Bryan Walker • Jan 11, 2011 •
Ethical oil. That’s what Canada is producing from its massive tar sands operation, according to the newly appointed Environment Minister Peter Kent. I admit to having missed that dimension in what I have read of the oil extraction from tar sands. I understood that when the CO2 emissions from its production is added to the [...] … Read More
David Winter • Jul 11, 2010 •
I think I've finally got back into the rhythm of life in Dunedin after The Big Trip, so it must be time to get back to spending a little bit of my weekend documenting some of the goings on in the spineless world. Thankfully, having gone to visit the su... Read More
Shaun Hendy • May 14, 2010 •
I am in the USA this week attending a meeting of a Canadian research network that is very similar in some ways to New Zealand’s Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs). The Canadian scheme is called CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) and was set up in the 1980s to try to counter the understandable tendency of Canadian scientists … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Dec 21, 2009 •
During my PhD studies in Canada, I devoted a considerable amount of time and effort to becoming a mediocre ice hockey player. I have a scar and a grainy photograph to prove it. You can imagine, then, what a difficult decision it was to come back to New Zealand to start a post-doctoral fellowship in a city without an … Read More
Bryan Walker • Oct 18, 2009 •
“This is a story of betrayal, a story of selfishness, greed, and irresponsibility on an epic scale.â€Â That’s how James Hoggan opens his newly published book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Hoggan initially thought there was a fierce  scientific controversy about climate change. Sensibly he did a lot of reading, only to find [...] … Read More