by Cimino | 27 Mar 2011 | Establishment trials
The preceding two days’ weather had precipitated a trickle of apologies. However the day dawned as fine as the forecast charts, stemming what otherwise might have become a flood of cancellations, and vindicating the decision to charter a bus. With the relief that...
by Cimino | 26 Mar 2011 | Sea-level rise
Schoolchildren will assume that the crowds he addressed filled stadiums. In decades hence, when told Dr James Hansen lectured in Aotearoa in 2011, they will assume it was to Rugby World Cup-sized audiences. Thermal inertia in Earth systems allows the mainstream media...
by Cimino | 12 Mar 2011 | Climate strategy
Think Mahurangi action act global Every catchment issue is set to become more acute, despite the best intentions of the Mahurangi Action Plan. Stormier weather will wash ever more soil into the harbour, and higher tides will more vigorously churn and muddy its soft...
by Shane Jones | 8 Mar 2011 | Motorway
Labour Party Media Statement 8 March 2011 Labour’s Transport spokesperson Shane Jones is welcoming reports that the so-called ‘holiday highway’ from Pūhoi to Wellsford may be delayed, with completion of the $1.3 billion highway possibly pushed back to 2024: ...
by Cimino | 8 Mar 2011 | Cartoons, Motorway
Christine Rose is emphatic that Christchurch comes first. Reacting to strong indications by the government this morning that the planned Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway will have to wait for Christchurch to be rebuilt, the Labour Party candidate for Rodney told the Mahurangi...
by Cimino | 2 Mar 2011 | Sea-level rise
Updated 4 September 2011 The Alpine Fault doesn’t move 30 millimetres every year. It does on average, but the fault hasn’t ruptured since 1717. If goes anytime soon, nine metres of pent up horizontal movement could be released in an earthquake of a magnitude of more...
by Sir Peter Gluckman | 22 Feb 2011 | Science
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, KNZM FRSNZ FMedSci FRS Chief Science Advisor Address to the 1st Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Greenhouse Gas Research Centre The greenhouse gas consortium is the centrepiece of a major New Zealand commitment to take its global...
by Cimino | 19 Feb 2011 | Mahurangi Club
Mostly, the Mahurangi Club is the first Monday of the month. But in March, it will be one week later—the 14th. While Mahurangi River Winery’s Shelley Trotter was relaxed about the gathering being held in her premises in her absence on the scheduled Monday, she was not...
by Cimino | 13 Feb 2011 | Action plan planning, Sedimentation
Old Masonic Hall to see new public forum Local government reform always provokes vociferous reaction. The Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, regardless of how democratically or otherwise it proceeded was always going to aggrieve a goodly percentage of the...
by Cimino | 8 Feb 2011 | Regional parks
Te Muri acquisition key to coastal trail It was to have formed part of a scenic coastal road. In 1973, when the regional councilthe then Auckland Regional Authority secured 63.8 hectares of coastal land at Te Muri for that purpose, such car‑centric thinking went...
