Climate Matters - Jun 16 2025 - CM133

Energy and energy and energy - Energy craving causing ecological, geopolitical, and seismic risks on steroids - Spain’s blackout - a case of overcomplexity? – space junk and climate interact – NZ’s first grid scale battery – revisiting “revisiting Rod Carr’s valedictory” https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/ https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-133 https://www.resilienz.co.nz/climate-matters-podcast-climate-and-councils https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-tibet-yarlung-tsangpo-dam-india-water https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/15/spain-identifies-power-failure-ground-zero-as-search-for-iberian-blackout-cause-continues https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philippe-jacquod-76227a5_time-will-tell-what-circumstance-or-chain-activity-7322729833828945920-HS44/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-we-do-and-do-not-know-about-the-blackout-in-spain-and-portugal/ https://theconversation.com/spain-portugal-blackouts-what-actually-happened-and-what-can-iberia-and-europe-learn-from-it-255666 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/spain-power-outage-denies-power-grid-experiment-cause-blackout-5157301 https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/09/1108076/satellite-reentry-atmospheric-pollution/ https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-climate-change-will-reduce-number-satellites-safely-orbit-space-0310 https://satellitemap.space/ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561979/giant-battery-first-stage-of-ruakaka-energy-park-switched-on https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html https://www.nzagrc.org.nz/domestic/new-zealand-agriculture-and-climate-change-conference/conference-2024/