More risk management challenges confronting NZ Government! Do you think they're up to it? 🌀🌪🌩🌊

It's not just the environmental risk but the financial and economic costs foreshadowed in the report! 😱💰💰💰
#NZpol
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Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.

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#seismology

Luxon Govt stopped or blocked four key structural projects which would reduce fossil gas dependence: NZ Battery Project, Gas Transition Plan, Govt Investment in Decarbonising Industry, and Offshore Wind.

Chlöe Swarbrick on the Treaty Principles Bill, but truer words were never spoken about this government.

Shameful

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No change: Almost one in four Canterbury swim spots unsafe, report shows

The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.

Comment: A small country that breaks ranks with allies and trading partners is likely to find itself isolated, vulnerable to reprisals and no longer trusted

More cuts to the Marsden Fund of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. This takes it down to $10/capita in real terms when it was over $16 for most of this century. Australia's equivalent, the ARC, is NZ$42/capita, as is the US NSF (despite ongoing attempts to gut the latter).
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Week in Review:
Dame Anne Salmond laments the falling standards of our political leaders, their attack dogs and policy sources while New Zealanders endure such hard times

Fewer Marsden Fund grants after government cuts

Oh wow this is incredibly damning of Luxon, Amazon and the entire situation. Would that every analysis of their "announcements" was as clear-eyed #nzpol

Is this the same people?

My latest for @eos.org, about slickenlines, the scratch marks earthquakes leave behind, and the pulse-like nature of propagation

“Reti said "the government has made it clear on several occasions that we want publicly funded research to focus on solving real world problems that can be commercialised"”

WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE

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What happens when a Fossil Fuel CEO calls up WINZ, versus when an everyday NZ'er finally gets through after spending 3 days on hold?

This Government has cooked the books. Instead of helping out as the cost of living bites, they're handing cash straight over to billion dollar oil companies.

Holly shit in the final wash-up the National led coalition govt threw away $671m scrapping the InterIslander Ferry project that was due to start operating next year.

Economic fucking criminals. Clueless beyond reproach.

#GeneralStrike #SnapElection

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This is depressing. The Advanced Technology Institute could be impressive, but not if it is funded by raiding successful programs where proposals compete for attention in favour of a system which could see bureaucrats "picking winners" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

"The most relevant take home for New Zealand is that the amount of extreme rainfall coming out of these storms will increase in the future and this increase will be dependent on future temperature increases"

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That new usual suspects (Curry, Spencer, Christy, McKitrick, Koonin) Trump EPA climate denier report? (www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...)?

I asked chatGPT to evaluate it. It had no trouble producing a succinct and convincing refutation:

If you get an emergency message on your phone but dismiss it without reading it to stop the horrible sound, you can access it from the history:
On Android: Settings > Safety and emergency > Wireless emergency alerts > Emergency alert history.

Simulated propagation of tsunami generated by Kamchatka M8.8 earthquake. Generated by NCDR, Taiwan. 🧪⚒️⚛️

Like a merchant banker betting on a return to fax machines, Christopher Luxon is banking on reviving a dying industry that drives climate change and delivers the most expensive energy of all! 🤡
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