This is sobering, and a good read; from this week's issue of the Newscientist
^^^^^^^^^^CFB
My monitor is very huge, I might open photoshop in a sec
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:52,
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I tried
"This probably means that one of the b3ta server mice has got drunk, and unplugged a server."
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:57,
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I forgotten the html code
for size=800 etc
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:01,
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fuck it
i'm moving to western Antarctica right away to beat the rush :D
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:08, Reply)
I spent three months on a kibbutz
in the Negev desert.
Whether climate change is avoidable or not, or man-made or not, is to be beside the point. Let's stop worrying about the polar bears and find out how to live in the desert.
For desalinating water we need a *lot* of energy, so it's about time we shifted on to fusion (or rather try to) or just covered the vast future empty quarters with solar power. At least the Arctic will open up more fuel reserves, living space (as there's less frozen in winter) and so on. So it's not so much OOOH, THE END! But rather, ooh, a new existence.
Most of us b3tards live on a temperate island.
Others live in rainforests
Others live in deserts
Others live on rafts going across the world's vast oce- wait, no, that's Waterworld. But the point still stands; people can adapt, we just need to.
Also, we could grow dates in France and Germany! Have you ever had fresh dates? Awww yeah.
Furthermore:
Wooooo, I'm a ghost!
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:53, Reply)
Global warming, blah, blah, blah.
Basically this says "We have no bloody clue what's liable to happen, but here's something to SCARE YOU!! (and sell magazines)".
I'm of the opinion that the planet takes care of itself, and has warm and cold cycles etc, and that it's standard human arrogance to believe we can have anything other than the most minor of effects on it.
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:27,
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I'm not, and agree with the much larger scientific census
and not with wankers like Jeremy Clarkson, who's attitude is not to give a toss, when something very real is happening to our planet
You have got to be about the most naive fucking spastic to not realize the world is warming up, and the human race is going to have to make some drastic changes; given it's utterly obvious by now; even after that twat Bush's approach to science and his neo conservative chums understanding of it.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:41,
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Well, he's not saying it's not getting warmer
he seems just to be saying it's not human influence.
I think we should try to prevent it, but as more of a side-project to avoid the damage and take advantage of the changes that we face.
I might make a youtube video teaching everyone how to wash with a small basin of fresh water, and maybe some sand (exfoliating is very important...); though really I just think a topless me would drive the viewing figures right up!
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:44, Reply)
Precisely.
I'm in full agreement with the development of green technologies, cutting back on the many and varied ways we pollute our environment etc. You don't crap in your own back garden, after all. If the planet is on it's way to warming up significantly though, 1) It's highly unlikely to be because of us, and 2) There's sod all we can do about it other than develop methods of coping with it.
Humanity needs to cut the "Green Angst" bullshit and knuckle down developing stuff like high efficiency solar power stations, fusion power, and cheap desalination plants. Growing up a bit and starting to respect the native animal and plant life would be a step in the right direction, too.
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:56,
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From having lunch with the scientist's I work with
people denying a human impact on climate change are simply laughable these days; and sadly it's far worse than we imagined. Hence a very good link above^
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:00,
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Seriously,
short of a massive nuclear deployment, how the hell do you think a few billion primitive life forms can have any significant impact on 5.9736×10^24 kg of stellar body?
Humans have a notoriously poor sense of scale.
(especially males...)
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Besides, there are SIGNIFICANTLY larger things for us to worry about. Ever spoken to a Geologist about the Shield Volcano under Yellowstone National Park? The one that's about 40,000 years late, and would make Krakatoa look like a Swan Vesta? Bare in mind that Krakatoa caused a 20-year mini-ice age...
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:11,
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Read the article, perhaps subscribe to the publication
You obviously simply aren't close to having a clue; and you are very boring at replying to; if you don't think a hundred years of industrial impact hasn't had an effect of the earth's fragile ecosystem, there is little more than I can be bothered to type.
And with that I'm off to bed, to see Arsenal tomorrow
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:25,
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Where the hell is that "Golden Flounce Award" JPG when you need it?
Some of these eco-types really don't like having their world-view challenged, do they?
Ps. I'm obviously not the only person who thinks this...
www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_report_translation/
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Pps. Arsenal suck.
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:39,
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Let me guess...
...you're with the Diplomatic Corp, right?
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:58,
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Haha
They expelled me for being to polite ;)
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:01,
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UK should be pretty damn nice then by the looks of things
check out France! wohoo!!
*surfs on French desert sands*
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:28,
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