Published 22 December 2016 on The Big Picture RT.
Yearly Archives: 2016
The Earth Has Lost More Than Half Its Animals Since 1970. The global wildlife population declined by nearly 60 percent over the past four decades according to an alarming new report from the World Wildlife Foundation and the Zoological Society of London. This rate of decline is set to continue […]
Two Thirds of all Wildlife Extinct by 2020
How 80 year old Deshun Wang started his life over many times and is now a global phenomenon on the fashion catwalk!
Life Lessons from an 80 Year Old
Tai chi is a noncompetitive martial art known for both its defense techniques and its health benefits. As an exercise, it comprises gentle physical exercise and stretching with mindfulness. It has been shown to improve balance control, fitness, and flexibility, and to reduce the risk of falls in older people. […]
Tai Chi
The Morgan Foundation’s first report, Climate Cheats, showed that NZ was the biggest user of fraudulent carbon credits from Ukraine and Russia The Government responded by saying that they didn’t purchase the credits, companies did. This is despite NZ being the only Emissions Trading Scheme in the world that allowed […]
Business Dirty Dozen
The Great Dying wiped out at least 90% of the species on Earth due to an abrupt rise in global-average temperature about 252 million years ago. The vast majority of complex life became extinct. Based on information from the most conservative sources available, Earth is headed for a similar or […]
Climate Change Summary
An important scientific milestone was reached on a windswept point at the bottom of the North Island this week. NIWA atmospheric researchers run a Clean Air Monitoring Station at Baring Head, about 15 minutes’ drive from Wainuiomata, and have been closely watching the carbon dioxide readings as they edged towards […]
New Zealand Reaches Climate Change Milestone
Yoga is a mind and body practice with historical origins in ancient Indian philosophy. Various styles of yoga combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation. Yoga has become popular as a form of physical exercise based upon asanas (physical poses) to promote improved control of mind and body […]
Yoga
After New Zealand – A Climate Change Update “I’m Paul Smith, a Fellow of the IET and a, one time, promoter of the real science behind Climate Change. I last did my last talk of a series over five years ago in New Zealand and much has happened since then […]
After New Zealand
The Government’s climate change policy has been a failure and will have to be rebuilt. There needs to be a fundamental change in the Emissions Trading Scheme, the subject this week of a damning report by the Gareth Morgan Foundation. But other changes are also needed. The Morgan report confirmed […]