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Dungibarra/Jarowair land. Disaster behaviour doc/comms teacher. Emergency comms/community engagement. Research. Renewables. Climate. Creatures. Dogs. Horses. #AusPol

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This is absolutely horrifying for every single American who lives in areas prone to hurricane, tornado, wildfire, heatwave and blizzard that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provide warnings for and details on. In other words - Every. Single. American.

I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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In 2024 (as of July 9), there have been 15 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect United States. www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...

🤣 ‘Come on Eileen’ 😂😆 A David Rowe masterpiece!

David Rowe. Feel the despondency…

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Massive floods intensified by climate change have impacted millions across India, Nepal and Bangladesh. "The flooding triggered by heavy rains started early this year, in July,” said Kathmandu resident Rajkumar Bk. “If the rainfall continues the same way then we will have to run for our lives."

Millions affected as floods sweep across South Asiawww.bbc.com Swathes of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh have been inundated in recent days, killing scores of people.

Don't forget we're dealing with the industry that stole and 'improved' big tobacco's playbook.

“The science is clear: offshore wind farms do not hurt whales.” But oil barons want you to think they do www.theage.com.au/environment/...

‘Absolutely incorrect’: The evidence is in on whales and offshore wind farmswww.theage.com.au Those who hold doubts about offshore wind farms may not be aware that their misgivings have been deliberately planted.

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I'm sure TV News organizers have a clear policy on not talking about climate change or minimalizing talk about it

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I talked with E&E about hurricanes, climate change, and the power system. - Burning fossil fuels causes climate change. - Climate change makes extreme heat & hurricanes worse. - Those events knock out power, which can cause vulnerable folks to die. www.eenews.net/articles/a-l...

A lethal combo: Power outages, extreme heat devastate Texaswww.eenews.net Days after Hurricane Beryl hit Houston and left millions without power, the city was hit with a dangerous heat wave.

Drought is not the only slow disaster…

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, much of the land loss in coastal Louisiana was due to oil and gas exploration and subsidence. But in recent years, stronger storms in the Atlantic are eating into state's wetlands. My latest at NASA's Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15277...

Hurricanes Have Left Their Mark on Louisiana’s Wetlandsearthobservatory.nasa.gov Scientists have been tracking how strong storms have eaten into the Gulf state’s coastline.

The little cars that COULD! 16 Nissan Leafs in Canberra supported the power grid when coal-fired power station Loy Yang went off grid for a geriatric nap. thedriven.io/2024/07/09/t...

The electric cars that helped keep the lights on when giant coal generator trippedthedriven.io A group of 16 electric cars in Canberra have given a world-first demonstration of their ability to help prevent blackouts during a major grid emergency in February.

On the list of news we don’t see.

THIS IS FINE

Assam floods: India state battling floods braces for more rainsbbc.com Severe floods in the north-eastern state of Assam have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

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A public service announcement from Holmfirth Festival of Folk Music

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putin peace plan... @roweafr.bsky.social Financial Review ,

Ha ha! David Rowe on the French election. (Phew).

And in one neat diagram, @Dizzly.bsky.social solves the age-old problem of evacuation decision-making! 🤩

@blueheronfarm.bsky.social don’t know if you’ve seen this yet

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It’s weird how conservatives think having more kids than liberals means there will be more conservatives when every Drag Race contestant’s bio is “I grew up in a town where the only employers were the church and the prison, I was raised by my aunt after my mom was executed for working on Sunday”

Still thinking about the day the The Driven website put ‘wankpanzer’ into a headline. It should be the #OxfordWordOfTheYear.

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

Just hit the ‘go’ button on my first EV! Buying it has been an interesting experience of having to fact check everyone, from the sales guy to one of the leasing company reps. If you didn’t know your stuff, you would be completely turned off an EV.

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On Track. Alt text: The scene is a railway line in the desert. On the left is an old jalopy labelled “JOE 2024” and driven by Joe Biden in the style of Mr Magoo. It’s covered in the Stars and Stripes. He exclaims “Ah Magoo, you’ve done it again!”

On track. My @smh cartoon.

Magic stuff! Can we do the cane toad and fire ants next?

This RNA stuff continues to seem unreasonably effective.

The perfect pesticide? RNA kills crop-destroying beetles with unprecedented accuracywww.science.org New approach leaves other creatures unharmed. “You cannot get anything better than this”

Australia continues to vandalise the place. 😳

New even-worse-than-usual open cut coal mine methane accounting rules adopted by the Aus government: "just estimate it yourselves without any external review" Ember did a good analysis on this recently: ember-climate.org/insights/res... cer.gov.au/national-gre...

Accounting shift may hide millions of tonnes of emissionsember-climate.org A proposal for open-cut coal mines to self-report their emissions could conceal millions of tonnes of emissions.

As a uni teacher I definiteltly come across a lot of argle bargle when I am marking. Why use 10 words when you can waffle around and use 100?

quote this post with a fun word you know that other people might not know. can be in any language

...and another disaster prep technique to add to my toolkit. Just seeing us giving PARKOUR! lessons down at the local rural fire brigade shed... jurnal.usk.ac.id/IJDM/article... 🤣

The Effect of Parkour for Disaster Preparedness Training on Psychological Preparedness for Disasters | Zharfani | International Journal of Disaster Managementjurnal.usk.ac.id The Effect of Parkour for Disaster Preparedness Training on Psychological Preparedness for Disasters

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In another universe, this David Rowe art from the Australian Financial Review would be hilarious with all the typical Rowe detail, but… (It’s also the first time Biden appears alongside Trump as the Emporer with new clothes in a DR cartoon that I’ve seen)

David Rowe.

Gah! Australian states’ Victoria and NSW fire seasons start in earnest Dec-Feb and we rely on off support from Canadians and Californians and their planes (and vice versa) That’s increasingly impossible as they deal with extended seasons at home.

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca