Robyn Schofield

💪 The WMO has published the first IG3IS Good Practice Guidance for Estimating National-Scale GHG emissions using atmospheric observations.

It supports WMO’s mission to strengthen Earth system monitoring and provide high-quality info for mitigation.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4pjtjx0

If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.

Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of

In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…

As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate

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Australia's top universities seek changes to key environmental reform Australia's top universities have aligned themselves with oil and gas producers, miners and developers on a a key piece of environment legislation, drawing the ire of dozens of academics.

😳 wtf?

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege

CSIRO needs urgent support CSIRO is under attack. Sign the petition calling on the Albanese Government to act now to secure the future of CSIRO’s world-leading science and research.

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This is figure 1, which shows distribution of flux tower sites across artificial light intensity in North America and Europe.

The findings of a study in Nature Climate Change show that artificial light at night disrupts the fundamental energetic constraints on ecosystem metabolism, warranting the inclusion of light pollution in global change and carbon–climate feedback assessments. go.nature.com/44cCKWm 🧪

black background, swirly abstract circles, Clarivate and CIRES logo

Three CIRES researchers are listed as 2025 Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025." The annual list celebrates researchers with significant and broad influence: Jennifer Balch, Noah Fierer, and Jose Jimenez! @cu-esiil.bsky.social @clarivate.com @noahfierer.bsky.social @jljcolorado.bsky.social

Now, instead of imagining the plastic floating out in the ocean for hundreds of years, making a mess and endangering marine life (yuck), imagine more and more CO2 pollution floating up in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, making a mess and endangering all forms of life (super yuck)

Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people becomes law in Victoria Victoria's first treaty with Aboriginal people has been signed by members of the Aboriginal community, the premier and state governor.

A historic day for Victoria.

Australia will see its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalised as law today.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Record-breaking electric truck delivery beats diesel equivalent The stakeholders said the electric prime mover was able to reduce the total trip time by 20 minutes each way compared with the diesel equivalent.

“‘E-Trucking is the future’? Nah mate — it’s already here. A 36-tonne Windrose just smashed a 480 km delivery on one charge, ~70 % cheaper than diesel and ~12 % quicker, shaving about 40 minutes off the trip. This is why E-Trucking is NOT the future — it’s TODAY. #EV #LFP #EnergyTransition #Lithium

‘Horrific’ mass koala starvation hits Victorian island Distressed locals have told of desperate koalas falling from trees and trying to eat vegetation such as pine needles.

This is deplorable.

Koalas suffer and ecosystems are trashed, because the Victorian government won't take sufficient proactive measures to prevent koala starvation.

The issue has been known for months, and such crises are predictable and preventable.

www.theage.com.au/environment/...

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

Finally someone dares to say we need net negative, as I've been saying for some time.
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Making the invisible visible 2025 — The Safer Air Project

Absolute nightmare travel @qantas-official.bsky.social to Canberra today for the @saferairproject.bsky.social to get to Making the invisible visible day in Parliament House.

Missing the wonderful sessions this morning but make it for my panel this afternoon!

www.saferairproject.com/making-the-i...

The 25% cut "would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Just popping on to say a miracle has taken place and ffp3 too!

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

Health care is responsible for up to 7% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the use of disposable products could reduce this footprint.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/reusing...

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Let’s hope this is a watershed moment for public health. Feels like it. Congratulations especially @drbronking.bsky.social - but also to Anna-Maria Arabia and all involved. Pls circulate the pledge and get on board. Here is an OpEd we put out yesterday www.burnet.edu.au/news/indoor-...

#CleanAir saves lives and livelihoods

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

"Es ist Vernachlässigung in höchstem Maße, Kindern in die Augen zu schauen und zu sagen: 'Wir wussten, wie wir euch schützen können, und wir haben es nicht getan", so die 19-Jährige Violet Affleck in ihrer Rede.

www.gala.de/stars/news/b...

CVF are proud supporters of the other important event at the UN today highlighting the need for "Clean Indoor Air".

It is of vital importance to *everyone*, but especially for Clinically Vulnerable people.

Thank you @drbronking.bsky.social
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Wonderful Bronwyn King talking clean IAQ at UNGA

"Clean air for every child in every classroom is a right, not a privilege."

"This is why for Montenegro, improving air quality in schools is not a secondary concern. It is a fundamental responsibility. A matter of safeguarding the next generation."
👏👏👏

For our scientists.

By @ellecordova.bsky.social

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC about a survey they want "stakeholders" to complete. Black text on white background above a rather outsized picture of dark blue smudges on a light-blue background. One smudge says "Survey" … you know, to catch your eye?

Once again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy:

8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter?

They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.

The Dark Ages of health care in the rest of the developed world is the present-day reality in the USA.

We docilely accept that if a person gets cancer, they'll likely lose their house or their life savings. Any threat to impose that system elsewhere would be met with fierce rebellion. We are sheep.

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates

Study has ‘profound implications for preventing the neurodegenerative disorder.’
@iansample.bsky.social @theguardian.com

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