Cathrine Dyer & Bernard Hickey chat about the week's big climate news, including fears over a Trump victory, Australian tourism's climate risks, and the failure to learn from Cyclone Gabrielle
Good work you two. Bonus points for calling out that the USA is still an oil importer, in spite of the narrative around "energy independence." Production of oil in the U.S. has definitely increased, but it is well below consumption and always will be. One big discussion in US energy circles is when the Permian will peak, or possibly, is it peaking now, as the other LTO basins have done. That's game over. Bad for global stability, but good for the climate, in the end. Earth will win.
Great work again, Cathrine and Bernard. Where has the Government's Co-ordinated Incident Management System gone? I was trained in this 15 years ago while working in biosecurity, expecting a foot and mouth outbreak. We had a cross govt working group and I attended exercises working with the Ministry of Health, Councils, DOC, iwi etc so we could respond quickly to any sort of disaster. When Covid arrived I was absolutely stunned to hear from a friend who worked on the early response that CIMS wasn't used. In fact she said " what is CIMs?" which told me all I needed to know. NZ is a small country and we really cannot be reinventing the wheel every 5 minutes. If anyone here knows about CIMS and whether it is still around, I'd love to hear. Completely disgusted but not surprised that there is only one poor bastard expected to improve a disjointed, lumbering bureaucracy that can't remember what it did yesterday. Can't say I'm sorry to have left public service behind.
CIMS is absolutely still around and still formally the basis of response for any emergency across all government agencies and many private companies. However when the s**t hits the fan I suspect, and have heard anecdotes, that people revert to a ‘fight or flight’ response.
Excellent as always Team. I wonder Catherine and Bernard if you have thought of sending this email over to the offices of our major news media outlets? Oh, and every MP? Keep up this excellent journalism!
Good work you two. Bonus points for calling out that the USA is still an oil importer, in spite of the narrative around "energy independence." Production of oil in the U.S. has definitely increased, but it is well below consumption and always will be. One big discussion in US energy circles is when the Permian will peak, or possibly, is it peaking now, as the other LTO basins have done. That's game over. Bad for global stability, but good for the climate, in the end. Earth will win.
Great work again, Cathrine and Bernard. Where has the Government's Co-ordinated Incident Management System gone? I was trained in this 15 years ago while working in biosecurity, expecting a foot and mouth outbreak. We had a cross govt working group and I attended exercises working with the Ministry of Health, Councils, DOC, iwi etc so we could respond quickly to any sort of disaster. When Covid arrived I was absolutely stunned to hear from a friend who worked on the early response that CIMS wasn't used. In fact she said " what is CIMs?" which told me all I needed to know. NZ is a small country and we really cannot be reinventing the wheel every 5 minutes. If anyone here knows about CIMS and whether it is still around, I'd love to hear. Completely disgusted but not surprised that there is only one poor bastard expected to improve a disjointed, lumbering bureaucracy that can't remember what it did yesterday. Can't say I'm sorry to have left public service behind.
CIMS is absolutely still around and still formally the basis of response for any emergency across all government agencies and many private companies. However when the s**t hits the fan I suspect, and have heard anecdotes, that people revert to a ‘fight or flight’ response.
From being a tiny part of the cyclone Gabrielle response it was in use’ maybe after initial confusion.
Sorry meant to add see link here for use of coloured bibs for standard roles https://images.app.goo.gl/634M5yr1yJBngD6K9
Thanks Andrew, that's great to know!
Catherine - could you please post references to the comments/writing of Stern and Stieglitz on modelling?
Feeling very lucky to have found your work! Finally some great journalism. Thank you
Excellent as always Team. I wonder Catherine and Bernard if you have thought of sending this email over to the offices of our major news media outlets? Oh, and every MP? Keep up this excellent journalism!
Thanks Simon. The Parliamentary Library is a subscriber so they all should get it. :)