One of my most popular blog posts is a list of 40 books we liked to read to our first child when she was a toddler/preschooler. In that same spirit, here’s a list of 20 books that we’ve enjoyed reading to our children when they were babies. 1. Dear Zoo By Campbell, Rod This is one of those […]
Archives for November 2015
Roger Kerr: The Working Man and the Man and his Work
(The following is reprinted with the permission of Bryce Wilkinson. It is the eulogy he delivered at the service to honour Roger’s life held on Thursday 3 November 2011 at 2.30pm at Old St Paul’s in Wellington.) (Photo courtesy of the New Zealand Herald) Roger Kerr committed his working life to improving the quality of […]
A response to “What’s really warming the world?”
Back in June, an article on Bloomberg had some pretty fun charts that purport to unequivocally demonstrate that man and his CO2 emissions are wholly responsible for Earth’s warming since 1880. Every few weeks another friend seems to stumble across this article and share it. I’ve been offering them all friendly explanations about the reality of these charts, but […]