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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Its ability to strategize in order to catch its prey is legendary.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

You've not heard of the Portia genus of spiders then? They must be pretty close.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

How do people even get a mortgage on a house if it can't be covered by insurance?

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

At this point it appears that we're not just providing an opening but rolling out the red carpet.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

There's a lot of us that fit that description atm. Sorry, I can't help with the ice cream tho.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The publisher might have other ideas, but I don't think you're going to beat that for a title.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Far more profit to be made from destroying Earth's habitability. Do these people have no children or what?

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Presumably the risk of setting off tipping points is higher, the greater the overshoot.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So protecting free speech is also about protecting the right to blatantly lie and mislead consumers now? How far could that go?

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm not a koala expert at all - this was an undergrad study - but they usually move trees at least and sometimes they move a km or more. These guys didn't even browse much which made for a very boring night of observation - obviously very stressed out as catching a koala is quite a mission.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Elephants are just the casualties that we can easily observe. Goodness knows how many less obvious creatures perished.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Seems like the tagging didn't negatively affect its hunting abilities then. Good to know. Tagged some koalas once and they didn't move for at least a day afterwards.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I know it's an unpopular opinion but, when you've tried something for such a long time and it doesn't work, perhaps it wasn't the right strategy after all.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The argument is not about climate denial, it's about whether keeping the hope alive that we can still avoid catastrophic climate impacts will promote climate action. 20 years of claiming that "there is still a small window of opportunity" suggests not.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I don't buy the trope that pessimism leads to no action. Those people weren't going to act anyway and use pessimism as an excuse. All the genuine doomers I know are the most active environmentalists who live their values.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Believe me, I studied Transition Engineering where we actually design societies which function on far lower energy consumption. The moment you try to implement any of that, the pushback is crazy. Take 15 minute towns, so rational, yet people lose their marbles over it.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The science says that we are on track for 3C of warming by 2100 unless we change our trajectory. We have done nothing to change our trajectory and have not met any of our pledges despite 30 years since Rio. Not baseless - it's extrapolation of our current emissions profile and ff extraction plans.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If anything, I'm surprised that they greenwash at all. F1 and motorsports in general are the antithesis of environmentalism in all respects.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The only way we're going to cut consumption is by blowing past 3C of warming such that the transport infrastructure becomes unusable and we'll be forced into it. I wish it were otherwise but I see no other possibility. Even people who understand the consequences perfectly well still fly everywhere

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I wish they would stop referring to the ironsands as valuable. They really aren't.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What happened to the leopard? Tigers are much bigger I guess, and I'm sure you've got the biggest face eating cat happening here.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since they voted for it, I'm sure they must have a plan B. I can tell you that NZ Dairy are salivating already over picking up the slack.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There are various ways of removing nitrogen from steel, such as vacuum degassing and foaming slag in EAFs. And charcoal is used widely in blast furnaces in Brazil - not that I think that's a great solution. I don't know whether degassing is used in silicon metal production - surprised if it wasn't.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We can use biocarbon instead of coal so that the carbon used is already part of the active carbon cycle from sources that would otherwise release CO2 when they rot. There's no requirement for the mechanical properties of coke, which opens up a lot of other possibilities.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Carbon is still going to be required for many metallurgical applications, probably as long as we are still refining metals from ores. For example, whilst we can replace much of the carbon reductants required for ironmaking, we'll still need carbon for steelmaking.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

That's why I ultimately decided not to work in Zoology and went back to university to study Materials Engineering. I knew my heart couldn't take bearing witness. Now I work on techno solutions that I know can't work unless we combine them with a deep respect and love for nature.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/22/w... The steel industry is planning to decarbonize making coking coal mostly redundant. Miners should take this into account when planning ahead but it seems they are not.

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West Coast coal miner outlines plans under fast-track proposal

The company is applying for consents that would allow it to keep mining coal for a further 25 years.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Starting with social science, because "woke" - a word they can't even define. Have they banned the teaching of evolution, plate tectonics, paleontology, astronomy and any other science that indicates that the earth is older than 7000 years yet?

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Indigenous burning practices involved leaving a patchwork of unburnt areas. We need to apply the practices that aboriginal people spent thousands of years perfecting.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I lived with a Chinese Malaysian man for several years. Definitely expanded my dietary repertoire. Durian is still a favorite. Duck tongues, not so much. Never got to try husband cakes tho. There'll be an interesting story behind the name for sure.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I presume you'll find out if you're game to eat them. They look a bit seedy to me.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Such an unprofessional and haphazard way of addressing regulations. I expect to see f ups similar to the northland pylon falling over as regulations they don't understand are removed.

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