Oh and putting your other hat on Energy Minister Watts how's that European gas price doing for your proposed LNG terminal?
52 EUR/MWh
tradingeconomics.com/commodities
What financial measures will you take Finance Minster Willis and PM Luxon as the wheels are about to come off?
Guess you're realising now Climate adaptation Minister Watts and Transport Minster Bishop electrification wasn't so silly and delay tactics may seriously backfire... 🙄
#nzpol
The older I get I appreciate nature more and more
Yesterday was asked to meet for lunch at a Japanese Cafe in a mall amidst so much stark artifice I just needed to get out...we left
Lying under tall trees later hearing a Tui darting about in the rustling leaves as the sun dropped to the horizon...
Meanwhile in New Zealand Environment Minister, Penny Simmonds, is combining the Ministry of Environment with other Ministries of Housing and Transport to improve efficiency
...and the Department of Conservation is to focus more on growth of sustainable tourism... aka commodification of nature
Michael Barnard (who I think is too negative on geothermal for electricity) - wrote this on Eavor specifically:
cleantechnica.com/2026/01/15/w...
Iran Opens Strait of Hormuz Only For Chinese Ships, Warns of Military Action Against Any Unauthorised Crossing: Reports
www.timesnownews.com/world/middle...
Below : Acting President Delcy Rodriguez with US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum or is it Burglar given Trump's vision of a shared benefit of the proceeds of oil for the US and Venezuela?
#USpol
www.state.gov/releases/off...
What will happen with the National Party and Luxon?
How savvy or dumb are they, really?
#nzpol
Or is ⬇️
youtu.be/4DfJc0Une5g?...
Unlike previous mass extinctions the next, if we remain on the current trajectory, is expected to take significantly longer to recover than previous.
Hopefully the capital accumulating growth economy will go down as a planetary terminal cancer
Nice!
I'll stick with slow, additional reasons expressed in a chat some time back
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Although I understood the sentiment of charismatic species I first came across the actual term in this old but great seminar, Bulldozing Biodiversity
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Charismatic species vs non is my understanding that is the reasoning they are and will continue to be looked on unfavourably just like sharks
One of the most impressive finds when we moved onto our small bit of land was to come across some Avondale spiders down by the creek
Lucky you I was told our VDSL was going to be discontinued... and we should think of Musk... just had my lunch... I'm starting to feel bilious at the thought
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
Holy hell.
All done seamlessly to maximise profit
👇👇
Bummer
Parched up here
1/4 of Feb's normal rain
Trumps illegal war ain't gonna help supply chains either
Physics trumps Politics
Transport Minister Chris Bishop
is making it easier to pollute with cheaper ICE cars despite being an EV owner
FF lobbyist John Carnegie wants to lock us into high electricity prices and FF dependency with an LNG terminal
#nzpol #energy
Watch ⬇️
youtu.be/qokwulKU9Bg?...
"whereas in the more data-sparse Global South..., with Southeast Asia and Oceania as global hotspots, the geoids substantially underrepresent actual sea-surface height, ranging from several decimetres up to several metres locally"
Need to ramp up your adaptation plan climate minister Watts
#nzpol
#NoMoreBabies thank God
Turkey’s total fertility rate fell from 2.11 to 1.51 between 2013 and 2023.
Turkey recorded the largest decline in this period in percentage terms (28.4%) mmong 34 EU countries
wow
🧪🌊🦑🐳 #WhaleWednesday #AlaskaSky
C'mon #China clean up your act. You wrote the report now walk the talk!
#fish #biodiversity #ChinaFishing
"...In 2023, the Chinese government published a white paper on distant-water fisheries, in which it committed to carry out “full-scale investigations..."
Was the only one wearing a mask in the blood test lab in pukekohe (apart from staff) full of people last week while sitting next to an 80y old. As I was one of the early ones to get Alpha and had 2x6 month stints of long covid don't want to relive any of that...
One of those Rangers was speeding through the country roadworks where I was walking the dog this morning spreading up fine gravel. No doubt she will bellyache on FB in a few months about the state of the roads...
Fair enough, hope your day brightens
