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The Final Nail?
It is probably a bit too early for this, but we can hope. “If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet.”
Picture Show: Breach
“In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of western soldiers at rest in imperial palaces are both intensely jarring and oddly playful, and they underscore the seemingly ineffable experience of downtime during a military occupation. The transformation of an imperial palace into a site of temporary housing also speaks to the notion that our histories are constantly being rewritten—architecturally, sociologically, globally, and locally.”
When Your Child is Disobedient
Z offers a list of 10 things to remember when your child is disobedient.
Deal of the Day
I’m keeping an eye on Amazon (and other sites) this week just because of all the deals. Today at Amazon you can get a LG Blu-ray player for under $100. That’s hard to beat! “Get superior audio performance and full HD 1080p output with the LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player. This Blu-ray player not only plays DVD discs, but Blu-ray Discs as well and it features an HDMI with Cinema mode and 7.1 channels with Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, and dts-HD.”
It is probably a bit too early for this, but we can hope. “If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet.”
Picture Show: Breach
“In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of western soldiers at rest in imperial palaces are both intensely jarring and oddly playful, and they underscore the seemingly ineffable experience of downtime during a military occupation. The transformation of an imperial palace into a site of temporary housing also speaks to the notion that our histories are constantly being rewritten—architecturally, sociologically, globally, and locally.”
When Your Child is Disobedient
Z offers a list of 10 things to remember when your child is disobedient.
Deal of the Day
I’m keeping an eye on Amazon (and other sites) this week just because of all the deals. Today at Amazon you can get a LG Blu-ray player for under $100. That’s hard to beat! “Get superior audio performance and full HD 1080p output with the LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player. This Blu-ray player not only plays DVD discs, but Blu-ray Discs as well and it features an HDMI with Cinema mode and 7.1 channels with Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, and dts-HD.”
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Comments (3)
On ClimateGate and alternative energy: I may be missing something, but doesn’t the “alternative” mainly mean “alternative to oil”? Oil’s still running out, isn’t it?
Technically speaking, we’ll never run out of oil. That said, I don’t think it’ll stop being an economically viable energy source within our lifetime, or even in our children’s lifetime.
That said, while I don’t by into the climate change arguments (especially the wealth redistribution aspects) I do think we benefit from striving to use less energy in better, more efficient, ways. We’ll also benefit from energy diversification; but only, I tend to think, if we look at the options realistically (for example, I see a lot of push for wind, but it seems pretty expensive, not very friendly to birds or nearby people, and is not all that reliable at delivering energy).
I also think our past focus on real-world pollutants seems to make more sense and have more quality of life benefits than focusing on carbon dioxide alone.
We will still need alternative energy sources, but nonetheless if AGW is discredited, the alternative energy companies will take a huge short-term hit because they won’t be benefiting from the panic-mongering of the last decade.
Imagine if there were some sort of hoax or bad science perpetrated suggesting that wheat in any form was next-door to poison. The cornmeal and oat producers would immediately experience a surge, requiring large investment in production capacity. If the wheat scare was then discredited, it would badly hurt the oat and corn companies, even though people would still want tortillas and oatmeal like we did before the whole thing started.