Aaron and Charlotte fromStone Soup Syndicate pop into the studio for some Breakfast Food, this morning. Chatting about what the magazine does, the importance of independent media and how to reduce your carbon footprint through feeding yourself (how good is that). Keep an eye out for a copy at your local cafe or check out their Instagramto locate one for yourself.
As California burns, oceans rise, storms intensify, and Greenland’s glacier’s melt, we explore solutions to the climate change problem with Stanford Professor Marc Jacobson. He is the author of the just-released study "The health and climate impacts of carbon capture and direct air capture."
We are back with our weekly chat with Green party co-leader James Shaw. The Minister attended the climate change conference in Madrid (COP25) in December 2019 and we caught up on criticisms surrounding lack of substantial action and indigenious inclusivity. We also talked about proposed changes to the carbon emissions trading schemes, and the roll out of climate change education in schools.
This week Sherry spoke to Green party co-leader James Shaw.The taxpayers union recently announced that the Green party held the highest spending on flights. (Green Party list MPs spent $9816, compared to New Zealand First's $8059, and National's $7332, and Labour's $6499). This has brought about some criticism of the hypocrisy and irony due to the Green party’s stance on climate change, and minimising the carbon footprint. James responded to these criticisms, and also spoke on Coronavirus responses from the goverment and panic buying as NZ increases to 5 cases of the virus, and the recent annoucement from Conversation Minister Eugenie Sage on Pest Free 2050.
The fight to emphasise the responsibility of big business when it comes to climate change continues. However, there are still viable opportunities for volunteering for sustainable initiatives here in Tāmaki. Robbie Sutherland is a low carbon specialist at Auckland Council, and he joined Mary-Margaret to talk about which initiatives are around this winter that we can join to protect our local environment. Mary-Margaret also asked Robbie about distinguishing the importance of opportunities for community action from the importance of governments committing to their word that climate change must be mitigated.
For the first episode of 2022 Stella and Isla interview Dr Georgia Piggott, a researcher from the University of Auckland's School of Environment, about what net zero emissions actually means. They explore this through the example of Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics, with additional comments from Professor Justin Hodgkiss, the co-director of The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.
Statistics New Zealand has recently put out a report into their updated ocean acidification indicator.
This data has come from a partnership withThe National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, as well as their New Zealand Ocean Acidification Observing Network.
The data provider said there has been a decrease in the our waters PH level, Meaning seawater has undergone more absorption of carbon dioxide.
As the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise due to climate change, more of our water has become effected leading to the risk of losing certain sea life.
I had a chat to Michele Lloyd, the senior manager of Environmental and Agricultural Statistics at Stas NZ about their report.
This Week on Dear Science Casper and Milly are joined by Joel Rindelaub back in the studio. Joel gets to the bottom of what happens when you eat a lego head - with research that involves the acronyms SHAT and FART. They also discuss Exxon Mobil's historic and accurate research into the fossil fuel contributions to climate change as well as the power of the Fjord in storing and releasing carbon to act as its own temperature control.
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