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Mike Pole

From New Zealand. Traveling the weyward path trying to figure out how the world works. I study fossil plants, past climates, travel, walk, hike, read, take photos, struggle with computer graphics and plant trees.

  • Australian EcologyClimateFire

    Australia’s Black Thursday Fires 1851 – how big and why?

    by Mike Pole January 11, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 11, 2020

    Have you noticed? Despite Australia’s on-going fire disaster, there are no shortage of reports telling us to … relax – it’s nothing …

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  • Climate

    Limestones, Climate Change and Scepticism

    by Mike Pole January 3, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 3, 2020

    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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  • ForestsGeologyHistory/ArchaeologyNew Zealand plant fossilsUncategorized

    New Zealand’s Doggerland

    by Mike Pole December 27, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 27, 2019

    Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …

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  • History/Archaeology

    A Nail up the Nose, and another take on Monotheism

    by Mike Pole December 22, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 22, 2019

    You’d have to really dislike someone to bash a nail up their nose. The day before Wanaka’s Alchemy Cafe closed because of …

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    Sudden Stratospheric Warming Closed my Cafe

    by Mike Pole December 6, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 6, 2019

    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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  • History/ArchaeologyTravel

    Searching for Smyrna in Izmir, Turkey

    by Mike Pole December 2, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 2, 2019

    So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …

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    Nominated: Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog on WordPress!

    by Mike Pole November 26, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 26, 2019

    Last week I checked my email, to find that I had been nominated for the Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFire

    Australia – both Greening and Burning?

    by Mike Pole November 16, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 16, 2019

    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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  • Australian EcologyClimateFire

    How You Can Predict Bushfires in Australia – Four Days Out

    by Mike Pole November 11, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 11, 2019

    Tomorrow, 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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  • History/ArchaeologyTravel

    That Rich Woman in the Slovenian Forest

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019

    We don’t know what she looked like, because most of her upper body has vanished…. Most of you probably don’t know of …

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MikePole
  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
    • Travel
    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
    • History/Archaeology
    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
  • Places
    • Australia
    • Armenia
    • Bosnia
    • Brazil
    • Canary Island
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Turkey
    • Estonia
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Mongolia
    • Kazakhstan
    • Russia
    • Uganda
    • New Zealand
    • India
    • South Africa