Doctor Zero goes all out on Copenhagen and its calls for squeezing industrial economies:
"We’re not going to politely ignore swarms of private jets and limos ferrying you to carbon-belching ‘climate summits,’ where you draw up plans for the Western proletariat to live as primitive hunter-gatherers."
Heh. Worth a look.
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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged AGW, Climategate, Copenhagen, Doctor Zero, global warming, Hot Air
Mainly, it’s the price. But there’s also the problem of reading them on Shabbat. No loop-holes. Whereas there’s no problem there with books. Donald Sensing’s analysis here is timely for me, considering my own previous consideration. I’ve just about decided to ask for a new digital camera, instead. I’ve been borrowing Mrs. Charm’s ever since I managed to destroy my old one.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering
Tagged books, digital cameras, Donald Sensing, ebooks, shabbat
This Charles Sheffield novel isn’t very satisfying at the end, but the journey is a lot of fun. Sheffield creates interesting characters, such as Milly Wu the SETI researcher, the Great Bat, the puzzle master, and Alex Ligon, the computer modeler. Then there’s Sebastian Birch, who has something wrong with him that isn’t ever quite explained. All set in the plausible (to me) world of the settled outer solar system, principally on the moons of Jupiter. I was sorry to learn that Sheffield, a theoretical physicist, died in 2002. This book, his last, is a sequel to Cold As Ice and the Ganymede Club. I’d happily read a dozen more set in this realm. Alas, it is not to be.
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Posted in Library, Science/Engineering, Space
Are there really all that many reasonably-priced, reasonably-desirable books available for download? And is it easy on the eyes, or like trying to read a standard, flickering video-display monitor?
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering
"In 2002 I stood in a room of the Smithsonian. One entire wall charted the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years. This was no straight line. The curve had two steep dips followed by leveling. There were no significant warming periods…Last year, I went back. That fresco is painted over…Hey, why should the Smithsonian put its tax-free status at risk? If the politicians decide to whip up public fear in a different direction, get with it, oh ye subsidized servants."
Heh. Read. It. All.
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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged Gary Sutton, Smithsonian Institution, The Fiction of Climate Science
Hope to be around to see the pictures when the New Horizons robot reaches Pluto in 2015. Course, some insist it should still be regarded as a planet.
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Posted in Science/Engineering, Space
Tagged New Horizons, Planet Pluto, Pluto
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