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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Wonderful, Wonderful Carbonhagen

This blog really begins with controversy in the “Skeptiks Guide To The Universe” podcast. I suggest you check out the last 3 episodes. The mistake the hosts made is to use the term “climate change deniers”. This is is a semantic time bomb. The man-made climate changers don’t like having pointed out... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 11, 2009

France 1: Paris 1: Gare du Nord

I did my homework! All the travel guides and the internet as well said you could take push bikes onto the Paris Metro (except weekday rush hours). What none of these mentioned was the etiquette for this; or that, while you ARE able to, it’s not easy. First you come to a turnstile. Some stations have... Sign in to see full entry.

Under The Mountain

The film version of Murice Gee’s novel about psychic twins, alien slug creatures and Auckland’ s volcanos was released this Thursday. I’ ll be giving it a review in a few weeks. ’s novel about psychic twins, alien slug creatures and Auckland’’ Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Rocket Launch

New Zealand's first rocket launch went well. Unfortunately there was much to be desired in the recovery of the payload - it's still bobbing around in an 80 km2 area of water and the global positioning system ran out of power about 32 hours ago... Sign in to see full entry.

Dolphin Alert!

A dolphin in New Zealand has taken to playing with surfboards. This is not unusual among juvenils. He has come to official notice after a surfer reported him to the police for theft. True story! The official response is that wild animals are incapable of distinguishing between play and theft and... Sign in to see full entry.

The Basis Of Dysfunctionalism

Last week I wrote about the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. I sat on that blog for a few days because of the release of hacked emails from a climate research centre in East Anglia, England. This is explosive stuff. I waited to see if the legislation would be withdrawn in light of these... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Shock & Horror

In order:- New Zealand is listed as the least corrupt country in the world. I can't help connecting this with the absence of Helen Clark from the country. As P.M. and without consultation she signed NZ up to the Kyoto Protocol. We are currently thrashing ou an emissions trading scheme which is... Sign in to see full entry.

Climate Change

An opinion piece in the "Guardian", a British newspaper, attacked New Zealand's clean-green image by pointing out that, not only has NZ failed to meet its Kyoto Protocol limits (cutting CO2 emissions to 1990 levels) but its emissions have increased. While this is true the attack on NZ's clean-green... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Auckland International Film Festival 2009

As I left for France on the opening day of this festival I haven't been able to blog about the films. Now I'm back I'm trying to catch up. My timing seems to be impeccable for the release dates of those I wanted to see. When I've got the complete set I'll blog on what I WOULD have watched. Sign in to see full entry.

Leaking Homes

This is not the first time I have blogged on this issue. Here’s the backstory:- over a decade ago the NZ government changed the building code. 10 years ago it was discovered that this change was causing buildings to rot. At tat time a change of regulation and about NZ$500 million would have fixed... Sign in to see full entry.

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