more costly overall/less affordable to reach net zero. Verging on a push poll.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Even before you consider the impacts of climate change on vulnerable places like Australia, and given the evidence that most emissions reduction policies - and certainly all of the ones our federal government is pursuing - save money long term, push polling like this simply amounts to lying.
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Badly worded poll published by the SMH, which implies that it’s more costly overall/less affordable to reach net zero. Verging on a push poll.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Badly worded poll published by the SMH, which implies that it’s more costly overall/less affordable to reach net zero. Verging on a push poll.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
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America is entering its Australia era
The great @justinmikulka.bsky.social -->>>
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November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
America is entering its Australia era
The great @justinmikulka.bsky.social -->>>
powering-the-planet.ghost.io/the-end-of-t...
The great @justinmikulka.bsky.social -->>>
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It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
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This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
We don't use it often, so I haven't noticed this before but I have some questions for the manufacturers of our pasta maker.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
We don't use it often, so I haven't noticed this before but I have some questions for the manufacturers of our pasta maker.
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I was impressed by this statement by Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, in response to the nazi rally at the NSW state parliament yesterday:
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I was impressed by this statement by Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, in response to the nazi rally at the NSW state parliament yesterday:
It doesn't happen often but sometimes when I'm grappling with a problem, I will write something and only hours later come back to what I've written to be like "who wrote that? it's really insightful."
Anyway. This nails the problem with the proposed EPBC reforms and the me I forget is clever.
Anyway. This nails the problem with the proposed EPBC reforms and the me I forget is clever.
The reason our environmental laws are bad is because they fail to protect the environment from the endless capitulation of cowards.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It doesn't happen often but sometimes when I'm grappling with a problem, I will write something and only hours later come back to what I've written to be like "who wrote that? it's really insightful."
Anyway. This nails the problem with the proposed EPBC reforms and the me I forget is clever.
Anyway. This nails the problem with the proposed EPBC reforms and the me I forget is clever.
"Howard’s laws were also strong enough to let Labor block Woodside’s enormous North West Shelf gas expansion if Plibersek or Watt had wanted to. It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers."
Damned fucking right.
Damned fucking right.
It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers
The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.
thepoint.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"Howard’s laws were also strong enough to let Labor block Woodside’s enormous North West Shelf gas expansion if Plibersek or Watt had wanted to. It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers."
Damned fucking right.
Damned fucking right.
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In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".
Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says
The BBC newsreader was reading out a news bulletin about research on groups most at risk in UK heatwaves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".
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To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
heated.world
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
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ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
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This is so damning.
I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit
Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?
timinclimate.medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is so damning.
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Something really remarkable from the centre-right BTI-bro Gates-takes is that none of them want to acknowledge Gates flat-out fabricated the core, load-bearing example he uses for the entire thesis of his blog post.
That isn't a 'bad opinion', that is extremely serious malpractice and fraud
That isn't a 'bad opinion', that is extremely serious malpractice and fraud
I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit
Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?
timinclimate.medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Something really remarkable from the centre-right BTI-bro Gates-takes is that none of them want to acknowledge Gates flat-out fabricated the core, load-bearing example he uses for the entire thesis of his blog post.
That isn't a 'bad opinion', that is extremely serious malpractice and fraud
That isn't a 'bad opinion', that is extremely serious malpractice and fraud