4 January, 2004

Another blistering day. Went out for a bike ride this morning to get to know my new bike. As it was about 10am I slathered on the 15+ sunblock to stop from frying and headed off. Two hours out riding and I’m feeling a bit burnt and certainly looking browner.

I had a friend visiting from Norway a few years back who learned first hand about how dangerous not having ozone is. Used to the Norwegian sun which is pretty gentle really (5+ sunblock) he ignored our warnings and sunbathed with no sunblock at all. One hour lately he was badly burned and needed a cold shower to stop some of the blistering.

If you honestly believe global warming isn’t really a problem get your ass down here and sunbath for a few hours. If you’re not dead by the end of it you’ll be fucking sore. What really pisses me off is that NZ doesn’t spit out that much crap so we can’t really do much to stop the problem, other than rant and rave at UN meetings about the Kyoto protocol and generally get shitty.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and some cloud cover will come in soon. At least it’ll feel cooler. Hell, maybe some of the larger countries in the World will wise up.