WMO: “Global Temperatures to Decrease”
4/4/2008. Listed in the Damn Science, You Scary! category. Leave a reply.The UN’s Meteorological advisors (the World Meteorological Organization) say that temperatures will not rise globally, again, in 2008. This means that globally the world has not warmed since 1998. Interesting, huh? (I’m rolling my eyes just now). I’ve really little … Continue reading
Number of Weather-related disasters rising?
11/24/2007. Listed in the Damn Nature, You Scary! category. Leave a reply.According to Oxfam, the number of weather-related disasters have risen greatly in the past 20-30 years, which I find interesting… Isn’t it only maybe 150 years at most since we stopped thinking bad weather was the wrath of God? We … Continue reading
Is Global Warming just a lot of badly recorded statistics?
8/19/2007. Listed in the Damn Science, You Scary!, Politics category. Leave a reply.I recently noticed that NASA corrected a Y2K bug, making 1998 no longer the warmest year in history. The warmest year on record is now 1934, 1998 is second and 1921 is third. While walking through Chicago yesterday I also … Continue reading
I think it’s really cool that they found another baby Mammoth, preserved in ice, but doesn’t this also make my point about Global Warming in a most excellent way? Scientists believe that Mammoths were made extinct when the world around … Continue reading
WTTW11 here in Chicago showed the Live Aid concert from 1985 tonight after the Live Earth one. It was so cool seeing Phil Collins, Queen, Bowie – all the really great people who played at that concert – and what … Continue reading
Now this is funny… Congratulations to Al Gore… Congratulations to you for convincing some of the richest people in the world (Hollywood actors) that you give a shit. Congratulations to those richest people in the world for convincing the world … Continue reading
Another Ice Age? Oh… No, wait a minute…
1/30/2007. Listed in the Damn Science, You Scary! category. Leave a reply.Check out this article from 1974 where scientists are saying that there is every sign that the world was entering another Ice Age, it’s strangely compelling to read, especially when this one from 1978 suddenly says the complete opposite. I … Continue reading
You know, yet again we have another news story on melting ice. This article talks of how the Arctic ice caps are melting and may be gone by 2040. I am quite skeptical. I am someone who needs to see … Continue reading
Cows account for 3% of Britain’s greenhouse gases. Scientists are trying to work out ways to stop cows from expelling air… Maybe I should be a scientist, within seconds I figured out all that’s needed is a few corks.
