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James Renwick

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Kiwi guy living in paradise. Climate scientist, cyclist, woodworker, whisky drinker. Born at 315ppm carbon dioxide.


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Julia M. Rohrer's avatar Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
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Just finished Chwe’s β€œJane Austen, Game Theorist) (h/t @scientificdiscovery.dev) which I very much enjoyed. The book explains how Austen essentially teaches game theory in her novels.>

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Andrew's avatar Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social
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The Covid-19 spirit of national action to save the country lives on in the UK:

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Craig M. Ranapia's avatar Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social
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"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead" Happy birthday to TOM STOPPARD, born TomΓ‘Ε‘ Straussler this day (July 3) in 1937

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Vincent O'Malley's avatar Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social
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"None of the key concepts contained in the proposed principles are truly present in te Tiriti. Instead, the proposed principles are built on additions, omissions and distortions of the original text".

www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

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James Renwick's avatar James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social
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Great new paper from Luke Harrington and co-authors: how NZ rainfall extremes (wet & dry) change as the climate warms. Even where no change in average rainfall is expected, we still see wetter wets and drier drys. We need to #adapt to this, and #mitigate to cap it.
www.stuff.co.nz/climate-chan...

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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When Labour wins the Pimms market it’s all over. Only sherry remains.

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Dr. Jean-François Cudennec's avatar Dr. Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social
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The Great Barrier Reef has experienced five mass bleaching events in the last decade – the most recent in March this year. It was the most severe and widespread mass bleaching event ever recorded there.

At Lizard Island, 97% of coral is dead.

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theconversation.com/new-drone-im....

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Reminder that you can sign off emails today with: Kia pai te tau hou (Have a good new year) Kia pai to mutunga wiki roa (Have a good long weekend) Ngā mihi o te tau hou (Greetings for the new year)

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PERFECTLY NORMAL 's avatar PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com
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This is EXACTLY what we should be investing in, not new Oil & Gas fields. These are actually quite beautiful
#nzpol

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Andrew's avatar Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social
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Good to see that the NZ government’s shameful abandonment of bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme is mentioned in this article on Denmark doing the opposite.

Correlates with Denmark being first in the Corruption Perception Index.

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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David Farrier's avatar David Farrier @davidfarrier.bsky.social
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i’ve always found brooke fraser’s career kinda weird, because her pitch-perfect, blemish-free empire was built hand-in-hand with an abusive megachurch. please RT this story, i think it's important... and it gets kinda weird: www.webworm.co/p/brookefraser

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"The answer is that New Zealand always seems to be game for sharp policy debate, but rarely succeeds at complex implementation." - Simon Upton, PCE

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Ms Hooper's avatar Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social
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NZ an executive paradise, not democratic paradise In a speech on how to improve our governance and democracy, former Prime Minister and constitutional law expert Sir Geoffrey Palmer argues NZ democracy is not producing governments that follow majority public opinion on important issues

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Nature Portfolio's avatar Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that the frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfires appear to have doubled over the past 20 years, and the six most extreme years for these events have occurred since 2017. go.nature.com/3RFYBPW πŸ§ͺ

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Climate change is β€œloading the weather dice against us,” as I say here. β€œAs the ocean and the atmosphere are heating up, it’s supercharging our climate system, essentially adding more sixes and even some sevens and an eight to our weather dice.” Listen here:

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A demonstration of what we all know - "Cunningham said climate change has made fire weather hotter and drier, lending the right conditions for wildfires to erupt β€” even in environments where fires are infrequent."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime's avatar πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime @josie.zone
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Based Calvin’s mom

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Grant❀️‍πŸ”₯Buist's avatar Grant❀️‍πŸ”₯Buist @grantbuist.com
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you know we can’t buy your ghost ships

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~Tilda is short for Miss Tall Spurtilda's avatar ~Tilda is short for Miss Tall Spurtilda @hulcricket.bsky.social
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bitch you ain't even got quals scheduled yet ain't no way you're defending in two years

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Codfather #FBPE πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί's avatar Codfather #FBPE πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @codfather.bsky.social
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PERFECTLY NORMAL 's avatar PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com
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PERFECTLY NORMAL

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Ben Torkington's avatar Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social
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The relationship between fuck around and find out is linear and is described by 𝑦 = π‘˜π‘₯ where π‘˜ is always equal to 1. The time to 'find out' was short because the magnitude of 'fuck around' was high.

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Don't forget to get out there today and figure out a strategy for saving our ecosystem from the largest crisis it's ever faced without offending anyone! πŸ‘

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Rohan MacMahon's avatar Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social
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"If the insurance companies pull out, that means people can't service their mortgages. Banks need a property which is insured."

Well, yes, precisely.

Is this more or less likely to happen if you shelve the report and pretend nothing is happening?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Something that's perhaps worth considering in the "does throwing soup at paintings/ paint on Stonehenge help change minds about climate change action" discourse is that this question has been studied and we have data.

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Jolisa Gracewood's avatar Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social
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An important thread for whenever the conversation turns to *which* species we might save from extinction. (By @sophiefern.bsky.social who really knows her stuff.)

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