Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Slightly off subject
The Times: Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns
Slightly off subject but worth posting.
Climate change may be worse than we think. If we are predicting a k-winter of economic hardship and various oil wars over the next decade and a half, there is little chance of any effort going into climate change.
Posted by sold 2 rent 1 @ 08:17 PM (178 views) Add Comment
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1. nearly30 said...
s2r1 - you are a miserable git aren't you.
Have you seen Children of Men? There is a great scene where a TV shows a report saying something like - The World has collapsed - but Britain remains and stands alone" - it shows scenes of anarchy around the World - great stuff!!!! Your cuppa tea!
2. Scott said...
Who cares about climate change? I want to be able to buy my own house so that I can be "accepted" as an equal in British society. Let some idiotic billionaires worry about the damn weather!
3. shipbuilder said...
I think that's its easy to get carried away with tales of impending doom. What we should realise is that for every generation and at most points in history, the future has looked bleak in one way or another. As i've said before, one could easily see the current climate as a great 'changing of the guard' away from the greed of consumerism and the finance sector back to traditional values, where being a City boy or CEO isn't the pinnacle of human achievement.
4. Scott said...
Actually ShipBuilder, I hope this happens. Anybody can be a CEO or a financial bulshitter, but how many people can cook a decent meal, build a house, play an instrument, write a book, look after a sick person, speak another language, help a stranger, raise a proper family? In the current climate, if you could do all of these but you do not own your own house, you are considered to be a loser.
5. lvmreader said...
All you need is Texxi - www.texxi.info
6. Boarder said...
Gerbil Worming is a 4 Billion+ a year scam.
Those grants going to those who recommend more money goes through bureaucrats hands.
"He who pays the piper calls the tune".
7. sold 2 rent 1 said...
nearly30,
I have way too much time on my hands.
I have been meaning to watch that film since I saw the trailer.
shipbuilder,
You are correct.
I remember in the 1980's when the impending doom was a simple 4 minute warning.
Now it is a bit more drawn out when many unknowns.
Climate change is the big unknown whereas HPC is a formality by comparison.
My internet business which generates cash with minimal effort has had all future versions put on hold.
I am now full time on HPC with the emphasis on research into shorting the crash of 2007.
8. Ericthered said...
without being to much of a doom munger, hpc will proberly be the least of our problems in the not so distant future, and our children will look to us in disbelief in the world we hand down to them, but hey at least i can say, yes but i got a house...
9. also sold to rent said...
I don't really understand wanting to:
"buy my own house so that I can be accepted as an equal in British society"
Surely you should be self confident enough not to need 'acceptance' by people who measure you by whether you own a house or not? Also, which British Society? As a working class person my family has stood out as the odd ones because we have bought houses (one each, not BTL), whereas most people I know still live in council houses or flats.
I think it's probably best to buy or rent based on value for money. From 94 to 2004-ish it was probably good to buy, whereas now it seems good to rent. Perhaps from 2010 it might be good to buy again.
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11. Bodkin said...
http://tinyurl.com/3xjxhl
"Despite what you might have read, global warming is, on balance, beneficial to the Northern Hemisphere. It will be a big boost for agricultural production as the corn belt moves northwards and old people will have less reason to fear the winters."
12. talking rot said...
In the 1970s, the great worry was a return to an Ice Age - it never happened. The climate of this planet has always changed and will always change due to many factors. Pollen evidence showed the extinction of the Wooley Mammoths was due to a temperature rise of 5 C in 20 years; no evidence has been found that Wooley Mammoths drove too many cars or flew on cheap flights around the world.
The orbit of the earth is alters every 10 thousand years or so. A Serbian scientist, (I believe it was Malikovich but it is probably spelt incorrectly) predicted orbital paths which took the earth closer to the sun would occur during ice ages. Orbital paths that took the earth farther from the sun had the effect of making the earth warmer. Decades later, using high power computers, he was proved right. The earth will warm and cool as the earth warms and cools. Man can only mildly alter the swings. Lets remember the Gulf Stream only occurred relatively recently when South American collided with North America. Before that collision, the UK's climate would match that of Newfoundland and Labrodor which have similar latitude. I do not think we'll ever be able to alter the orbital path of the earth or the movement of continents so don't worry. Just relax and remember the natural state of the northern hemisphere is ice covered - it has been covered in ice for far more of its existance then it has been warm enough to sustain life.
Climatic disasters will not cause a HPC by flooding parts of London and the SE.
13. mrmickey said...
Wrong, I saw a Wooley Mammoth last week driving a Audi TT.
14. talking rot said...
mrmickey
Did it have a portfolio of Buy-To-Let properties?
15. talking rot said...
Oh, and a fake sun-tan that made its hairless ears look orange?