Friday, 27 November 2009

The great global warming swindle



The climate is changing. The climate is always changing.

Scientists show that there is no connection between the human contribution of carbon dioxide and climate change / global warming.

Climate change is a political agenda. It is propaganda. Not science.

Why do we suppose CO2 is responsible for climate change?
CO2 = 0.054% of the atmosphere; how much CO2 is there in the atmosphere?
Humans are adding only a very small percentage.
Atmosphere has very small % of greenhouse gases.
Water vapour = 94% of greenhouse gases

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Formal US VP Al Gore – the definitive popular interpretation; comes from ice core surveys. That's it. What is the correlation between temperature and CO2 levels?

However, the link is the wrong way around. Temperature leads CO2. CO2 follows – a lag of 800 years.

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is natural. Humans produce a small fraction.
Humans and factories, volcanoes, animals and wildlife, dying plants and vegetation, and oceans. Oceans are #1 contributors of CO2 according to scientists – if you heat the ocean, it emits co2; the cooler, the more they absorb. Shoe we have a war on oceans?!

There is no evidence that CO2 has ever determined climate change.

How about Sunspots – how reliable are sunspots as an indicator of climate change?
Sunspots v. Temperature. In fact there is a direct correlation. The sun is driving climate change.

Androgenic global warming is unfounded and a lie.

visit: Wikipedia - The Great Global Warming Swindle

Watch: The Great Global Warming Swindle

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Let's Happy Engrish!

Happy, happy.

Japan is the second largest economy in the world (for now). In school students are required to study English for five or six years. People spend hundreds of dollars on electronic dictionaries. There are many private English schools in Japan. It is estimated that English is an annual $4 billion industry in Japan – not including private lessons. In Japan English is cool. The language shows up everywhere: store and product names, t-shirts, restaurants and music lyrics. Despite its popularity, its prevalence and the money spent, the second wealthiest country known for hardworking, diligent students, the Japanese are amazingly disappointing.

As seen on a menu at a one coin bar in shibuya:

“Omlet that sSpicy Cod roe entered”

Just like that. I couldn't get a good photo. I'll have to go back...

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Universities: The next threatened industry?

The internet has transformed (read: shaken up) the music industry, the film industry, long distance telephone calls, the travel industry and most recently it is chipping away at the newspaper industry.

Which sector is next to face the threat? Would you believe: universities?

What are we paying for? Student loans in the United States are outrageously high.

$5000, $10,000 or higher per year in tuition, then there are living costs

University education will soon be free, or very, very affordable to say the least.

The end of high-price university tuition.
What are you paying for?

The question is not: "Why is college so expensive"

The question is: "Why go to college at all?"
read a book. find it online. join online communities. join offline communities. ask questions. develop a portfolio of your learning. in the past universities were repositories of knowledge and wisdom. they were central, physical meeting places of learned people. now, they are everywhere. unless you are studying for a professional designation like a P.Eng., or M.D., why waste your time and money? Why do people still go to university? they're expensive. It is well past time to re-think universities and their function.