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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.""
failing from Massive Military-Industrial Complex Spending. Are you old
enough to remember the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Thanks and have a Bush_Cheney_Rice_Rove_Rumsfeld_free-day.
Patriotically,
KIlgore Trout, C.E.O.
And how many nerds actually care about a bet between scientists? Last I checked, they were supposed to be researching, not making bets.
Boy that really is a journalist's question, isn't it, thats like asking which one of your ex-wives is your favorite. --T
Trust me, we understand the concepts of thermodynamics... in other words the bit about building a huge air-conditioner in Russia was a joke moron.
Ingolfke writes:
The Russian scientists believe the increasei n global temperature is due to sun spot activities, not human activities...
All left thinking people know that global warming, war, famine, pestil#########pollution, and zits are all caused by the Bush administration.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Do you really have any idea what causes the ocean to circulate the way it does, or do you just believe what you see in the movies?
Try "Fluid Mechanics" and "Rotating Coordinate Systems" for starters. At least I give you credit for not buying totally into the alarmist hype.
cheers.
Likewise, just because some believe something to be false doesn't make it false.
At one point in time, most people believed the world was only a few thousand years old.
The world is only a few thousand years old.