Hmm, I wonder what they are going to do with the Doomsday Clock?
The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public.
The event will take place at 10 a.m. EST on Jan. 14 at the New York Academy of Sciences Building in New York City. While the actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences offices in Chicago, Ill., a representation of the clock will be changed at Thursday’s news conference. (You can watch the live Web feed at www.TurnBackTheClock.org.)
The factors influencing the latest Doomsday Clock change include international negotiations on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, expansion of civilian nuclear power, the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, and climate change.
Which one are they going to blame when they move the big hand closer to midnight? Anyone who thinks it will be that last one, raise your hand.
Global warming may not be responsible for the break-up of ten Antarctic ice shelves.
Scientists have dropped sensors through several holes drilled in an eastern Antarctic Ice Shelf and discovered sea water in the area is still around the freezing point.
It has not reached higher temperatures that are frequently blamed for crumbling ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Scientists are puzzled how this could happen, and are working on figuring out how to blame it on Man.
It’s cold out there – blame global warming.
Weather experts say global warming not only warms the world, it also brings colder extreme weather.
“It means a higher risk of more extreme weather like freezing winter, snowstorms and scorching hot in the coming five decades,” Kuang Yaoqiu, professor with Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily yesterday.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. They can spin it all they want, but, rational people know complete bullshit when they hear it/read it. And that was a major pantload.
Elsewhere, the NY Times Thomas Friedman thinks there should be few Americans. Those cool wind farms in Britain? Yeah. About that. If only they could actually provide some power during cold weather.
