Graham Lea

If only you had high paying job openings to offer retiring politicians, they might be “interested” in what you have to say!

lol an academic would do this for free
so many of us would bite at the chance to be politically relevant to anyone, anywhere

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

Great article.
“Vested interests will never agree with changes that upset their own apple carts. But if it means the apples are better distributed, then the people will.”
#auspol

Every time you vote for a party/candidate that doesn’t have policies aligned with keeping global warming under 1.5°C*, you vote for a future with much, much more bad things like this destruction of the Great Barrier Reef

* In Australia this includes (at least) Liberals, Nationals, and Labor
#auspol

"Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the music!" 🎶

Every report that I've seen on the reality of GPT-5 is polar opposite of the hype vibe. #Fail

Have a good day #Canberra
Your March is on today

The point of the blog and chart is to highlight we are having positive effects in the geographies where we’ve been leading the transition.
Yes, the global story is still slight increase. But this does not show our efforts to curb emissions aren’t working, because the efforts are not spread evenly.

I wrote this blog to vaccinate my friends against the climate denier lie that we’ve spent billions on renewable energy but achieved nothing.

#ClimateSky

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.

First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.

Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

YouTube video by Chris Kohler Give it a name that makes it sound normal. #business #finance #economy

🏆 Chris Kohler’s short vids are both hilarious and educational, though the theme is often, depressingly:
How the wealthiest 1% are laughing at the rest of us behind closed doors

👇 Case in point

youtube.com/shorts/qMsRR...

YouTube video by Chris Kohler Give it a name that makes it sound normal. #business #finance #economy

🏆 Chris Kohler’s short vids are both hilarious and educational, though the theme is often, depressingly:
How the wealthiest 1% are laughing at the rest of us behind closed doors

👇 Case in point

youtube.com/shorts/qMsRR...

Makes me wonder if their current goal is to make their product so cheap that it brings renewables projects (temporarily) into a questionable ROI zone.

There's a myth circulated by Big Oil to distance itself from Trump's more brutal enviro policies--& repeated by too many journalists--that they don't really want his "drill, baby drill" because they don't want to produce more as the market is already saturated (as viewed in lower oil prices). 1/3 🧵

This is wild. Not just layoffs, not even cutting costs. Literally spending money to tear down essential infrastructure that will cost billions to replace. It’s vandalism of public assets, because ideology. They belong to the people, not to the White House’s tenant.

A wet baby #wombat on a spin cycle.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

A poster titles: "Are We Making Progress On Climate Change?" "Annual emissions are still rising (slightly)." A stacked area chart shows annual CO2 emissions from High Income Countries and the Rest of the World. "In the richest countries, they're shrinking, and the global trend is heading the same way". A line chart shows the annual CO2 emissions change (5 year average). High income countries went into negative emissions growth 15 years ago. The global total growth has been hovering between 0% and 1% for ten years. Data source is Global Carbon Budget (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Image is copyright 2025 Graham Lea, CC BY-SA

I blogged!
Are We Making Progress On Climate Change?

www.grahamlea.com/2025/08/clim...

Yeah, that’s wild. Not just cutting staff costs. Literally tearing down essential infrastructure that will cost billions to replace.

I’m making it a thing!
I can post the same text above a different headline pretty much every week. 😢

Just listening to an energy podcast, and they’re talking about something not happening until 2028, “when Trump’s term will ostensibly come to an end”.
Think about how wild that is: in a non-political discussion, reasonable minds are now acknowledging that the US has a president who may not leave.

Every time you vote for a party/candidate that doesn’t have policies aligned with keeping global warming under 1.5°C*, you vote for a future with much, much more bad things like this destruction of the Great Barrier Reef

* In Australia this includes (at least) Liberals, Nationals, and Labor
#auspol

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

What I see in Australia is conservatives saying “This will destroy the economy if we do it” and centre progressives saying “This will destroy the economy if we do it too fast”. Both scripted by their corporate donors.
We have progress, but not fast enough, and “the economy!” is always the excuse. 😒

Yeah, we need political intervention. But we won’t get it easily. Because many national governments are way too swayed by corporate lobbying, their parties supported by corporate donations.
The real beast to be slain is state capture. Failure to address climate change is just one of its shadows.

Virtually zero legacy media coverage of this statement. A couple of stories, that’s about it. The lies and insane statements have become completely normalized and are largely ignored now by Big Media.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

I wrote this blog to vaccinate my friends against the climate denier lie that we’ve spent billions on renewable energy but achieved nothing.

#ClimateSky

The image presents a bar chart illustrating the percentage of new cars sold globally that were electric, including both fully battery-electric and plug-in hybrids, with data projected for 2024. The chart shows a selection of countries and regions from highest to lowest percentage. - Norway leads with 92%. - Sweden follows with 58%. - China shows 48%. - The United Kingdom and Switzerland each have 28%. - The European Union has 21%. - Canada has 17%. - Australia is at 13%. - The United States has 10%. - South Korea registers 9%. - Brazil is represented at 6%. - Japan stands at 3%. - India is at 2%. The data source cited at the bottom is the International Energy Agency's Global EV Outlook 2025.

What share of new cars in your country are electric?

A poster titles: "Are We Making Progress On Climate Change?" "Annual emissions are still rising (slightly)." A stacked area chart shows annual CO2 emissions from High Income Countries and the Rest of the World. "In the richest countries, they're shrinking, and the global trend is heading the same way". A line chart shows the annual CO2 emissions change (5 year average). High income countries went into negative emissions growth 15 years ago. The global total growth has been hovering between 0% and 1% for ten years. Data source is Global Carbon Budget (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Image is copyright 2025 Graham Lea, CC BY-SA

I blogged!
Are We Making Progress On Climate Change?

www.grahamlea.com/2025/08/clim...

Yes, kidnappings and genocides are both very bad things that it’d be great to see the end of.