Jane Morton

‘Apocalyptic’ Turkey wildfires spread as 14 killed in blazes sparked by 50C heat Over a thousand firefighters are battling flames outside the country’s fourth-largest city Bursa

Wildfires have claimed 14 lives near Turkey's fourth largest city as a record 50°C heatwave grips the country.

Corbyn hints at 'Your Party' as name for new political movement as sign-ups near 500,000 Jeremy Corbyn has suggested his new party may end up being called Your Party after all, as sign-ups for the new group edge closer to 500,000.

"In 2029, The choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism. Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It's time the rest of us had one."

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The rich are getting richer - The Australia Institute Australia’s overly generous approach to taxing wealth is allowing the richest Australians to keep more for themselves.

The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up talking wealth

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Voting in the Senate in Victoria? Keep numbering till you get to at least 11 to ensure you’ve numbered the smaller parties competing for the sixth senate seat with One Nation.

Many how-to-vote cards suggest only six. But that’s a minimum not a maximum. Visit VoteClimate.net.au for other states.

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The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded.

CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

This from @kevinclimate.bsky.social was, according to the senior editor at The Conversation, "too polemical."

I don't know about you, but I see a piece that's forthright but transparently referenced, and critical of the status quo. Maybe the latter is the nub of it.

climateuncensored.com/1485-2/

Lighter Footprints, ACF Boroondara and KCCA have been campaigning for nature and climate for over a decade. People have been becoming more worried about global heating, and this has correlated with a change in voting patterns, moving towards voting for stronger climate action. #KooyongVotes #auspol

Crowd with No new coal and gas banner inside Reynard st neighbourhood house

Community members gathered in Coburg to kick of their #Willsvotes campaign for #climateaction: It’s time for the Fed govt to rule out new coal & gas projects! #NoMoreCoal #NoMoreGas #Auspol

A tweet about the Australia Institute video on the political stitch up

Labor has done a deal with the Coalition to kill off challenges by independents and smaller parties. Watch this video by @TheAusInstitute. youtu.be/ZnfPBMM7xhU?...

The federal election will be the last under the old rules. It’s time to vote in as many independents and smaller parties as possible.

gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics.

I'm not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data.

I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation.

In remembrance:

Your 'Arctic weather forecast' for today: Mostly f&%ked with regional extreme f&%kery, widespread sea-ice melting, and some locations exceeding 28°C (50°F) above average.

Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

Will climate collapse insurance costs crash the US economy? the Australian economy?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

The visual definition of a truly timeless cartoon

"The mission of Australian think tanks should be to give frank and fearless advice that challenges government policy.

That goal is jeopardised when think tanks rely on government funding."

#auspol

Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky

Saving Everything Else It’s not about saving us. It’s not about saving ourselves. It’s not about saving our ability to eat whatever we want, to buy more crap, to travel to distant places, to have a good job, to send our kid...

Last year was likely the hottest year in the last 120,000+ years on this planet. Human civilization has never existed in conditions like these, and the f&%kery is just getting started.

The tragedy is not the loss of human civilization, it's what humans are doing to everything else.

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:

The role of climate change in the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles fires » Yale Climate Connections Summer dry seasons are extending into winter, intensifying the impacts of Santa Ana winds.

California’s fire season has lengthened considerably in a warming climate, which has increased the overlap between “critically dry vegetation season” and the Santa Ana “offshore wind season” (Oct-Jan). A hotter climate also dries out vegetation.
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Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

LAUNCHED‼️#DadvsAdani doco by renowned Indian journalist @Paranjoygt. It features Ben Pennings’ historic Supreme Court case and the whole #StopAdani movement ✊🏽 It will certainly cause a stir when soon released in Hindi 😎👇🏽

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Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?

Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.

Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

Daily global sea surface temperatures continue to be hot, running #2 to 2024, despite El Nino ending and a mild La Nina already in place.

We are now seeing what 4.8 billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heating since 2001 have done to the oceans.

Just putting this out there. Can we stop using the term 'cost of living' effective immediately and especially in the run up to the election? It's not supposed to cost something to LIVE. That's our right as human beings. What we should call it is a cost of greed crisis. Let's change the frame.

Thanks. Matthew Todd x.com/mrmatthewtod...

Dozens of luxury condos, hotels in Miami sinking at ‘unexpected’ rates, new study reveals First-ever observation of continuous subsidence shows as much as 70 percent of high-rises affected in some areas of Miami

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This graphic gives the 12-month running average for Mauna Loa CO₂ since 1959, with a quadratic trendline (in red).

An R² of 0.9995 is overwhelming evidence that atmospheric CO₂ growth is accelerating. And at present, CO₂ is above the trendline!

The climate 8-ball says: "Outlook f&%ked, try again."

Tried my best. Sorry I couldn’t pull it through everyone - we live to fight another day. ♥️