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    Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist

    by Mike Pole February 6, 2020
    by Mike Pole February 6, 2020

    I 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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    How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia

    by Mike Pole January 29, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 29, 2020

    In the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFireForests

    Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?

    by Mike Pole January 18, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 18, 2020

    “This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …

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    When New Zealand was a Burning Land

    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020

    Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …

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    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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    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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  • Climate

    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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  • 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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    What’s Happening to New Zealand’s Haast Pass?

    by Mike Pole May 28, 2018
    by Mike Pole May 28, 2018

    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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  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
    • Travel
    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
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    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
  • Places
    • Australia
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    • Brazil
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