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@MrJKirwan Presumably an attempt to woo the media

incredible

@RusselNorman Cool. We should help our allies in Five Eyes. They're the only friends we have, and the ones who most closely share our liberal democratic values.

The propaganda re the Critical Minerals Agreement Luxon is negotiating w Trump says its about minerals for renewable energy. Really? You think Trump wants critical minerals for renewable energy, the same energy he vilifies and blocks? It's about minerals for weapons of war.

Back in the day, scientists/programmers seemed like wizards - their knowledge of spells and incantations determined their power and reach. With AI, we don't cast spells anymore. We've all become like Aladdin - the challenge is judicious/optimal use of the genie in the lamp.

@cafreiman To be fair we don't have as many as would be good for us. Most of ours are second-hand imports on the run from nuclear war. Much better to grow your own.

The claim that democracy and billionaires are incompatible is clearly false—all of these countries have billionaires:

@secondzeit Having protests announced by the Government.

Is there anything more uncool than having a rock tour announced by the Government? beehive.govt.nz/release/rock-n…

Fair call.

@RogerPielkeJr Yeah - I never understood why A & T were instinctively bad things for so many working on the environment. I do understand the instinct that a growing P, ceteris paribus, can be bad in commons problems, but the solution is innovation (T) and options (A).

The original framing of IPAT was that P, A & T were each ultimately negative (undesirable) factors to be as limited as much as possible so as to minimize I We could reframe IPAT as FPAT Where F = flourishing IPCC 1990 was very much IPAT and elements still are but there is hope still for the FPATs!

The first IPCC report reflected that generation's legacy concerns about overpopulation, with climate change often equated with concerns about global population

One of the worst public intellectuals of the postwar period. Wrong about everything big, and his policy suggestions were generally evil. Sadly influential in environmental circles.

Where on the spectrum from "recently elected Samoan PM" to "ex-PMs ex-wife" do a single individual's claims cease to be reportable facts and become unsubstantiated in Stuff's editorial opinion?

@JoelMacManus In the absence of an independent fourth estate it's probably wise.

I think it's really cool that New Zealand has a Minister for Policing Twitter Discourse.

@secondzeit @MsShira50 I'm sure you and your colleagues will do your professional best to keep them that way.

@MsShira50 Unsubstantiated claims

@AnnetteConroy3 @dpfdpf Sure - the guy who told me the story is one of the world's leading climate scientists. Perfectly possible. I was just surprised because I had the impression that the pre-Columbian population densities didn't line up with the ~1900 tree cover. Perfectly possible, though

@ClimateFramo @dpfdpf It could be a genuine situation. Changes in the environment on large landmass like the American Continent could affect the global environment and climate .

Did you know scientists have estimated that Ghengis Khan reduced greenhouse gas levels by 700 million tonnes.

@RogerPielkeJr @atrembath I just don't get that part of the climate research community. "Look at the evidence" they say... but then when it comes to the fact that Ehrlich was spectacularly wrong and Simon spectacularly right, they say "oh, that's irrelevant... you'll see... any day now..."

@atrembath Mann calls Ehrlich "prophetic"

"Why is everyone talking about this discredited scientist who published a celebrated memoir this year and who was featured on 60 Minutes and whose ideas continue to animate the entire environmentalist project?"

@ReubenSteff @CANZUK Can't help wondering if some of the new burst of enthusiasm for this idea isn't just bureaucratic refugees from the collapsing UN system, desperate to stay in touch with their mates and keep dining in the international business class lounges...

@CANZUK Only if you create a federal CANZUK government, massively expand defence spending, and forge a military-industrial system. Oh, and you are going to need a hyper-nationalistic drive in the education system, to get the media ecosystems of each state behind it and abandon net zero.

@RogerPielkeJr I think it's getting a revival because people are wanting to say "look at how much Paris has reduced emissions by" so they look for a counterfactual that amplifies that quantity.

RCP8.5 still going strong in the year of our Lord 2026

@carlworker I'd rather they condemned the Iranian regime's mass slaughter of protesters and, while they're at it, the CCP's on-going denial of the Tiananmen Square protests and human rights abuses in Xinjiang. You were ambassador there - wish you had been so noisy about that as you are now.

Are we not entitled to expect our government at least to condemn the assassination of Iran’s leader and the terrible precedent that the action sets?

Extraordinary to hear the New Zealand Attorney General, in her capacity as Defence Minister, state that NZ does not make a judgement on the legality of the US/Israeli attack on Iran because we do not have the evidence. Yet she and the Government know with 100% certainty that the attack began with the successful assassination of Iran’s globally acknowledged supreme leader and many other senior Iranian leaders. Even more remarkable to hear the Minister claim this as a “principled” position. Never before has NZ stooped so low. Truly pathetic.

@tmurphyNZ You all seem so dedicated to reporting so very differently on this Government than on the last. That's the real news story.

1news could have held its nerve: - Turns out -49k crime victims' stat Govt wanted covered, while new, was just another increment down from # announced/reported in Nov (-38k) & Aug 25 (-29k). Good trend but not bulletin-busting news. Gang stats were new newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/gov…

@wmarybeard So converting them back from mosques to churches should be no probs, either, right? Should be as straightforward as changing mall space from Nike to Adidas.

On the question of whether churches should be allowed to become mosques, let's remember that the Parthenon was originally a "pagan" temple, then was converted into a Christian church, then became a mosque. This kind of conversion is not historically unusual.