Monthly Archive for October, 2007
I should probably throw in the towel… I’m not going to hit 100 posts!
If you find this cartoon amusing, there’s a good chance you’re a nerd Can you resist clicking here?
Send a personalized message to your friends from Optimus Prime! Does it matter that I’m simply pushing corporate marketing initiative to sell more DVDs? Optimus Prime said my name! I don’t care!
No. Carbon dioxide levels are rising because we currently emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than natural processes like photosynthesis and absorption into the oceans can remove. Therefore, stabilizing emissions at today’s rates will not stop global warming: our carbon dioxide “deposits†would still exceed natural “withdrawals.†Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would continue to increase, and temperatures would continue to rise. To stop global warming, we will have to significantly reduce not just stabilize, emissions in coming decades.
Grist: How to talk to a climate change skeptic I can understand why people might be skeptic of climate change, but I find it impossible to talk to them.
Grist: For whom the Nobel tolls
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
UW’s Energy Days event explores a sustainable energy system for Ontario
will be held over the next couple weeks. I might try to check some of this out.
About 30 minutes after polls closed, CBC predicted a Liberal majority.
Radiohead’s new ‘pay what you’d like’ album has been released online. Download it if the site works… it’s been pounded all day.
Sputnik 1 launched 50 years ago today. It didn’t do anything except circle the globe every 96 minutes and emit this eerie sound for all radios to receive. Freaked the heck out of the USA and kicked off the space race.