I regret to inform you that a bereavement has occurred and I’ll be focused on the family until some time next week.
Thank you for your understanding.
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A robust conversation
My apologies are overdue
I’ve been absent without excuse for just over five weeks—unprecedented in over eight years of climate blogging—and it feels like a lifetime. It is surely rude not to let readers know what I’m up to.
My wife Ann and I are busy readying her late Aunt Rita’s property for sale. It is nearby and completely absorbing. In about another month or so, I’ll be free to spend some time on the Climate Conversation again.
It’s delightful indeed that the conversation continues so well without me. Continue Reading →
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Life
Dear readers, please pardon my absence. A very dear elderly relative has been ill and passed away yesterday.
Rita was 91 years old so her death was not entirely surprising. Still, it was traumatic and she is gone.
Thank you for your patience.
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I’ve been busy
Business commitments have kept me from covering any climate topics for a while, but I plan to post an article or two at the weekend. There’s a paper on clouds by two Auckland researchers that has come to my attention and I may have time for further items.
So, my apologies, but I haven’t stopped either being interested in climate matters or spending time reading and writing about them. There’s a lot happening and some people have been quite excited at the extra realistic (sceptical) coverage of global warming.
I avoid getting excited because the great carbon-based wheel is now turning at a fair clip and will take a power of stopping. That’s no reason to slacken our efforts, but is a reason to raise the gaze to a slightly more distant finish line.
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I’m back. Thanks.
When I told you I was unwell, what encouraging and inspiring things you said! Thank you, thank you.
I’m fine now, with just one small procedure left, to be done in a week or two. At least another 40 years must be possible!
Now, with a renewed sense of humility, to continue the fight…
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Briefly in hospital
I’m having tests for the good of my health and regrettably cannot contribute as usual. North Shore Hospital doesn’t provide public Internet access and I don’t have the right gear to connect the laptop to the phone.
I’m obliged to type this on a teensy keyboard little larger than a postage stamp, which makes contributing wearisome.
My apologies, therefore, for a seeming absence. Be assured I am here in both body and spirit, carrying a watching brief with the doctors briefly watching.
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BLOG: resume; light on; head up.
Enough of research and archaeology of facts; now out with them, turn on the creative juices—in us all—and wipe out ignorance wherever it appears.
Where’s that duster…
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