Charli Shield

a church showing the difference between the two coal plans and the space in between is the number of emissions which will be released by shifting towards the worst coal plan which is 310,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent

a church showing the difference between the two coal plans and the space in between is the number of emissions which will be released by shifting towards the worst coal plan which is 310,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent

The Queensland Government's plan to extend coal's lifespan for 10 years or more is a great illustration of how "pragmatic realism" is deadly, and how the climate movement's persistent optimism isn't suitable for the times we're in now

New @crikey.com.au piece:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/20/q...

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

The Djarindjin Way: A New Model for Indigenous Empowerment — Ngaarda Media By Marli Ryan For decades, the phrase “Closing the Gap” has been plastered across policy documents, media headlines, and political speeches in Australia. It’s a slogan that was supposed to repres...

This isn’t just about lights and electricity. It’s about control. If you own your power, you control your future, says Nathan McIvor talking, CEO of Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation in Western Australia.

www.ngaardamedia.com.au/news/the-dja... #auspol

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study

Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Buzzzzzzzzz Something to actually do about insect decline

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Gas giants say they can get Asia off coal – and reduce emissions New research suggests replacing coal power with Australian gas could deliver cost-effective emissions reductions in Asia.

Asian LNG trade body pays for report saying Aus gas displaces coal in Asia and analysts say case closed; on the other side is the CSIRO saying no evidence and US Department of Energy work finding gas displaces renewables at twice the rate of coal.

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

Breaking: Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070 by Environment Minister Murray Watt The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...

Albo's majority Labor govt says WE DON'T CARE to Murujuga Traditional Custodians #NationalReconciliationWeek, Australia's Pacific neighbours, science & people who want a liveable climate

Stand by for approval of Woodside's Browse-to-NorthWestShelf gas project
#LaborValues #LaborClimateAction

Mick Baron standing in his dive shop in Eaglehawk Neck, next to a row of wetsuits hanging up. There are also gumboots on the floor in the foreground, and various bits and pieces hanging up and lying around in the background.

A poster hanging up in the Eaglehawk dive shop that reads: Seadragon Search - you can help to protect sea dragons.

A view of Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, from the hill top - a stretch of grass and trees in the foreground sloping down to the ocean, with the southern part of the peninsula in the distance.

Here’s the latest ep in our series from me - what our economy gets wrong about nature, ft. underwater forests in Tasmania, ocean heatwaves, insatiable urchins, a plan to revive them, and the big fails of our economic system. Tysm to Mick Baron & Sophus zu Ermgassen. Listen 👉 pod.link/livingplanet...

Underwater footage reveals the terrible cost of industrial fishing Industrial fishing methods such as long lining and bottom trawling are responsible for horrifying levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks.

"Industrial fishing is sweeping up unprecedented levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean alone, new analysis shows, as the world finalises a new ocean treaty."

www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Here it is, finally. The truth.

In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product

Gold-mining company fined $160k for 'mercenary' sacred site drilling A Canadian gold miner has been fined $160,000 for conducting illegal exploration drilling at an Aboriginal sacred site, after the company's own press release tipped authorities off to the damage.

A Canadian gold miner has been fined $160,000 for conducting illegal exploration drilling at an Aboriginal sacred site, after the company's own press release tipped authorities off to the damage.

A flock of sheep look toward the camera, with wind turbines visible in the distance, on a farm in the Darling Downs region of southeast Queensland.

A ute parked at the base of a wind turbine, with the door ajar, and a farmer in the front seat.

A landscape shot of a pond backdropped by gum trees and surrounded by green vegetation in the bush, outback Queensland.

Gum trees, some standing, some fallen, in a bush landscape, outback Queensland.

An episode I reported & produced about the economics of saying ✌️ to fossil fuels ft. an accidental clean energy ally from outback Queensland. E2 in our cost of climate series. Thanks to Brent Finlay, @kingsmillbond.bsky.social & @gwagner.com for their brilliant insights. 🎧👉 pod.link/livingplanet...

“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.

“when the full range of other harms are factored in – such as drought, flood, fire, smoke and sea level rise – the total liability presents a nightmare for fossil fuel producers that have long-feared tobacco-style lawsuits” 💀 drilled.media/news/heat-at...

election in the genocide We are 60 days into the total starvation of Gaza, a trapped civilian population that is being relentlessly bombed, murdered by snipers and drones, and rounded up into torture camps.

Hadn’t realised until i read @omarsakr.bsky.social’s always-excellent Substack just how much $$ was poured into the anti-Greens campaign 😳 Absolutely wild.

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“The scale & intensity of coral bleaching has never before been witnessed in Western Australia waters”
“Widespread bleaching has been observed for the 1st time on reefs throughout the Kimberley, which are considered to be among the most heat tolerant in the world.”
www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Australian Energy ProducersAustralian Energy Producers 21,528 followers21,528 followers 55m • 55 minutes ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Australia’s oil and gas industry congratulates Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Federal Labor’s re-election and looks forward to continuing to work with the Government on necessary reforms for Australia’s long-term energy security and economic growth. The decisive election result provides an opportunity for energy policy certainty and stability in the next term of Parliament, advancing the shared goal of boosting Australian gas supply to ensure reliable and affordable energy for Australian homes and businesses. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gs5kmFGe

Australia's gas lobby (the country's biggest fossil fuel lobby group by a good margin) welcomes Albanese's election

“We look forward to working with the Albanese Government on advancing the shared goal of boosting Australian gas supply"

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An up close picture of podcast host Rachel Stewart and producer Charli Shield standing in front of a canal in Leiden, The Netherlands, during winter.

our history podcast episode on WHERE prisons came from and WHO they're really serving (?!) was nominated for a European Digital Media Award, which calls for a little pic of us recording in the Netherlands, and a little link to listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Study: News outlets can’t run ‘native’ Exxon ads without misleading the public A first-of-its-kind study found news outlets can reduce, but not eliminate the deceptive influence of fossil fuel industry ads designed to look like reporting.

Big Oil is successfully using "misleading" ads disguised as reporting to “manipulate mass public opinion,” a new study from @commscholar.bsky.social, others at @bostonu.bsky.social and @uniofcam.bsky.social found.

www.exxonknews.org/p/study-news...

Good to be back

If you sum it up, 49% of young German men voted for a right-leaning party, but only 28% of young women. Conversely, 59% of young women voted for a left-leaning party, but only 38% of young men. (BSW left out.)

Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest

www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Flooded north Queensland towns face continuing isolation with more rain forecast Some areas are relying on supply drops from helicopters and planes as they brace for what may be a long wait for inundated roads to clear * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news…

Flooded north Queensland towns face continuing isolation with more rain forecast

Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole

Ice is melting at the North Pole in midwinter.

Fossil fuel subsidies now more than $A2 trillion just in G7 countries Report finds volume of fossil fuel subsidies from G7 nations increased 15% between 2016 and 2023 – with the US spending the most.

Report finds volume of fossil fuel subsidies from G7 nations increased 15% between 2016 and 2023 – with the US spending the most

We don't need nuclear power - the path to cheaper electricity is renewables The last thing Australia energy market needs is nuclear power. The data is clear - more renewables will lead to cheaper electricity.

Saying it again. Nuclear is the most expensive form of energy we could have. Those pushing the conversation on it, are using it to distract from the rollout of the cheapest, cleanest energy form: renewables. #auspol

A diagram showing how more warming results in extended drought conditions into nov, paired with peak winds Today, with t DERAS One or more images is missing alt text Extremely important new rapid study lust out, by Add alt text Flammable drought conditions are increasingly overlapping with peak Santa Ana winds Drought conditions Bet

Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social

It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>

www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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Some Rare, Real Talk From a Utility About Competition With Rooftop Solar - Inside Climate News In a hearing last month in Arizona, an expert witness for the state’s largest utility said he agrees with the idea that utilities oppose rooftop solar because it is a threat to their profits. If ever there was an occasion for a “record scratch” sound effect to be played at a regulatory hearing, this was […]

"That is correct," said the utility witness, admitting that these #monopoly companies oppose rooftop and community solar to protect their shareholders. https://vist.ly/3mtnh8a 🔌💡