In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over. Wind turbines kill birds. While this is true, it misses an important piece of context: Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do. 🧵

Nanaia Mahuta Is Female, Intelligent, Articulate, Fearless, & Maori. She is Despised by Bald, Middle-Aged, Suited White Men Everywhere.

Please please please let this catch on like wildfire

These people are monsters! America dirt yourself out, this madness is infecting the world.

Four Aus banks made $180 *a second* after tax last year in NZ through no special or hard work of their own. A 10% tax on those windfall profits would raise over half a billion dollars and go a very long way to supporting people and the planet in flooding and cyclone recovery.

In the 1970s, Dutch cities like Amsterdam were full of traffic and air pollution. Now they are models of sustainable urban planning. Here's the story of how the Netherlands started building their cities for humans, not cars. 🧵

Why don’t the media post solutions over climate denial? This is ridiculous it’s 2023 and still we hear the voices of those parroting fossil fuel lines over anything else! All media, social media, governments are guilty of allowing the top polluters get away with mass murder!

For decades this area has been kept relatively cool by sulfur emissions from ships. But this changed in 2020.

To be clear: the centrepiece of the Nats' new climate plan is already in the Emissions Reduction Plan, released last year by James Shaw. *In fact*, almost everything in this morning’s climate announcement is already underway.

Journalism is not a crime. We stand with WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested last week on bogus espionage charges in Russia. Evan worked for three years as a reporter at The Moscow Times – we know he’s a professional journalist. He should be released immediately. 🧵👇

PM Ardern worked 16 hour days 7 days a week had about 2 weeks off in 5.5 years safely navigated NZ through a mosque massacre, volcanic explosion, a global pandemic saved 10k+ Kiwi lives, building boom 184k new houses signed 5 FTAs while Gower made 2 docos getting pissed & stoned

‘It takes courage to be kind’ - Maya Angelou A farewell to Jacinda Arden. My Sunday Star-Times Stuff #cartoon #nzpol #JacindaArdern

The Holocaust is still with NZ's small Jewish community, and lessons from history must be learned so Kiwis know how to play their part to fight prejudice, writes Deborah Hart newsroom.co.nz/hate-starts-sm…

From 2014-17 there were so many dairy burglaries that shop owners were protesting in the streets. The Nats response was a $1.8m program that made the owners pay HALF the cost of $3000 of fog cannons etc. It was a shitshow.

National’s falling into a habit of using race relations to make its point, often at public meetings where it’s easier to keep the audience on side than have a difficult exchange. In an election year, choosing the easy path only further fractures society newsroom.co.nz/national-getti…

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

Everything is happening. While climate scientists have been talking about North Atlantic sea surface temperatures these last few days, what's going on with sea ice in Antarctica is even more extreme, nearly 2.4 million km² below the 1991-2020 mean, with a big jump down today.

In light of *that* BBC News article on a North Sea oil and gas producer wanting to produce more oil and gas, here are a few home truths 1/4 UK oil production is in terminal decline, with or without new fields

I’m worried, very worried and if you’re not we really are doomed. There’s absolutely no way anyone should be considering voting for people that are beholden to the fossil fuel lobbyists #NationalNotFitToGovern and #lackofACTion are going to destroy your children’s future asap!

The #ClimateDisaster is here, there’s no time to waste and people are still considering to vote for climate wreckers! A National / ACT government signal they will open us up for oil companies to exploit us and kill our chances of a future! #nationalnotfittogovern #lackokACTion