Sharanjit Paddam

Notice how those who wanted to overthrow the government for being asked to carry proof of their covid vaccination, claiming it’s an infringement on their freedoms, are suddenly all in favor of needing multiple proofs of identity just so they can exercise their constitutional right to vote.

Ross river virus detected in a southern Australian coastal town at 38 degrees south

The costs of climate adaptation will dwarf the cost of climate change.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Forrest launches battery-powered trains as green deadline nears After years of delays, the Pilbara's largest carbon emitters are testing greener ways to haul iron ore, and Andrew Forrest has now joined their ranks.

14.5 megawatt batteries displacing 1 million litres of diesel.

Does make you think about the stupid amounts of energy required to ship Australia’s direct to China so they can send it back to us as EV’s and trains. 🤪

We will all pay for this

a dog's breakfast

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

First they'll give it to blind people, because who's going to attack technology for the blind, or people with hearing problems (like me)? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10, 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River China’s rapid economic development has triggered an unparalleled freshwater biodiversity crisis since the 1950s. To restore fisheries resources, the Yangtze River Fishing Ban was implemented in 2021 t...

Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A collaboration with Yushun Chen, Seb Brosse, @sjcfishy.bsky.social and other! @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social

AUKUS is sinking and Labor responds by making up a $30 billion un-budgeted AUKUS announceable for the SA State election. This stuff is straying so far from reality.

Say an Indigenous protestor burns the Australian flag in protest at Indigenous incarceration rates and deaths in custody. Are we going to lock them up too?

1/ The US "has decided that it now needs to engage in full-scale demolition of the same system that it created...The US is becoming poorer and weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built.”

Latest Polycrisis from @katemac.bsky.social & I on how investors and countries are responding

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.

This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

Social cohesion is the new dog whistle

Submissions to the parliamentary inquiry into the CSIRO have a consistent theme.

Funding of public science and medicine in Australia is too fragmented, short-term, and reactive. It ignores the fact that sovereign capacity for R&D is essential national infrastructure.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

Just noting that no sensible scientist is going for El Niño this early (southern autumn is the ENSO predictability barrier), even though the ENSO models are unusually emphatic. Key story is really that we are setting up for a record global temperature in the next handful of years.

Australia’s Cop31 chief negotiator plans to lobby petrostates on fossil fuel phaseout Exclusive: Chris Bowen says key to next UN climate summit will be ‘engagement, engagement, engagement’ with countries such as Saudi Arabia

Righto, so Chris Bowen, COP31's President of Negotiations, will be busy heavily lobbying himself and his own government then?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I also maintain, as I did then, that "social cohesion" is a meaningless phrase that vaguely nods at "getting along". In practice, it acts as a polite euphemism for white Australian anxiety about race relations and a clumsy tool for social control - roughly equivalent to "be nice to your sister".

Why Sodium-Ion Batteries Are Happening Now - CleanTechnica Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! CATL is the largest battery producer in the world. Any move it makes is noteworthy. Whil...

CATL is the largest battery producer in the world. Any move it makes is noteworthy. While CATL has been making sodium-ion batteries for some time, production commitment has increased dramatically in 2026.
cleantechnica.com/2026/02/05/w...

All this, because rich people refuse to pay tax.

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America.

But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Perth’s Invasion Day bomb didn’t shock the nation A white supremacist brought a nail bomb to Invasion Day, but the response from the nation was not outrage.

A white supremacist brought a nail bomb to Invasion Day, but the response from the nation was not outrage.
~ Tom Tanuki

Perth’s Invasion Day bomb didn’t shock the nation
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014

Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.

It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.

Writers festival 'crazy' to invite Randa Abdel-Fattah, NSW premier says The festival's director said Dr Abdel-Fattah was invited in August last year and denied the state government pressured her to remove the writer.

Minns: "I think they are crazy to invite that author when you think about how divisive it is, and how difficult it would be for the organisation as a result of the notoriety."

& what exactly does he imagine inviting Herzog is doing to 🇦🇺national & state government credibility & the "Labor brand"❓

And the trend goes both ways, by the way.

The US government is telling Americans to hate Europeans and Canadians. And many have dutifully changed their opinions.

University prospectus

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Public-good science is being squeezed, and health is part of the fallout Submissions to an inquiry into funding and job cuts at CSIRO raise important questions about the future of Australian science,

Public-good science is being squeezed, and health is part of the fallout
www.croakey.org/public-good-...
Jason Staines reviewed dozens of submissions to an inquiry into funding and job cuts at CSIRO
#AusPol

Africa records fastest-ever solar growth in 2025 Africa's solar power installations increased in 2025 marking the fastest annual growth on record

Africa records fastest-ever solar growth, as installations jump in 2025 www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/04/a...