Archive for March, 2007
Climate change, real estate and insurance
0 Comments Published March 30th, 2007 in climate change Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitJust spotted this article over at Celsias about a handy tool for folk in the USA to appraise the impact global warming and climate change may have on their property value (and presumably livability).
Timely considering yesterday’s deluge in Northland. You have to wonder what is going to happen to property prices and insurance costs […]
TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere
Scoopit 0 Comments Published March 29th, 2007 Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitAs this blogger blogs, there is hardly a blogger who doesn’t blog about blogging and specifically about the plugins available for blogging. I too find myself compelled to seek out the most popular plugins for the most popular wordpress and then 1. use them and 2. tell others about them. But hell - who’s got the time? I don’t so here’s a link to the best aggregation of the best wordpress plugins available at Staska.Net. Pretty handy.
Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before
0 Comments Published March 29th, 2007 in Geekery, the oceans, Cool stuff Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitHere’s an interesting way of looking at the world.
Interesting to see that New Zealand is a right little fatty on fisheries exports which, given the mentality of one particular big fish, is a little scary.
Worldmapper allows you to see the world according to lots of different variables. Using ‘equal area cartograms’, otherwise known as […]
Talley’s Fisheries boss backs killing whales and seals
1 Comment Published March 26th, 2007 in the oceans Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitPeter Talley of NZ’s own Talley’s Fisheries showing us how the fishing industry do PR in these parts. Good one Pete - you’re a master. Homer Simpson couldn’t have done it better. The kids probably need counseling and the shareholders will be stoked with this.
Here’s a choice quote:
I don’t believe in animal rights. I […]
Something to look out for
0 Comments Published March 26th, 2007 in climate change Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitA Rising Tide - The Threat Of Global Warming: A documentary that addresses the increasingly disturbing onset of global warming and its effect on the planet.
This 2005 CNN Presents documentary about the hottest debate under the sun precedes next month’s retail DVD release of the Oscar-winning ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Sunday 25 March at 10 am on […]
Get up close and personal with a virtual whale
Scoopit 0 Comments Published March 26th, 2007 Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitCheck out this life size whale
The evidence just keeps piling up
0 Comments Published March 19th, 2007 in climate change Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitIt now seems that every day there is a story beginning with ‘this was the warmest, wettest, coldest month, year or season since records began.
There’s a story about some climate change impact in the newspaper just about every day. But still there are some people who stick their heads firmly in the sand and […]
Auckland, City of Cars episode III released
2 Comments Published March 17th, 2007 in climate change Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitCheck it out - part III of Michael Tritt’s brilliant documentary series on Auckland’s transportation woes. Just in time for the local body elections.
Episode II
Episode I
Global opinion warming
0 Comments Published March 17th, 2007 in climate change Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitJust picked this up over at Grist. An international poll covering 17 countries and representing more than 55 percent of the world population, has found worldwide agreement that climate change is a threat. Opinions are split on what do do but nevertheless the climate is right for strong political action. In 9 of […]
In the Green: Deconstructing Channel 4’s Great Global Warming Swindle
0 Comments Published March 17th, 2007 in climate change Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitThis is a brilliant discussion of the
very sad ‘Great Global Warming Swindle‘ ‘documentary’.
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