Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

"This year is set to be one of the hottest on record, but it's still likely to be one of the coolest years we will experience during our lifetimes." www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

40+ scientists (incl. me) warn that new methane accounting metrics such as "no additional warming", "temperature neutrality” are being used to grandfather high emitters, penalise developing countries, and undermine the Global Methane Pledge. Full statement: methanescience.org

Our new statement urges countries not to weaken ambition w/ revised "temperature neutrality" goals & metrics that justify them. Methane is a powerful lever, and high-emitting countries can do more than simply keep emissions stable. We have the tech & knowledge insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

Why is this not front page on RNZ or NZH this morning? Slipped out late on Sunday and now it's nowhere?

Yes yes yes yes... this guy David Slack should be our Minister of Energy, Minister of Climate Change, Prime Minister, you name it. open.substack.com/pub/subslack...

Put it together and the conclusion is hard to ignore: we may be systematically underestimating risk — not because we picked the wrong scenario, but because we're not exploring the full plausible range of futures. More in my LinkedIn post 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-... 5/6

"Australia has surpassed 400,000 home battery storage installations under the federal government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program, reaching 11.2GWh of cumulative storage capacity in less than a year since the scheme launched." www.energy-storage.news/australia-hi... via George Heynes 🔌💡

$80m spent on cycleway & seawall to Eastbourne, and it stops 1km short. How the he'll did that happen?? www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...

Great chat with columnist for @stuff.co.nz Verity Johnson about idea NZ Govt is too indebted & we can’t have nice things.We’re actually rich & have low debt/gdp. The budget cutting obsession is ideological, moves wealth from young to old, & stunts NZ Inc. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

BOOM 💥 There it is 😃

Luxon won't stand for "kumbaya and mush." He lives in the real world, where it's all about economic growth, not this green rubbish. You're yesterday's man, Chris. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

"What it looks like is a kneejerk reaction to legislate over the top of the unanimous Supreme Court decision in Smith and Fonterra before that's gone to trial." - spot on! www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Well, that'll fix it! www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Shocking.

The purposeful abuse of bureaucratic processes in an attempt to torture people and deny their rights is a disgusting evolution of US immigration policy under Trump. And the New Zealand Government's failure to advocate for a New Zealander caught in this process is a profound disappointment.

Exactly. Let's get on with it. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/07/t...

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Last chance to apply for this fantastic PhD opportunity this week. Please get in touch for the full project details and application process.

Drivers are afraid they'll lose parking to cyclists. Cyclists are afraid drivers will kill them.

Coming soon to a beach near you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Watts’ acknowledgement of the implications of the methane change for the rest of the economy in the Cabinet paper is notably different from the tone he struck weeks later ..." Another brilliant piece by @marcdaalder.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/28/m...

The European State of the Climate Report is launched today: 🌐 more than 40 datasets 👩‍🔬 over 100 scientists 🗺️ > 130 charts and graphics 🌍 🌡️ Europe is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate Check it out: climate.copernicus.eu/ESOTC

Scholarships to attend the annual SCANZ conference close tomorrow - www.scanz.co.nz/2026-scholar... #scicomm #SciCommNZ

The sooner we stop burning fossil fuels, the better it is for everyone.

Thank you! It was a pleasure to speak my own version of truth to that version of power. And I'd been prepared for questions like that for years.

Discover two approaches to Earth system models that offer opportunities to accelerate progress and deepen understanding at tomorrow’s entry in the AICE Speaker Series! Featuring @baylorfk.bsky.social, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University

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Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister of Australia: “A gender equal world is a better world for all of us. We should all be involved in building it.” #WD2026

This divide and conquer nonsense undermines trust in our scientists - by @nicgaston.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/24/t...

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.

You know what can carry huge amounts in one trip? At extreme efficiency on existing infrastructure? A GODDAMN TRAIN!

gasconis scarlet seedling apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1907

There are only two days left to sign the petition by Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa to remove the archaic and eugenicist rules that have seen so many disabled and chronically ill migrants deported form the country, including children. Please, please, PLEASE sign this.

Anzac Day and a special recognition of the legendary Long Range Desert Group who operated behind enemy lines in North Africa in WW2 before the formation of the SAS. The NZH has done a superb podcast series on the LRDG - worth tracking it down.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Spuds and electricity - what's not to like? www.zmescience.com/science/agri...

These are the kind of people we will be needing more of as climate change worsens. The extreme weather events around the country are a stark reminder that the coalition govt. is plucking out the eyes of our research system by reducing $ / shifting $ to things they think will make $$ fast. #NZPOL

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves Global warming of ‘just’ 1°C does not necessarily sound like a problem. But in the UK, the hottest summer days are warming much faster than typical summer days, changing our experience of heatwaves rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just as the impacts of climate change are really starting to bite, AoNZ as a nation is busy 'deprioritising' research funding into it. You can probably tell from some of the quotes how chill I'm feeling about this.

Comment from Victoria University: The Govt’s science overhaul prioritises commercial outcomes, but risks narrowing the very research pipeline that fuels long-term innovation.

A great read on NZ’s current science strategy.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”

Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Sakura Season in Japan 🇯🇵

As a Strayan, this one always gets me.

The greatest headline of all time was when Inverness Caledonian Thistle had a shock victory against Glasgow Celtic: SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC, CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS

Good to hear today it'll be LNG out and Lake Onslow in - hopefully. It would be good if the Government saw the sense in this without needing a war in the middle east. open.substack.com/pub/reidbash...

"The shift we have so long needed to make is now the obvious and necessary one. The economic case, the security case and the climate case are all now lined up for us. And we are extraordinarily well-placed for it, with sun, wind and water..." open.substack.com/pub/subslack...