Christine Milne

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records - valuable analysis from @hausfath.bsky.social to show that climate change is real and global... even it was hotter in one town 80 years ago. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/most-of-th...

What connects tiny algae to mighty polar bears? ❄️🐻‍❄️

On #WorldAnimalDay, we’re reminded that protecting wildlife means protecting the ecosystems that sustain them.

Follow our new series unpacking why sea ice matters — share this to give Arctic wildlife a voice today.

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“We knew the Irish would stand with us,” - Max Levitas (102)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/heri... #CableStreet

Avant / Après la piétonnisation de l'ancienne voie express Georges Pompidou dans Paris Centre. Photo 2011 by Mbzt sur Wikimedia Commons.

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

YouTube video by ClimateAdam Climate Scientist Reacts to Trump's UN Speech

ClimateAdam fact checks Trump’s UN speech, in his unique style: both enlightening and entertaining.
If you don’t yet subscribe to him, consider it!
youtu.be/lEEwAcQ-zpU?...

Thanks @kazcooke.bsky.social
I agree , well overdue !
Been wanting to for ages!!
And I’M FREE!!
Xx

Great summary of current “bases” which I learnt thru this article are apparently not classed as “bases”?!

What a load of bullshit, these are military targets. Especially flammable in Darwin with the fuel tanks I say laughing nervously

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91 Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.

Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...

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...

US Marines' Osprey cleared for permanent base in Australia The USMC’s tilt-rotor Ospreys will be based in Toowoomba, boosting training availability and regional interoperability with the ADF.

www.themandarin.com.au/299272-us-ma...

Hard to believe anyone would call for USA to abandon the Geneva Convention. Why are we still in AUKUS? Why are we allowing a new forward deployment US base in Toowoomba? We are allied with people advocating for war crimes. @albomp.bsky.social We do not share these values.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Non-paywalled copy of the article can be found here: michaelmann.net/wp-content/u...

The US military was a *very* early adopter of climate adaptation for a reason: they rightly recognized it as a threat multiplier for national security.

Hoping that St Vincent's - a vitally important (publicly funded) institution in Australia will see fit to respond to these questions by @wendybacon1.bsky.social

Air temperatures over Antarctica have soared 35ºC above average. What does this unusual event mean for Australia? The stratospheric polar vortex high above Antarctica has rapidly heated up. These sudden bursts of heat can bring rapid weather changes in Australia

theconversation.com/air-temperat...

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.

“What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so” @michaelemann.bsky.social

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Quelle: Climate visuals von Ed Hawkins. ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

For more on the environmental toll in #Gaza, see @unep.org's updated assessment, which was published this week. bsky.app/profile/ceob...

After a minor tremor a few weeks ago, then this 4.4 yesterday, is this week’s event in SW Tasmania, the precursor to a major event? I hope the Emergency Services and Huonville Council have practised their emergency response.

Hydro TAS full of confidence that there’s nothing to see here regarding the earthquake associated with the Lake Edgar reverse thrust fault line. In spite of Edgar and ScottsPeak dams being high risk, they were quick to say ‘no damage’. Reality is the dams should be decommissioned.

Outline of the current global energy system and the transformative shifts needed Private finance-first approaches that prioritize returns through blended finance and using public money and guarantees to lessen the risks for private capital Energy as a commodity, controlled by corporations and investors Renewable energy deployed through centralized systems that prioritize main grid-connected areas, mainly major cities and industrial developments Global economic rules that entrench dependency through debt, tax evasion and investor protections Land and resource grabs displacing communities for ‘green’ energy infrastructure Exploitative labour in energy transition sectors and worsening neglect of workers’ rights as they are left behind in the phasing out of fossil fuels Technocratic, top-down projects designed without local participation Carbon markets and offsets used by polluters to delay real climate action Overconsumption in the Global North, especially by the richest people, driving resource depletion and inequality Debt-driven climate finance and shrinking aid budgets Public and grant-based finance that prioritize community needs and enables public control Energy as a public good and human right, governed democratically Renewable energy implemented as a mix of centralized and decentralized systems, serving both urban centres as well as marginalized and rural communities Rewritten rules that enable sovereignty, redistribution and just development pathways Guaranteed free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), full and legal recognition and protection of land rights, including customary and collective rights, focusing on women, Indigenous Peoples and other racialized groups Decent work and social protection are standard in energy transition sectors, with workers fairly compensated and supported through reskilling Inclusive community-led solutions rooted in democratic governance and decisionmaking processes, care and placebased knowledge Polluter-pays approaches and dir…

Although clean energy transitions have been framed as an opportunity to rectify global inequities – particularly under the principle of climate justice, where those least responsible for the crisis are prioritized – this vision remains largely unmet. In 2024, high-income countries accounted for roughly 50% of global clean energy investment and China for 29%, while other regions in the Global South accounted for much smaller proportions – Latin America received 3%, and South-East Asia, the Middle East and Africa received just 2% each – despite sub-Sharan Africa being home to 85% of all the people in the world without electricity.103 This stark disparity risks entrenching the very inequalities that the energy transition is meant to address. Green inequality: social conflict and the global divide in renewable energy Own elaboration from external data source.104 Clean Energy Investment Focus in Global South 29% 71% 29% China 55% Rest of the World Latin America & Caribbean 3% Southeast Asia 2% Africa 2% Middle East 2% India 5% 14% Locally, the rollout of renewables is also reproducing inequality. Large-scale projects often prioritize supplying electricity to major cities or industrial hubs, rather than expanding access in underserved communities.105 One opportunity that renewables presents is that their deployment can be decentralized, as they do not rely as heavily on large-scale production to be cost-efficient, unlike fossil fuels.106 However, some current transition approaches replicate past centralized models, overlooking the potential to combine large-scale generation with community-led solutions that democratize energy.107 In many cases, poor practices around community engagement and participation, along with the overlooking of environmental safeguards, are being repeated, cre

Very very important @oxfaminternational.bsky.social report on what needs to change to make the energy transition just and equitable

www.oxfamfrance.org/app/uploads/...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Anyway, here is some actually incredible news

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's particularly acute in Oslo, and in certain parts of Oslo - probably because of congestion charges which are much higher for petrol cars

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

The headlines should be, but won't be:
"Trump embarrasses himself and the US in incoherent, rambling, shameful speech at the UN"

Trump spreading fossil fuel propaganda lies at the UN - what an embarrassing president for the US.