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Has anybody checked if JK has changed his mind?

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Plus stockpiling 1.2 million tonnes of coal (= 2.5 MtCo2) for the coming winter.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that most academic conferences force people to attend in person to participate is a travesty and I want to see it end. Us nerds who just want to talk about science with our colleagues do NOT need to fly halfway across the world in an under-regulated tin can full of covid to do so.

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Two points on the whole AI crap. 1. I remember being an educator when wikipedia arrived on the scene, and our whole profession having absolute fits, forbidding students from referencing it etc. Wikipedia was and is GREAT for students. Now with AI? Immediate capitulation. bsky.app/profile/jkst...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Interesting-looking new study on the discourses put forward by the road lobby to influence transport policy doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Had an OIA on the Marsden decisions land. This appears to be the ground zero and the level of thinking Collins put into gutting humanities funding. I have found no actual advice or analysis on the removal of humanities panels and literally zero engagement with Royal Society or Universities.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Wow that was quick I only signed yesterday.

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Wellington is a cycling city. 1500 riders counted at 5.30pm. 🌞 @cyclewgtn.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

A closer look at the extent of sea ice globally that just set a new all-time record minimum, which is due to unusually low sea ice conditions in both the #Arctic & #Antarctic right now. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🧪⚒️🥼❄️

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

When you've lost your own ministers (and former ministers)... At a minimum, consultation should be opened on all speed limit reversals on state highways and on local roads. Still wouldn't undo the damage of the new speed limit rule but it would be a start.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@cyclingactionnz.bsky.social is fighting for safe speeds on New Zealand roads. Here's why. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: A system's behavior can get chaotic in advance of transitions or transformations. Don't assume that today is the end point of anything. Today is a moment of multifold potential.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said Thursday on Twitter, shortly after the president announced that he would begin the process of leaving the accord. Oh wait that was 2017. edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/n...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

“Four of seven NIWA scientists who contributed to the research - including Morgenstern- have left the institute after losing their jobs in cost-cutting, and now work overseas.” 💔

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"...New Zealand's government is not sending the right message to New Zealanders or to our trading partners and neighbours." www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t Look Up (2025)

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New Zealand mentioned!

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A lot of folks asked why I through this January's record global temperatures were so unexpected. I think this graph shows it pretty clearly: pretty much every other January with La Nina conditions has been a cooler than the surrounding years.

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

Accurate for Australian VCs too

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

To reduce road danger, this Friday (7th Feb) default speed limits on rural local roads in Ireland will decrease from 80km/h to 60km/h. Later in the year limits in ‘urban cores’ will reduce to 30km/h. National secondary roads will go from 100km/h to 80km/h. Good policy & inspiration for UK gov

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

The parrot sketch, as directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJ5...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Remind me what's wrong with our economy again?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The case for investing in cycling is compelling. We're all better off when more people bike. Why is the NZ Govt ignoring the evidence? www.tvnz.co.nz/news/news-in... @cyclewgtn.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Just a reminder that the evidence shows reducing speeds not only saves lives, but also promotes higher average speeds (more efficient flow), lowers emissions (more efficient flow), boosts productivity (less accidents and the delays they cause), and lowers the $9.6b liability to the economy from

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Who is the J G Ballard of the 21st century?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

More anti-foreign, anti-UN, climate denialist statements from a senior NZ cabinet minister, during a speech in his role representing the NZ government. This pattern of statements is a serious problem for NZ and undermines the government’s stated desire to attract migrants and foreign investment.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

On NDC2: stopping dangerous climate change (like that which has pushed up home insurance 47% since the 2023 floods) means phasing out fossil fuels. New Zealand has already reduced fossil CO2 from 9.1 tonnes/person in 2005 to 5.8t now, so it's not as if we've done nothing.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Prepare your mind for New Zealand's next climate target by seeing what our former climate ambassador has to say www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, good to see a start made on gas, whose use has doubled since 2009. The data (from MBIE Energy 2023) doesn't record any direct use of bioenergy (eg wood pellets) which may be an error.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Tamino estimates the world is warming at 3.3 ºC/century – a tenth of a degree every three years. Scary. Every tenth of a degree matters. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/e...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment