Patrick H Willems on YouTube has a great video about his hatred for “content”, particularly as applied to film.
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.
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.
The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray was a little pulpy but great fun
Do iiiiiit!
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.
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...
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/...
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
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...
Public submissions are now being invited on this Bill
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.