Sharanjit Paddam
Climate Actuary’s personal opinions on things
The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blasttheconversation.com The Juukan 2 rockshelter was blown up in 2020. The results of an archaeological dig carried out six years earlier are only now being published for the first time.
Study: More than half of Australia’s clean energy mines lie on Indigenous landnews.mongabay.com More than half of Australia’s mines producing the minerals needed for clean energy technology lie within formally recognized Indigenous lands, new research shows — with that figure rising to nearly fo...
Renewables will overtake coal as world's biggest power source next year — IEAtheprogressplaybook.com The world will add enough wind and solar capacity next year to power both France and Italy.
Renewables overtake fossil fuels in Italy's power gridtheprogressplaybook.com Coal-based generation slumped 77.3%.
Disasterblogs.timesofisrael.com From the blog of Gershon Baskin at The Times of Israel
Japan slaps sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinianswww.haaretz.com
Trump-Lover Elon Musk Is Already Causing Kamala Harris Problemsnewrepublic.com People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign X (formerly Twitter) account.
Renewables meet 82% of Portugal's electricity needs in first half of 2024theprogressplaybook.com That's up from 61% in the same period a year before thanks to a recovery in hydroelectric output and a surge in wind and solar installations.
South Australia locks in federal funds to become first grid in world to reach 100 per cent net wind and solarreneweconomy.com.au South Australia locks in funding deal with Canberra to ensure it can become first grid in world to reach 100 per cent net renewables via wind, solar and storage.
New data shows Labor fuelling NT election campaign kitty with gas cashreneweconomy.com.au The largest donation came from Beetaloo Basin gas company Tamboran Resources, which has gifted $28,000 ahead of the Territory election.
House On Fire: Why The U.S. Has Most To Lose In A Warming Worldwww.forbes.com Home insurance is set to rise across the U.S. as hazards intensify. The firms that insure the insurers are in no doubt about the root cause of the problem.
House On Fire: Why The U.S. Has Most To Lose In A Warming Worldwww.forbes.com Home insurance is set to rise across the U.S. as hazards intensify. The firms that insure the insurers are in no doubt about the root cause of the problem.
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 2018tc.copernicus.org Abstract. Many glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have retreated and accelerated in recent decades. Here we show that there has been a widespread, quasi-synchronous, and sustained increase in groundi...
Storylines: A science‐based method for assessing and measuring future physical climate‐related financial riskonlinelibrary.wiley.com Regulators increasingly require organisations to disclose their climate-related financial risks. Most future physical climate risks present unique challenges, however, as their likely occurrence and ....
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Simone Bileswww.theonion.com Athletes from around the world have begun arriving in Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics. The Onion met up with Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, to discuss mental health, the ...
Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettlingtheconversation.com A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who...
Top UN court says Israel's settlement policy in occupied territories violates international lawapnews.com The top United Nations court has ruled that Israel’s settlement policy and use of natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territories violate international law.