May 2008
23 posts
Introducing @acampos to @kmilden, sheesh
Thanks @sterlinge http://xrl.us/bk6kt
Nullius in Verba (Nobody's word is final),...
Much of the public has come to believe that anyone who is skeptical about the dangers of global warming is an enemy of the environment. The skeptics now have the difficult task of convincing the public that the opposite is true. Many of the skeptics are passionate environmentalists. They are horrified to see the obsession with global warming distracting public attention from what they see as...
Loving the Flaming Lips now more than ever.
Working on my short game / playing with Dusty the doggy
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See you on the flip side
The Neural Buddhists - New York Times →
In unexpected ways, science and mysticism are joining hands and reinforcing each other. That’s bound to lead to new movements that emphasize self-transcendence but put little stock in divine law or revelation. Over the past several years, the momentum has shifted away from hard-core materialism. The brain seems less like a cold machine. It does not operate like a computer. Instead, meaning,...
“If you can’t find it here now, you won’t find it there later, which is just another here/now anyway.” @aaroncampos is my hero.
Mexican
Bandits & the Butchers take the stage
Mandolins are huge in Portland. Well, …
ZERO MOTORCYCLES →
Listen to this awesome electric bike. I do believe the future of motocross is electric.
O’ sweet completion; Restful swaybacked treetop breeze; Half a saw workhorse
$1 pizza happy hour makes me happy
It’s well after 5 o’clock somewhere is why.
Climate change controversies: a simple guide →
The British Royal Society has produced this overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand some of the debates in this complex area of science.
About ice on the north pole
pmark: if temperatures aren't increasing, why is it melting?
acampos: that seems like such an absolute question. I would say it's fluctuating as its always done
pmark: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html
pmark: so then we just didn't have data before?
acampos: well what exactly on this page do you want me to respond to?
pmark: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
pmark: I'm just trying to figure it out
acampos: there have been found wooly mammoths frozen intact in Siberia I believe, with tropical vegetation in their mouths which doesn't grow there at the present day
acampos: it has been both warmer and colder in the past than it is now
acampos: if you looked at a graph of temperatures over the last 5000 years, could you pick out the "ideal" climate for Earth for which all others were worrisome?
pmark: santa barbara
acampos: right, everybody else is screwed
pmark: well let's talk about something that matters
acampos: ok. This data on this graph goes back to 1979
acampos: we have been in one of the most active solar cycles on record up until a year or so ago
acampos: so I, of course, don't have any issue with saying that temperatures were going up recently, they clearly were
acampos: but I believe some of the latest data shows it coming back in equal measure
pmark: Re: CO2 and other emissions directly from human activity, what if governments are able to curtail emissions?
acampos: I think it's skipping questions
acampos: first of all, the Kyoto Protocol is a disaster
pmark: your hair is a disaster
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acampos: http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=192
acampos: The current (March 2008) global sea ice area is about 1,000,000 square kilometers greater than the 1979 to 2000 monthly average.
acampos: they have an interesting video
acampos: better than the other one I think
acampos: http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=158
pmark:  if we don't fight the weather in the north pole, we'll be fighting it right here at home
acampos: now let me be clear. I'm not saying don't be environmentally responsible. But let's not be hyperbolic
pmark: "Although there is more ice than this time last year, the average decline rate through the month of April was 6,000 square kilometers per day (2,300 thousand square miles per day) faster than last April."
pmark: i win
pmark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxQni-gSnk
acampos: ok fine
acampos: well I still say there's been more and less ice in the past
acampos: it's been both warmer and colder in the past
acampos: and it will be the same in the future
acampos: I can give you my non-scientific but psychological point of view
acampos: it's a function of fanatical sectarianism to be looking forward to a horrible end to the earth, unless everyone comes to your point of view
acampos: the world will end badly if we're not all christians
acampos: muslims
acampos: insert your social group here
acampos: anyways, I'm all for honoring Father and Mother
acampos: but it should be based on reality
acampos: and I'm not convinced of ACCC
pmark: IPCC?
acampos: I meant anthropogenic catastrophic climate change
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– Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times by Thomas Friedman
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