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Fact Check: Woodside’s North West Shelf extension isn’t needed to firm the Australian grid

It does what it says on the tin.

May 29

Fact Check: Woodside’s North West Shelf extension isn’t needed to firm the Australian grid

May 29

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I can’t pretend everything will be ok.

To love what we have as if it ever mattered to us at all, we must bear witness and grieve. Today I bear witness.

May 27

I can’t pretend everything will be ok.

May 27

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Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility

After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…

Nov 30, 2024

Screengrab of the headline and first few paragraphs of an article in The Conversation by Tianyi Ma titled ‘Yes, carbon capture and storage is controversial — but it’s going to be crucial’. The article is dated 6 June 2024.

Nov 30, 2024

Australia Emissions 101: It’s the exports.

Where I step through the emissions impact of Australia’s fossil fuel exports so you don’t have to.

Jun 29

Australia Emissions 101: It’s the exports.

Jun 29

New quarterly emissions data: What does it show us?

Yesterday evening (after 5pm 🙄) the Australian federal government released its most recent quarterly emissions data. This release consists…

Mar 1, 2023

New quarterly emissions data: What does it show us?

Mar 1, 2023

To all the colours of hydrogen I’ve loved before

One of my more perverse hobbies is to collect “colours” of hydrogen. Molecular hydrogen (i.e H₂) is naturally a colourless gas, but energy…

Feb 25, 2023

To all the colours of hydrogen I’ve loved before

Feb 25, 2023

What to expect while you’re expecting… the federal government to shift on climate any day now.

This week the federal government will announce a long-expected shift on climate. Here’s what to look for.

Oct 16, 2021

Chart showing Australia’s performance against its previous targets and expected performance against Paris, as described in text. According to the most recent version of the the federal government’s emissions projections, Australia meets its first two goals under the Kyoto Protocol, but is expected to narrowly fail its goal under the Paris Agreement.

Oct 16, 2021

BEAUTIFUL OCEANOGRAPHY

(This is a work of fiction I had published fifteen years ago. It’s mostly here because I realised that the only copy I had of it was in…

Jul 3, 2021

Jul 3, 2021

While Morrison crab walks to net zero (part VI)

Burn them if you’ve got them kids! And if you don’t have them, Shell and Woodside are selling. They’ve got climate change all wrapped up.

Jun 20, 2021

Infographic. In summary: Producing and using fossil fuels re-introduces greenhouse gas to the biosphere that was buried over millions of years. When this was in the atmosphere last, the world was much hotter and humans didn’t exist. Whether land or sea, manipulating natural processes can relocate emissions within the biosphere and protect the stores we have today, but they are slow at removing them. Most relocated carbon will eventually find a way back to the atmosphere under climate change.

Jun 20, 2021

While Morrison crab walks to net zero (part V)

Net zero carbon dioxide emissions is important, but if we tackle that while ignoring other gases, we’re in trouble.

Jun 14, 2021

Line chart showing the four different pathways described above if we had reached net zero carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. These are described in text below.

Jun 14, 2021

Tim Baxter

Tim Baxter

Australian clmate and energy researcher for my day job, but these opinions are written on my own time and are mine-all-mine.

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