Sharanjit Paddam

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

The deaththroes. Hard to feel sympathy for, but I’m trying.

Ever feel like you're actually living that nightmare in which you open your mouth to cry out, but no sound comes? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Typhoon #Champi is big, like really big. Tropical storm force winds extend an average of 300 miles out from the center. That is roughly the size of Texas. When Irma hit Florida in 2017, its tropical storm force winds extended about 230 miles from the center, and that was a very large hurricane.

How the fossil fuel industry ‘captured’ Australia and maintains its political dominance thefifthestate.com.au/360info/how-...

$25B direct cost. $6B share purchase cost. $6B transmission line cost. A $37B total for a project sold to the public at $2B . It’s a huge economic debacle delivered by LNP/ALP dunces and fat cat bureaucrats. And no one is held to account. #fail #auspol

I really wish politicians understood this. Actually, they probably do. “Jussi Kangasharju, head of computer science at the University of Helsinki, said that while datacentres brought a limited number of jobs, potentially boosting the local economy, the benefits on a national level were minimal.”

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre www.theguardian.com/environment/ng…

El Niño will lead to a lot of finger pointing and blame. Your beloved Exxon family just wants to make sure you blame the right people.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will issue its fourth climate adaptation bond in 2027. Its latest was 4.6 times oversubscribed. Asia needs US$200bn+ a year for resilience but gets about US$19bn. https://greencentralbanking.com/2026/09/17/aiib-to-issue-new-climate-adaptation-bond-in-2027/

Economy set to worsen, with higher unemployment and weaker growth on the way, Jim Chalmers reveals

As I sit next to a river that flows into the lower reservoir planned for use in the Snowy 2.0 project, it’s only appropriate I #FOI the external cost review report into the $2B, no $6B, no $12B, now $40B project. We’re paying … we have a right to see it. #auspol

They both did it, it was a joint effort, it’s one of the crazier things to happen in the national security space (which is really saying something) and every government should be scrambling to reduce dependence on—and as soon as possible get off—Starlink/shield or any Musk product, including the US.

Phones are a distraction engine. What if the ban on phones triggered France's high school students' revolt? "According to a professor..., when his students looked up from their smartphones, they discovered that an unbearable world had been prepared for them." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/dimanches...

Good news that the ABC backed down. Woeful decision to go after Michael Slezak for his clarion call op ed at AFR. ASIC is trying to curtail scrutiny of corporations and directors with its proposals to reduce media access to information - at a time when more, not less, scrutiny is required.

“Poverty kills but the cause of death is always written as heart attack,stroke or suicide.”

When olives are one of your last agricultural resources, how incredibly cruel to have them destroyed by “settlers” for no other reason than to make your life there unliveable. While beating up a foreign photo-journalist. Aided and abetted by Israeli soldiers.

BREAKING: Greenpeace activists occupy Woodside’s Scarborough gas project calling on the Australian government to “Stop Woodside’s Dirty Gas” and “Save Scott Reef” theaimn.net/breaking-gre...

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Women, use your voices! #VoteEarlyOnNoKings

What if an entire country had two full years to look itself in the eye and internalize the idea that they'd elected the King Of The Rapists to steal money out of their wallets, murder their neighbors, and shit in their food. Is it theoretically possible such an event would effect opinion polls

"Ten years ago I wrote a book about hope and fury among India’s young. I am seeing that hope and fury erupt on the streets of India now. They call themselves cockroaches. They are livid Their movement is born of big dreams and deep frustrations" - Somini Sengupta www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

MEAA Members stand for press freedom. ABC management should too. #ISTANDWITHMIKEY @withmeaa.bsky.social

“There’s no future in new gas projects. Our future is in secure homegrown renewable energy, green industry and exports, where communities and places like Scott Reef are protected — there’s no future in dirty gas shipped offshore."

"Global warming is happening more quickly now than it was a few decades ago [..] increasing from roughly 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade between 1880 and 1970, to 0.19 degrees Celsius per decade between 1970 and 2010, and 0.36 degrees Celsius per decade between 2010 and 2024." #EndFossilFuels

Surely that poor dead horse should be spared the flogging by now… A small number of errors in a database in years that are not included in the calculation of Australia’s temperature trend means, frankly, bugger all. (Other than to remind me why The Australian can’t be taken seriously any more.)

🧵🧪🌊❄️ Grounding zones, where glaciers flowing on a bed below sea level start to go afloat, are incredibly complex environments. The article link I included in the post I'm quoting here refers to a new paper by Poinelli and co-authors published in Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

They know this is beyond the pale otherwise they'd be bragging about it on Twitter and Fox & Friends.

Love to see the Minister caught in either incompetence or a lie by work I put out last month. No, Minister King: Your government hasn't even come close to implementing the Pepper Inquiry's recommendations on Beetaloo. You don't get to claim completion when you're less than 5% of the way there.

White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary theonion.com/white-house-...

What does a 63% decline in farmland birds tell us about the way we farm? UK breeding bird abundance is down 19% since 1970. Seabirds have fallen 22% since 2020. Food production matters. So does the biodiversity that sustains functioning ecosystems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New figures out today show we have already had more renewable energy investment this year than we had in 2025 and set a new Australian annual record. This shows that Australia's energy transition is building momentum.

I have NEVER seen a BoM extreme (chance of top 20% of all years) maximum temperature outlook with numbers as high as this. And this is for summer 2026-27. Crikey. Sydney with a shocking high chance of extremes - watch out in the western suburbs. Can’t rule out 50C www.bom.gov.au/climate/outl...

A cyber-attack caused refrigeration temperatures to soar to 50C across several hundred French supermarkets in an “unprecedented” attack that has caused widespread food losses. Read the full story: www.theguardian.com/world/2...

SNL banned Elvis Costello for 12 years for singing a song about corporate media consolidation, so

Thanks Victor. Great poster.

Gasoline-only cars now make up just 49% of global new vehicle sales, down from 73% in 2021: electrek.co/2026/10/05/g...

Every woman, wherever she lives in Australia, deserves the right to make decisions about her own body and to access safe, timely, and affordable sexual and reproductive healthcare.

The preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature for October 13 just broke 30°C for the third time, and is now 3.3°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks the 22nd consecutive daily temperature above the previous all-time record high of 29.815°C. set on Nov. 17, 2015.

2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits eos.org/research-and...

How Trump destroyed the US economy.

Labor & the Coalition decline to ban the barbaric, dehumanising, traumatic practices of shackling an incarcerated person during childbirth, and strip-searching children Say it's up to states and territories

Hybrids were only ever a waypoint, and their story is often misunderstood Hybrids are temporary solutions PHEVs are conditional transition vehicles As capability grows, BEVs are the final answer. thedriven.io/2026/10/15/h... @thedriven.io Prof Ray Wills, Raphael Wellmann, Prof Peter Newman

It's great to see First Nations groups partnering to realise significant opportunities in the clean energy transition. yindjibarndienergy.com.au/news-updates... #auspol #mobsky #cleanenergy #investment #partnership #equity #benefitsharing #energy #firstnations