TVNZ news tonight: -Ōtorohanga under water, mayor near tears -citizens discuss self-reliance as East Coast braces for risky weather on the 3rd anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle (in which 15 people died) -Cook Strait ferry sailings cancelled due to rough swells And that’s just the first 10 minutes

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Three more #kakapo nests found on Pukenui/Anchor Island yesterday. Here's Konini with her two eggs. We have found nests for 26 out of the 36 adult females on the island, with more to come in the next few days. It's a big year! #conservation #kakapo2026 A

Short, to the point, angry: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excellent article from the reporting team at Stuff. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

"As reported [by] the Italian Civil Protection Department, more than 500 mm of rainfall were recorded... A particularly significant feature is the 72h accumulated rainfall, with values up to 2.5–3.5 times the Jan monthly Avg & equivalent to 40–45% of the mean annual precipitation total" #Climate

“We use the word ‘regenerative’ because ‘less destructive’ doesn’t sell.” substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Today I will be sharing a series of strange animal facts, in the hopes of confusing the demons or brightening your day. I will not be looking most of them up beyond the first line.

open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth... More work by the New Zealand cartoonist Daniel Vernon, whose work I often repost.

"But everything suggests that, once more, what will not be addressed at their meeting is the biggest threat to humanity and the planet: neoliberal capitalism." #NZPOL

"If we design cities that make parenting easier, we design cities that make living easier for everyone." A great article by my colleague Mirjam Schindler, and Dr Eva Neely. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/20/w...

"there are two paths for our future: either we will witness global societal collapse, or we will radically change the way we organise our societies." Global collapse here we come then..? www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

When talking about climate, I’m now starting with: “Everyone makes their own decisions about climate action, but I'm walking, cycling, taking the bus/train/metro, avoiding unnecessary air travel, & not overeating or wasting food." I follow up with: “What are your choices for reducing CO2 output?"

"In fact, extreme heat kills more Australians than all other natural hazards combined." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yeah, 1.5C is basically here. We'll just have to live with the consequences of 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 etc until we can't adapt any more. But it's never too late for #climateaction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

Ancestral gate hung. Another Xmas hols job done...

This is my go to image elements.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-meta...

a snowy owl activates its invisibility cloak #birds #Camouflage #SnowyOwl #HedwigTheOwl

A bit late in sharing, but we've successfully rotary-cored sediment under 523m of the ice sheet at Crary Ice Rise! This was a whole team effort, with special mention to our drillers and hot water crew. Watch the moment we got our first glimpse of the sediment we’ve been waiting on for so long.

Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Vale Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE The Academy is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of our Fellows, Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 recognising her leadership in the field of marine ecology, 🧵 vimeo.com/762105195

My #1 Xmas25 prezzie now up on the wall..!

100% pure. Clean and green. Just don't go swimming or drink the tap water.

Don't become a bookless statistic this year 😥 #pukapuka

"Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist" by Bob Ward & yours truly in today's @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Did a wrap-up post for my blog/mailing list ExcursionSet today. Looking back I realised that I ended 2024 with a list of things I would write about but wrote about other things instead... excursionset.com/blog/2025/12...

Luxon has a plan. It looks like this. 6 plates for him, 1 plate between 5 at the other end of the divide he’s widened. I don’t misunderstand him. I see him. #nzpol #hoarder interactives.stuff.co.nz/the-side-eye...

Pleased to invite abstract submissions for our session on Atmospheric Blocking at #EGU2026 Link for submission: www.egu26.eu/session/56308 Please share or tag anyone who might be interested & spread the word! 🙌 @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social @timwoollings.bsky.social @seraphinehauser.bsky.social

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡

#ClimateChange already existential in Kashmir & Himalayas. Hundreds of millions depend on these glaciers for drinking water. Its going to be a rough road, the next few decades. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Years in the making, the 3rd Edition of Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere is published on 18 December, available as an eBook and in physical format. Thanks to Andréa Taschetto, Thando Ndarana & Tercio Ambrizzi for making it happen! Check out www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren @ellecordova.bsky.social

Paging Erica Stanford #nzpol

The best time to plan for your retirement is when you’re 64

"It is our view that a detailed framework for post-2050 reductions and removals is best developed closer to 2050." - wrong. We need action now to avoid disaster in 2050. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

🍃🌹🌿voting NZ #Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs & Dentists & childcare. Less tax for the majority of NZers, a little more for the richest few, who mostly avoid paying now, & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! #Hope #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

Fun job to get: can design for a new Garage Project beer celebrating the incredible work of old mates Capital Kiwi Project bringing brown kiwi back into the hills of Wellington. Legends

Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS. “…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.” #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

This is a really good comprehensive overview of the current evidence on Devon being the cradle of world civilization Well worth your time, good maps too

People Watching: Opening party for 'Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on a Friday night

Thread time. These proposed local government reforms are being reported as the end of Regional Councils but actually they're probably the end of a lot of rural and smaller district councils in New Zealand. Not sure what I mean?

I’ve written about #COP30 for The Transition(s) Lab. When the gavel came down in Belém, there was no major diplomatic breakthrough, but that’s not all that COPs are about these days. In a multipolar world, that’s likely a good thing. Read more here: the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-2-...

#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

cox orange apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1905

""I think the current government is really unappealing for a younger generation..." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...