- Qbesq – sort of like a little Spirograph for your personal computron… Fun little Flash widget with very little else to say for it than the fact that it’s highly entertaining and kind of pretty…
- There’s a sort of interesting article on BBC News about Global Warming and Al Gore… I’m a bit puzzled by the responsibility of organisations like the BBC to report on ‘critics’ who disagree with the overwhelming climate change consensus. If it was a gay issue that I felt strongly about, I might feel differently I suppose…
- I’m totally excited about Doctor Who Series Three, and more excited still to hear that there’s going to be a series four… It’s actually terrifying how many people in the UK watch Doctor Who. Pretty much all my peers in the industry and their significant others are bubbling over with excitement and anticipation…
- There’s a fascinating article on BBC News about the world’s longest tunnel being built to bridge the Alps… The villages and towns up in the Alps are both delighted and worried. They’ll get less freight passing through their towns, but also fewer tourists. There may also be a station underground connected to the surface by the world’s longest elevator.
- MacInstruct has some interesting hints and tips about using your Apple iRemote… I’ve talked briefly before about the car alarm like set-up you can pull together using the iRemote. These tutorials also show you how to pair your remote to your computer…
- Twitterholic lists the people who have the most followers, favourites, friends and posts on Twitter Wow. I know all these people. Well most of em, anyway. We need to go outside more.
6 replies on “Links for 2007-03-23”
The problem with the global warming argument is that the connection between man-made global warming can be seen as tentative at best.
The issues of global warming and energy consumption are often confused or cross-referenced, leading to criticism. Al Gore clearly sides with those who believe the current warming trend is man-made, but many do not draw the same conclusion based on the archeological evidence.
The real problem is that, although the method may be questionable, the crux of what Gore says is right – we *should* consume less, and we should tackle this issue with urgency, if not for global warming then for the fact that we’re dangerously close to the point where the resources we use are less plentiful.
For a real giggle, look out for those who justify composting household refuse as a step towards reduction of greenhouse gases. Obviously didn’t do chemistry at school.
I’m looking forward to Dr Who, but Torchwood has made me wary of poisoned wells…
I still don’t get how everyone loves Doctor Who. I love a lot of television but I just can’t stand Doctor Who or Torchwood which is just clich√© ridden, predictable, overacted bad television. I get how its science fiction, and that‚Äôs good because we never do science fiction, so for a British based science fiction show it‚Äôs probably good. Still that‚Äôs like saying that The Bill and Casualty are both good for British based crime/medical shows.
Think, please, for one second about Homicide or ER. Now think of Galactica. I rest my case. I don’t get it.
To Mo – seriously, though, is this true? I mean, sure it’s not necessarily going to be conclusive – there are things that are going to be very difficult to prove conclusively and correlation is always dubious evidence. But having said that, when it’s such a hot button issue and such an enormous proportion of the scientific establishment who have examined it agree with it, then surelywhile one must accept the possibility of errorit’s irresponsible to make it seem like quite such a sketchy concept based on unstable evidence?
There is doubt over whether an enormous proportion of the scientific establishment have actually reached concensus, or have even been exposed to the supporting evidence in full.
I’m not sure this is the right forum for such things, so I’ll probably grind on about it elsewhere.
I think Mo’s point is very well made- the effect of human resource usage, specifically cardon, but also the release of other gases that have a powerful chemical effect on the atmosphere is very very difficult to conclusively prove. In addition, the archeological record of climate change shows that it sometimes ‘just happens’- sea levels have , over very very long periods of time, been far higher and far lower, and the temperatures over the previous glacial periods may have flipped in startling short periods (hundreds of years!).
What this means is that tacking together better resource husbandry and climate change is a challengable proposition. Aubrey Manning made a series called ‘Earth Story’ for the BBC I think that explored much of this archeological evidence for previous climate change.
Personnally I think we should be cutting back on resource usage, and that Gore’s objectives are spot on. I just worry that he’s using arguments that are powerful, but potentially fragile.