Random Thoughts 6/6/11
Today is the 67th anniversary of D-Day. That means it's time to watch Saving Private Ryan again, or preferably Band of Brothers. However, I need to keep in mind which WW2 movies we may use in a home school history curriculum with my boys in the next few years. I don't mind re-watching movies but there's only so many hours in the day.
Here's an awesome article about the scientific examination of the tornado damage in Joplin, Mo.
You can watch a video stream of today's Apple keynote address at the Worldwide Developer's Conference. They introduced the next OS for the Mac, OS X Lion, the next version of the iPhone and iPad OS, iOS 5, and their new cloud services.
So Anthony Weiner was lying? No, say it isn't so. And yet it turns out there are more photos and more women involved. Good grief…
I'm not a fan of tattoos, but this left-wing nut wants people like tattooed for denying global warming. He goes on and on, because in his mind this is all inevitable, and he's willing to be the Gestapo of the loony-left for the sake of our collective future. His problem is that he's making several assumptions that can't be proven or even known entirely: 1. That Global Warming is happening. More scientists are jumping off this band wagon than on it as it appears that the warming trend of the 90's has stalled out. 2. That Global Warming is bad. The Earth has been significantly warmer and cooler in the recent past. It's the cold spells and ice ages that destroy crops and kill large numbers of people. 3. That mankind can do anything to change the ebb and flow of the climate. If we wanted to change the temperature of the planet by 1º in either direction, could we actually pull that off? Half a degree? How has it been able to change several degrees without us (in the past)?
So this radical lib would do what exactly? He jokes about tattooing (and killing) people who disagree with him. So what happens when people like him take over, imprison and murder the deniers, destroy offending businesses and ruin entire economies, restrict freedoms for a generation, and yet the Earth still does whatever it was going to do anyway? This guy (and those who think like him), without a doubt, is the most dangerous person in the room.
I saw this sign after washing my hands at the loading dock of the local Sam's Club. For some reason it made me chuckle. Just imagine all those poor forklift drivers popping up hundreds of miles from home. How many have we lost that we needed a sign?
3 comments:
I would avoid the Pacific for them (if you haven't seen it). It has more than just violence and language.
Oh yes. I'm talking about down the road, high school age, maybe an edited version, etc.
So Anthony Weiner was lying? No, say it isn't so. And yet it turns out there are more photos and more women involved. Good grief…
Of course he was lying. He's a politician. Seriously, it should have been clear to everyone he was lying when he claimed to have been hacked but then wouldn't deny that it wasn't a picture of his penis. He should be forced to resign for telling such stupid lies alone.
I'm not a fan of tattoos, but this left-wing nut wants people like tattooed for denying global warming.
It's called hyperbole.
1. That Global Warming is happening.
More scientists are jumping off this band wagon than on it as it appears that the warming trend of the 90's has stalled out.
Yeah, just like biologists are giving up on evolution, right? Scientists are not "jumping off this band wagon." Just the opposite. 98% of climate scientist agree that global warming is both real and anthropogenic. Furthermore, 2010 was the hottest year ever reported. Here's a video that can explain it in more detail. Here's another, just for good measure.
2. That Global Warming is bad.
The Earth has been significantly warmer and cooler in the recent past. It's the cold spells and ice ages that destroy crops and kill large numbers of people.
It's not the temperature that causes the mass extinctions and ecological collapses. It's the speed at which those changes take place that do the damage. Humans are changing the climate faster than it has ever happened within the paleoclimate record. Rapid climate change results in anoxic conditions in the ocean as well as alterations in sea water chemistry.
3. That mankind can do anything to change the ebb and flow of the climate.
If we wanted to change the temperature of the planet by 1º in either direction, could we actually pull that off? Half a degree? How has it been able to change several degrees without us (in the past)?
If we were to paint all the roofs in the US white, the increased albedo would be enough to lower the average global temperature by at least half a percent. So yes, we can easily increase or decrease the temperature by that much.
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