weather Archive

  • Julie Anne Genter

    Day 7 — Serenity to accept that I cannot change - by Julie Anne Genter



    I’ve cycled 120km in one day before. Once, when I was 23. It was exhausting then, though I didn’t have much weight on my bike and hadn’t spent the previous week cycling five to eight hours a day. Oh, and I was probably fitter, too. Eight years later, I thought if there were enough hours in [...] read more
    January 20, 2012 10:31 pm - 3 Comments
  • frog

    Divine retribution? - by frog



    Since we’ve had a few negative posts on developments in Happy Valley recently, here’s one to cheer up those of you who, like me, think coal sux and wetlands are cool. It’s been raining on the Coast - not just cats and dogs but tigers and seals! The rain has apparently caused a massive slip on the [...] read more
    April 30, 2009 7:01 am - 9 Comments
  • frog

    Predicting the weather - by frog



    I’m always wary of linking specific weather events to climate change because while you can argue that climate change will and is leading to more storms, droughts and floods, you can’t realistically pin it to specific storms, droughts or floods as they occur. Nevertheless the link does need to be made, as the United Nations [...] read more
    September 3, 2008 11:06 am - 62 Comments
  • frog

    A giant koru in the sky - by frog



     Blair for Mayor sent me this satellite weather photo from midday yesterday and asks how the sky knew it was Te Wiki o te Reo Maori – Maori language week? I think I’m sitting in the middle of and underneath that koru now and it’s not so ?taahua looking up at it as it is [...] read more
    July 23, 2008 3:17 pm - 3 Comments
  • frog

    The smoking gun - by frog



    De Smog Blog has just commented on the issue that many climate change campaigners have been too scared to traverse.  Weather events are random, and you can’t pin any particular one to climate change.  There was some muted media discussion on hurricane Katrina and its links to climate change before the focus moved to the US [...] read more
    May 13, 2008 4:14 pm - 12 Comments
  • frog

    Joining the dots - by frog



    You’d think from listening to Radio New Zealand news this morning that something was going on.  First Al Gore collects his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, and says we face a  ”planetary emergency“.  “Without realising it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself.  It is time to make peace with the planet”. [...] read more
    December 11, 2007 9:12 am - 63 Comments