Climate Matters

Update on climate science – things worsening faster than expected - Antarctic sea ice and deep ocean circulation – need to reduce methane as well as other GHG – “no additional warming” policy and balancing food production with protecting the planet – fossil fuels affect everything - let’s get used to discussing climate https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-153

Helicopter view of climate policy – the atmosphere a dumping ground –super-wicked problem are very difficult for policy – creeping (slow) problems difficult to mobilise action – time is running out – people who cause the problem have least incentive to act – lack of central controlling organisation – mitigation and adaptation – facing tipping points sooner than originally thought - cooling the...

Front-footing the future intro - A book of its time: “Insuring the Future” - A quiz question - Prime Minister, here’s more “dumb stuff” you shouldn’t be doing - And your Freudian slip, PM, that (almost) flew under the radar - Being hit between the eyes with “Net Zero” - From the “Can you believe it?” file: A new weather word - Mind-boggling: an overabundance of the most abundant gas - Clear the...

264 2026 05 11 CM 150 2026 05 03 Put on a jersey before you put on a heater Farewell and thank you to Elbephilarmonie’s “For seasons” – hello to Pecan Pies’s “Rise and Shine” thanks to Uppbeat - The biggest lesson from Artemis II? - “Hoping the ship arrives” isn’t a strategy – Quiz - Minister Mitchell, please explain “complacency” to the PM - The NZ government makes transparency more invisible -...

Climate Matters is an audio version of Resilienz Ltd's Climate Matters newsletter, that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery.

Beware the “externality” – Externalities and wide-boundary thinking – privatising profits and socialising costs – looking in the mirror – there’s no such place as “Away” – is the PM externalising again? – the politics of externalities – Peak indifference revisited – Surely we can’t extrernalise time – Bean counting and the meaning of lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ745eyky6Q -...

Forestry and flooding – lessons from the 2025 Tasman extreme storms – how good are we at learning from history – Nelson’s “right tree right place” strategy – is a climate strategy magic wand a magic myth?

energy and the economy - minerals and the economy - water and the economy - gravel and the economy - the climate crisis and the economy - “the economy” and the economyhttps://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-148 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xW3oveI8Q1xAjlsliozXTDv5yPfx5OSG/view...

Morgan Williamms former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment – background the NZ river flood management – changing nature of weather events and river behaviour under climate change – flood planning in the Nelson Tasman region – outline of a wide-boundary regional strategy towards flood management - storm and flood warning systems - key takeaways: it’s a challenge we can plan for:...

Obligations of the New Zealand media in reporting the climate emergency – “deliberative democracy 101” – how will deliberative democracy manifest itself in the Reality of Everything Symposium? – how will the key messages ROE symposium be propagated beyond the event itself? – final take-home messageshttps://events.humanitix.com/the-reality-of-everything-symposium...