In the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI met Bob Carter after one of my fossil-collecting mates, Duncan McLeod, came across some shell fossils in a ‘marl pit’ on …
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What happens when a seal swallows a lump of limestone? *** The broad theme of my back-packing trip last year was to …
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The weather around Wanaka, and the broader Otago Lakes area of New Zealand has gone slightly biblical. New Zealand’s National Institute of …
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Once again, the south east of Australia has had huge fires. But how can this be? Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising, …
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Climate & Earth Systems
How You Can Predict Bushfires in Australia – Four Days Out
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleTomorrow, Tuesday Nov 12, 2019 is looking very bad for south-east Australia (especially New South Wales, but also parts of Queensland, Victoria …
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It was next morning that I heard the bridge had washed away. I had hammered over it during the night – back …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
How Much Carbon Dioxide was in the Atmosphere of New Zealand’s Jurassic Curio Bay Fossil Forest?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHow do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …
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I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, …
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Canungra is the perfect place to stop for a snack on the drive up to O’Reilly’s/Lamington National Park in southeastern Queensland. On …
