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Eloise Gibson

@eloisegibson.bsky.social
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Climate and energy communicator, NZ

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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This feels like a blast from the distant past already. Thrilled with how All The Journalists especially my mates at RNZ have taken the climate baton and sprinted with it. Feeling superfluous has never felt so good. HNY!
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🤣🥪
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault
RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner 
RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school
RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond
Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that.

@yaboyni
Take a moment
And and realize the moment 
You took has already passed
Thank you
See you next time
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Another year, another record for carbon emissions:
nytimes.com
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025
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Chris Knox @handle.invalid · 05/11/2025
BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2 careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
careers.nzme.co.nz
Data Journalist - BusinessDesk - NZME
Join BusinessDesk as a Data Journalist—break market-moving stories, visualise insights, and set the global benchmark for data-driven reporting.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
You can listen here to my last audio piece for Morning Report. Heartfelt thanks to Tui Warmenhoven for sharing her story, and the excellent Belinda Storey www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Ageing bridges must be replaced to withstand next big cyclone
Thirty-nine bridges on the state highway network are already older than 100 - by 2030, that number will be 260.
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Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I talked to @eloisegibson.bsky.social about universal Road User Charges. Govt says (a) carbon charge, ETS will sort it; (b) cutting petrol carbon charge from $450/t to $50/t -> negligible effect. They can't both be true, I don't think either of them are true. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
$200 extra to drive a RAV4: Will RUC changes help or hurt the climate?
Universal road user charges are proposed to start in 2027, changing the way drivers of the country's more than 3 million petrol vehicles contribute to the cost of roads.
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Catherine Woulfe @catherinewoulfe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Completely stoked that this miracle of a snail found Giselle Clarkson, a person who a) would never squish it and b) knew all about left-spirals and c) deeply deserved a Ned in her life.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Well played, my eternal frenemy @marcdaalder.bsky.social The climate reading public is in good hands.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Thank you, I will also miss scientists but hope to find me some in my new job 😉
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Thank you friend. Time for a break, and the next person will smash it, I'm sure.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The climate advice they didn't want you to see. [finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅] www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Officials warn of damage to diplomatic relations in secret climate change memo
Officials raise concerns on government's climate change stance in mistakenly released advice.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2025
years ago, an outlet used this image (or something very close to it) on an article I wrote on steel decarbonisation, and someone replied "THE FORBIDDEN HALOUMI" and weirdly my brain hasn't let me ever forget it
a thick rectangular orange sheet of hot molten steel, a sort of slab, with smoke rising off it
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Nawwww! These kids ❤️❤️💕
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I can't wait to see what the next generation of NZ climate journalists do! Please support them.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
After 5 years exclusively covering climate, my soul needs a break from writing about but not solving the crisis, so I'm hoping to do some solving for a while.... I'll be working with Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority from September, helping in energy, electricity and saving us all money.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Some news... I am happy and also sad to let you know I have a new job outside journalism. I finish at RNZ on August 28. It's been an incredible 18 years in journalism - it really can be the best job in the world. The BEST is talking to incredible scientists and researchers, national treasures.
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
And now the attribution analysis results: climate change strengthened #Erin ’s peak intensity by about 9 mph 📈, resulting in it becoming a Category 5️⃣ storm. If not for human-caused climate change, Erin would have been a Category 4 storm at its peak. www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Honestly I wouldn't want to do that myself so I salute you!
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
@kirstyjohnston.bsky.social patiently going through the list of climate policies repealed, and what's still standing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’
The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Mary Argue doing the good mahi for RNZ on science funding cuts....
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Juliet Gerrard @julietgerrard.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Data on the cuts to the Marsden Fund reported by RNZ this morning
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A NYT comment: “Humans ate organic, whole foods for millennia. They got plenty of exercise, lived without plastics. Until the mid-1800s, life expectancy at birth was 39. Food may be good medicine, but it’s not a panacea. Medical advances—like vaccines—have doubled the human lifespan, not superfoods”
nytimes.com
There’s Money to Be Made From ‘MAHA.’ Food Companies Want In.
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Paywall now lifted: My special report this morning is about how we spent generations strangling our rivers to make room for our homes and farms, only to find we've ended up supercharging their flows. What do we do when we realise we've built a society in a riverbed? newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...
newsroom.co.nz
We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back
Special report: We forced NZ's braided rivers into tiny channels so we could build our homes and farms in their riverbeds – now we're seeing the consequences. Marc Daalder investigates.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Here's me having a wee chitchat with Ingrid about it on Morning Report Agriculture excluded from compulsory ETS reporting www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
rnz.co.nz
Agriculture excluded from compulsory ETS reporting
Three of the country's biggest greenhouse gas emitters no longer have to reveal how much planet-heating gas they produce each year. Climate Change correspondent Eloise Gibson filed this report.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Agricultural companies never had to pay for their methane emissions in NZ, but they used to be required to report the totals to the EPA. No longer. For some companies, it was the only way to get even a crude estimate. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Three of New Zealand's biggest emitters no longer have to reveal their climate impact
It comes after the government ended compulsory reporting for the farming sector.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"My message to conservatives both in Australia and abroad is when it comes to taking action on climate change, if you do it in an economically rational way there is also a political dividend to be gained." - Australia's Matt Kean,noting NZ's target is "largely static" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Australia could be about to leapfrog NZ on climate targets
A conservative Australian politician turned climate leader has told New Zealand ministers it is in their interests to do more on climate change.
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"Without significantly investing in alternative modes, and then investing the revenue in frequent buses, protected bike lanes, or better train services, this isn't a congestion charge, it's just a tax on those who can't afford it” - Tim Welch www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution
Congestion charges can lower emissions and travel times by putting cordons around the central city and spending the revenue on public transport, but proposals for Auckland could end up doing neither.
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution
rnz.co.nz
Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution
Congestion charges can lower emissions and travel times by putting cordons around the central city and spending the revenue on public transport, but proposals for Auckland could end up doing neither.
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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Just got a 🧪pitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column. Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this 🙄
Is Colossal a threat to Science or Is it Science's Last Hope for the Next Generation?
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
😂😂
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I feel like there was a book about this kind of thing.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"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...
rnz.co.nz
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.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"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...
rnz.co.nz
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.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
There are many ways of destroying the integrity of #science. But one of the most critical is deleting data or failing to collect data or firing the people or destroying the instruments that collect the data that contradicts your preconceived notions. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
npr.org
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Seems like a good time to reshare this 2022 piece. Every New Zealander who’s ever had dengue caught it overseas. We have all the ingredients to start our own outbreak – bar one. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...
stuff.co.nz
Aotearoa's biggest tropical disease threat
The only thing missing for an outbreak of dengue fever in New Zealand is a hotter climate, and we’re doing our darnedest to change that.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What if the low-carbon commuters of the future are bus passengers? These researchers reckon buses have a lot going for them - they don't worsen congestion or motor accidents like EVs, and they can go places quickly and easily that rail can't But they need bus lanes www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Buses, not EVs, could be the real solution to health and climate change
Transport and climate researchers say there are other ways to get both health and climate benefits than switching one type of car for another.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What if the low-carbon commuters of the future are bus passengers? These researchers reckon buses have a lot going for them - they don't worsen congestion or motor accidents like EVs, and they can go places quickly and easily that rail can't But they need bus lanes www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Buses, not EVs, could be the real solution to health and climate change
Transport and climate researchers say there are other ways to get both health and climate benefits than switching one type of car for another.
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
NZ’s gas supply is collapsing — and the govt’s big fix? More drilling. But experts (including Shane Jones’ advisors) say it likely won’t work, and there’s no backup plan if it fails. My story here www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
rnz.co.nz
Why drilling for fossil fuels is not expected to fix our energy crisis
The government is touting oil and gas exploration as the answer. But there are grave doubts it will work.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/08/2025
Vatican to become the world's first carbon-neutral state.
apnews.com
Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state
Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a plot of land north of Rome into a solar farm that will generate enough electricity to meet the needs of Vatican City.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"Even as fact-checking surged in the past decade, so had the wave of false claims and narratives swamping the world." Washington Post fact checker takes the buyout. Reflects on what he saw, what he did. Difficult to read without rage formation of some kind. Gift link: wapo.st/41kFq2G
wapo.st
Analysis | The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.
Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"It's really beautiful to imagine relying on a power source that you can't hoard." If you feel yourself slipping into climate doomerism like I have lately, I implore you to read/listen to this convo with @billmckibben.bsky.social. It genuinely helped me see a path forward
heated.world
Where does the climate movement go from here?
In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
a troubling sign for international Norms
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 29/07/2025
Five years after the taxpayers got left with a $300m clean-up bill for an oil field, Shane Jones is weakening the rules put in place to prevent a repeat.
newsroom.co.nz
Govt rolls back clean-up liabilities for offshore drillers
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
You would think so, but no. The quote marks were real.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"And in terms of providing a Māori dimension, I interviewed myself." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Last-minute change puts oil and gas cleanup decisions in ministers' hands
A significant 11th-hour change will hand new powers to two ministers, and gave the opposition less than 23 hours to prepare.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I wouldn't listen if it was, my frenemy.
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