New Climate Change Warning

sebFlyte writes "A new grid computing climate research project, climateprediction.net, has come up with its first major results, and they're really not good news for the planet according to the BBC. The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K, more than twice what was previously thought."

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Nothing to see here, please move along.

[LiquidCoooled]

Could we not just have the front page update delayed for 10seconds to completely avoid this additional server load when a new story is posted?

Re:Further Evidence in the Linux/Hygiene Conspirac

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you are the one that

C an't
U nderstand
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T hinking

Take your head out of your ass, lighten up, and ignore bad humor.

Re:And when there is no significant immediate thre

[Coryoth]

Ya, because the distruction of the twin towers on 911 was just a hoax.

Sure, it happened. What we don't really have is much evidence that it was anything more than a freak occurence. How many terrorist attacks have occured on US soil? How many attacks in the US have been foiled? Have you actually looked at any of those cases of "terrorist cells" in the US? They pretty much all either got quietly dismissed, or otherwise shuffled down and effectively dropped.

Exactly how big an organisation is al Qaeda really? I mean, besides what the administration has told you about a globe spanning terrorist network with amazing resources, what do you actually know about al Qaeda? Try digging around a wee bit and read material from people that were following Zawahiri and bin Laden from prior to all this. This article might be a good place to start.

If you look at the statistics, global terrorism has been in decline since the mid to late 80's. Aside from the occasional anomaly (9/11), the only growth area of terrorism in the last 10 years has been... Iraq in the last 2 years.

Countries in the Indian Ocean just suffered from an earthquake and tsunami that literally killed 100 times as many people as 9/11. Most people seem willing to accept that that was just a freak occurence. Sometimes bad things happen. It is possible that 9/11 was just a freak occurence, and in no way indicative of a vast and powerful global terrorist network. How can we know? The evidence for the vast network is surprisingly lacking if you actually look at it.

Jedidiah.

Re:And when there is no significant immediate thre

[Stephan Schulz]

Ya, because the distruction of the twin towers on 911 was just a hoax.

9/11 was bad, no doubt. But 3000 dead from a single event, while shocking, is not really a threat to our society. About 3 times as many people die every day from normal causes in both the US and the EU.

To put things into perspective, the earthquake and tsunami in eastern Asia is like 9/11 over and over again, every day, for two years.

We should indeed allocate our funds to deal with serious threats.

Re:And when there is no significant immediate thre

[tomhudson]

And then there's this http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/health_co nsequences/mortali.htm:

Each year, more than 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking

2 million Americans killed by tobacco since Bush took office.

That's just the CDC's estimate for the US. World-wide, it's 4 million a year and rising ...

Completely preventable. More than 100 times the casualties EVERY YEAR. So, why isn't the government grabbing the tobacco manufacturers and throwing them in jail? These guys make bin laden look like a wanna-be. More than 1000 Americans killed each and every day ...

Re:You have to prioritize

[DigiShaman]

Cut-n-past time. http://www.state.gov/p/sa/rls/fs/36149.htm

Fact Sheet
U.S. Embassy, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
September 12, 2004

U.S. Embassy, Afghanistan Update

Update

The focus of the United States and its coalition partners continues to be reconstruction, elections and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Re-integration (DDR). The facts below list progress made in Afghanistan on several fronts over the last month.

Elections & Voter Registration

-- To date over 10.6 million Afghans have registered to vote -- 41 percent of them are women.

-- The presidential election campaign season officially opened September 7.

Education

-- More than 4.8 million children are enrolled in schools throughout the country, the largest number in the history of Afghanistan.

-- 500,000 children are expected to return to the warm-weather school locations this September in the south and east.

Afghan National Army (ANA)

-- The ANA has 13,500 soldiers. There are another 3,000 currently being trained.

Afghan National Police

-- The Afghan National Police has 29,275 police officers (trained by the United States and Germany).

Disarmament, Demobilization, and Re-integration (DDR)

-- 14,665 Afghan Militia Forces have been disarmed since April.

-- 12,720 of those soldiers are about to begin the reintegration program.

Heavy Weapons Cantonment

-- Heavy weapons are now completely cantoned in Kabul.

-- Cantonment continues in Gardez, Mazar, and Jalalabad and will begin in Konduz today (September 12).

Infrastructure

-- Work began on the Kandahar to Tirin Kowt Road. The road will be complete at the end of 2005.

Refugee & IDP return

-- Over 600,000 refugees and internally displaced persons have returned to their homes since January 2004.

Sounds like major progress to me. Ok, so not total success. But damn good pregress started fresh after the war IMHO.