http://factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
Although I wouldn't be surprised if this one turned out to be a hoax, if true this would confirm my own beliefs on the subject of 'global warming'
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/arch ... FLASH.html
Good one, Kirai. I was getting the feeling that things were blown waaaay out of proportion and taken out of context with the original leak and the response it received. My two cents, anyway.http://factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
Although I wouldn't be surprised if this one turned out to be a hoax, if true this would confirm my own beliefs on the subject of 'global warming'
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/arch ... FLASH.html
Just stumbled over this, don't know how accurate it is, but it does seem to dismantle the arguments quite nicely.
Not relly, FactCheck.Org is a fairly left-wing website. Now, I'm not making a big arguement one way or the other (for records sake, I'm very right-wing when it comes to US politics), but would simply point out that FactCheck.org is not the first site I'd go for confirmation, no more then I'd jump on Human Events or the Weekly Standard (which are both conservative magazines, if you're out of the loop) for confirmations on it.Good one, Kirai. I was getting the feeling that things were blown waaaay out of proportion and taken out of context with the original leak and the response it received. My two cents, anyway.http://factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
Although I wouldn't be surprised if this one turned out to be a hoax, if true this would confirm my own beliefs on the subject of 'global warming'
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/arch ... FLASH.html
Just stumbled over this, don't know how accurate it is, but it does seem to dismantle the arguments quite nicely.
What? No seriously. What?On a completely unrelated note: Mankind lacks the ability to wipe itself out, and while I'm no fan of war, I must say that I think most wars are inevitable in some way or another, and technology, and society, leaps farther ahead during war then it does during peace.
But even if we detonated every nuke we had, we still wouldn't kill ourselves off. We are literally incapable of killing ourselves. So I don't worry.
Fixed it for you.Dresden Codak: For when xkcd's "art" isn't quite enough.
That about sums up the whole thing. Interestingly enough though the 'Farmers Almanac' is predicting a bitterly cold winter this year:Does this put a nail in the coffin of global warming? No, mainly because if you believe it, this is unlikely to shake you and if you don't believe it, it's just more confirmation of what you already know. You know?
That's a hard one to judge, for man made type stuff anyway. With a typical nuclear war scenario you're most likely correct and I doubt even Darkandus's scenario is likely to get us all. The most common dangerous radioactive fallout materials would become relatively harmless after a few weeks and there are thousands if not millions of people in the U.S. alone that have fallout shelters capable of getting them past that time period. Granted lifespans would become shorter and cancer rates higher but someone, somewhere some people would survive. Supposedly the Russians have entire city sized fallout shelters ready to go but I doubt that they're all the rumors say they are if they even exist. I'm sure the Russians have at least as extensive government shelters as the U.S. has but I'm not so sure about the whole 'underground city' concept. Also Switzerland has a ridiculously extensive fallout shelter system that was meant to protect every citizen in Switzerland from radioactive fallout for two years. Keep in mind that there are more people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today than there were before the two cities got nuked. There's also that guy up in Canada that buried a bunch of school buses for his fallout shelter for an example of a large private shelter. If something were to wipe all of us out I would think some sort of bio weapon would be far more likely to be able to do so than nukes. Even that would be hard to say if it'd kill everyone. As for all the high energy experiments I think that is basically impossible to gauge. Although there's certainly a possibility that something could happen that would actually destroy the planet, something like artificially triggering a new Big Bang. Nanotech gobblers are another interesting possibility but I think that's more science fiction as far as the gray goo scenario goes anyway.On a completely unrelated note: Mankind lacks the ability to wipe itself out, and while I'm no fan of war, I must say that I think most wars are inevitable in some way or another, and technology, and society, leaps farther ahead during war then it does during peace.
But even if we detonated every nuke we had, we still wouldn't kill ourselves off. We are literally incapable of killing ourselves. So I don't worry.
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