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Warming and Slowing the World
chrisleonard writes "We all know that global warming is supposed to heat the planet up, but did you know that it might also slow it down? According to a report from Belgium's Royal Observatory (as reported here by astronomy.com), if the days seem a little longer to you than they used to, it might not be just old age catching up with you. Would it be wrong to call the interaction of the world's warming temperatures and its slowing rotation ... a snowball effect?"
Global warming is such a crock of crap. So is the hole in the ozone layeer but that's another story. I haven't seen any REAL evidence of either actually happening. CG animations are all fine and dandy to explain your hypothesis but they don't prove a damn thing.
OH NOES! TEH INTARWEB IS BORKEN!
Once again, we see junk science at its very best.
/. once stood by the articles they published as fact. Viewers can now see /. for what it really is...another left wing taliban extremist rag just as misguided as the rest.
And leave it to the European Elitists to come up with another superficial factoid to scare the uneducated masses that attend American public schools. (Run by corrupt and illegitimate union biggots)
Of course, lets just sweep under the rug the fact that temperature "measurements" taken as recently as 9 years ago are scientifically flawed. Just put that out of your mind as you are lead like cattle to the slaughter.
Poor science funded by left wing extremists from a country with a SEVERELY depressed economy is no reason to discount Global Warming.
Anyone remember Global Cooling back in the 70's/80's? Of course not...it was perpetuated by the same quacks who are now beating the drum for Global Warming.
And to think
/. deservse its own forum/listing on crank.net
.....you the MAN
Holy shit that was funny. Nearly pissed my pants!
... but you can bet the Slashdot crowd will ignore the facts on this one.
Please, just for a moment, put aside all of your preconceptions and assumptions and go out there and learn the facts . What you will discover in this process is that Global Warming is, in fact, quite real. Frighteningly real. And human beings are the cause.
You're always going to find scientists who will claim that Global Warming is a crock of shit. (A lot of those same scientists work for oil companies and other concerns.) But the truth of the matter is, the vast, VAST majority of the world's scientists overwhelmingly agree that Global Warming is very real and poses a significant threat to our ecosystem and our way of life.
This bullshit about the "myth" of Global Warming is largely a U.S. phenomenon. Most 1st world countries trust their scientists and completely understand that Global Warming is a very real threat. So much so that even China jumped on the bandwagon. The sole detractor at Kyoto is the good ol' U. S. of A. As usual, we've got our head in the sand.
A few of you have mentioned how the media has blown this out of proportion and is being alarmist, etc. The exact opposite is true. The media in the U.S. has ignored and sidelined the entire issue. People hate scary stuff. Doesn't sell. So they barely mention it. All the more reason that our government should continue to fund (and increase funding for) unbaised news sources like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
But my point is, go learn the facts before you show up here pretending you know them.
P.S. And keep an eye on the weather. It'll just get more and more obvious. Been quite a warm winter this year, wouldn't you say?
ROTFLMAO That is really quite humours. I don't know if that's been around a while, or if you are the original author. But too whoever wrote it, kudows!
No man is an island, But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft.
A team of professional futurologists established that the popular junk news site "Slashdot" will disappear in a puff of hot air in just 3 million years, or 8076 hours and 77 milliseconds. Researchers base their predictions on the fact that most of recently published articles are not even worthy of tabloids, scream sensationalism, are extremely stupid, and don't deserve reading.
The Oregon Institute's "petition" is a hoax. The names are largely made-up. I recall Captain Kangeroo being among their number. The OISM is run from a small warehouse in rural Oregon. Their scientific credibility is on a par with the Flat Earth Society.
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100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
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490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
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A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
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A.D. 1844: Samuel Morse invents Morse code. Cryptography export restrictions prevent the telegraph's use outside the U.S. and Canada.
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A.D. 1901: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marcoli first demonstrates the radio. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich immediately delivers to Marcoli a list of 335,435 suspected radio users.
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A.D. 1929: V.A. Linux's stock drops over 200 dollars on "Black Tuesday", October 29th.
A.D. 1945: In the secret Manhattan Project, scientists working in Los Alamos, New Mexico, construct a nuclear bomb from Star Wars Legos.
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A.D. 1965: Jon Katz delivers his famous "I Have A Post-Hellmouth Dream" speech, which stated: "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the geeks of former slaves and the geeks of former slave geeks will be able to sit down together at the table of geeks... I have a dream that my geek little geeks will one geek live in a nation where they will not be geeked by the geek of their geek but by the geek of their geek."
A.D. 1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the moon. His immortal words: "FIRST MOONWALK!!!"
A.D. 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot four students at Kent State University for "Internet theft".
A.D. 1989: The United States invades Panama to capture renowned "hacker" Manual Noriega, who is suspected of writing the DeCSS utility.
A.D. 1990: West Germany and East Germany reunite after 45 years of separation. ESR triumphantly proclaims that Germany "gets it".
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A.D. 1999: Miramax announces Don Knotts to play hacker Emmanuel Goldstein in upcoming movie "Takedown"
A.D. 2001: World slows and starts warming.
A.D. 2050: World is now going so slow its orbit is reversed.
A.D. 2040: World is going backwards in time now because of the reveresal. Time from now on will repeat the past.
A.D. 2030: Repeat of A.D. 2030.
Etc.,etc. After this the World gets real boring, nothing but a cycle of reruns!
A.D./B.C.???(Date Unkown) God after the torture of watching nothing but reruns of the World writes an 11th Commandment, and then kills himself.
11th Commandment
I know my son Commienst has trolled much in the past, and that this post is redundant, but he has decided to repost it now that it is rendered more hilarious and ontopic. His karma as of 2/18/01 at 4:55 AM is -4, it is my last commandment that he be rectituded, before my death. Mod this up, ye faithful, IT IS MY FINAL COMMANDMENT.
I am into the copy and paste.
Great, next you'll be saying that because all of the respected sources say that the world is flat, that it must be true////
EXACTLY! It blows my mind how quack science get's publicized today. Everything that they have been gloom-and-dooming about are just hazy theories with no solid proof (do we have 1000 years of data? noooo? well then you cant figure out what changes are happening with a 98 Gagillion year old planet All of these events have a greater chance being either a cycle of normal planetary operation or another reason.
This slowing is so slow it cannot be measured (your refrence points in space are probably changing at a different and possibly faster rate) and even those have to be assumed. It amazes me how scientists forget relativity so easily and quickly. this supposed slowing of the planetary rotation is in relation to what? when was the last time we actually measured the earth's roatation to within a microsecond? How about the last time we measured the earth's diameter or circumfrence to within a centemeter? I'd say that both are impossible without calibrated refrence points.
Someone please tell these quack scientists to shut up until they have plausable evidence or even when they move from the hypothesis stage to theory..
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