It's quite amusing... let's have a look:
AGW alarmism.
"Green" funerals with cardboard boxes.
A semi-sensible one regarding the ECB's president's denial that speculators are causing high oil prices... only to fail to diagnose the real cause.
Bernanke's stupidity.
...and one okay article.
Depressing.
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Irenicus' Diaries.
That first article "The swiftly tilting planet" stole the title of one of my favourite books as a child. It is depressing but on the bright side more people are starting to speak out against the concept of man-made global warming. The planet has been going through warming and cooling cycles long before the industrial revolution. Mars is also going through a patern like that of Earth also. Perhaps the Sun has something to do with the heating of the Earth? COuld that be? That big ball of radiation around which we orbit?
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Having a funeral with a cardboard coffin might not be a bad idea. I've never understood why people are generally willing to make huge investments (i.e. $10000 casket) in a consistenly futile enterprise like dying.
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Jon Irenicus: "Green" funerals with cardboard boxes.
Yes, that is absurd indeed! Don't they know, that trees fight global warming mostly in the first part of there life, when they grow most rapidly? The more trees we cut down, burry in the ground and replant, the less of the damn CO2 in the air! Ha!
lol;)
ryanpatgray: That first article "The swiftly tilting planet" stole the title of one of my favourite books as a child. It is depressing but on the bright side more people are starting to speak out against the concept of man-made global warming. The planet has been going through warming and cooling cycles long before the industrial revolution. Mars is also going through a patern like that of Earth also. Perhaps the Sun has something to do with the heating of the Earth? COuld that be? That big ball of radiation around which we orbit?
In all fairness, AGW seems to be occurring. However, it will have a very neglible effect, Gore is lying when he's saying that the icecaps will melt and that Bangladesh and Florida will be under water. The IPCC predicted that water levels will rise 1 1/2 feet in the 21st century. For comparison, water levels rose 1 foot in the 20th century. That's no big deal.
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:deletes post that basically repeats what's been said in this thread:The entire thing is amusing to me, honestly. I can't wait for the fallout of the next world war, though. I'm sure that will be great times (.end sarcasm).
krazy kaju:The IPCC predicted that water levels will rise 1 1/2 feet in the 21st century. For comparison, water levels rose 1 foot in the 20th century. That's no big deal.
What? No big deal? That's a 50% increase in the rate of rising oceans.
Time to build an Ark methinks.
Scientists are predicting a ice free North Pole this next year I think it was BTW...
Solomon: Having a funeral with a cardboard coffin might not be a bad idea. I've never understood why people are generally willing to make huge investments (i.e. $10000 casket) in a consistenly futile enterprise like dying.
I don't get that, either. You're dead; it doesn't really matter. And when I had my father cremated (as he wanted), I got a little plasticized cardboard box with his ashes. So I'm all for that cardboard coffin thing, as it were.
Cremation is the way to go. Couldn't care less about the environmental reasons for it though.
From the article about the fed:
The central bank announced that it was keeping the federal funds rate -- the interest rate that banks charge each other -- at 2 percent. It marked the first time in 10 months that the central bank has failed to reduce interest rates at one of its regular meetings.
Notice the words used: failed to reduce. As if the fed has some mandate to keep reducing interest rates, even into the negative realm! As if artificial manipulation of interest rates is a good thing. As if continuing to gorge yourself when you're full will somehow not lead to vomiting.
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