David Tomkins 🦋

400 years will put the earth’s average temperature at 15C above the pre-industrial level at our current rate of warming…

When do you expect the interglacial period will end?

Please do push this into the faces of all those climate deniers! Not that it will have any dramatic effect, but it might bring a little joy into the heart of whomever is doing the pushing!

Albanese’s policy on Iran makes us complicit in the collapse of international rules The Albanese government has stood by as the foundations of the international order were destroyed

Excellent by @emmashortis.bsky.social

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Lucifer has a point

Trump’s war on Iran is another reminder: renewable energy is national security The first thing I thought when I heard petrol prices were climbing was this: thankfully, that’s not really our problem anymore.That’s not because we’re rich or because inflation doesn’t matter. And it...

The first thing I thought when I heard petrol prices were climbing was this: thankfully, that’s not really our problem anymore, says Gregory Andrews.
That’s not because we’re rich or because inflation doesn’t matter.
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/trump-s...

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

I would just love to ask them what they based their expectations on.

www.ksl.com/article/5145...

There’s nothing more satisfying to Linda Bradburn than getting another household to go electric.
The Victorian retiree has electrified her home step by step over more than 15 years.
#climatecrisis #electric #auspol rewiringaustralia.org/blog/linda-b...

Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader at more than double recent market rates.

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing…

www.afr.com/companies/en...

After the deluge: Australia’s wettest summer in a decade was also one of the hottest ever Some areas that recorded temperatures close to 50C in January received more rain in one week in February than all of last year

Dozens of heat and rain records were broken across south-east Australia over the past two months as the nation experienced its wettest summer in a decade, and one of the hottest ever – 1.1C above the 1961-1990 average.
#climatecrisis #weather #auspol www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

People just do not understand simple things like
We cannot make, or build fresh clean water
We cannot make or build fresh clean air

I hope mother nature kicks the shit out of mankind before the stupidity of mankind destroys the whole planet.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

“I have grave concerns about the use of algorithms and automation to make decisions about the complex individual care needs of older Australians,”
#agedcare #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'Gobsmacked': threatened bird habitat cleared under Australia’s new nature laws Environmentalists have accused the Albanese Government of making a “mockery” of Australia’s new nature laws, saying they’re “gobsmacked” by its decision to greenlight the destruction of threatened bir...

"The federal environment department approved the Top End Pastoral Company to clear ~3,000 hectares of tropical savanna

1) without requiring an environmental assessment

2) despite the area being home to the endangered Red Goshawk & Gouldian Finch

3) to make way for cotton crops."

#VoteThemOut

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Thought I’d share again this post from someone with family in Iran. He described how Iran itself is set up for an attack: “Four levels of succession for every key position…Regional commanders who don’t need orders from Tehran to act.”

Will be interesting to see this getting challenged all the way to High Court

Walk first. Doomscroll later.

Fever dream: Australia sweltered through one of the hottest summers on record, with little relief at night Data shows that some locations stayed well above 30C through the night during a heatwave in late January

Australia’s summer was one of the hottest since measurements began, with more than 60 weather stations recording their highest ever daily maximum temperatures during a heatwave in January.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

staying offline today, but all I'll say is:

Gaza was the test. Gaza was the precedent. Everyone that failed to speak out or condemn it is now seeing the cost of their silence.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."

- Emile Zola

Go Electric Electrify your home or business and benefit from cleaner, cheaper energy.

Preston Library is hosting a free home electrification event on Thursday 12th March (6-7.30pm). Find out about Darebin Council's new Energy Upgrades program and how to reduce your energy bills and carbon footprint. Don't miss out! Book now at www.darebin.vic.gov.au/Waste-enviro...
#ClimateEmergency

Stop Trump Tower on the Gold Coast! If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting!

If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting! petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au

Tell Congress: Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now Contact Congress today!

The Epstein cover-up is starting to crack, but Pam Bondi is still stonewalling. This is the biggest scandal in modern history, and it's being buried.

Congress: Do your job. Demand the full release NOW.

Who's with us? Tell your reps:

Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm | Georgia Van Toorn When we relinquish care to a computer, we put lives at the mercy of a flawed system

The shift towards algorithmic decision-making can be seen in the new Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT), introduced on 1 November 2025 under the Albanese government’s Aged Care Act.
#NDIS #agedcare #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australian wildlife in ‘harm’s way’, with volunteers left to ‘pick up the pieces’ amid climate crisis, fires and floods Ken Henry leads push for federal government to do more to protect animals as biodiversity declines

Labor is being pushed to introduce tough new national rules for protecting threatened species exposed to disasters including bushfires and floods, with advocates warning that risks to wildlife could reach a point of no return.
#threatenedspecies #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...