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Climatologists Wager on Global Warming
coflow writes "The Guardian is carrying a story about a $10,000 bet that a pair of Russian scientists have entered with British climate expert James Annan. According to the article, the Russians believe the world will be cooler in 10 years. "If the temperature drops Dr Annan will stump up the $10,000 (now equivalent to about £5,800) in 2018. If the Earth continues to warm, the money will go the other way.""
According to the article, the Russians believe the world will be cooler in 10 years.
Unfortunately, $9,999 will have gone towards building a giant air conditioner in the middle of Moscow.
The russians investigated weather control far more deeply than the USA (though the british did some experiments too, ended up flooding a small town). Maybe they're going to plunge the world into a new ice age, so they can swan about in their fur hats while the rest of us freeze.
Real men bet on drinks and not on wee little girly-men dollahs. Listen to me now, believe me later, there is no such thing as global warming...
Freedom is strength, Ignorance is peace, War is slavery.
Start your spraycans!
I saw a documentary that had the theory global warming will cause the next ice age, i think it was called the day after tomorrow.
Ah, thanks for settling this one for us. If they only would have talked w/ you before they made their bet they could have saved themselves $10,000.
God plays at dice.;)
A thermometer?
Pretty soon Earth is chock full of sunbeams...their rotting corpses heating our atmosphere.
Fortunately our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming.
Ever since 2063 we drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time.
Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Each processor would proceed sequentially as if it had been better for them not to rise against Saul.
In Soviet Russia global warming cools you!
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
Total Russian GDP decreased by %50.
"Sure there's porn and piracy on the Web but there's probably a downside too."
Yeah but when it comes time to pay up:
"Not so fast, Comrade. You have heard of NUCLEAR VINTER?"
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Actually, Ohio is much warmer.
Back when I was a kid, we had to walk in the snow. Uphill. Both ways. Now, you kids get to rid your bikes downhill and on dry pavement.
But seriously, USA winters are not like they were in the 50's,60's and 70's.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Pentium 4's will be obsolete and not in mainstream usage.
Windows has detected an undetectable error.
What makes you say that? You're monitoring my phone, aren't you!
will the singularity due in 2012 nullify this bet?
Look man, he is a republican. Don't present facts to him, it will only cause him to call you a traitor and say that you hate america.
Only people who hate america are for the kyoto protocol.
evil is as evil does