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Hunter Douglas
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PhD candidate studying climate change emergence. Ex Tonkin+Taylor, SUTD, MIT, Geosyntec, Duke. All views are just, like, my opinion, man.
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Personal opinion incoming. This is what went through my head when the govt announced cutting back on the Dunedin hospital build: #nzpol#Dunedin

A six-panel screencapture from Spongebob, with Christopher Luxon's head superimposed over Patrick, who is holding a candy bar. The edited captions read, "thanks Labour, I think I'll give out $14.6 billion in tax cuts now..." He eats it. "I think I'll build the Dunedin hospital and run a first-world heathcare system now." He eats his empty hand. "OW! Where'd my budget go?"
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Patrick H Willems on YouTube has a great video about his hatred for “content”, particularly as applied to film.

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This laughably stupid long tunnel idea has made it abundantly clear that Simeon Brown’s only experience of Wellington is the car ride between the airport and Parliament, and that he lacks the imagination to consider anybody else’s experience of the city.

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I agree with Dan - 3-4 years is doable for a research master's grad but could be a stretch for a lot of others. Source: me, a master's grad currently in the 4th year of a PhD that I'll finish this year.

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The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray was a little pulpy but great fun

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Do iiiiiit!

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I'd love to see something like a carbon takeback/storage obligation implemented: www.cell.com/joule/fullte... Put the onus on FF companies to actually sequester, store, and monitor CO2 in order to be allowed to sell their products. I think it'd just speed up the transition through price increases.

Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy
Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy

A carbon takeback obligation (CTBO) is a supply-side mitigation policy requiring extractors and importers of fossil fuels to recapture and store a progressively increasing fraction of the CO2 generate...

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Yes fossil fuels powered the incredible rise in living standards over recent centuries, but now their use needs to end. Because the companies selling them resist, their use need to be actively *ended*. We have the tech. A stirring articulation of this challenge: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton
Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

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The NZ govt has given just 4 days for the public to submit on the bill that will reverse the oil & gas exploration ban. I'm not confident that submissions will change their mind, but they help show that the public opposes this change (if you, like me, oppose it). www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Crown Minerals Amendment Bill - New Zealand Parliament
Crown Minerals Amendment Bill - New Zealand Parliament

Public submissions are now being invited on this Bill

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Not sure if this is in scope for what you're planning, but: "what accounts for differences in climate risk assessment (e.g. for physical damage to regions/properties) between data providers, and how do you approach assessing which provider is fit-for-purpose?" - comes up in my private sector work.

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Hunter Douglas
@hunterdouglas.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying climate change emergence. Ex Tonkin+Taylor, SUTD, MIT, Geosyntec, Duke. All views are just, like, my opinion, man.
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