As I write, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is about to publish their latest report. I reckon it should be called
After the Howl of a Protest which swept through Cambridge and the rest of the country last Friday,
I wrote recently about timescales and how we sometimes refer to mind-bendingly long periods of time in convenient terms like the 'Cambrian explosion'
A study published last year concluded that half of the CO2 emitted by the global aviation industry is caused by flights taken by just 1% of the population.
I have said in this column that I think our government has handled the Covid19 situation very well.
There can be no doubt that New Zealand's approach to the Covid19 pandemic has been successful so far.
In my last column I said I was feeling a lot better about the future of the planet because economics will take care of the tough decisions, and I believe that is true.
When the evidence points to the necessity for a change of mind then a change of mind it will have to be.