Stephen Bannister
@iceseismic.bsky.social
Seismologist, gardener, dad, on Wellingtons south coast, New Zealand
Pinned
Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.
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#seismology
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#seismology
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"The pace of change is already at about a 30% decline. This just tells you how critically urgent carbon emissions reductions are, because we need to give this overturning circulation every chance of not tipping over what seems to be a very perilous & near tipping point"
#ClimateEmergency
#Antarctica
#ClimateEmergency
#Antarctica
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"The pace of change is already at about a 30% decline. This just tells you how critically urgent carbon emissions reductions are, because we need to give this overturning circulation every chance of not tipping over what seems to be a very perilous & near tipping point"
#ClimateEmergency
#Antarctica
#ClimateEmergency
#Antarctica
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Shameful www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
New Zealand awarded dubious 'Fossil of the Day' at COP30 climate talks
The government's decision to weaken methane emissions targets have garnered it the award for a fourth time, after avoiding it last year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Shameful www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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'Embarrassing’: International climate expert at COP30 scorns NZ’s methane target
'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 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
'Embarrassing’: International climate expert at COP30 scorns NZ’s methane target
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Ouch!
"The government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis."
Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...
#nzpol #climatechange
"The government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis."
Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...
#nzpol #climatechange
Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack
Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.
newsroom.co.nz
October 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ouch!
"The government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis."
Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...
#nzpol #climatechange
"The government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis."
Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...
#nzpol #climatechange
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More risk management challenges confronting NZ Government! Do you think they're up to it? 🌀🌪🌩🌊
It's not just the environmental risk but the financial and economic costs foreshadowed in the report! 😱💰💰💰
#NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
It's not just the environmental risk but the financial and economic costs foreshadowed in the report! 😱💰💰💰
#NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds
NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
More risk management challenges confronting NZ Government! Do you think they're up to it? 🌀🌪🌩🌊
It's not just the environmental risk but the financial and economic costs foreshadowed in the report! 😱💰💰💰
#NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
It's not just the environmental risk but the financial and economic costs foreshadowed in the report! 😱💰💰💰
#NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
October 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
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Luxon Govt stopped or blocked four key structural projects which would reduce fossil gas dependence: NZ Battery Project, Gas Transition Plan, Govt Investment in Decarbonising Industry, and Offshore Wind.
September 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Luxon Govt stopped or blocked four key structural projects which would reduce fossil gas dependence: NZ Battery Project, Gas Transition Plan, Govt Investment in Decarbonising Industry, and Offshore Wind.
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Chlöe Swarbrick on the Treaty Principles Bill, but truer words were never spoken about this government.
September 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Chlöe Swarbrick on the Treaty Principles Bill, but truer words were never spoken about this government.
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Reposted by Stephen Bannister
No change: Almost one in four Canterbury swim spots unsafe, report shows
No change: Almost one in four Canterbury swim spots unsafe, report shows
A new regional council report finds nearly a quarter of monitored rivers, lakes and bays pose health risks from faecal bacteria or toxic algae.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
No change: Almost one in four Canterbury swim spots unsafe, report shows
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The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.
September 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.
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Comment: A small country that breaks ranks with allies and trading partners is likely to find itself isolated, vulnerable to reprisals and no longer trusted
Anne Salmond: Climate sabotage
newsroom.co.nz
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Comment: A small country that breaks ranks with allies and trading partners is likely to find itself isolated, vulnerable to reprisals and no longer trusted
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More cuts to the Marsden Fund of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. This takes it down to $10/capita in real terms when it was over $16 for most of this century. Australia's equivalent, the ARC, is NZ$42/capita, as is the US NSF (despite ongoing attempts to gut the latter).
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Fewer Marsden Fund grants after government cuts
A major research fund has been forced to slash its grant allocation by more than $20 million next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
More cuts to the Marsden Fund of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. This takes it down to $10/capita in real terms when it was over $16 for most of this century. Australia's equivalent, the ARC, is NZ$42/capita, as is the US NSF (despite ongoing attempts to gut the latter).
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Week in Review:
Dame Anne Salmond laments the falling standards of our political leaders, their attack dogs and policy sources while New Zealanders endure such hard times
Dame Anne Salmond laments the falling standards of our political leaders, their attack dogs and policy sources while New Zealanders endure such hard times
Anne Salmond: Bats in the belfry, trolls in the Beehive
newsroom.co.nz
September 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Week in Review:
Dame Anne Salmond laments the falling standards of our political leaders, their attack dogs and policy sources while New Zealanders endure such hard times
Dame Anne Salmond laments the falling standards of our political leaders, their attack dogs and policy sources while New Zealanders endure such hard times
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Fewer Marsden Fund grants after government cuts
Fewer Marsden Fund grants after government cuts
A major research fund has been forced to slash its grant allocation by more than $20 million next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Fewer Marsden Fund grants after government cuts
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Oh wow this is incredibly damning of Luxon, Amazon and the entire situation. Would that every analysis of their "announcements" was as clear-eyed #nzpol
Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Opinion: Tech giant Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts in a long time to spin good news out of a fiasco, writes Jonathan Milne
newsroom.co.nz
September 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Oh wow this is incredibly damning of Luxon, Amazon and the entire situation. Would that every analysis of their "announcements" was as clear-eyed #nzpol
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Is this the same people?
Amazon cloud pays barely $1m tax on $391m NZ revenues
A deep dive into the big tech company's finances reveals it's charging NZ firms and government agencies hundreds of millions for 'local' storage that it hasn't built. Jonathan Milne investigates.
newsroom.co.nz
September 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Is this the same people?
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My latest for @eos.org, about slickenlines, the scratch marks earthquakes leave behind, and the pulse-like nature of propagation
Myanmar earthquake footage delivers real-time evidence of a link between curved scratch marks left by earthquakes and the direction of rupture.
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Video Shows Pulsing and Curving Fault Behavior - Eos
A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.
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August 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My latest for @eos.org, about slickenlines, the scratch marks earthquakes leave behind, and the pulse-like nature of propagation
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“Reti said "the government has made it clear on several occasions that we want publicly funded research to focus on solving real world problems that can be commercialised"”
WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE
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WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE
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Marsden Fund says it was given only a day's notice of further funding cuts
The Marsden Fund is among three contestable funds to lose millions to help set up the new Institute for Advanced Technology.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Reti said "the government has made it clear on several occasions that we want publicly funded research to focus on solving real world problems that can be commercialised"”
WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE
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WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE
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What happens when a Fossil Fuel CEO calls up WINZ, versus when an everyday NZ'er finally gets through after spending 3 days on hold?
This Government has cooked the books. Instead of helping out as the cost of living bites, they're handing cash straight over to billion dollar oil companies.
This Government has cooked the books. Instead of helping out as the cost of living bites, they're handing cash straight over to billion dollar oil companies.
August 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
What happens when a Fossil Fuel CEO calls up WINZ, versus when an everyday NZ'er finally gets through after spending 3 days on hold?
This Government has cooked the books. Instead of helping out as the cost of living bites, they're handing cash straight over to billion dollar oil companies.
This Government has cooked the books. Instead of helping out as the cost of living bites, they're handing cash straight over to billion dollar oil companies.
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Holly shit in the final wash-up the National led coalition govt threw away $671m scrapping the InterIslander Ferry project that was due to start operating next year.
Economic fucking criminals. Clueless beyond reproach.
#GeneralStrike #SnapElection
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Economic fucking criminals. Clueless beyond reproach.
#GeneralStrike #SnapElection
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Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
The bill is now more than $600 million, after another $144m was added to the scrapped iReX ferry project cost.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Holly shit in the final wash-up the National led coalition govt threw away $671m scrapping the InterIslander Ferry project that was due to start operating next year.
Economic fucking criminals. Clueless beyond reproach.
#GeneralStrike #SnapElection
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Economic fucking criminals. Clueless beyond reproach.
#GeneralStrike #SnapElection
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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This is depressing. The Advanced Technology Institute could be impressive, but not if it is funded by raiding successful programs where proposals compete for attention in favour of a system which could see bureaucrats "picking winners" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Majority of Govt's $231m tech institute funded through research funding cuts
'It will be a cornerstone of our plan to grow a high-tech, high-value economy.'
www.nzherald.co.nz
August 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is depressing. The Advanced Technology Institute could be impressive, but not if it is funded by raiding successful programs where proposals compete for attention in favour of a system which could see bureaucrats "picking winners" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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"The most relevant take home for New Zealand is that the amount of extreme rainfall coming out of these storms will increase in the future and this increase will be dependent on future temperature increases"
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Devastating cyclones to get 20-35 percent wetter with fossil fuel emissions
Researchers have used more precise climate modelling to reveal how fossil fuel emissions could affect cyclone behaviour.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"The most relevant take home for New Zealand is that the amount of extreme rainfall coming out of these storms will increase in the future and this increase will be dependent on future temperature increases"
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...