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Christopher Cape returns with a column about the Wairarapa Balloon Festival.

Blue tick farce the latest instalment in the Twitter tragicomedy.

Ground war. energy crisis. major oil companies posted another round of staggering profits. next to the lake of reeva, but through it all, bertrand piccard remains a happy climate warrior. thanks to one hell of a life story. the gondola of the stratosphere balloon. his grandfather was one of the first two people to fly a balloon to the stratosphere. flight ends after reaching 10.5 miles above the earth. his father, one of the first two to take a sub to the oceans deepest trench. its a legacy so i...

To have reasonable answers in five years about what these things might do. you need to start today to do that aerosol generation in the lab to do it in chambers and to do in the next couple of years. these studies of individual plumes in the atmosphere. but even if the science pans out, the whole idea depends on trust and cooperation between rival nations. the pentagon is tracking a suspected chinese spy balloon flying over the northern us at a time when a single chinese balloon in the stratosph...

Amazing sensation. welcome in the sky. this is so amazing. i love good winning, but not so much as a sport more as a philosophy. philosophy of life. when you fly in a balloon, you are pushed by the winds there with the unknown. and your only way to steer the balloon. is to change your altitude to take another wind, another wind layer that has another direction. and in life. its exactly what we have to do. i gotta say this is a blessed departure from life on the climate beat. lovers, your friend ...

Nature and her systems. and a different attitude. about everything. do you anticipate when my little boy is my age? life will look dramatically different or you think well just have adjusted it and more efficient ways. if you keep the metaphor of the balloon, you have different altitudes. one altitude is to continue as we are doing now. with more and more climate change, more pollution less resources because we waste them. entire places on the earth that will be unlivable because its going to be...

Of pollution, inefficiency of problem. but while the card uses balloon and piranha metaphors to spread his gospel of techno optimism others look at the speed of the gathering crisis. compare our situation to a very sick patient. running out of time. if you think about it, like, uh, complex problem like the human body where youve got heat stress on the system, and you may need some emergency medicine for a while. coming up. how emergency medicine for planet earth. could be found in the clouds. yo...

East Germany, 1979. Two families are desperate to leave for the 'West' and plan to flee in a homemade hot air balloon. The amateurs make their first attempt, but close to the West German border, their balloon crash lands. They manage to avoid being caught, however, the wreckage from their escape attempt is found and that triggers a manhunt. Tension rises as the families, determined to try again in a race against time, are conscious of the search drawing ever closer.

Mercy. bye bye. revoir. oh, my god. its such an amazing sensation. welcome in the sky. this is so amazing. i love gardening, but not so much as a sports more as a philosophy. philosophy of life. when you fly in a balloon, you are pushed by the winds with the unknown. and your only way to steer the balloon. is to change your altitude to take another wind, another wind layer that has another direction. and in life. its exactly what we have to do. i gotta say this is a blessed departure from life o...

Next to the lake of gri ev, but through it all, bertrand piccard remains a happy climate warrior. thanks to one hell of a life story. the gondola of the stratosphere balloon. his grandfather was one of the first two people to fly a balloon to the stratosphere. flight ends after reaching 10.5 miles above the earth. his father, one of the first two to take a sub to the oceans deepest trench. its a legacy so impressive that when star trek created a new captain they named him, picard. you see the ba...