climate change

Thirty Million: Sobering look at the impact of sea level rise

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinJune 14, 2016June 4, 2018

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinApril 18, 2016

Carbon trading and fraudulent credits: New Zealand's dangerous game

by Dr George Preddey [Ed: The Morgan Foundation today released a report examining New Zealand’s use of “fraudulent” carbon credits purchased from the Ukraine. This piece from physicist Dr George Preddey pre-dates the release of the Morgan Foundation report but covers the same ground and comes to the same conclusions…] It is self-evident to this […]

Science and Society by Peter GriffinMarch 7, 2016

Book review: Pacific – The Ocean of the Future

I took incredible pleasure in slowly working through Simon Winchester’s new book Pacific, which serves as a sort of companion piece to his 2010 effort Atlantic. And what better a place to delve into a book about the world’s greatest ocean than in the middle of that ocean – Tahiti, where I was lucky enough to spend […]

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinJanuary 13, 2016

Climate focus

Victoria University’s Pacific Climate Change Conference will be held February 15 – 17 in Wellington and proves timely with Pacific nations making up a vocal minority at last month’s COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. Line-ups for the conference is below… check out the website for more details. Sciblogs writer Dr Sarah-Jane O’Connor will be filing some […]

Climate in 2015: El Nino's indelible mark

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinJanuary 12, 2016June 4, 2018

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinDecember 12, 2015

Climate of conflict: is global warming really not related to conflict?

by Dr David Hall Last month I wrote a New Zealand Listener column on the possibility that the Syrian conflict and climate change were, in some sense, related. Regrettably, a few days later, the same hypothesis was reasserted, less delicately, by Prince Charles. It felt too close for comfort. At least one local commentary was so breathlessly hysterical that I felt no […]

Savings on health costs would help offset more ambitious climate pledges

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinDecember 9, 2015June 4, 2018

Scientists and fossil fuel subsidies

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinDecember 8, 2015June 4, 2018

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinDecember 2, 2015

COP21: The latest

Here you’ll find links to posts from our various Sciblogs contributors and guest posters as well as to reports from New Zealand Herald science reporter Jamie Morton and RNZ political reporter Chris Bramwell, who are both at the COP21 meeting in Paris. Sciblogs News – Paris agreement settled Guest Work – Good deal or bad? […]

SCIENCE by Peter GriffinJune 24, 2015

Speed bumps on the road to Paris

The next few months will witness a steady build-up to COP21, the December major climate change conference organised by the United Nations, and in the mind of many scientists, our last chance to strike a global agreement to tackle emissions reduction in a bid to stop dangerous global warming. There hasn’t been as much anticipation […]