Michael Mazengarb

ACT went first and fastest to 100 per cent renewables: It now looks like the smartest policy of all
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It’s just magic pudding fossil fuel projects, whereby no project ever causes climate change.

Thank you!

I’m keen to chat to people in Australia working on climate attribution science and economics. Particularly, the quantification of climate losses and linking to specific sources of emissions.

Can anyone point me in the direction of anyone doing this work in Australia?

'No, this massive fossil fuel project won't have a significant impact on the environment, because if it wasn't built, gas will just come from somewhere else' is just wildly flawed logic.

The 'statement of reasons' given by enviro minister Murray Watt approving the North West Shelf gas project extension contains some astonishing mental gymnastics.
He assumes the same level of emissions could occur even if the project didn't proceed
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Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

I can guarantee you this was not the first time, nor the last time, government data has been fed into ChatGPT.

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One Battle After Another is an excellent movie and it is wild that it was filmed in the first half of 2024.

Robbins Island wind farm is one project, that doesn’t need to be built where it is.

But, Australia is a big country with plenty of places to build wind and solar without compromising high value biodiversity sites.

Sure, but there were some unforced errors about the Robbins Island wind farm issues.

This is not Larissa Waters’ best interview. #Insiders

Would be nice to live in a timeline where it was possible to state that there was zero possibility for Donald Trump and Nigel Farage to be the leaders of their respective countries in 2029.

Because it’s certainly not this one.

I’m in New York, but I’m dreaming of the Sydney Metro The extortionate cost of living in New York – a coffee is $12 – makes me long for the charms of my home town.

Dude complains about the cost of milk at a CVS in Manhattan, and then claims NYC has lost its touch compared to Sydney.

Also, Sydney’s trains might be new and shiny, but at least the NY subway keeps running when it rains…
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I don’t think that’s a metaphor. It’s hard to think of more literal diplomatic isolation.
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Just an absolute peak Canberra day today.

It's only a 30 minute walk from the UN to Madam Tussauds...

a woman in a black jacket is giving a peace sign . ALT: a woman in a black jacket is giving a peace sign .

Happy Sydney Marathon ballot entry day.

Intelligence agencies should report on foreign interests in ‘activist groups’, Australian coal lobby group argues Coal Australia also wants government to broaden restrictions on foreign donations to stop money flowing to environmental groups

jfk, these people... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

lmao
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The disturbing thing about the collapse of American democracy is how quickly some companies and institutions like Universities have fallen over themselves to facilitate it.

Preemptive obedience is just a shortcut to authoritarianism, not a way to avoid it.

The new emissions target, when framed as an additional reduction of 19 to 27 per cent between 2030 and 2035 is laughably vague.

The range is so wide, it renders it a bit meaningless for giving a policy or investment signal (other than the minimum needed to meet the bottom end of the target).

“The best available science was and is clear. To prevent the worst and most dangerous impacts of climate change, it was and is imperative for every country to take steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions so as to ensure that the increase in the global average temperature is held to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to l.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Those critical objectives were enshrined in the Paris Agreement, to which Australia is a party. The evidence in this case indicated that the emissions reduction targets set by the Commonwealth in 2015, 2020 and 2021 were plainly not consistent with those objectives or its international obligations under the Paris Agreement.”

Just a reminder that the federal court recently found the Australian government has a track record of failing to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the best available science.

So the report (which Bowen didn’t write) is ‘out of the playbook’ of… conservative political leaders? Like John Howard and Scott Morrison?

Labor approves North West Shelf extension, with conditions The Albanese government has approved Woodside’s bid to run a massive gas facility in Western Australia until 2070.

Especially when they were happy to announce approval for a massive fossil fuel development in the intervening days:
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Labor keeps ‘dire’ climate report under wraps The government has delayed the release of a “shocking” assessment of climate change’s effect on the economy, just weeks before its 2035 target decision.

In the context of apparent delays and a withholding of the report from the public, it further suggests the government wasn’t prioritising its speedy publication.
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News Corp machine in overdrive, trying to diminish the National Climate Risk Assessment

04 Australia's National Climate Risk Assessment Report A synthesis of key findings from Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment, detailing 11 priority risks and 7 new risks to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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Just a little observation that the metadata on the website for the National Climate Risk Assessment shows the report was uploaded on Thursday last week, but effectively withheld from public visibility until today.

It also received advice from the Climate Change Authority on what the 2035 target should be on the same day.

Worth noting the Albanese government had the National Climate Risk Assessment available to it, before it signed off on the expansion of the North West Shelf gas project extension.