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PaulEKruger
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Supramolecular chemistry, MOFs and carbon capture @UCNZ. Principal Investigator @MacDiarmidInstitute. Ōtautahi, Aotearoa/New Zealand. He/Him. My views, not my employer's. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
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Ao/NZ guvmint says, 'nah, f*ck that".... #NZpol

Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our findings show that global methane abatement yields large net economic benefits. Achieving the Global Methane Pledge results in more than $1 trillion in annual avoided market damages by 2050. Benefits are greater in lower-income countries because of their higher vulnerability to climate change. Methane action also reduces climate risk, including the likelihood and severity of extreme damage outcomes (climate tail risk). It lowers the intensity of several key tipping points: For example, by 2050, the likelihood of Amazon rainforest dieback drops by 8% and Indian monsoon disruption by 13%. Even using conservative assumptions about costs, the benefit-cost ratio of methane action is at least three—rising to more than six when health cobenefits are included.
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Because blossom makes everybody's day better! #cherryblossom #Ōtautahi
September 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Things I can't see our current government achieving in Ao/NZ #NZpol

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Helsinki has no road deaths in last year
September 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Oh, great, now Scifinder has succumbed!? Will this improve an already brilliant search engine or enshitify it like Google search has done? Though I can rest easy because, "created and modelled by scientific experts"... #chemsky
August 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Street art New Brighton Mall, Otautahi.
June 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Posted in solidarity with the 200,000+ voters, mostly women, who had their pay equity claims dismissed (stolen) by the coalition of chaos to fund their budget! #nzpol #never4get
May 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Bouy and horses, Waimairi Beach.
A B&W photo of an abandoned bouy on deserted Beach with riders and horses in the distant horizon
April 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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In 2009, John Key, then prime minister, set out to “match Australia by 2025″. In Wellington, the capital, some now joke that a more realistic goal would be to “beat Fiji by 2050
March 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Done!
Screen shot of submission completion speaking against the Principles of the Treaty... racist bill
January 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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This is great and all, but it's saving 11,000 what of what now?

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
A screen grab of text saying, “It’s an 8 megawatt heat boiler which is saving 11,000 CO² per year from coal. It is fully renewable Meridian electricity." The post queries absence of units and incorrect molecular formula for carbon dioxide.
December 5, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Farewell to TA SDT-Q600 TGA/DSC instrument, have a peaceful retirement after 16yrs of hard graft. #NZchem #chemsky
A picture if a TGA/DSC instrument as it reaches its end of life after 16yrs of dedicated service
November 28, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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And done! The calendar will make a fantastic addition to our kitchen wall in 2025!
Image of thank you for your order
November 27, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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Ready and waiting for Bob Mould!
Picture of an empty stage, mic, amp two guitars, waiting for Bob Mould to appear
November 21, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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Waitangi Park, toitu te tiriti!
November 18, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Just arrived into Wellington on a Sunday night, very quiet, but the beer is tasty.
Picture of a bar in Wellington that is very quiet, with a tasty beer on the table in the foreground
November 17, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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Greetings from Mt Smart at the end of a phenomenal Pearl Jam concert!
Photo shows Eddie Vedder on a video screen at Mt Smart concert
November 10, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Billionaires and lobbyists have seized control of our national narrative

www.theage.com.au/national/bil...
Every night these past weeks, someone has asked me if I’m hopeful about our chances of meeting the challenges of our day – the climate emergency, the extinction crisis, and the shameful growing gap between the rich and poor. All I can tell them is that hope is something we make together as a bulwark against despair. As a crucible of fellow feeling. I’m determined to help foster hope and extend the conditions under which it can flourish
October 29, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Ooofff! That has gotta hurt. How did that make it all the way through to publication in the first place? Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of the group meeting when that error was discussed. #chemsky #naturephotonics
The authors have retracted this article. After publication it was brought to their attention that the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) efficiency of 7.6% reported was incorrectly calculated. The correct value is 3.04%. This error arose because 40 cm2 (LSC edge area) was used as the device area instead of the correct area of 100 cm2 (LSC panel area). All authors agree with this retraction.
September 5, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Wow!

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Text describing how India failed to score a boundary in a 97 ball sequence
November 19, 2023 at 11:13 PM
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September 25, 2023 at 5:20 AM