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As we face more bushfires & storms caused/worsened/made more deadly by fossil fuels…

It’s the right time to quit EVERYTHING fossil fuels. Divest from institutions that fund, facilitate coal, oil, gas.
Refuse FF sponsorships.
Electrify your home. Remove gas appliances.

Live cleaner. 🤗

Applicant's Oral Submissions at Hearing for Thawley J to Make Vexatious Litigant Order

A Federal Court judge is intent on obstructing legal action against the Commissioner of Taxation.
In previous litigation:
> Senior Tax Officers admitted giving untrue evidence under oath.
> Their solicitors hid evidence.
They caused needless further litigation.
fca.legalnotes.au/2025/12/appl...

One day there will be less "garbage".
Until that utopian civilisation comes into existence, any technology that hits the fossil gas industry's market share is going to be attacked by the gas industry.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
For example: bsky.app/profile/askg...

The fossil gas industry is happy to undermine substitutes that erode its market.
These:
1. Electric induction heating for high-temperature industrial processes.
2. Biomethane from sewage, animal and crop waste.
3. Gasification of waste streams (plastic, etc).
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One the first set climate research centers, labs & groups joined Bluesky, the next group came fast: so I needed a Part 2.

Here's the 2nd list of official organizations who made the move to bluer skies. Choose a few to follow or click the whole list!

Day 7 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs.

Electricity generation costs would be a third lower with 82% renewable grid, CSIRO says Modelling suggests main electricity market could run almost entirely on renewables without increase in generation cost by 2050

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Not since the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria have we witnessed such a wanton, intentional assault on scientific knowledge."

Check out the @mannresearch.bsky.social at #AGU2025 happening Dec 15-19 in New Orleans. Happening TOMORROW Dec 18 from 4:45-4:55pm you can hear from MRG Research Associate Dr. Xueke Li at her talk titled "Increased Frequency of Planetary Wave Resonance Events over the Past Half-Century".

Trump team ‘breaking up’ top climate research center The White House says it’s targeting the “premier research stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy.”

"Trump team ‘breaking up’ top climate research center" | I weigh in via @eenews.bsky.social & Robin Bravender: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
#ScienceUnderSiege

This is the case for a majority of people in New Zealand due to the response in 2020 and 2021 which could explain why our excess mortality continue to be lower than other countries. Lockdown gets proven to be the right decision (at the time).

Who Really Pulled the Rug? A Three-Part Investigation. Following the Money Behind Australian Men's Anger Part 1: The Evidence – How They Dismantled the Australian Fair Go By Sue Barrett This is Part 1 of a three-part investigation into who’s responsible for Australia’s declining living standards. Over th...

theaimn.net/who-really-p...

Great read. Follow the power, fight that, not the people they’re telling you to hate… #auspol Asking questions vital to understanding. Here’s some questions answered.

And for mean temperatures, last month was a near-equal second hottest October. Last month’s anomaly was 2.51C above the 1961-90, and the previous October in 2024 had a 2.52C anomaly. Both lagged 2015’s October anomaly of just over 3C:

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Electrochemistry turns nitrogen emissions into a valuable product A device that transforms smog-forming nitric oxide into useful nitric acid could be a win for metal mining

Researchers have devised an electrochemical process to convert nitric oxide emissions into pure, concentrated nitric acid, a crucial ingredient for metal processing and fertilizer production. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Fluorescence Friday! Gargi images a lot of DRGs in the lab, and these two appeared as animals to her. Can you see them? #fluorescencefriday #peripheralnervoussystem #rorschach 🧪🧪

Waste from carbon capture helps extract critical minerals Coupling critical mineral extraction with carbon removal technologies makes both more efficient

At #ACSFall2025, PNNL scientist Chinmayee Subban explained how she and her team extract critical minerals using the waste from a technology capable of tweaking ocean chemistry, to lower the costs of both processes. cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky 🧪

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Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.

I don't want to say I told y'all.
But...
thebulletin.org/2024/08/project-2025-the-right-wing-conspiracy-to-torpedo-global-climate-action/

The Colorado River Basin has lost nearly the equivalent of an underground Lake Mead 💧🌎⚠️

📰 A recent study finds the basin lost about 27.8 million acre-feet ❗ of groundwater from 2002-2024. About 68% of the losses occurred in the lower part of the basin, which lies mostly in Arizona 🧪

Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show Positive thinkers are ‘literally on the same wavelength’, say Japanese researchers

🧠 Optimists think on the same wavelength

Brain scans show that optimists share similar activity in a region linked to future thinking. They process good and bad events more distinctly, possibly explaining greater social resilience.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm 🧪

Estimated elevations in US population mental illness symptomatology and personality difficulties attributable to early life lead exposure over the past 75 years, by birth cohort. Ridge plots visualize the additional mental illness symptomatology (panels A–C) and personality difficulties (panels D and E) gained by US population birth cohorts as a result of adverse childhood lead exposures over the past 75 years. Panels A–C present elevations in General Psychopathology, Internalizing, and AD/HD symptoms, respectively. Panels D and E present alterations in personality characteristics that are disadvantageous, including increased Neuroticism and decreased Conscientiousness. Elevations are depicted as estimated changes from the mean under conditions of no lead exposure, in standard deviation units

I really hoped that the negative effects of lead exposure, socially, are mostly behind us... but it looks like Gen X is actually hit hard by the side-effects of lead exposure, and it's not going their neurology any favors. 🧪

Link: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Never forget nor forgive Australia's role as an enabler of the Gazan genocide. @albomp.bsky.social, @senatorwong.bsky.social and many others should be brought to The Hague.

'We must respect and uphold the rule of law, until it's inconvenient for us'

Climate, Environment, Gaza, Refugees, Deaths In Custody...

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

When video of this surgeon went viral, his colleagues were the least surprised It took a viral video for Australia to see a side of a celebrated neurosurgeon that some of his colleagues and patients had known about for years.

Remember that odd story before the election about a neurosurgeon tearing down Monique Ryan’s campaign corflute, talking about burying the body under concrete? I decided to investigate. Turns out that behaviour did not exist in a vacuum. Watch #4Corners 8.30pm, ABC TV. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

‘Get angry about it’: Mark Humphries’ doco Sold! unpacks Australia’s housing crisis In his new one-hour special for Foxtel and Binge, the satirist meets celebrity realtors and squatters – and puts Alan Kohler in a bathtub – to explore our toxic real estate obsession

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