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Andy Reisinger@andyreisinger.bsky.social |
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Climate science and policy. Also the occasional photo and random thoughts. Currently serving as Commissioner at He Pou A Rangi, New Zealand Climate Change Commission; former IPCC vice-chair WGIII. Usual disclaimers...
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Shaun Hendy
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My thoughts on @siouxsiew.bsky.social v the University of Auckland. The judgment, which finds in favour of Siouxsie, strengthens academic freedom in New Zealand, but highlights problems with Auckland's management that its VC seems reluctant to accept. thespinoff.co.nz/society/10-0...
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Andy Reisinger
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The Government of Denmark had just agreed to a tax on livestock emissions. €40 in 2030, rising to €100 in 2035. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says: "We will be the first country in the world with a CO2 tax on agriculture.” Looks like New Zealand is now distinctly behind in that race.
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Andy Reisinger
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‘transition-washing’, or greenwashing, in labelled transition finance. How to unlock the potential of labelled transition finance in the race to net zero.
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Peter Fairley
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Young climate activists just won a ‘historic’ settlement in Hawaii. One has to wonder why the Biden Administration couldn’t get its minds around settling the federal case ie Juliana.
wapo.st/3XvKtMH
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Andy Reisinger
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A bit of work to do on methane then, to align with their ambitions expressed in the Global Methane Pledge (www.globalmethanepledge.org)
"methane policies in both countries were largely driven by safety, resource utilization, and pollution concerns rather than reducing greenhouse gas emissions"
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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻
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"ChatGPT is bullshit"
doi.org/10.1007/s106...
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Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask
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Pharmac says there are no plans to change eligibility criteria for free Covid-19 vaccination. There's a false screenshot going around suggesting that Pharmac is ending free Covid-19 vaccination for a wide range of people beginning July 1. Again, it's false.
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Suzi and Rose
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FluTracking New Zealand is looking for additional participants.
They need more participants, and particularly younger participants, around the motu to help them track, and understand, flu & COVID-19 in the community.
www.flutracking.net/Join/NZ/inv2...
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Veronika Meduna
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My latest for Science about NZ's budget, the cuts to science and the Save Science Coalition, with @nzscientists.bsky.social @lcsnz.bsky.social et al
“Analyzing this year’s budget is an exercise in determining how bad the damage will be.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Andy Reisinger
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The New Zealand govt says it will hold an independent review of 'what New Zealand's 2050 methane target should be, consistent with the principle of no additional warming'. It's not clear where that 'principle' comes from, but Kristen Green (not on BSky?) has done some insightful analysis.
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Andy Reisinger
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What to call it? "Using [the concept of "climate crisis"] promotes the epistemic goals of climate science to a high degree, bridges scientific, political, and activist discourse, and fosters for democratic participation when articulating climate policies."
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Andy Reisinger
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Where are we at with feed additives to reduce methane emissions from ruminant livestock? Our latest briefing gives an overview of the current evidence. TL;DR: some are ready to implement now, some still have big question marks. But also, climate policies are needed to motivate adoption at scale.
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Kelly Hereid
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Here's what it takes for an IAM to not require a bazillion negative carbon emissions: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Enjoyably sassy author thread here: twitter.com/HMcJeon/stat...
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Andy Reisinger
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Richard Waite
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While Florida's cell-cultivated meat ban is ridiculous, & this article is clearly being provocative, I don't find the idea of banning regular meat helpful either. Better IMHO: 1) produce meat more sustainably & humanely, 2) shift high-meat diets toward plants, 3) accelerate alt protein development.
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Covering Climate Now
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Climate doomism, or the idea that it's already too late to do anything about climate change, can be debilitating and demoralizing. It's also a known discourse of climate delay. Here's a guide from Yale Climate Connections on how we can talk about it:
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David Ho
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Wait until these people find out how climate change will increase immigration.
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Andrew Dessler
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Scientists: if someone asks you a question like this, don’t bite.
The future has not yet been determined.
We still control if warming is 2C or 2.5C or something else.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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The Titanic kills an average of 13.4 people a year
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Andy Reisinger
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Development of a Sustainable Finance Taxonomy for Aotearoa New Zealand: key design considerations. Draft is open for consultation and feedback until 5 May 2024. Link for the draft, submission form, and webinars.
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Zeke Hausfather
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The use of biomass for carbon removal is an understandably fraught topic.
Today Frontier published a set of high-level sustainable biomass sourcing principles that will help us navigate the complicated landscape of biomass-based CDR projects: frontierclimate.com/assets/bioma...
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Andy Reisinger
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Interesting article from a legal perspective on the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, pondering the difference between net-zero CO2 and net-zero GHG and what countries are obliged to strive for under this ruling.
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Zack Labe
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Not great!!
Latest update at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... #ClimateChange
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Pete Scarborough
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Review of environmental and health impact of novel plant-based foods: "NPBFs typically have substantially lower environmental impacts than ABFs [animal based foods], but the nutritional contents are complex and vary considerably across brands, product type, and main primary ingredient." [1]
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Andy Reisinger
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tl;dr: it's damn hard! "The ahistorical nature of the transformation and resulting economic restructuring necessitates a paradigm shift in the intentionality of policymaking, commensurate with both catalysing such a transformation, and navigating the political economic consequences of its impacts."
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Andy Reisinger
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Editor's summary: "Rates of biodiversity decline from land-use change are expected to be lower than in the 20th century but much higher when climate change is considered. [...] Outcomes depend on the scenario, suggesting that policies can make a difference."
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Andy Reisinger
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An important critique of "science-based" company targets - current methodologies "solidify the position of incumbents over that of growing or yet-to-be companies". Sadly it's behind a paywall, but if you contact the authors I'm sure they would be more than happy to send you a copy.
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Greg Sargent
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We don't talk about this enough, but if Trump wins, he will do everything possible to repeal Biden's climate policies.
On the pod, @volts.wtf volts is incredibly informative on how disastrous this would be. He also explains a concept called "petro-masculinity":
newrepublic.com/article/1808...
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Madison Condon
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teach the kids humanities so they know who sisyphus is
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Richard Waite
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New report: Food providers in N. America & Europe are looking at shifting what they serve in a more plant-based direction for climate & other reasons. They are also wondering, for the meat they do continue to serve, how could it be sourced in ways that support these goals? We dug in to this q. 🧪 1/
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Christina Hood
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Really hit hard by watching this - we went to Heron Island in Jan 2020 and it is a very special place. As the IPCC said: every action, every bit of warming, every year, every choice matters. And the coral reefs feel it first.
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Zeke Hausfather
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In a new piece over at @carbonbrief.org I compare observed warming (and its historic rate) to three different future projections:
1) The IPCC AR6 assessed warming (SSP2-4.5)
2) The full CMIP6 ensemble (SSP2-4.5)
3) Hansen et al 2023's projected acceleration.
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Zeke Hausfather
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The rate of warming has increased notably in recent years. This is not just natural variability – the world is now warming faster than it has since 1970.
However, this should not come as a surprise; acceleration is exactly what our models expect: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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Richard Waite
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Your tofu and soy milk are not deforesting the Amazon. 🧪
ourworldindata.org/soy
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Sam Burgess
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Data is out from Copernicus Climate for the boreal spring/austral autumn solstice and the global temperature records continue for both air and sea surface temperature
👉check out pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
#climatecrisis ⚒️🧪🌍 #earthsky
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Zeke Hausfather
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Its a weird bit of whiplash going from arguing with folks claiming models are warming too fast a year ago (no warming since 2016!) to folks arguing that models are warming too slow today. One year does not a trend make, and models are by and large doing ok:
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Leon Yin
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New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ @davey.bsky.social and @leonardonclt.bsky.social gift link: bloom.bg/3It4cE4
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Andy Reisinger
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Annual advice on New Zealand ETS unit supply and price control settings out today. Full advice here: www.climatecommission.govt.nz/our-work/adv...
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Simon Evans
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This terrifying FT chart paints my lifetime in the inexorably rising colours of global warming Eyeballing, it looks like, what, 0.75C of warming since the 1980s? And just look at the way the coolest months in the 2020s are mostly hotter than the hottest of the 1980s!
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Mike Dickison
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Bikes to Bellbird Bakery in central Christchurch and got two stamps on my “you came by bike?” card because the owner’s from Europe and understands biking is a social good we should be rewarding (end of rant).
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Dr. Jonathan Foley
@globalecoguy.bsky.social
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Job announcement!
Project Drawdown is looking for several part-time research fellows to help undertake a massive, new assessment of the potential for different climate solutions.
Please read the job description at the link, and share with your networks.
drawdown.org/careers/rese...
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Paul Lehmann
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"Here we show substantial and systematic differences in public climate change opinions across locations that manifest between urban vs. rural and prospering vs. declining areas [in Germany]." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin
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Delegates at #UNEA6 adopted 15 resolutions, two decisions, and a Ministerial Declaration on topics including highly hazardous #pesticides, sustainable lifestyles, sand and #duststorms, and environmental recovery in areas affected by armed conflict
The ENB summary is now online.
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@fladdle.bsky.social
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“The [Great Barrier] reef has been through six previous mass bleaching events in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022.”
#ClimateCrisis #CoralBleaching #GBR #AusPol #oceans #Queensland
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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The report from the National Research Priorities panel was released yesterday, as far as I can tell to little fanfare since the cancellation of Te Ara Paerangi which it was intended to underpin. Nevertheless I think it's worth considering the high and lowlights...
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Andy Reisinger
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Important and intriguing results from a year-long trial of the methane inhibitor 3-NOP (Bovaer). Reduced CH4 and increased milk yield, but diet composition seems to play and important meditating role.
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Andy Reisinger
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“For 20 years, I thought my job was, as a basic scientist, [to] publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realize that there’s no one on the other side of the wall, just a huge pile of papers that we’ve all thrown over.” #scipol
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Matthias Deutsch
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blue #hydrogen could in the near tearm
↘️ reduce global warming effects by 70% compared to equivalent unabated fossil-fuel use, if CH4 emissions are low
↗️ increase global warming effects by 50% compared to fossil fuels if CH4 emissions are high
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Andy Reisinger
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Now there is!
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Jarmo Kikstra
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FYI - acknowledging it won't affect the core SSP economics - we've been working on sustainable development pathways that push equity more (branching off from SSP1).
The GDP & inequality projections paper is now in review, preprint here: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....
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