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- 09/14/09
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Global Warming Takes a Break
I am beginning to see more and more articles claiming things like this: "It is increasingly clear that global warming is on hiatus for the time being. And that is not what the UN, the alarmist scientists or environmentalists predicted. For the past dozen years, since the Kyoto accords were signed in 1997, it has been beaten into our heads with the force and repetition of the rowing drum on a slave galley that the Earth is warming and will continue to warm rapidly through this century until we reach deadly temperatures around 2100."
How Jeremiah Burroughs Learned Contentment
Timmy Brister prints a guest column by Phil Simpson who is writing a biography on Burroughs. Simpson demonstrates how it is that Burroughs learned to be content.
High Speed Internet vs. Carrier Pigeon
I love the originality of this experiment. "An IT company, Unlimited IT, set up the race between an 11-month-old bird named Winston and the ADSL service of the country's biggest Web firm, Telekom. Winston took two hours to carry a 4GB data stick 60 miles; in the same time, 4 percent of the data had been transferred via ADSL."
Pulpit Magazine Returns
I think this may mark the second time Pulpit Magazine has made a comeback (Pulpit is a ministry of The Shepherds' Fellowship). Anyway, it's back (again). This week they are focusing on the difference between a Catholic and Protestant understanding of justification.
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I am beginning to see more and more articles claiming things like this: "It is increasingly clear that global warming is on hiatus for the time being. And that is not what the UN, the alarmist scientists or environmentalists predicted. For the past dozen years, since the Kyoto accords were signed in 1997, it has been beaten into our heads with the force and repetition of the rowing drum on a slave galley that the Earth is warming and will continue to warm rapidly through this century until we reach deadly temperatures around 2100."
How Jeremiah Burroughs Learned Contentment
Timmy Brister prints a guest column by Phil Simpson who is writing a biography on Burroughs. Simpson demonstrates how it is that Burroughs learned to be content.
High Speed Internet vs. Carrier Pigeon
I love the originality of this experiment. "An IT company, Unlimited IT, set up the race between an 11-month-old bird named Winston and the ADSL service of the country's biggest Web firm, Telekom. Winston took two hours to carry a 4GB data stick 60 miles; in the same time, 4 percent of the data had been transferred via ADSL."
Pulpit Magazine Returns
I think this may mark the second time Pulpit Magazine has made a comeback (Pulpit is a ministry of The Shepherds' Fellowship). Anyway, it's back (again). This week they are focusing on the difference between a Catholic and Protestant understanding of justification.
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Comments (5)
Okay, but how long would it take that 4GB of data to be transferred via USB or some other means, onto a computer on-site, in usable form? Surely less than it takes via ADSL, but not zero time, either. A data stick in the mouth of a pigeon is a hunk of metal, it's not usable data. It's not usable data until it's plugged into the computer and uploaded.
And then, as others in the article point out, 60 miles is all very well and good, but the utility of the carrier pigeon decreases dramatically and the utility of the ADSL line increases dramatically as distance increases.
The point that Internet transmission is not always as efficient as we think was probably made, but not quite as simply as stated.
"While they deny it now, the facts to the contrary are staring them in the face: None of the alarmist drummers every predicted anything like a 30-year pause in their apocalyptic scenario."
No, they didn't. But I'm not sure they predicted its absence either. The global warming hypothesis is that temperatures are rising gradually over time. That does not mean there won't be periods of cooling interspersed into the larger warming trend.
When it comes to global warming, I take solace in the fact that most likely in my lifetime one side or the other will be able to say, "I told you so!".
Actually, Pentamum, physical transfer of data is quite common when high bandwidth is needed. Any time a large chunk of data needs to be sent (large here is large, not home user sizes), it will be sent by companies specialising in shipping hard drive arrays by truck. For many scientific applications, covering telescopic images or large quantities of sensor data, this is the fact the only way to transfer it. Sending a single (long format, 12m) shipping container full of hard drives outstrips capacity of the entire internet. Take off a bit for cabling and mounting, and transferring the data, and it looks pretty sensible.
Great article by Gunter in the National Post.
The Nobel Peace Prize starts losing its meaning when they(whoever they are) start handing it out to figures like Gore. There are scientists who are constantly trying to put the word out that global warming is disinformation, that ice caps are melting on Mars too - nothing new. But for some reason, they don't get much air time...
The pigeon story is hilarious. And also kind of depressing...at least for South Africans. Hopefully, the government will now take heed to the awful internet/cable problem in that country and maybe even do something about it.
The experiment was certainly original. The fact that the Unlimited IT group actually did this instead of just joking about it is one of the best parts. And then the bird won!
I watched a well-made, interesting video on this at newsy.com. The video will only take a few minutes and is worth watching/commenting on:
http://www.newsy.com/videos/the_pigeon_and_the_internet