The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in February 2026 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.
Sea surface temperatures continue to show large departures (red shading) across the midlatitudes of both hemispheres through February 2026. Note also the recent warming across the eastern tropical Pacific (especially Niño 1+2 regions).
Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...) 🌊
BREAKING
It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports:
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...
... is our official government position really "uuuuuuuuugh idk man whatever"
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Meanwhile the Luxon Govt is desperate to make NZ dependent on imported LNG while increasing climate pollution www.wsj.com/world/middle...
"Rocket launches already contribute to climate change and ozone depletion. Scaling them up to deploy a million aircraft-sized satellites would push upper-atmosphere heating and ozone loss far beyond previous estimates, with the steady burn-up of dead satellites compounding the impacts." 🧪🛰️🚀
As the chair of @nzccl.org.nz said,
"We wouldn't give other countries like China or Russia full access into our police and biometrics databases, would we?"
Absolutely disgusting that this is being contemplated, let alone that it might be decided without Parliament.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Electricity prices rocket when hydro lakes are low, but importing gas is no silver bullet. We can do better by using our own resources, expert says.
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and March by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 410,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,000,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,510,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,970,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Analysis: A serious approach to climate adaptation requires reckoning with the grim reality the future holds: more storms, more floods, more heat.
When the Infrastructure Commission specifically calls out the Government's Wellington SH1 tunnels project as an "unwise investment", you know it's a bad idea. More from @JoelMacManus:
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...
It's time to drop this $4 billion, high-emissions white elephant. #nzpol #climate
Government’s plan to import LNG for electricity generation would cost households and businesses up to $8.3bn
Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps
evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...
There's been this hit job on the Green Party by ACT's NZCPR, claiming money was "stolen" from water infrastructure for cycleways.
In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.
They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and March by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 130,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 810,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,350,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,690,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
They’re doing everything they can to disassemble the USA
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...
More reasons why the government's LPG plans are strategically stupid:
#nzpol
theconversation.com/importing-ga...
The UK Govt has raised concerns over New Zealand's climate action rollbacks, following the weakening of our methane target last year.
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
The Luxon government's announcement it will build a LNG import terminal is a dirty, dumb and expensive decision that will leave New Zealanders subsidising more climate pollution through higher electricity bills.
#nzpol
By defeating seabed mining in Taranaki, the green movement has created the option of large scale, low carbon, reliable, cheap offshore wind, which will actually make a real difference to NZ’s energy system. Unlike an LNG import facility which is expensive, polluting and small.
Wellington's serious water woes are just another day in NZ's rivers, but Chris Bishop just passed laws to weaken freshwater protections even more
Fresh and clean drinking water, anyone? Havelock North anyone?
#nzpol #Kiwi
This is a travesty.
The Polluters Get Paid Plan: AKA Regulatory Relief / Regulatory Takings www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol
Luxon Govt is rightly getting heat for its climate policies. For the record here's 16 of their policies to makes things worse. 1/ Attempted to restart offshore oil and gas exploration. 2/ Subsidised oil and gas exploration 3/ Pushed Fossil Gas www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
After all the climate-amplified deadly weather, the Luxon Govt claimed it is taking action on climate change. But is it action to make it worse by increasing emissions? Here is the evidence: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
National squandered $6B for climate resilience projects, using it to top up tax cuts for their mates, and now local councils are footing the bill instead 👇🏼
RNZ In total over four years, through both the mini Budget and Budget 2024, the government has redirected $2.4 billion in previously ring-fenced climate spending into other spending - although several climate programmes have survived, under different funding streams. The government gave itself more money to play with by taking money from the Climate Emergency Response fund (CERF), which took money raised from selling carbon credits to polluters under the Emissions Trading Scheme and put it into climate-related projects. *That money has now been redistributed to general spending*, although some of the projects CERF funded are continuing.
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The govt made a deliberate choice to fund tax cuts for landlords, corporates and the wealthy instead of health, climate and public services.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
"A long list of climate programmes have been scrapped or reduced to help fund the government's tax cuts."
#NZPol
MBIE has announced the board members of Research Funding New Zealand, the new org that will make funding decisions for NZ's "major public investments in science, innovation and technology"
My initial response: 😬🤔🙄WTF
Why are three of them Aus-based? Why such a strong Agri lean? ⚛️🧪👩🔬
And here is the corresponding global upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) for 2025 and set a new record too... 🔥
Data (shown as anomalies on the graph) and methods from: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
There's more happening to weather extremes now than can be explained by thermodynamics, i.e. everything getting warmer, evaporation increasing, the atmosphere holding more energy and water.
Also changing: jet stream, polar vortex, planetary waves & Atlantic ocean circulation.
buff.ly/3QBapCG
Since it’s an election year I hope we can talk about how this government is responsible for deliberate withholding of healthcare to make some numbers on a piece of paper look good for their donors
A climate emergency fund would be useful right about now.
Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.
