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This is my home for things that don't, for one reason or another, belong to Twitter, Facebook or my other blogs. Here you will find my thoughts and musings on topics ranging from climate change and energy issues to mobile & IT technologies, reviews on things I read/see and from cultural commentary to photos. In other words, the topics are all over the place - so if you're looking for a blog with a consistent focus on a single issue, keep looking :)
Tag Archives: climate
Expecting a minor bump; about to hit a brick wall at 200km/h
That, in a nutshell, is my take on the current state of the world when it comes to climate change and other “challenges” ahead. How to tackle it? As much as I criticized The Lean Startup book in my review … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Environment
Tagged Arctic sea ice, climate, climate change, climate models, crop yields, ecology, energy, IPCC, population crash, sustainability
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The winners and losers of climate change
One of the most tragic “PR mistakes” of the past several decades was to choose to call climate change “global warming“. Global warming was easy to dismiss; in colder countries, you almost welcomed any such notion and in warmer countries … Continue reading
Posted in Climate
Tagged arctic, Arctic sea ice, Australia, bushfire, climate, drought, extreme weather, Finland, forest fire, jet-stream, jetstream, tipping point, USA, weather
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Second impressions on Australia
Curiously, there’s no phrase “second impressions”, so what comes after first impressions? Noting that I wrote a couple of posts about first impressions of Australia some 2½ years ago ([1], [2]), it’s time to take stock of some cultural and … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Culture, Finland
Tagged Australia, business, climate, cultural comparison, culture, environment, Finland, houses, impressions, nature, notes, quality
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Backwater Australia – or maybe not?
There is a general consensus or at least an attitude in Europe that Australia is quite a bit behind in most, particularly technological, things. However, there was also a general consensus in Europe that it was leading the mobile devices … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Culture, Finland, ICT-stuff
Tagged Australia, climate, culture, environmental awareness, Finland, houses, insulation, iPhone, mobile, mobile networks, technology
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Once-in-a-hundred-year events every five or ten years? Welcome to a brave new world.
Lately, weather has been the news more often than followed the news. After every major storm or other weather event, meteorologists around the world get asked the same question: “Was this due to climate change?” And all around the world, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Environment
Tagged climate, climate change, creeping normalcy, cyclones, floods, la nina, shifting baseline, storms, weather
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