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Mar 20
I stand in complete solidarity with trans folks everywhere. It is no accident that putting out bigoted messages attracts neo-nazis like a fascist bat signal.

It is no accident white supremacist banners read exactly the same as the tweets of transphobes.
As a side note - inclusivity isn't a fuzzy, nice-to-have, when it comes to climate spaces. Without everyone on board, and without the clear air to focus on massive challenges instead of dealing with the daily grind of bigotry and cruelty, we're done for.
Since we're on the topic: Victoria needs to directly deal with its police problem. There is obviously a significant strain of fascist sympathy within the organisation, and introducing new laws banning salutes doesn't address the fact the police won't act

theguardian.com/australia-news…
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Mar 18
One of the weirdest spectacles of AI hype is people being absolutely blown away by just the shittiest, bottom-of-the-barrel poetry/writing imaginable
"I asked ChatGPT to explain thermodynamics in the language of Shakespeare...........wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[10 lines of total dogshit]
Sometimes they're so intensely shit they're actually good, so there's that write a limerick about the golden retriever Yogi going for e
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Mar 9
The Australian government is refusing to release its internal modelling which shows the share between real emissions reductions and carbon offset purchases to meet its Safeguard Mechanism emissions reductions by 2030....

HT @jj_tilley

aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_… THE HON CHRIS BOWEN MP MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERG
This @pollyjhemming / @RDNS_TAI testimony at the Senate inquiry is a good listen; one point stands out: international emissions reporting doesn't care about accounting tricks.

So the projected role of offsets = an actual insight into real reductions

@pollyjhemming @RDNS_TAI There are 200 MTCO2-e of cumulative emissions purportedly avoided by Safeguard

What if 50% of that comes from offets? Only 100MTCO2-e will be reduced in the sectors of the corps

of the 50% of offsets: are they real + additional reductions in the land sector? If not: it'll show
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Mar 3
Oh boy. Where to even begin with this.

theconversation.com/oil-and-gas-co…
He mentions BP 'scaling back' its green ambitions, but not that it's going to enable another 330 MTCO2-e over the next 7 years.

How much CO2 will those hydrogen projects avoid? 1% of that? 0.01% of that?

accr.org.au/research/inves…
After literally citing how one of the biggest, most 'ambitious' OG companies is turning back to roll around in fossil fuel profits, he insists they're "changing".

I mean yes, they are changing. They're getting bigger, and worse, and more toxic and more deadly. Think about oil and gas companies and climate change and cha
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Mar 3
I have so many questions about this. Which temperature goal is this based around? Which emissions budget? On what timeframe? What else happens in society, in Tesla's model?

Isn't there meant to be a whitepaper somewhere?
Tesla says their customers avoided 8.4 MTCO2-e in 2021....to put that in context, wind power in 2018 avoided ~214 in the US alone.

Tesla's battery recycling plan is........pretty good?

gizmodo.com.au/2023/03/tesla-…
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Mar 3
If governments actually tried - instead of being beholden to fossil fuel interests - they could ensure equal or even more money flows to these projects while *also* removing the toxic effect of cheap carbon offsets enabling greenwashing, delay and fraud.

abc.net.au/radio/programs…
The carbon offsetting industry has a blatant vested interest in wielding a false dichotomy here. "If we don't sell pollution permission slips, these people will lose their money".

What a grim standard to live by. And it enables governments to avoid actually funding projects
Carbon traders get to use brown and black bodies as human shields for their cynical trade, all while pocketing far more cash than actually ends up in these communities.

Reckon all these intermediaries are doing it for free?

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