Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Trees In Antarctica
From
Don’t Go Into The Light…
SYDNEY (AFP) – Trees could be growing in the Antarctic within a century because of global warming, an international scientific conference heard.
With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere set to double in the next 100 years, the icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 million years ago, said Professor Robert Dunbar of Stanford University.
“It was warm and there were bushes and there were trees,” he told some 850 delegates in the Tasmanian capital Hobart, the national AAP news agency reported.
Here’s a thought. Suppose, for a moment, that climate change includes both warming and cooling. And it’s man-made. Temperature goes up and down, post-industrial-revolution, like a whore’s drawers. Global warming, fifty years later global cooling, fifty years later global warming again.
Antarctica has ice, then trees, then ice again. Ocean levels rise, then sink, then rise again. Up. Down. Up. Down. Up. Down.
Earth adapts. Animals adapt. People adapt. Through it all, on the advent of every new cycle, the international press and the United Nations go absolutely bollywonkers apeshit. It becomes routine after about a century or two, but they still keep going apeshit.
Wouldn’t this be completely consistent with the behavior of the human race up until now? To be confronted with fairly mundane challenges, and act, theatrically, as if the world is coming to an end? Food for thought.
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Excellent points! Thanks for saying them. I shall ponder. (I think I agree with you.)
- aup | 07/14/2006 @ 07:07