J Cooper 🌏🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄
@jccooper.bsky.social
Materials and Transitions Engineer and Zoologist. Green Steel via Sodium Direct Reduction and Biographite from woodwaste. Lifelong Greenie, climate change activist and enthusiastic wingfoiler. She/her. Tangata tiriti.
This will address the obesity epidemic anyway.
April 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
This will address the obesity epidemic anyway.
We're not even talking about this any more! Antarctica too is experiencing record low sea ice extents during winter but we're being distracted by the more immediate threat of the US going rogue.
March 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We're not even talking about this any more! Antarctica too is experiencing record low sea ice extents during winter but we're being distracted by the more immediate threat of the US going rogue.
As a NZer running my own business and not aligned to the Trade Union movement, I absolutely concur with this article. Everything has gotten way worse with this new govt which is why so many are relocating to Australia.
January 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As a NZer running my own business and not aligned to the Trade Union movement, I absolutely concur with this article. Everything has gotten way worse with this new govt which is why so many are relocating to Australia.
Bad photo taken in a hurry, I'm sorry but you get the idea
January 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Bad photo taken in a hurry, I'm sorry but you get the idea
Its ability to strategize in order to catch its prey is legendary.
January 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Its ability to strategize in order to catch its prey is legendary.
You've not heard of the Portia genus of spiders then? They must be pretty close.
January 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You've not heard of the Portia genus of spiders then? They must be pretty close.
*first*. I would never fist any animal.
January 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
*first*. I would never fist any animal.
I'm a Materials Engineer working on green steel but my fist love is Zoology, so I'll counter your jumping spider with a Maratus personatus
January 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I'm a Materials Engineer working on green steel but my fist love is Zoology, so I'll counter your jumping spider with a Maratus personatus
How do people even get a mortgage on a house if it can't be covered by insurance?
January 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
How do people even get a mortgage on a house if it can't be covered by insurance?
Engineering ain't going to cut it. Our construction and materials are designed for the old climate and cannot simply be modified to enable them to cope.
January 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Engineering ain't going to cut it. Our construction and materials are designed for the old climate and cannot simply be modified to enable them to cope.
Adaptation is easy to say but when you ask for the details, then it gets very messy, especially the part about moving away from affected areas to places that aren't. Immigration is about as popular as 💩 but mobility is going to be really important to ensure climate justice.
January 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Adaptation is easy to say but when you ask for the details, then it gets very messy, especially the part about moving away from affected areas to places that aren't. Immigration is about as popular as 💩 but mobility is going to be really important to ensure climate justice.
At this point it appears that we're not just providing an opening but rolling out the red carpet.
January 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
At this point it appears that we're not just providing an opening but rolling out the red carpet.
There's a lot of us that fit that description atm. Sorry, I can't help with the ice cream tho.
December 27, 2024 at 7:43 AM
There's a lot of us that fit that description atm. Sorry, I can't help with the ice cream tho.
All these positive feedbacks - loss of clouds, loss of albedo from less sea ice, wildfires, ecosystems becoming net GHG emitters etc. seem to be kicking in at about the same time, which is now. And the worse it gets, the less people seem to want to do something to stop it.
December 21, 2024 at 7:52 AM
All these positive feedbacks - loss of clouds, loss of albedo from less sea ice, wildfires, ecosystems becoming net GHG emitters etc. seem to be kicking in at about the same time, which is now. And the worse it gets, the less people seem to want to do something to stop it.
Given the enormous number of opportunities we are gifting the virus and the fact that it is well able to jump species already, it will be a miracle if it doesn't.
December 21, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Given the enormous number of opportunities we are gifting the virus and the fact that it is well able to jump species already, it will be a miracle if it doesn't.
The publisher might have other ideas, but I don't think you're going to beat that for a title.
December 11, 2024 at 9:27 AM
The publisher might have other ideas, but I don't think you're going to beat that for a title.
Far more profit to be made from destroying Earth's habitability. Do these people have no children or what?
December 10, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Far more profit to be made from destroying Earth's habitability. Do these people have no children or what?
Presumably the risk of setting off tipping points is higher, the greater the overshoot.
December 8, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Presumably the risk of setting off tipping points is higher, the greater the overshoot.
So protecting free speech is also about protecting the right to blatantly lie and mislead consumers now? How far could that go?
December 6, 2024 at 5:25 PM
So protecting free speech is also about protecting the right to blatantly lie and mislead consumers now? How far could that go?
We've been aware of this for decades. I personally was aware of it 40 years ago. As with anything relating to the fossil fuel industry, getting that message out there seems virtually impossible. People just don't want to know until it affects them directly.
December 4, 2024 at 6:17 PM
We've been aware of this for decades. I personally was aware of it 40 years ago. As with anything relating to the fossil fuel industry, getting that message out there seems virtually impossible. People just don't want to know until it affects them directly.
Unfortunately not a rogue minister but rather representative of a govt that doesn't value anything that can't instantly be monetized. Our resources and fisheries minister openly loathes our unique dolphins, kiwi, skinks and frogs.
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Unfortunately not a rogue minister but rather representative of a govt that doesn't value anything that can't instantly be monetized. Our resources and fisheries minister openly loathes our unique dolphins, kiwi, skinks and frogs.
Recently, a very effective vaccine was developed that has started to be rolled out. Chlamydia shortens a koalas lifespan and reduces their fertility so hopefully koala populations will start to rebound as the vaccination program takes effect.
December 1, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Recently, a very effective vaccine was developed that has started to be rolled out. Chlamydia shortens a koalas lifespan and reduces their fertility so hopefully koala populations will start to rebound as the vaccination program takes effect.
At that time we were just learning about the Chlamydia that ravages koala populations in Australia, so it was mainly about taking samples to determine how widespread the infection is, so insensitive but also justified intervention
December 1, 2024 at 6:05 AM
At that time we were just learning about the Chlamydia that ravages koala populations in Australia, so it was mainly about taking samples to determine how widespread the infection is, so insensitive but also justified intervention
Back then, someone climbed the tree, roped it up and chased or shook it down. Sounds worse than it was as they mostly just backed down and we're gently grabbed. Some went too high and fell but there were no actual injuries. Hope they have refined the technique since then tho.
November 30, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Back then, someone climbed the tree, roped it up and chased or shook it down. Sounds worse than it was as they mostly just backed down and we're gently grabbed. Some went too high and fell but there were no actual injuries. Hope they have refined the technique since then tho.