by Cimino | 31 Oct 2012 | Regatta 2013
In 2011 it was Cyclone Wilma. In respect to this summer’s tropical cyclones, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research reports that meteorological forecasting centres are predicting: …near average or slightly above average numbers for many islands [are]...
by Cimino | 12 Oct 2012 | Establishment trials
In an ideal world, the Mahurangi Magazine would stick to its knitting. It could focus on the environment of the Mahurangi catchment, particularly the harbour’s elevated sediment accumulation rate. In this ideal world, the global, big picture issue of anthropogenic...
by Cimino | 20 Sep 2012 | Climate action, Media missing in climate action
By its very definition, global warming is a world issue. Global warming is also, inescapably, the world issue—the only one on track to take and to shorten billions of lives, and the only with the potential to extinguish life worldwide. Yet the New Zealand Herald’s new...
by Cimino | 9 Sep 2012 | Coalition democratisation, MMP
Cure for ills of democracy is smarter democracy As submitted 7 September to MMP Review, except where noted Aotearoa is still very near to having the world’s smartest electoral system. If, as is entirely probable, the Electoral Commission’s proposals become its...
by Cimino | 28 Aug 2012 | Climate strategy, Moratorium on population
Incalculable celebrity of being the 1 generation in 40 million C hances, overall, were nominally 1 in 40.01 million. The chances, that is, of being the generation that held the key to the survival of 40 million generations of human beings. Earth has existed for...
by Cimino | 18 Aug 2012 | Climate mobilisation
Cold has forever staked humanity. The Ice Age—or more formally, the Pleistocene glaciation—began 2.58 million years ago, and genus Homo just a whisker after that. Ostensibly, the Ice Age is ongoing, and the present interglacial period, during which Homo sapiens...
by Cimino | 15 Aug 2012 | MMP, Online
Labour has just been handed a third potentially pivotal gift. Eighty years ago, the preoccupation of the United and Reform coalition predecessor of the National Party with balancing the books led to real unemployment reaching 30%, to food riots, and to the election,...
by Cimino | 7 Aug 2012 | Climate strategy, Moratorium on population
Survival in the hands of generation 10 001 Sustainability could be the death of us. Bursting beyond the seven billion milestone, and with two billion poor and one billion poor and hungry, the global population is projected to swell to between 10 and 16 billion by...
by Cimino | 29 Jul 2012 | Smart networks
Green Party energy spokesman Gareth Hughes describes it as unhelpful. But when the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment finds that subsidising smart meters would make a significant contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, in Aotearoa, and that...
by Cimino | 23 Jul 2012 | Climate action, Reviews, Science
Manifest evidence suggests science not an option Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1927–2003 When Professor Sir Peter Gluckman recommends a title with such seemingly marginal appeal as The...
