Rob Phair

Rural generalist doctor. #ClimateAction @RuralDocsVIC. @ACRRM. @artsunimelb. 🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 speaker. Views my own. RTs ≠ endorsements. 🚲🤹‍♂️ 🇺🇦

[Rob Phair @robphair]

Domestic wood heaters contribute to the deaths of 100’s of Victorians every year.

After 3 years, ⁦@VicGovAu⁩ still has not responded to the findings of its own inquiry into the #health impacts of #AirPollution.

⁦@Steve_Dimo⁩ & ⁦@JacintaAllanMP⁩, where are you?

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Ukrainian aircraft arrive to deliver a keynote address at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum that opens this morning. Special entertainment for Candace Owens, Andrew Tate and all the other distinguished guests.

[Vasyl Myroshnychenko @AmbVasyl]

Australian homes should not be helping to fund Russia’s war against Ukraine.

A disturbing investigation by @KnottMatthew in @smh @theage reveals that significant volumes of Russian timber may still be entering Australia after being routed through third countries and processed elsewhere, effectively bypassing the intent of sanctions imposed following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

According to the Australian forestry industry, up to 15,000 new homes built in Australia each year could contain Russian-origin timber. Hidden behind walls, floors and roofs, these products may be generating revenue for a regime responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and the destruction of entire cities.

Australia has rightly stood with Ukraine. But sanctions must work as intended. Loopholes that allow Russian commodities to enter our market through third countries undermine both the effectiveness of sanctions and the values they are designed to defend.

This is not just about timber. It is about ensuring that Australian dollars do not contribute, directly or indirectly, to financing Russia’s war of aggression.

[Rob Phair @robphair]

@pavyg @CindyBlack3 Utter nonsense. You are sounding like pro #Russia bots

[Rob Phair @robphair]

@BenRothenberg Ben ,it sounds a little patronising and dismissive to refer to Oliynykova’s entirely valid concerns about Russian propagandists in #tennis as “chatter”.
Could you consider using another term?

#Ukraine #Russia

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

For 44 years, Australia has subsidised diesel use. Is it time to stop? https://t.co/Eioaj7V2XE via @ConversationEDU

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

A ball girl nearly collapsed at Roland Garros. A champion felt heatstroke. It's May.

Casper Ruud: "heatstroke feeling - like a zombie." Diallo retired mid-match. Djokovic walked off after 4 sets. France's hottest May day ever. 7 heat deaths in Paris this week. Climate Shift Index for Paris: 4. ExxonMobil knew in 1977. This is what fossil fuel denial costs. #RolandGarros #ClimateChange #FrenchOpen #ExtremeHeat #ClimateScience

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

This BBC documentary by Jonathan Renouf on abrupt climate change due to ocean circulation tipping is one of the best.
From 1999, with top experts like Overpeck, Alley & the late Wally Broecker, it's chillingly current: that risk looks much higher now.

https://t.co/ATcIdnZuWT

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Polly Cutmore (Barawaa) also, @cutmore.bsky.social @CentreMehi]

The MacIntyre River behind Mungindi today, no flows all year, lowest its ever been according to locals. All so King Cotton can make more money. They made 3 billion in export profits last year and still trying to expand. @nswdcceew @GWFWater @WaterNSW @nswirrigators @RoseBJackson @PennySharpemlc @nswalc @bradmoggo @MD_Basin_Auth

[Tatiana Stanovaya @Stanovaya]

Something Is Shifting Inside Russia

Recent developments inside Russia suggest the system is struggling to cope with mounting pressures. These include growing domestic strains, behind-the-scenes manoeuvring among elites, rumours of a coup d’état, a tighter and more reactive grip on control, fears of losing that control, and increasing exposure to Ukrainian strikes and assassinations. All this is unfolding against a worsening external backdrop: a destabilised Middle East and stalemate over Iran, a distracted Trump, and a more militarised (including nuclear-oriented) Europe.

For the first time in years of war, there may be a shift. Pressures have reached a point where too many actors inside Russia face a new reality: the status quo is starting to threaten their own position. If nothing changes, it makes survival difficult, if not impossible.

Until recently, many assumed that Putin had a plan, even if it was simply to keep the war going. Now there are growing doubts as to whether such a plan exists. And even if it does, it may imply political or physical ruin for some. Ironically, after years of pursuing a “wait and see” approach towards the West and, in part, Ukraine, Putin has now become the object of a similar approach from the Americans — an uncomfortable position for Russians.

There are growing sentiments in Russia that the current system of governance is becoming too damaging and increasingly self-defeating. Tolerance for the status quo is eroding. However, different actors interpret that change in opposing ways, while Putin appears either unable or unwilling to rethink his policy.

[Cameron Leckie @leckie_cameron]

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Put another way Clare Armstrong via @abcnews

The Govt 'unwillingness' to tax 🇦🇺 gas exports appropriately, whilst signalling cuts to the NDIS, demonstrates exactly in whose interests they are governing

Funny how that part was missed...

https://t.co/1lxtHca9kf

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

https://t.co/0aTkpaulsH

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

The PM wants you to know it's a difficult and uncertain time… for gas giants. Give me a break.

Do you know who it's actually a difficult and uncertain time for? Us.

Everyday Australians are currently being taxed more heavily than the greedy gas corporations.

[GetUp! @GetUp]

Anthony Albanese has signalled that he isn't taking the huge, bipartisan, national call for a gas tax seriously. What's funny about that is he is supposed to work for you, not gas companies. He doesn't take YOU seriously.

[Mark Ogge @MarkOgge]

You may have thought you were voting for @AustralianLabor and then it turns out they’re owned by foreign owned gas corporates.

Our democracy has been hijacked by corporate lobbyists.

[Rob Phair @robphair]

@ChrisO_wiki ‘Journalist’ or blogger / activist?
She offers many opinions in her posts…

[Elvis Costa @ElvisCostaLives]

Gas companies are spending millions to ensure Australians aren't paid a fair share for the export of our gas.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Treasury and the ATO can't even tell us how much of the $1.5B in PRRT we received last year was from offshore LNG.

We know it's likely mostly from oil in Bass Strait so we're getting WAY LESS than $1.5B from offshore LNG exports.

2nd biggest gas exporter in the world but we don't even how much we get from offshore LNG exports 🤯

Go to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to help change it.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

The PM and other major party politicians are getting their figures from the gas industry rather than the ATO and Treasury 🤯
Whose side are they on?
When you try and interrogate these figures from the gas lobby you get “PAGE NOT FOUND”.
You cannot make this stuff up!
Head to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to get involved.
The only way we win this is if the major parties know they will continue to lose votes at the next election if they don't put Australians first.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥