Climate brinksmanship in an age of climate sensitivity uncertainty
That the phrase climate brinksmanship brings only 38 Google hits, 41 years after the Charney report…
Making molehills out of mobilisation mountains
What should have been no worse than a four-thousand-death epidemic is determinedly on its way to becoming an at-least-four-million-death pandemic—a cruel and unnecessary global demonstration of the nothing-to-see-here-folks instincts of bureaucrats and…
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Climate inaction and gratuitous risk-taking adventure tourism
From Mount Erebus to Carterton, Aotearoa has accumulated an appalling air-crash record. While pilot error was found to be the cause of the latter disaster, the country’s risk-taking tourism culture is endemic and stretches a long way back. In the era before the main...
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Overreact now to Gulf invasion and war on a habitable climate
What we need is a decent nuclear accident, then they’ll vote Values. That was well before Chernobyl, in fact five years before Three Mile Island. And sadly, the self-appointed Values Party spokesman wasn’t being factious. Aside from the tragic state of mind that would...
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