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Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Falling off the edge: in search of a flat Earth

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It's just possible that future historians will label the 21st century as the Era of Extreme Stupidity. In addition to the 'Big Four...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Wildfires and woeful thinking: why have Australians ignored global warming?

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In a curious example of serendipity, I was thinking about a quote from the end of Carl Sagan's novel Contact ("For small creatures ...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Ocean acidification: climate change at the sour end

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A few weeks ago, I overheard a 58 year old man telling a 12 year old boy that the most dire of scientists' warnings concerning global wa...
Sunday, 23 June 2019

Spray and walk away? Why stratospheric aerosols could be saviours or destroyers

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My first scientific encounters with aerosols weren't particularly good ones. In my early teens, I read that the CFC propellants used as ...
Monday, 10 June 2019

Defrosting dangers: global warming and the biohazards under the ice

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Despite frequent news reports on the thawing of polar and glacial ice, there appears to be less concern shown towards this aspect of climate...
Sunday, 10 March 2019

Buzzing away: are insects on the verge of global extinction?

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It's odd how some of these posts get initiated. For this particular one, there were two driving factors. One was passing a new house on ...
Saturday, 26 January 2019

Concrete: a material of construction & destruction - and how to fix it

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How often is it that we fail to consider what is under our noses? One of the most ubiquitous of man-made artifices - at least to the 55% of ...
Thursday, 11 October 2018

Sonic booms and algal blooms: a smart approach to detoxifying waterways

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A recent report here in New Zealand has raised some interesting issues around data interpretation and the need for independent analysis to m...
Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Seasons of the mind: how can we escape subjective thinking?

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According to some people I've met, the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere has been and gone with the first day of September....
Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Cow farts and climate fiddling: has agriculture prevented a new glaciation?

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Call me an old grouch, but I have to say that one of my bugbears is the use of the term 'ice age' when what is usually meant is a gl...
Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Water, water, everywhere: the hidden holism of H2O

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Like other northern regions of New Zealand, the summer of 2017 saw Auckland residents facing City Council requests to conserve water, as wel...
Monday, 8 May 2017

Weather with you: meteorology and the public perception of climate change

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If there's one thing that appears to unite New Zealanders with the British it is the love of discussing the weather. This year has been ...
Friday, 23 December 2016

O Come, All ye Fearful: 12 woes for Christmas future

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This month I thought I would try and adopt something of the Yuletide spirit by offering something short and sharp (if not sweet) that bares ...
Saturday, 26 December 2015

Beetlemania: can eating insects help save the environment?

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Christmas - along with Thanksgiving for Americans - has probably got to be the most obvious time of the year when Westerners over-indulge in...