Warwick Kissling
@wmkblue.bsky.social
No longer a computational Earth Scientist because of government cuts. Leftie. Everything STEM. Stargazer. Francophile. Traveller. Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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Why hasn’t Luxon gone to COP 30?
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New Zealand’s adoption of a 'no additional warming' target, rather than pursuing more ambitious reductions, was "an embarrassing and humiliating capture by industry". Says a climate expert at #COP30 in Brazil.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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New Zealand’s adoption of a 'no additional warming' target, rather than pursuing more ambitious reductions, was "an embarrassing and humiliating capture by industry". Says a climate expert at #COP30 in Brazil.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Embarrassing’: International climate expert at COP30 scorns NZ’s methane target
A veteran climate scientist says it's "unbelievable" that New Zealand has gone to the annual climate summit with a weaker target as global temperatures continue to rise.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Why hasn’t Luxon gone to COP 30?
Oh..
New Zealand’s adoption of a 'no additional warming' target, rather than pursuing more ambitious reductions, was "an embarrassing and humiliating capture by industry". Says a climate expert at #COP30 in Brazil.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Oh..
New Zealand’s adoption of a 'no additional warming' target, rather than pursuing more ambitious reductions, was "an embarrassing and humiliating capture by industry". Says a climate expert at #COP30 in Brazil.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Bloomberg reporting on NZ's weakening climate ambition
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New Zealand Emissions Unit Prices Tumble on Climate Law Changes
New Zealand carbon unit prices tumbled after the government announced changes to climate laws that could erode confidence in the nation’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
www.bloomberg.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Bloomberg reporting on NZ's weakening climate ambition
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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After Luxon’s 1 on 1 with Trump at APEC, Trump then gave a nonsensical main speech littered with lies, but NZ media just ask Luxon about tariffs & discuss golf. Given Trump’s speech & Collins’ happy chats with US warmongers, can NZ media please confront them about NZ’s alignment with all that #nzpol
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
After Luxon’s 1 on 1 with Trump at APEC, Trump then gave a nonsensical main speech littered with lies, but NZ media just ask Luxon about tariffs & discuss golf. Given Trump’s speech & Collins’ happy chats with US warmongers, can NZ media please confront them about NZ’s alignment with all that #nzpol
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Luxon's sorted and entitled with an $8100 rates cut and extra 11% Wgtn living allowance while denying better pay to others.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Luxon's sorted and entitled with an $8100 rates cut and extra 11% Wgtn living allowance while denying better pay to others.
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David Seymour pulled the land rover stunt at Parliament to take attention off the fact he took money from Philip Polkinghorne & then leaned on top cops to "go easy" on his constituent.
Polkinghorne was the police's sole murder suspect in the death of his wife #nzpol #Kiwi
Shameful Seymour
Polkinghorne was the police's sole murder suspect in the death of his wife #nzpol #Kiwi
Shameful Seymour
Seymour wrote letter supporting Polkinghorne during police probe into wife’s death
Act leader claimed police went 'beyond their brief' when investigating eye surgeon.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Carl Bates should be classed as an "undeclared MP" and removed from his position as he lied to the house and to us the taxpayers.
Did we get a resolution in Carl Bates "forgetting" to declare 25 houses he hid in an undeclared trust account...?
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Carl Bates should be classed as an "undeclared MP" and removed from his position as he lied to the house and to us the taxpayers.
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after willis blamed voters for the gdp contraction, luxon now blaming voters for being disinterested in local politics.
i am once again asking to have a government that doesn't despise and belittle us.
i am once again asking to have a government that doesn't despise and belittle us.
October 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
after willis blamed voters for the gdp contraction, luxon now blaming voters for being disinterested in local politics.
i am once again asking to have a government that doesn't despise and belittle us.
i am once again asking to have a government that doesn't despise and belittle us.
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Current methane target: -24 to -47% by 2050.
New methane target: -14 to -24% by 2050.
Also, two year delay in critical decisions on carbon budgets and ag pricing permanently canned.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...
New methane target: -14 to -24% by 2050.
Also, two year delay in critical decisions on carbon budgets and ag pricing permanently canned.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...
www.beehive.govt.nz
October 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Current methane target: -24 to -47% by 2050.
New methane target: -14 to -24% by 2050.
Also, two year delay in critical decisions on carbon budgets and ag pricing permanently canned.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...
New methane target: -14 to -24% by 2050.
Also, two year delay in critical decisions on carbon budgets and ag pricing permanently canned.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...
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Mayors everywhere should have been honest and said "We were wrong about Labour's 3 Waters, the reason we've had to raise your rates by so much is due to National's much worse and more expensive waters option, please don't blame us, they lied to us too" #NZPol
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Mayors everywhere should have been honest and said "We were wrong about Labour's 3 Waters, the reason we've had to raise your rates by so much is due to National's much worse and more expensive waters option, please don't blame us, they lied to us too" #NZPol
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Mind blowing.
The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol
The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Mind blowing.
The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol
The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol
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Jacinda Ardern, a self-identified agnostic, has stronger Christian moral values than Christopher Luxon, who claims to be a devoted Christian.
He's not a Christian, he's a hypocrite.
He's not a Christian, he's a hypocrite.
October 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Jacinda Ardern, a self-identified agnostic, has stronger Christian moral values than Christopher Luxon, who claims to be a devoted Christian.
He's not a Christian, he's a hypocrite.
He's not a Christian, he's a hypocrite.
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Sooo... you know how Luxon said young people should get off the couch and get a job, and business people in Rotorua clapped? Below is a graph of the Rotorua labour market. This is NOT a get-off-the-couch problem.
Thanks to @musicalchairs.bsky.social for doing this.
#nzpol
Thanks to @musicalchairs.bsky.social for doing this.
#nzpol
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Sooo... you know how Luxon said young people should get off the couch and get a job, and business people in Rotorua clapped? Below is a graph of the Rotorua labour market. This is NOT a get-off-the-couch problem.
Thanks to @musicalchairs.bsky.social for doing this.
#nzpol
Thanks to @musicalchairs.bsky.social for doing this.
#nzpol
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"A politician whose government is changing the rules in a way that benefits its election prospects has condemned politicians changing the rules in ways that benefit their election prospects."
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...
A stinging rebuke of the government from the deputy prime minister
A politician changing the rules in a way that benefits his election prospects has condemned politicians changing the rules to benefit their election prospects.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"A politician whose government is changing the rules in a way that benefits its election prospects has condemned politicians changing the rules in ways that benefit their election prospects."
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...
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Have to say there are so many things happening in that PM's office that are so over the line that previous PM's would have been removed instantly
The 52K accommodation payment, Michael Forbes the PM press secretary and now the "lettergate" leaked copy to the press
Something is not right
#nzpol
The 52K accommodation payment, Michael Forbes the PM press secretary and now the "lettergate" leaked copy to the press
Something is not right
#nzpol
October 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Have to say there are so many things happening in that PM's office that are so over the line that previous PM's would have been removed instantly
The 52K accommodation payment, Michael Forbes the PM press secretary and now the "lettergate" leaked copy to the press
Something is not right
#nzpol
The 52K accommodation payment, Michael Forbes the PM press secretary and now the "lettergate" leaked copy to the press
Something is not right
#nzpol
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Now we've seen the result of this appeal, journalists can start releasing their stories about how involved Jago was with the ACT Party and David Seymour, right?
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Now we've seen the result of this appeal, journalists can start releasing their stories about how involved Jago was with the ACT Party and David Seymour, right?
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Nicola Willis's $8.5 billion hole means that the National Party is on track to borrow $120 billion without taking from pay equity claims. That's almost double what Labour borrowed over 6 years - all while Labour managed a global pandemic & economic depression risks #nzpol #Kiwi
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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As someone was involved in litigating plane crashes in the US, this change would be assinine. It's better to cancel flights, than cancel safety.
I've always said the best way of improving air travel is less training for pilots ... 🙄 fucking really??!! #nzpol ##whitegrimacestrikesagain
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government looks at reducing pilot-training time to fix aviation workforce shortages
It takes 18-20 months for pilots and engineers to qualify in New Zealand, compared to just over a year for programmes in the United States.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
As someone was involved in litigating plane crashes in the US, this change would be assinine. It's better to cancel flights, than cancel safety.
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For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
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“Generational trauma rises in me every time I think of Nana as a little girl being violently punished for speaking the only language she knew. Generational aroha pushes me forward to the mic.” — Marama Davidson on her reo journey.
Violence beat te reo Māori out of my whakapapa. Aroha brought it back. | E-Tangata
“Generational trauma rises in me every time I think of Nana as a little girl being violently punished for speaking the only language she knew. Generational aroha pushes me forward to the mic.” — Maram...
e-tangata.co.nz
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Generational trauma rises in me every time I think of Nana as a little girl being violently punished for speaking the only language she knew. Generational aroha pushes me forward to the mic.” — Marama Davidson on her reo journey.
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That's absolutely something the returning officer/council can do. It's not really something the government can do.
September 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
That's absolutely something the returning officer/council can do. It's not really something the government can do.
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This whole not printing Māori Ward Candidates in the electoral booklet is a fucken disheartening process for South Wairarapa.
We have had racism throughout the paper road bylaw with South Wairarapa District Council submissions.
This is on top of the continued attacks from our Government.
We have had racism throughout the paper road bylaw with South Wairarapa District Council submissions.
This is on top of the continued attacks from our Government.
September 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This whole not printing Māori Ward Candidates in the electoral booklet is a fucken disheartening process for South Wairarapa.
We have had racism throughout the paper road bylaw with South Wairarapa District Council submissions.
This is on top of the continued attacks from our Government.
We have had racism throughout the paper road bylaw with South Wairarapa District Council submissions.
This is on top of the continued attacks from our Government.
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“She was wise, she was caring, she was brilliant and her smile lifted people up in a good times and helped them through the bad,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who knew Hortman for over 20 years, said in a statement.
She fostered dogs and taught Sunday School and was a Girl Guide Leader
She fostered dogs and taught Sunday School and was a Girl Guide Leader
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“She was wise, she was caring, she was brilliant and her smile lifted people up in a good times and helped them through the bad,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who knew Hortman for over 20 years, said in a statement.
She fostered dogs and taught Sunday School and was a Girl Guide Leader
She fostered dogs and taught Sunday School and was a Girl Guide Leader
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National Party Spin: We have a Rock Star Economy
The Rock Star:
The Rock Star:
September 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
National Party Spin: We have a Rock Star Economy
The Rock Star:
The Rock Star: