Towards a warmer world - Hot Science Cool Tales with Veronika Meduna
The year 2015 was the hottest on record since we started collecting global temperature measurements in 1880 but 2016 is on track to break that record as the warmest year ever.
Hear acclaimed former Radio New Zealand science writer and the author of 'Towards a Warmer World: What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand’s Future', Veronika Meduna, on our future in a warming world.
Find out what our ancient geological past, current observations, and sophisticated climate models are telling us about the possible end-of-century scenarios for New Zealand. Could distorted ecosystems, extreme weather, new landscapes and adapted foods be some of the likely changes?
War Memorial Library, 2 Queens Drive
Thursday 10 November, 6.30pm
Hot Science Cool Tales is run in conjunction with GNS Science. This is the last one for 2016!
🧩😏 Riddle me this, Neighbours…
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
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Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
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Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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