It is time for one last look at the snow graph. It is a little over a month since The BFD last reported on the amount of snow in the northern hemisphere winter, so time to look again. Eyeballing that, it appears to have peaked at 3250 Gigatons, up some
Breaking news! A cure for COVID-19. 100% success rate! True or False? Disclaimer: My medical expertise is limited to applying a plaster with the sticky side down. The old reliable Malaria drug chloroquine, the newer version hydroxychloroquine has shown really good, three studies, one in Australia, one in China and
The government has produced a list of essential businesses. This list may evolve over time. SectorsEntities providing essential services (including their supply chains)AccommodationAccommodation services for essential workers and people who need to be isolated/quarantined BorderCustoms New Zealand, Immigration New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary IndustriesBuilding and constructionBuilding
An interesting paper has been presented showing an apparent link between COVID-19 hotspots and cooler temperatures. The authors state that the virus has “established significant community spread in cities and regions only along a narrow east west distribution roughly along the 30-50 N” corridor at consistently similar weather patterns (5-1O°
A High School in the USA has closed its gender-neutral bathroom after a student was arrested for sexually assaulting another student. Who woulda thunk it? An 18-year-old student from Rhinelander High School, Wisconsin, was arrested late February on charges of child enticement, fourth-degree sexual assault, and exposing genitals to a
The government has released a Draft National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity. It seems to be trying to right all the wrongs out in the environment and is going to be very costly for Local Authorities (read ‘Ratepayers’ – you and me) to implement. As drafted, it goes well beyond the
We keep thinking that the world cannot get any more stupidly ‘woke’ but, as Einstein reportedly said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” The latest idiocy comes from the USA (naturally) where a poor petal might be upset if
Oh dear, oh, dear. It seems all is not rosy in the green world of hybrid motoring. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) owners are not actually saving the planet. Woe is me! It seems that the claimed ‘economy’ figures touted by the manufacturers are not actually achievable out here
Our ‘impartial’ Speaker was working overtime during Question Time in the House on Tuesday. As usual it was Ardern he was running interference for; but this time it was by proxy – in the form of Winston Peters. Gerry Brownlee was having a fine time playing off the comments of Shane
Godwin’s Law: An Internet adage asserting that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1“; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to
Exhibit One: Banned by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, for use in the Underground network in 2016. He said, “I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women” Exhibit Two: Awarded a prize of £500,000 worth of free advertising space on the Underground
Just when you thought the world could not get any more bizarre, a purveyor of the filthy fossil fuels that are essentially carbon, declares that it is going to be ‘net zero by 2050’. Presumably they mean net zero business, net zero profit and net zero point in existing? It
It was approximately a month ago that The BFD featured this graph, so it is time to check in again on Dr David Viner’s prediction that children soon won’t know what snow is. Dr Viner predicted in 2000 that “within a few years winter snowfall will become a
This poem was a winner in a competition run by Resilienz Ltd. “In a world striving to understand and respond to climate change, Resilienz Ltd. provides high quality information and advice to public and private organisations and individuals needing to deal with climate change issues.” On Earth, love, and a
This poem was a winner in a competition run by Resilienz Ltd. “In a world striving to understand and respond to climate change, Resilienz Ltd. provides high quality information and advice to public and private organisations and individuals needing to deal with climate change issues.” It's personal I
