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Oil running out? Perhaps not
To assess oil reserves we must ask two questions. How many barrels of oil were in the ground before we started extracting it? How much have we taken out so far? We will never know the answer to either question. So how do environmentalists know we...
Mon, May 21, 2012, 8:45 am EST -
Traditional earthquake myths revisited
There are alternative theories around that are at variance with what media have been providing, nevertheless they are quantifiable from many sources especially Geonet's own website. Surfing the internet can show that these ideas are not mine alone. All...
Thu, May 17, 2012, 6:22 am EST -
The deception of rising sea levels
The deception of rising sea levels One of the more mystifying claims in the global warming/climate change debate is that of sea levels rising. There is a huge variation amongst scientists, from Al Gore's figure of 65m per century to NIWA's 1998...
Tue, May 15, 2012, 8:43 am EST -
China's pollution won't affect the world
Real science is actual observation and not computer modelling. City smog, haze etc does not go above a few hundred feet, kept buoyant in daylight hours by heat from the ground. You can look down on Auckland smog from the summit of Mt Atkinson in...
Wed, May 9, 2012, 7:50 pm EST -
If the planets could laugh
According to climate experts and politicians, if we persist in burning fossil fuels, this insensitivity by man could cause an environmental catastrophe, only avertable we are told by paying extra taxes. But is life on earth really that finely...
Tue, May 8, 2012, 2:19 pm EST -
Is NZ getting more earthquakes?
NZ has averaged 15,000 recorded earthquake events per year since first records began with the thousands of earthquakes in Christchurch in 1869-70. So far, about 2 million earthquakes have been documented for NZ. They have not suddenly appeared. NZ...
Mon, May 7, 2012, 7:01 pm EST -
A bad moon rising?
Perigee is the name astronomers give to the closest earth-moon distance for the month. On 6 May it is the May perigee. It will coincide with full moon. Some astronomers have coined the phrase ‘supermoon’ for when full or new moon...
Fri, May 4, 2012, 9:06 am EST -
From the outside, looking in
By James A. Robins When push comes to shove, pen comes to paper, or fingers to keyboard, I find it increasingly difficult to comment on protest movements these days....
Thu, May 3, 2012, 10:56 am EST -
Soldiers aren't martyrs, they're You and I
“The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable...
Tue, April 24, 2012, 7:07 pm EST -
What's the outlook for winter?
Ken Ring says this winter should be milder, with both snow and warm rain.Perigee is the day in the month when the earth-orbiting moon passes closest to earth. Within the week of perigee come higher tides and extreme weather. Perigees...
Mon, April 16, 2012, 4:22 pm EST -
Economic justice for all?
In early February of this year, I issued a rather scathing critique of the worldwide Occupy movement for its lax progress and staunch inactivity, and I stand by it, though with some amendments. I berated the perceived failure of those...
Tue, April 10, 2012, 3:17 pm EST -
Digital age predicted in 1974
In footage shot by ABC in 1974, futurist and inventor Arthur C. Clarke predicts the huge role computer’s would play in our personal lives.Clarke explains to his interviewer that computers will connect us with the world by the year 2001.Using his...
Fri, March 30, 2012, 11:31 am EST -
Our humble black gold on the black market
Behold, the humble favourite, New Zealand’s black gold, left unappreciated until now; Marmite.Produced by Sanitarium but loved by all, who knew a shortage would create the uproar we have seen this week.The production plant that produced the spread...
Wed, March 21, 2012, 12:56 pm EST -
Our humble black gold on the black market
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Wed, March 21, 2012, 12:48 pm EST -
Emotional blackmail in a digital age
Let us delve, however briefly, in to a constructed landscape not unlike Uganda, or Sudan, or the Congo....
Mon, March 19, 2012, 11:11 am EST -
Emotional blackmail in a digital age
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Fri, March 16, 2012, 4:03 pm EST -
God save the Queen
Look at her, swanning about in her fancy gowns, pearls about her neck, Corgis nipping at her bloated heels, with a blithering, sniveling racist of a husband at her side....
Tue, March 6, 2012, 9:21 am EST -
Ice shelf at breaking point
It was the start of a 2004 science-fiction disaster movie, but a NASA video released on YouTube shows that massive cracks in the Antarctic shelf may be more of a reality than you think.The Day After Tomorrow disaster opens with a the Antarctic iceshelf...
Thu, March 1, 2012, 9:57 am EST -
The only treasured items are people
I am a recent migrant to Auckland. Coming from post-quake Christchurch, the affirmed and concerned tone that people adopt when they hear where I’m from is really rather touching, and there has never been a point at which I’ve felt the...
Wed, February 22, 2012, 5:16 am EST -
The Valentine's Day asylum
Once again the very fabric of free society is being threatened by religious extremism, nay, by the very nature of religion itself.Three posts on the social networking site Twitter by the Saudi journalist and blogger Hamza Kashgari have prompted outrage...
Tue, February 14, 2012, 4:09 pm EST
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May 8, 2012, 11:49 amPrudey Sue puts her foot in it“There is a cure for poverty. It is a rudimentary one, it does work, though. It works everywhere, and for the same reason. It’s colloquially called ‘the empowerment of women.’ It’s the only thing...
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Ken Ring
May 25, 2012, 7:28 amCan we affect the weather?For climate or weather to be managed, modified, or in any way changed by humans is on a par with children's story books about monsters, goblins and gods who can do whatever they dream up just because they decide to. Thinking we are that Canutish...
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Yahoo! Upshot
May 14, 2012, 12:53 pmToddler wakes up air drummingMost parents would be happy to leave their kids sound asleep napping in the back of the car.But one family found a new way of waking their little brother up to a happier state on a car trip.A video uploaded to YouTube shows the three-year-old fast...
