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Petra van Cronenburg<a href="https://paktodon.asia/@SiR_GameZaloT" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SiR_GameZaloT</a> Well, as for "Western colonialist": 'Dawn' sits in Karachi and the article is written by Pakistani journalists. The last section is just bad <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> because they don't watch the context to earlier monsuns and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateCrisis</a>. Here you have an example of Pakistani journalist R. Umaima Ahmed for a <a href="https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@globalvoices</a> who makes it better and shows the context from the first phrase to the end: <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/14/deadly-floods-hit-pakistan-as-government-preparedness-faces-scrutiny/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/14/deadly-floods-hit-pakistan-as-government-preparedness-faces-scrutiny/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climateJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateJournalism</a>

Kent PitmanThis specific article has some badly structured wording in places. Better care is called for. I had to go back several times re-reading the confusing sentence "At least one congressional Republican is ready to take action in the face of increasing extreme weather events. " to realize this wasn't a change in pattern but rather a CONTINUATION of GOP broken policy by Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG). If we are going to tell this story, it needs to be told with clarity. It is important to NOT just toss in these details as if they are stories that tell themselves. False narratives have been told that require careful unwinding. The fact of extreme weather events is an opportunity to say "there is an objective way to see who is telling the truth here".Another part of this story we have to get better at telling is the part about probabilities. A lot of people are not good at math, but they still should intuitively understand the important parts if it's explained well:People sometimes say of bad weather "well, that sometimes happens. even extreme events sometimes happen". That's true of gambling situations, too. There are low-probability events that do happen. But it's very different to say you know that an otherwise low-probability event is going to happen, that is, to be able to say "I will now roll double-sixes three times in a row." While it can happen that you do, if you say it's going to happen, one starts to suspect that it's not just random, that maybe it's the dice.In this case, the effect is all that carbon pollution having an effect. It's what scientists have been predicting.MTG offers the preposterous alternate explanation of weather being controlled by adverse political forces, but she is still speaking to the set of people who can tell something is amiss and demand an explanation. News media has hammered these stories into a segment of our population, and it cannot be taken for granted that people will suddenly see the folly of it. More careful hand-holding is essential.The GOP and its associated propaganda sources have become an engine for offering bizarre conspiracy theories, but the Dems are the party of offering little or no narrative at all and assuming that the gaps will be filled by common sense. That's just not enough.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateReporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateReporting</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateJournalism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeWeather</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a>

EndemicEarthling<a href="https://climatejustice.social/@MelissaBenyon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MelissaBenyon</a> Yes, without key pieces of context for that very misleading final quote:“This [North West Shelf] project is subject to those reforms, which means this plant is required to bring their emissions down each year and reach net zero by 2050 under the safeguard mechanism.”Context: by "their emissions", the (unnamed) government spokesperson does *not* include the >4b tonnes of CO2 emissions that will result when the gas extracted from the project is burned (called 'scope 3 emissions' in technical jargon), and is only referring the (far smaller) emissions that result from the extraction process itself. However, most readers of the article are unlikely to be aware of this crucial distinction and so miss the verbal sleight of hand at play.Also missing: even these latter emissions are very likely underestimated by current Australian government methods of accounting for gas extraction, which are not based on the latest research into the scale of methane leakage that occurs during extraction, processing and transport of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FossilGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilGas</a>.Also also missing: the safeguard mechanism allows <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Woodside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Woodside</a> to 'reduce' 'their emissions' via dodgy <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CarbonOffset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarbonOffset</a> scams that frequently fail to do anything like what is claimed on the tin. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auspol</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClimateJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateJournalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NorthWestShelf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthWestShelf</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DirtyEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DirtyEnergy</a>

anlomedadExcellent more in-depth reporting on attempts to re-plant burnt forest areas in the USA <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-forests-disappearing-climate-change-replanting-74c5ada85dcbe64d2972a15f2d5b4710" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-forests-disappearing-climate-change-replanting-74c5ada85dcbe64d2972a15f2d5b4710</a>Whether or not a mountain is home to a forest decides the water availability for agriculture irrigation in the lower land throughout the year. But much of the burnt area in the Rockies doesn't grow back even 20years after a <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfire</a> - and grassy mountains don't store rain or the water from snow melt.The challenges for natural regrowth of the former biome are the increasing drought periods and temperatures, and that some burnt areas are too huge for natural spreading of seeds. Not mentioned but I think relevant: lost top soil = soil no longer kept in place by roots is washed away in the increasing number heavy rain events thanks to <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> .Replanting of burnt area has been done in the USA for decades. But because of the increase in area burnt, paired with fewer resources for the effort, the backlog is piling up into unfeasibility. Have come across a number of good climate-related articles on AP in recent months, and not too US-bellybutton either. Now thinking, I should set up a regular donation for their <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climatejournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatejournalism</a> !

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