I quite like the . Shame about the sponsorship though. Can’t support a team that is sponsored by planet wreckers. Time to get a responsible sponsor
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It turns out that the *expectation* of price caps and windfall profit taxes alone is already bringing down power prices.
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Q: Why is coal (and gas) generation is up in EU?
A: A massive hydro and nuclear deficit!
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Great new report on CCS. The only times it really works is when it's working to enable the greater extraction and burning of fossil fuels. It's a climate solution that only seems to function as a climate problem.
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The amount of wind and solar power capacity added has continued to break records every month of 2022, helping reduce emissions and the consumption of expensive fossil fuels.
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NEW from us: China's CO2 emissions fell by a record 8% in the second quarter of 2022, due to contraction in real estate construction, COVID-19 control measures and strong clean energy growth.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-china
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Some good news in the works. Our #methane detection algorithms had an overhaul and are now state-of-the-art. Down here are some gas plumes found directly over some of Australia's big open-cut #coal #mines in north #Queensland. More news to come in a few weeks.
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Just IN:— Flash floods wreak havoc in Pakistan; 4.6 million people affected: 300,000 homeless; over 1000 dead. 90% crops in sindh province ravaged.
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Dictator Putin marks Ukrainian Independence Day by killing 22 civilians in a railway bombing. Horrific
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The attack was carried out in the village of Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, “directly on the rail cars,” according to Zelensky. He said that four train cars caught fire as a result of the attack and the rescue operation is ongoing.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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Fossil-fuel-based hydrogen is dying a quiet death and that's a good thing:
Oil and gas’s pivot to blue hydrogen is falling through interc.pt/3POGOTu by Justin Mikulka
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Tobacco company wants exemption from lung cancer policy because it would affect competitiveness of cigarette sales.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Energy Transition Authority critical to creating secure jobs for a safer climate.
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Polluter seeks to keep polluting without restraint. How about we impose an additional rent-seeker tax on those who would have others do the hard work of cutting emissions?
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Spiralling LNG prices see Bangladesh Government cancel a 3600 MW gas-burning power station. Gas exporters making a killing at the moment are also destroying their future demand
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To think that this joker was acting Prime Minister at times... absolutely extraordinary performance
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"I listened to your panel, they're going off the dial...Don't ask me a third time!"
@Barnaby_Joyce on why he didn't do anything when he found out Scott Morrison was secretly the Resources Minister.
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Today is calling on the Federal Government to establish a tripartite ‘National Innovation Council’ for the electric vehicle sector.
For a future made in Australia.
Climate action & job creation.
#evsummit #auspol #ClimateAction #workers
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The impact of the Climate Change Bill is that we now have a clear cap on nation emissions
43% cut by 2030 and net zero by 2050
We are in a zero sum game now
So how do we deal with new high polluting facilities that *aren't* factored in like new gas and coal mines? 👇
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The Investor Group on Climate Change backs an Australian hydrogen industry but warns against unfettered development that could increase, not cut, emissions.
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We thought this might help keep track of everything
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Very interesting. Treasury finally taking climate seriously. Once they start including climate impacts & the real costs of fossil fuel extraction in advice to government a lot of assumptions about what’s “economic” could change.
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Multiple new jobs going in Treasury on climate change modelling and analysis. careers.tspace.gov.au/cw/en/listing/
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It seems to me that the Governor General was privy to information that Australians were entitled to know, and was complicit in a massive breach of trust and undermining of Parliament and our democracy
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Qantas decline explained: Scott Morrison secretly took on CEO role two years ago
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We’re now truly underway! Today Federal and State govts committed to develop a First Nations Clean Energy strategy which will see our people share in the benefits of the renewables revolution. Our Media Release here.
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And with this action demonstrates that if they have to choose between a habitable planet and their profits they'll choose the money every time.
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BHP asks to mine Queensland coal for 90 years
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The latest LabourStart Photo of the Week is from Spain where unions demonstrated after 679 workers died in one week as a result of working in extreme heat. Unions are calling for restrictions on work when the temperature exceeds 40. (Photo: CCOO)
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Gas importing nations cannot no longer afford gas. Its time for Australia to support renewable energy deployment in, and exports to, our region instead of pursuing fossil gas exports
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Facts must rise above the gas if Australia is to deal with the climate crisis - ‘s Monday column
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So the Automotive Industry want Australia to remain a dumping ground for expensive and dirty🚗 and for us to miss our our climate 🎯?
We need ambitious fuel efficiency standards not set in the board rooms of car companies but in line with the science
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Aussie motorists could have saved $5,900,000,000 in fuel costs if we mandated efficiency levels for new cars!
New report by shows how we can adopt efficiency standards that will save at the bowser & save emissions
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Peak car industry body with as key member
lobbies for Australians to drive more polluting and expensive vehicles for longer….
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Energy giants are posting staggering profits while fuelling our cost-of-living crisis. Their shareholders are pocketing billions while working people are wondering how on earth they can afford to fill up their car, or heat their homes. #petrolprices #costofliving #climate
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Many will claim some ownership of the passing of the Climate Change legislation but I think congratulations should go to …single handed he encouraged Lib voters to vote Independent,Lib voters to vote Labor..thus ensuring a Parliament with a view to the future.👍
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These are extremely welcome comments and strong leadership from our new Federal Environment Minister
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Tanya Plibersek says she will block Clive Palmer’s proposed coalmine near Great Barrier Reef theguardian.com/environment/20 by @readfearn and @murpharoo
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The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.
This grotesque greed of the fossil fuel industry and their financiers is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.
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It is immoral for oil & gas companies to be making record profits from the current energy crisis on the backs of the poorest, at a massive cost to the climate.
I urge all governments to tax these excessive profits & use the funds to support the most vulnerable people.
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