Posts by James
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I'm just saying that the stats on the Herald page show you what was most clicked.
Won't trivia stories always win on clicks? Person A reads business news, person B reads Auckland news, Graham Reid reads the music reviews, but they all glance at the trivia and schadenfreude section. Does that mean that even one person thinks the trivia article is the most important one they read that day?
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We are, I think, the youngest society in the world
Um, no. We might be a little bit younger than most of Western Europe, but about the same as the USA, and much lower than places like Iran or the rest of the Western Pacific...
(apologies if that Trendalyzer link doesn't work well.)
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Interesting that the Metservice's own website says that our cool summer was, in part, caused by global warming!
It is increasing becoming clear to us that something is happening in the Polar Regions. The climate there seems to be changing faster than elsewhere. The breakup of the Larsen B platform back in February 2002 freed ice which had been held in place for at least 5,000 year. As the ice breaks off it allow bergs to escape [...] these ice bergs came in with some melt water fresh from Antarctica, possibly helped along by an El Nino that peaked in November 2006. All these factors contributed in part to parts of New Zealand having their coolest December in 60 years.
Is Professor Auer still employed by Metservice? And does anyone know which university gives him that title?
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As for our Christian foundations ... Robert Stout helped put our schools on a secular footing; and Julius Vogel was hardly Christian.
As a "protestant atheist", I quite like that tolerant heritage.