Sharanjit Paddam

Cool Britannia: the heat pumps keeping pace with the UK’s wild weather Air-to-air systems can warm homes in winter and cool them in summer – and they’re now set to join the low-carbon grant scheme

Oh cool I’m in the Guardian talking about how getting air con can be good for the climate, if you use it for heating in winter as well

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have a literal neo-nazi jamboree in Ballan and Bacchus Marsh this weekend unremarked but tell me more about those pesky extremists asking for a little less genocide

Social cohesion is the new dog whistle

"The Jewish community and general community see Mr Trump as a president who ultimately wants to bring peace to the Middle East … How he gets there won't be a straight road and we all await developments with interest," Ms Segal said. "I think it's important that he is committed to a two-state solution, which is the policy of the Australian government, and that whether it's the State of Israel, as it is, and a 'Riviera' where Gaza is or whether it's just a Palestinian state, there's a lot to happen to see how that gets resolved

I know we are grumpy at Segal over the mega-donation to the far-right and her preposterous cribbed extremist 'report', but tbh I never quite got past her enthusiastically running with Trump's 'Riviera where Gaza is' ethnic cleanse

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Making America Dumb Again

The running total of Trump’s crippling weakness with Putin:
2 weeks deadline to observe a ceasefire
Another 2 weeks
Then an extra 50 days
Then 10 days
Now another 7 days…
…to discuss Ukraine giving up all land Putin has invaded

Suspected gunman and DeKalb officer dead in shooting near CDC and Emory University Updated at 10:40 p.m. A man opened fire outside the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday, leaving bullet marks in windows across […]

Expect more of this.

People who believe Satan is real and science isn’t will do irrational things.

Jobs for the ‘voys: MPs caught between Cabinet and backbench The fastest-growing parliamentary jobs are special envoys, who occupy a twilight zone between minister and backbencher. Their responsibilities are vague.

Australia: The political appointment of “Special Envoy to the Great Barrier Reef” has been quietly scrapped.

And nobody actually noticed.

thenightly.com.au/politics/aar...

EXCLUSIVE: Segal's "husband" donation claims a sham - The Klaxon The nation’s Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal — who claims to have “had no involvement” in her husband’s “donations” — has been donating with him for decades.

🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal's "husband" claims are a lie – the couple have been donating together for decades, investigations reveal.
The couple’s donations were even overseen and applauded by a sitting NSW Premier...
Explosive 👇
theklaxon.com.au/lztu

Australia's insurance gap is a risk to financial system, says actuary Insurance in Australia is becoming increasingly unaffordable, which could affect the wider economy as climate change worsens, an Australian actuary told

🇦🇺 Insurance in Australia is becoming increasingly unaffordable, which could affect the wider economy as climate change worsens, @sharanjit.bsky.social‬, an actuary at Finity, told Green Central Banking.

GreenCB.co/40O0JtA

#Insurance #Australia #ClimateRisk

Solidarity with @Dave_Brophy. All universities should oppose genocide!

Single frame. Left to right: Skip containing statue, paintings, books visible on left. Man in white coat at top of ladder feeding book into open mouth of a huge robotic dog with studded collar and dog-tag “AI”. Red bucket on floor below dog’s lowered rear. Second white-coated man says to onlooking woman: “It’s marvellous really. You just feed in all the intellectual property you can get your hands on without paying for it, then sell whatever comes out this end…”

Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

The Australian Global Health Alliance has urged Australia to step up preparation for global health crises. Read more in latest edition of #TheZap, by @charlesmk.bsky.social

www.croakey.org/the-zap-roun...

How many sides does a cube have?

Two. Inside and outside.

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"

Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

Australia's insurance gap is a risk to financial system, says actuary Insurance in Australia is becoming increasingly unaffordable, which could affect the wider economy as climate change worsens, an Australian actuary told

🇦🇺 Insurance in Australia is becoming increasingly unaffordable, which could affect the wider economy as climate change worsens, @sharanjit.bsky.social‬, an actuary at Finity, told Green Central Banking.

GreenCB.co/40O0JtA

#Insurance #Australia #ClimateRisk

Know your audience. Touting AI on Bluesky is like opening a tuna purse in a vegan restaurant.

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

'Now, there's nothing stopping them': Settlers trying new forms of intimidation In the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, teenage shepherds escorted by armed security guards are trying to push Palestinian villagers from their farms.

Hey ABC - can we stop calling them "settlers", which sounds like a benign homesteading movement.

As Israeli human rights groups themselves say, those Israelis trying to displace Palestinians in the #WestBank are terrorists:
state-sanctioned terrorists. #StopIsrael
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Wow. Really scraping the bottom of barrel of distractions from the Epstein files.

What next week, a rollercoaster to Mars?

chat showing rapid growth in china's renewable energy market with 264 gigawatts installed in the first half of 2025.

(2/2) Meanwhile, this year in China they installed approximately 1.4 gigawatts of renewable power every day so far in 2025.

The nuclear power business model is dead.

Chart from www.linkedin.com/posts/gavinm...

Sizewell C costs could hit £100bn including financing, modelling shows Total for nuclear power station project set to be billions of pounds higher than official government estimates

In the UK, they are going to spend around $100 billion to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. It will start producing power in "in the mid- to late-2030s" and it will produce 3.2 gigawatts of power. (1/2)

Independent crowd safety management expert estimates Sydney's #MarchForHumanity turnout at between 225,000 and 300,000, as profoundly out-of-touch politicians like NSW Premier Chris Minns & PM @albomp.bsky.social try to douse their "are-we-the-bad-guys❓" vibe

Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle…

Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)

Japan is experiencing record heat waves while also funding the expansion of LNG terminals around the world so they can profit from trading LNG.

LNG is worse than coal from an emissions standpoint. Very short-term thinking from Japan.

"eCommerce will revolutionise the law of contract," we were told twenty-five years ago, but the law of contract hardly noticed.

We know the Sydney Harbour Bridge march against the killing in Gaza was huge – but just how big was it? NSW police initially estimated the crowd at 90,000 but organisers say the figure was closer to 300,000 – and an independent expert agrees

Dr Aldo Raineri, a senior CQUniversity lecturer and expert in crowd safety management, estimated the figure to be significantly higher than what police suggested.

... he estimated between 225,000 and 300,000 people attended."

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Again, if a year ago you said “If Trump wins he’s going to destroy the satellites that measure greenhouse gases by making NASA crash them into the earth’s atmosphere,” how many people would have believed you?