Tim Baxter

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Tired: the Gartner Hype Cycle

Wired: The Joshi death spiral

(reckon Spotify's just under the x axis here)

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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Thirst for energy undermines effort to pull back from coal A steady rise in the demand for electricity is slowing the decline of coal-fired power, even as wind and solar generation hits new highs.

Black coal up from Q3 2024 to Q3 2025

(Growth in demand partially offsetting growth on RE)

www.afr.com/policy/energ...

The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Outer eastern Melbourne.

I love our new house so much, but our experience of the new local takeaway places has been *awful*, and the standards of the people here are even worse.

Tonight's chorizo pizza, restaurant rated as 4.6 stars: I genuinely can't taste the difference between the tomato slices and the chorizo.

What.

It's so pretty

I am the Joe Rogan of fuck fossil fuels.

I was including spaces in my count.

So anyway apropos of nothing straight off the dome firing from the hip and unscripted unedited unadulterated extreme, I have a suggestion:

What if we stopped burning fossil fuels?

I would have taken a different direction with this post from the 16th character, but Pat isn’t wrong.

Racism has always played real well in the colony.

"AT Proto decentralization doesn't exist as a practical reality, and if it ever does it won't be for years"

This is a great post and it is a huge, huge shame to see @jay.bsky.team switching into Musk-Mode. Absolutely irresponsible and really gross.

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All of Taylor's worst faults, her inability to talk about adult topics without sounding ridiculous, her tissue paper skin, her try-hard attempts at Lana Del Reyisms, her not-mad-laughing-actually disses, the boring musical aesthetic, her fading ability to write hooks, all on full display. Atrocious.

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

NSW’s fast-track planning laws could allow mines to be approved without environmental assessment Environmental assessments could go out the window for mining projects, windfarms and other developments, green groups say

There’s some pretty alarming stuff happening in NSW right now with big changes to the planning laws being rushed through Parliament.

The proposed amendments create major corruption risks and should be closely reviewed by ICAC.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Queensland’s biggest coal-fired power station could close six years early Crisafulli government wants coal plants to run longer – reversing previous Queensland Labor government’s plans to end reliance on coal power by 2035

Just a quiet reminder: what was announced was the *option* to close.

Much like the Eraring announcment, which is we all know famously closed in August of 2025.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.'

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There was an enormous amount of flaring from INPEX Australia's Ichthys offshore facilities on Tuesday afternoon, from both the Venturer FPSO (left) and the Explorer platform right). They are designed for no routine flaring, but it is necessary for safety reasons, like process upsets and emergencies.

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.

The News Corp headlines referring to the NCRA were, frankly, disgraceful. Some comments from me are included in this @australia.theguardian.com article.

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Graham Readfearn The National Climate Risk Assessment was attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill waste * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast On the front page of the Daily Telegraph, Australia’s first comprehensive assessment of the risks from climate change became “SCIENCE FICTION”. In other leading stories in recent weeks, wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels were a source of mountains of landfill waste. Continue reading...

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Graham Readfearn

Rio Tinto flags early closure of state’s biggest coal fired power generator as it pitches renewables future, just days before Queensland government pitches for coal.

Beetaloo gas to hit market in 2026, thanks to $75m NT guarantee An unusual loan guarantee granted by the Northern Territory government has underscored how much gas from the project is needed.

NT government subsidising Beetaloo fracked gas through a loan guarantee.

Meanwhile there are multiple solar farms in the NT built but not connected to the grid.

Failed state.

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

Renewables and fire risk – what are the facts? Why renewables? Australia and other high-emission nations must take drastic action to stop climate change impacts becoming irreversible. As was noted recently by Professor Mark Howden, Director of …

Compared with what a fire at a fossil fuel facility looks like, the opposition to renewables because of claimed fire risk sometimes verges on the hysterical. In reality, a fire in a turbine nacelle is generally a rare & isolated event.

australianfirefightersclimatealliance.org/2025/09/30/r...

Negin Nazarian wins AGU Early Career Award 2025 21st Century Weather’s Negin Nazarian honoured with AGU’s 2025 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award for her urban climate research.

A huge congratulations to 21st Century Weather Deputy Director @neginnazarian.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from @agu.org!

Read more here: 21centuryweather.org.au/negin-nazari...

Cam Wilson is now the living embodiment of that dril post.

The political killings you don’t hear about Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.

“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024

Obvious congrats to Rick on his journalism and his book, but this article was also a neat little antidote to the feeling that we live in a world where too few are doing too little that's worthwhile in a world on fire.