An attorney for an Anne Arundel County 7-year-old suspended from school for nibbling a breakfast pastry into the shape of a pistol is seeking to have the student’s record expunged, and said he plans to appeal to Maryland’s highest court if necessary.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/student-suspended-for-pop-tart-gun_n_2903500.html
Good thing he didn’t nibble his Pop-Tart into the shape of a car. They kill one million people every year.
Desmond Tutu The Guardian, Thursday 10 April 2014
We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters
This week in Berlin, scientists and public representatives have been weighing up radical options for curbing emissions contained in the third report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The bottom line is that we have 15 years to take the necessary steps. The horse may not have bolted, but it’s well on its way through the stable door.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/divest-fossil-fuels-climate-change-keystone-xl
This is quite a relief, because James Hansen had previously given us only until 2012.
President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth’ | Environment | The Observer
Hansen’s 2012 number was in itself a major reprieve from the UN’s original deadline of 2000
And Paul Ehrlich said we would all be dead by 1980
“I’m scared,” the lean, intense scientist (Paul Ehrlich) told an interviewer. “I have a teenage daughter whom I love very much. I know a lot of young people, and their world is being destroyed – my world is being destroyed. I’m 37, and I’d like to live to be 67 in a reasonably pleasant world, not die in some kind of holocaust in the next decade.”
We should feel very blessed that the bishop has granted us an extra 50 years beyond Ehrlich’s original deadline.
The play of tolerance opposes the principle of monstrous certainty that is endemic to fascism and, sadly, not just fascism but all the various faces of fundamentalism. When we think we have certainty, when we aspire to the knowledge of the gods, then Auschwitz can happen and can repeat itself. Arguably, it has repeated itself in the genocidal certainties of past decades.
The pursuit of scientific knowledge is as personal an act as lifting a paintbrush or writing a poem, and they are both profoundly human. If the human condition is defined by limitedness, then this is a glorious fact because it is a moral limitedness rooted in a faith in the power of the imagination, our sense of responsibility and our acceptance of our fallibility. We always have to acknowledge that we might be mistaken. When we forget that, then we forget ourselves and the worst can happen.
Through April 6, Michigan is having their coldest year on record, 5C (9F) below normal. This is reflected by the record ice on the Great Lakes, and is at direct odds with the tampered data released by NCDC.
Like in the US, the 1990 IPCC report showed that afternoon temperatures in southeast Australia reached their peak in the 1930’s – and then plummeted.
While the IPCC and the rest of the blood sucking climate parasites desperately rant about increasing heatwaves, last year the US had its third lowest average afternoon temperatures since 1895.
According to the 1990 IPCC report, temperatures should have risen about 0.5C since 2000 under “business as usual.” HadCRUT shows that they haven’t risen at all (red line.)
If global warming were an actual science, it would be dead as a doornail. But it is a religion, not a science, so facts don’t matter.
CO2 has risen from 0.00032 mole fraction CO2 to a frightening 0.00040 mole fraction during my lifetime. You can see this disturbing trend in the graph below.
How has this affected me personally? As CO2 increased, so did my height. The correlation was unmistakable. I didn’t realize it until recently, but all 40 of my tallest years have occurred during the last 40 years, and I haven’t had a below average height year in over four decades.
It is time to end the CO2 madness, and go back to living short miserable lives in caves.
If Man U can pull off a miracle today, the Champions League semifinals will be all English and Spanish teams. Moyes might even be able to keep his job.
Then again, they have to face these guys
