by Cimino | 11 Aug 2018 | Action plan, Aquaculture, Marine farming, Mussel action, Sedimentation
The first time science brought its muscle to bear was in 2004. After ten years of studies aimed at baselining selected catchments ahead of urban development impacts, the scientists involved persuaded the former Auckland Regional Council that urgent intervention was...
by Cimino | 31 Jul 2018 | Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Weekend number one, would be the all-important, we’ve-only-got-one-shot-at-this, World-Famous Weekend in Warkworth. Ideally, the inaugural weekend would feature three world-famous names. Say, Angela Lansbury, Sir Bob Geldof, and, for the Sunday, Richard Dawkins—the...
by Cimino | 19 Jul 2018 | Climate action commission, Nuclear power
Photovoltaics have a huge future and have grown enormously, to about 1% of global energy use. Banking heavily upon it, Germany has plunged it’s poor into energy poverty, by shuttering nuclear. And not because of nuclear’s risk or impact on health, but to pander to...
by Cimino | 17 Jul 2018 | Climate action commission, Nuclear power
One person’s demagogue is another person’s saviour, and, for many fans, the Elon R Musk credibility needle will have finally flicked from where it had been firmly stuck on f—to e. For most students, in this age of social-media-supercharged celebrity, learning...
by Cimino | 13 Jul 2018 | Agricultural emissions, Carbon tax, Climate action commission, Nuclear power, Population
Comment on the proposed zero-carbon bill closes at 5 pm on 19 July. The following pro forma is provided by the Mahurangi Magazine in the earnest hope that the resultant legislation is exponentially more substantive than a zero-carbon-by-2050-target act. Having...
by Cimino | 10 Jul 2018 | Climate action commission, Climate mobilisation
Proposed carbon bill zero-action Generation Zero is ecstatic. But over a proposed zero-carbon bill that clings stubbornly to the ineffectual, at best, emissions-trading-scheme approach. To be fair, Generation Zero’s enthusiasm is primarily for having succeeded in...
by Dr James Hansen | 27 Jun 2018 | Climate action, Nuclear power
Thirty years later, what needs to change …in our approach to climate change As published in the Boston Globe 27 June 2018 Thirty years ago, while the Midwest withered in massive drought and East Coast temperatures exceeded 100°as published: 100 degrees FahrenheitF, I...
by Cimino | 25 Jun 2018 | Climate strategy, Coalition democratisation, STV
Corrected 30 June 2018; 16 August 2018 Mayor Goff was elected by barely 18% of registered voters. Len Brown at least, won 47.8% of votes cast, but only because voters were then still in the dark about his grubby use of Auckland Council property. But the bigger crime...
by Cimino | 8 Jun 2018 | Campaign Finance Reform, Climate action, Climate mobilisation, Democracy, Nuclear power, Rail with trail, Transport and climate action
Visiting Aotearoa for all the right reasons Neither of New Zealand’s two main industries is currently sustainable. Its once-vaunted agricultural industry, a proud part of the green revolution, is now a climate delinquent, due to the white gold-rush. Tourism, which...
by Cimino | 24 May 2018 | Democracy index, Election turnout, Term of office, Youth voting
You say you want a constitution and less democracy What’s good for doctors of medicine, it would appear, doesn’t apply to doctors of law. The imperative to first do no harm is being violated in the latest proposal by Dr Andrew Butler and Sir Geoffrey Palmer qc...
