David Tomkins

This is how Israel treats foreign nationals.

And there is evidence of far worse treatment received by Palestinians under indefinite detention, often without charge.

This is the behaviour of a rogue state who behaves with impunity.

Because it is never held to account.

Russian terrorists are “liberating” the Donbas: in Sloviansk, they shelled a residential area, wounding seven people, and in Kostiantynivka they burned down the Holy Dormition Church.

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero? Only 15 of 100 MPs surveyed knew of IPCC report that CO2 needs to peak this year to keep global heating to 1.5C

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero? #Climate

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says.
#climatecrisis #gas #energy #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. This visualization shows North and South America. Most areas are warmer than average.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Africa, Europe, and western Asia. Most areas are warmer than average.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Australia, Antarctica, and Asia. Most areas are warmer than average, except for parts of Australia and Antarctica.

September 2025 was the 3rd warmest September on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). The last 12-months have been about 1.51°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... via @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data

'Extension cord to nowhere' looms large as Australia’s energy transition evolves Touted as a model for the energy transition, a "quick and easy" high-voltage powerline project linking South Australia directly to New South Wales is running dramatically over time and over budget.

Australia's energy transition in flux amid struggle to build major transmission arteries

#auspol #energy

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Saving Forests Is Climate Action I stuck this sign up on the ACT-NSW border today as I crossed the Brindabella mountains on my way to #CitSciOz25 in Melbourne, where I’m keynoting on Monday morning. I left Canberra early, and pedalle...

Saving forests is climate action - and right now, that’s one of the most urgent low-hanging fruits we have.
#ClimateEmergency #saveforest #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/saving-...

TW Solar's Rooftop Panel For Punishing Australian Conditions Australians have a new choice in high-power rooftop solar panels; one that appears particularly tough - TW Solar's 470-Watt TWMNH-48HE470.

Australians have a new choice in high-power rooftop solar panels; one that appears to be built particularly tough for our often-harsh conditions — TW Solar’s 470-Watt TWMNH-48HE470.

#solarpanels

www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/tw-sola...

Heat and humidity: Why sport needs a climate risk assessment If sport becomes harder, more expensive, and happens on degraded facilities, then there will be lower participation and worse health outcomes.

The Climate Risk Assessment was released in a week when it was impossible to ignore the impact of climate change on sport. This was particularly true if you were a competitor at the World Athletics Championships in Japan.
#ClimateCrisis #sports #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’

“Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way?” That truck is climate change.

Great to speak with @theguardian.com’s Maya Goodfellow about my new book, #RunLikeAGirl.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide

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Steel and aluminium manufacturers are feeling the effects of high gas prices driven up by exports.

Australia Institute research shows gas exports have TRIPLED Aus gas prices and DOUBLED electricity prices.

📺 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on ABC News Breakfast
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

Fossil quartet are more active Facts are facts, and no amount of superlatives will change them! The Courier 2 Oct 2025

Facts are facts, and no amount of superlatives will change them!
The Courier 2 Oct 2025
#climatecrisis #LNPfail #auspol

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

Political and media attacks on renewable energy and climate action in Australia in recent months have come “out of the climate obstruction playbook” that has been honed over decades around the world by fossil fuel interests.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Decadal sink-source shifts of forest aboveground carbon since 1988 As enduring carbon sinks, forest ecosystems are vital to the terrestrial carbon cycle and help moderate global warming. However, the long-term dynamics of aboveground carbon (AGC) in forests and their...

New preprint on the switch of the terrestrial carbon sink into a source

Its simple: ever more system show not a declining carbon uptake, but they switch into a source...

One more temperature jump to go....

#earth #climate

At $4.5bn each year, extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say ‘The trajectory is only up, in terms of insured costs,’ professor of climate risk warns

The costs of extreme weather events such as floods, bushfires and storms have nearly tripled in Australia since the 1990s, insurers have warned, with poorer communities disproportionately burdened.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Solar and Wind Overtake Coal for the First Time

Solar and Wind Overtake Coal for the First Time #Climate

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does.

The more extreme climate events and disasters that occur around the world – the higher Australian insurance premiums will be.

It's why we're calling for compensation levy on gas & coal exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research by the climate thinktank Ember.
#renewableenergy #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why Fascists Reject Climate Science At the United Nations last month, Donald Trump stood before global leaders and the world and declared again that climate change is a hoax. He did this while floods and fires are ravaging communities, ...

Fascists deny climate change because they cannot control it. They can’t bend the laws of physics to their ideology. And so they pretend it isn’t real. Our task - as citizens, as voters, as people of conscience - is to prove them wrong.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/why-are...

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’ Stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

“The destruction of Western Australia’s northern jarrah forests for bauxite mining will push a threatened black cockatoo “to and beyond the brink of extinction” if governments allowed it to continue, conservationists have warned”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia The plan that could wipe the Coalition off the electoral map | 7NEWS

Some real nonsense here. If the parliament is expanded there's no strong reason to think either major will benefit or not benefit proportionally. Sure if people voted like in 2025, ALP would win more new seats than L-NP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWi...

It's really quite simple: We need hope, not more of the same Politics is not complicated. And anyone who pretends it is, has the luxury of not having spent their lives beholden to it.

One of the myths that politicians, and the media that covers them, like to propagate is the idea that politics is very complicated and difficult to understand, so it’s easier to just not pay attention. It's not!
#auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

According to AILA, ICE is launching a nationwide operation today, Friday, 10/3, reportedly named “Freaky Friday,” that will target unaccompanied children aged 14 and older of all nationalities.

News Corp and Advance called to misinformation inquiry The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings. So far the only response has been 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling senators to back off.

Karen Barlow: “The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings. So far the only response has been 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling senators to back off.”

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Join me in supporting the Let the water flow Campaign In an unprecedented crisis for the mighty inland rivers of NSW, the state and federal government are stopping water from naturally flowing down stream to wetlands and waterways that rely on it.  The...

An extraordinary situation has arisen in NSW, and inland rivers and internationally significant wetlands will miss out on vital watering this season.

Essentially the rivers are being persecuted as if they are stealing their own water.
#waterislife
#biodiversity

naturensw.good.do/letthewaterf...

YouTube video by SydneyEV KGM EV Ute is coming!

4x4 #EV utes are coming to Oz.. Finally.
the KGM Musso EV will be coming to Oz.. will it take BYD shark sales? will it take diesel ute sales?
youtu.be/5Uls8FHrYUM?...