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Archive for May, 2013
The Escalator
May 14th
“One of the most common misunderstandings amongst climate change “skeptics” is the difference between short-term noise and long-term signal. This animation shows how the same temperature data (green) that is used to determine the long-term global surface air warming trend of 0.16°C per decade (red) can be used inappropriately to “cherrypick” short time periods that show a cooling trend simply because the endpoints are carefully chosen and the trend is dominated by short-term noise in the data (blue steps). Isn’t it strange how five periods of cooling can add up to a clear warming trend over the last 4 decades? Several factors can have a large impact on short-term temperatures, such as oceanic cycles like the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or the 11-year solar cycle. These short-term cycles don’t have long-term effects on the Earth’s temperature, unlike the continuing upward trend caused by global warming from human greenhouse gas emissions.
The data (green) are the average of the NASA GISS, NOAA NCDC, and HadCRUT4 monthly global surface temperature anomaly datasets from January 1970 through November 2012, with linear trends for the short time periods Jan 1970 to Oct 1977, Apr 1977 to Dec 1986, Sep 1987 to Nov 1996, Jun 1997 to Dec 2002, and Nov 2002 to Nov 2012 (blue), and also showing the far more reliable linear trend for the full time period (red)”
Thoreau’s Radicalism
May 12th
? Is anyone willing to say, “This people must cease to extract fossil fuels, and to unjustly rob today’s children and future generations of a livable planet, whatever the cost”?
Respect Yourself
May 8th
Shakespeare knew as he said “To thine own-self be true and thou canst be false to no man” And here is Thoreau, “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” Doing for somebody just for the sake of “doing the right thing”, when your heart isn’t really in it is actually more “me” or egoic than a non-judgmental walking on. All of us are getting exactly what we want. Whatever needs a person has will be fulfilled by someone who needs to provide them. Needy people can always find someone who “needs” to do for them, who “needs” to sacrifice themselves in that particular manner. The poster is saying, in my not so humble opinion, love yourself; walk a path with heart and that energy will be beneficial to those that are in tune, that are ready for those particular vibrations. Actions based on “this is the way I’m supposed to be” are not full of loving vibrations and at a deep level not nourishing the planet and beings within the planet.