Welcome perspective from @johnmenadue.com … & grave condemnation of Labor’s willingness to shelter in the hand-wringing zone when ACTION long needed.

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith James Hansen: Global Climate Sensitivity is 4.5C for 2x CO2 with 99% Certainty: IPCC 3.0C is WRONG

My new video:
James Hansen: Global Climate Sensitivity is 4.5C for 2x CO2 with 99% Certainty: IPCC 3.0C is WRONG
youtu.be/-z0rxj7c7CM?...

#climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #Hansen #IPCC #UNFCCC #UN #UnitedNations

This is a really important article on the recent ICJ ruling on state responsibility for climate mitigation reform. A quote below. Please read and share as widely as possible. #auspol

COCOS ISLANDS again !

The Tiny Australian territory in the Indian Ocean yesterday rose to 31.0C, tying its record of August hottest day which was set just last year.

Cocos Islands have broken the heat records of all 12 months of the year in the past months.
Unstoppable.

What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on? As the virus continues to evolve, experts assess its latest variants, seasonal prevalence and levels of vaccine uptake

"What do we know about the Covid-19 virus 5 years on?"

"The growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."

#COVIDisNotOVER

Looks like we have lost our sense of divine justice.
A.K. Coomaraswamy reminds us about the deep dignity realized in people who inhabit divine arts and crafts.
www.themathesontrust.org/library/the-...
From skilled crafts people to wage slaves mechanized by heartless bosses, what a moral decline!

Yes, you are deluged with information… This though you must read.
Israel’s deliberate targeting of health care then bald-faced denials reveals their corruption as well as racial cruelty.
This report comes from anguished Israeli doctors.
Australia’s Jewish envoy unforgivably continues to excuse.

Both ALP and LNC enact neoliberal dogmas (sustained economic growth equals human progress, free markets as the most-efficient allocation of resources, minimal state intervention in economic and social affairs, freedom of trade and capital).
So, both tend to destroy social and ecological integrity.

Modern techno industrial culture is wallowing within massive ecological overshoots, see Planetary Health Check 2024. Yet the majority of people refuse to contemplate our urgent need to live within the carrying capacities of our planet's ecological habitats,
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/twenty-fou...

Great article by William Rees

"Humanity has become a rogue species and the greatest geological force changing the face of the planet"

"Our maladapted, growth-addicted MTI culture may well be ‘selected out’ this century as a failed evolutionary experiment"

reeswilliame.substack.com/p/the-law-th...

Twenty-four reasons why we are hooped On human cognitive deficiency

Modern techno industrial culture is wallowing within massive ecological overshoots, see Planetary Health Check 2024. Yet the majority of people refuse to contemplate our urgent need to live within the carrying capacities of our planet's ecological habitats.
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/twenty-fou...

We, and young people, need help from people who understand the essence of climate science. See Forest versus Trees - columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin... or its abbreviation - mailchi.mp/caa/seeing-t... also available on my Substack - jimehansen.substack.com/p/seeing-the...

'103 Australian charities have urged the Albanese gov to protect civil society voices. Members of the Stronger Charities Alliance called on the gov to fulfil its commitment to the sector by legislating 3 simple, non-controversial measures.'

www.strongercharities.org.au/2025/08/05/m...

In our current strategy “Burnet 2030”, our institute is prioritizing addressing health impacts of a rapidly changing climate & environment. While perhaps best known for how this relates to infectious diseases, our focus is much wider than that as this story shows.

www.burnet.edu.au/news/multicu...

Time series graph showing the duration of longest heatwave event in Sodankylä Tähtelä. The values range generally between 0 and 14, but in 2025 the heatwave has now lasted for 26 days.

The heatwave in Sodankylä has now lasted for 26 days.

This is probably not only the longest heatwave in Lapland, but also the longest heatwave ever observed in Finland.

Note that here a heatwave is defined with 3 consecutive days above 90th percentile, which is scientifically robust definition.

The Jewish Council was proud to join the hundreds of thousands of Australians marching on Sunday to demand action from our political leadership.

We demand an end to the genocide, today!

“The world is sacred.
It cannot be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.”

2,500BC - Lao Tzu telling us EXACTLY where we’re headed.

1972 - Limits to Growth shows us he was right.

2025 - “Growth, growth, growth!”

“In short it would be a hammer blow to independence of research and inquiry. We entirely reject that proposal.”

Read the full statement: nteu.info/envoy

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Current economics IGNORES intergenerational equity within authentic sustainable development, nine ecological drivers in the degeneration of our ecological habitats & various social shortfalls in the degeneration of our societies. Economic growth is more important than people and life on our planet.

A Sunday Thought (#151): ‚R.I.P. Laura Dahlmeier‘ - A Climate Change Victim

Read in full: www.linkedin.com/posts/ralpht...

Media Release: Jewish Council backs march across Sydney Harbour Bridge Tens of thousands of people will march across Sydney Harbor Bridge tomorrow afternoon in the momentous March for Humanity – […]

full release here www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/08/medi...

Our capitalist system is not only fueled by the relentless destruction of living systems, it has also severed us from nature to such an extent that most people are unaware they’re living through the most rapid extinction event in the 4 BILLION year history of this planet.

“The person you should be angry at is called capitalism. It is the system that has monetised inequality, racism, sexism, addiction, genocide or any other trauma you’ve been subjected to. It is the system that threw democracy in the dumpster”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

147 of 193 UN member nations already recognize a Palestinian state.

Reminder:

State of the World Forum 2025 may be worth a visit!

Why do people continue to live in silos?
Time to see Nature and Humanity ALTOGETHER!
How do we enact 'Human Rights' in societies that are designed for economic growth (growing GDP) by destroying EARTH's INTEGRITY with 7 out of 9 planetary boundaries already crossed?
davidsuzuki.org/story/is-it-...

Seriously good example of the FAILURE of our #laws and #Policy development over time to productively ensure a universally skilled & participatory work force with well cared for children. Rising #Inequality should shame #ALP and not just worry the Greens. #auspol #politas. @jasonclaremp.bsky.social

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

'If we approach nature without openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs.' Pope Francis Laudato Si