T h a t freezer door - was left open again

 

 

 

 

hmmmm - I had previously posted about the door to the Freezer room being left open - and - yup; you guessed it - once that happens then it gets cold in good ol' New Zealand.

 

In case you missed it - the ol' dude up there had a ball when he separated Light from Darkness and water from soil and so forth!!  He created Earth and everything that is in it - or better on it!!  

Our little paradise New Zealand - is often called Godzone (or phonetic as I think of 'Gods-own')! If you think about it - it has literally everything you can find elsewhere on the planet. Fjords / Sandy Deserts / Rain forests / Alpine regions / Flat plateaus/ long deep cave systems/ braided rivers to stunning narrow gorges/ Glaciers that retreat and grow (long-term weather depending), a Lake district, Geothermal activity (speak mudpools and geysers Ala Yellowstone Nat. park), stunning white (AND Black) sandy beaches - some so remote you can sit there all day long and be a hermit, natural hot mineral rich clear water springs, and yes - some very large powerful earthquakes etc.  

 

In terms of weather you can have every possible scenario - from month long droughts to monsoon type of rain, from heat-waves to snow - blizzards, crazy Foehn-type winds (with wind speeds from 110 - 300km/hr) vs long days of calm.  At any given day you can go from hot Fan-bake (+30c) to ice cold-snap freeze (5c) in less then an hour!  Houses used to be built on piles for the simple reason that anywhere - anytime, some 100-150 mm of rain falling inside 10 hours can happen.

The above picture is from windy.com and as you can see - the air comes of the big chiller room aiming straight at NZ!! Luckily for those further north - by the time it gets past the central plateau it will have sufficiently warmed up, to the point where we call anyone living north of Auckland - "living in the the winter-less north".  

PS - did you notice the MINUS 63 Celsius in Antarctica????   :P  

 

That cold air-mass can reach Brisbane (warming itself from the Tasman Sea) cooling them down to a "BALMY" 15 C !! It never reaches much further north - and we have friends in Darwin who say it is 30C year round - they just have a dry vs wet season!!! Ooooooh; to live in the Cook Islands where is a balmy 24 during a COLD day!!! :)

Anyhow - If you think you can design a landmass that can outdo NZ - feel free to get creative!  I happen to think that the Ol' Dude up there out-did himself and had a bit of fun with NZ and he just made it -- perfect!! 

Truly God-zone!!!



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Humanity mistakes knowledge with wisdom

 

 

 

Sometimes I think the more we know the dumber we become - or at least make bad choices! There is also a certain amount of arrogance at play here.  

In the beginning when humans run round earth freely - everything was fine until that fateful day when a snake tempted Eve who tempted Adam. The moment we had eaten from the forbidden fruit - yeah THAT apple - from THAT tree - (of knowledge) - things sometimes have gone worse for
wear so to speak.

Being endowed with knowledge does not make you automatically smart.  And to pretend otherwise just makes you a wisecrack and arrogant. 

Communism sees the world as in imperfect place that only they can "fix" with central structure and thought! As is often the case - once bureaucrats make decisions there is a hit and miss on desired outcomes - and so often accompanied by unintended consequences!! 

Case in point - the Chinese (communist) leadership were afraid of uncontrolled population growth - so in their great wisdom they decided to "control" the issue, eventually leading to the 'one child' policy.  On the surface a good idea.  The unintended consequences are as follows: 

An imbalance of girls vs boys with boys being more "valuable" commodity in their society! Thus there is a massive imbalance within the current generation - by a factor of 2 to 1!! What will that lead too????? To visualize this - in a setting that's more easily understood - imagine an end of year party for a high-school class - with 8 girls and 22 Boys attending!! Who will dance with whom???? Who gets to choose?? Who will be left behind or miss out leading to resentment etc????

The other unintended thing is - estimated that by 2030 - yes that is only 8 years from now - (hahaha apart from AOC's claim that the earth/humanity will cease to exist by then - sorry had to toss that in here) China's population will have a great imbalance in ages - meaning that it will have more people aged 60 or older then the rest of the combined  people which - once many of the older folks die away - that by 2050 the population of China will have halved - approximately.  That's still some 600 million mouths to feed . . . 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

I hear you - less people for the planet is a good thing -yeah - nah.

The world would be wise to start diversifying its manufacturing  business - and spread it all over the world. As far as I know, there is no social service pension at play inside China - meaning - as the saying goes - "No work No rice bowl"!! You either rely on the ever diminishing children / young people to look after you in your old age - or - you starve or work until you die!  What will that do to the society????

The dude in this Video has it right - as had the Tom Clancy Novel - I am convinced that they will at some stage make a land grab from parts of Siberia!!! They will follow Putin's lead and settle some of their folks - then claim it as "their ancestral land"" and defend it with everything they got!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI&ab_channel=ChrisWilliamson

Brace yourself - for I fear that a few non-wise choices are being made!

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Ps - My wife says: - "Knowledge is knowing that Tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is knowing you do not add it to your fruit-salad!!!"    :)

That open freezer door has a lot to answer for . . . . .

yup - a rare occurrence - snow in Christchurch!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300678783/live-snow-in-the-south-island-flurries-reported-in-wellington

Mamabear just had to release her inner child before heading off to work . . . . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What happens when you forget to shut the door to the Freezer?!

Well - not really a rhetorical - urm - sensible question! 

The answer is blindingly obvious - you get COLD - right?! 

https://www.weather-news-in-NZ

Snapshot from today's windy.com - you can see the cold freezing air coming from deep inside Antarctica - and yes - it is minus 40 C. 

So - no real surprises there!!!  Time to break out the Gluhwein and light a fire and get the sheepskin rug ready and - hmm yeah maybe some soft music and smelly candles and - Hey Mamabear - wanna . . . . . . ^.-

 

 

 

 

 

 Never let a opportunity go to waste!!!

 

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Why Mainstream news media can no longer report HONESTLY

Ok - our "Stuff.co.nz" site is a def left leaning news media - so far left that it is almost lying down . . . 

It just copies blindly many left leaning news "worthy" stories without giving it so much as an editorial check - - -no wonder then that many people no longer trust them (or any other main news organizations) to report honestly!!  AND most importantly - it has closed  its editorial mind on this issue - no questions are allowed to query the "human induced bad weather events" that make your life so miserable! Skeptics and deniers are banned from its news life cycle! Go figure!! Surely a healthy robust debate on its merits is the rock-bed foundation of a good healthy developing scientific debate!! Alas - no longer

Case in point - this mornings story about a cacti (copied from the Washington Post) :

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news-cactus dies

Sure -- its demise is a sad thing - and especially so seeing it was a semi famous photogenic being!!  This story appeared under the "Climate change" section!

It goes on to suggest that climate change is "probably" not to blame --- THEN uses a "but" and uses a lengthy paragraph trying to prove that very point of changes in climate! 

Well - NEWSFLASH - this type of Cacti has an average lifespan of 150 years; so for it to have lasted just past an estimated 210 years or so - it has done exceptionally well.

A quick wiki search on this type of cacti will tell you the same - - - - It has died of OLD AGE - a natural occurring phenomena!! Nothing to do with Climate.

If only they had edited that story and included a paragraph on its expected life cycle to give some 'Balance" to the story . . . . .

The only good news in this story was of the continuing benefit to the immediate close environment (bugs etc)  it does provide from its post-demise!!

'Comments' section on the Stuff site - not available - wonder why??  Maybe they fear that someone like me might say something that they find  - what - shocking?!?!?!  Upsetting??  Balancing?? Truthful??  Or Factual without the emotions - ah yes - that might be it!!!

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