Awareness of global warming
I would've updated already last night, but my keyboard stopped working. It acts up sometimes as it's a sucky keyboard. But I got the printer to work yesterday so I could print stuff. I'm amazed that things like my camera and printer work with the Ubuntu Live CD.Nydi seems to have been busy cleaning today. I noticed that she had even cleaned the water on the bamboo vase in the bathroom. I've never bothered to do that as the alga (levä) doesn't bother me. I actually think that it looks kinda pretty when the light is shining through it, but the vase does look nice with clean water as well, I'd just probably never bother to clean it myself. So I probably shouldn't get a fish tank as I wouldn't clean the water. But don't the fish that stick to the glass and ground with their mouths take care of the alga? What're they called... catfish? They're called monni in Finnish. I've always liked those fish, they're the coolest fish besides manta rays (paholaisrausku). Then I started thinking that what if people were like catfish, moving along the walls by sticking to it with their mouths. When I stop to think about it I can see the people going up and down and back and forth walls by hanging from their mouths on the wall, sucking the wall. It's actually a pretty disturbing image. Why have I not encountered any catfish humanoids in scifi? It's such a great idea. :p What do you guys think about when you go to the bathroom?I had to go to the student office once again today as I found out last night that there was a block on my right to register for the upcoming semester(s). I took care of that already in June so I was rightly pissed off about it, but I had had plenty of time to calm down by the time that I headed to Helsinki. It turns out that it was their mistake (like I thought) as the lady at the student office had typed the wrong year on the computer records. Now that should be taken care of and I can enroll for this semester and go and get the calendar and stuff.Me and jiji_vaan went to have some tea and cinnamon rolls at this lovely little cafe that me and MM found last Fall near the Sibelius monument at Töölö. It's a red little cottage by the sea shore next to the swimming stadium. For some reason there were a lot of bees there trying to get their piece of the tasty food, so I think that it's better to wait until Summer's over before going there again. It's a shame really as it's such a nice place to sit outside while drinking some tea. Töölö is a nice part of Helsinki and it was a good place to walk around. There are a lot of parks there and the houses are interesting, yet it's so close to the center.Can someone tell me what I did on Tuesday because I can't recall it. I probably didn't do anything much. Oh, now I remember. I took all the water out of the insides of the sailing boat with some buckets and me and Orasi moved the boat so that the water will go towards the pump. It's starting to look like we're not going to get the boat on the sea this season as there's less than a month of sailing time left. Besides, Orasi is leaving to frigging Bangkok next month and staying there three months with his friend so it'd be better to turn the boat over for the Winter before he leaves. I certainly can't do it myself as it's too heavy.
And we made pizza on Tuesday. I'm starting to get my pizza making technique down pretty good. I should probably write it down when I'm satisfied with it. The tomato sauce and the temperature of the oven are the keys. BTW, they've started to show Good Eats on the Finnish Jim channel under the name Hyvää ruokahalua, which as a translation looses the spirit of the show completely. Hyvää ruokahalua means 'Bon appetit', when Good Eats is a geeky cooking show. The Finnish name just doesn't fit. I've watched it in the past as recommended by kusoyaro, before it was on Finnish television.Yesterday I vacuumed the whole house. It was high time as I found a 5cm long centipede (tuhatjalkainen) in my room. I don't know, if that was connected to how dirty it was, but it wouldn't hurt to clean a bit. Centipedes are one of the few bugs that creep me out. They're just eww. They're so fast too. Tikru, one of our cats, is the designated bug exterminator of the house as she eats all the bugs that she comes across, especially the ones that fly, but she wasn't home when I found that centipede. ;_; Tikru eats mosquitoes, flies, butterflies and sometimes she even chases after bees, but she doesn't eat ants. We used to jokingly call her the fierce huntress, but now days she also hunts mice and stuff, besides bugs. But bugs have protein, right? So they can't be all that bad for her. :pLast night I watched the document Inconvenient truth from telly. I'd been meaning to watch it so it was good catching it on telly. It's basically a documentary about Al Gore's crusade to inform people about global warming. Considering the subject it was a very entertaining and funny documentary. The only thing that I felt was missing from it was the problem with melting methane clathrate (metaaniklatraatti). There's twice as much of it stored in the cold bottom of the oceans and some locations on land than the whole known coil, oil and natural gas reserves combined (when measured as carbon). If it melts and gets into the atmosphere, it warms the temperature much worse than carbon dioxide (hiilidioksidi). In other words, if the global warming raises the temperature of the globe so much that the methane clathrate is released from the oceans, we're fucked.
It's great that the general consensus is finally starting to be aware of global warming and now practically all the politicians all talking about it, and not just the "green" ones. At least that's the feeling that I've gotten in the past year or two. People accept global warming, that it's actually happening and that it's not just some treehugger propaganda. And by people I'm not pointing any fingers but referring to the general masses. Things are starting to change.
It's great. It's finally happening. But I can't help the feeling that people are heedlessly running around screaming about global warming. There's such a huge focus on global warming right now that we are forgetting other environmental issues and the reasons that the climate is changing like this. Global warming is a global problem, but for me it seems that people aren't seeing the whole picture. We're focusing on the effect and trying to fix that, but we're not seeing the cause. Just fixing the effect - global warming - will not remove the cause. If we do nothing about the cause, then there are going to be environmental problems in the future as well. But I do not know if even a matter as big as global warming is going to change how people feel about the connection between humans and Earth. Are we at the top of the food chain? Is it our right as such to exploit this planet where we all live?
I strongly doubt that anything's going to truly change. I don't know what kind of global catastrophe it would take for people to change the way that they think. Some of the worst case scenarios that have been mentioned as possibly happening in the future because of global warming include drought, desertification (aavikoituminen), shortage of water, heat waves, and tornadoes, typhoon and hurricanes getting worse, extinction of species, and lets not forget about the sea level rising six meters when large portions of the polar ice and Greenland glacier would melt, thus making hundreds of millions people homeless. And nobody really knows what's going to happen, if the sea currents and winds gets messed up because of global warming. As a whole it would be an unseen humanitarian crisis, but I'd still say that people would have their hands full with just coping. Would we actually learn? Or would we just repeat the same mistakes again? I don't think that any of the scientists have tried to predict that. :pI'm going to the The Night of the Arts tomorrow after many years. I hear that now days it's more about arts than the drinking, unlike years ago when I last was there. I'll take pictures for you guys.
And we made pizza on Tuesday. I'm starting to get my pizza making technique down pretty good. I should probably write it down when I'm satisfied with it. The tomato sauce and the temperature of the oven are the keys. BTW, they've started to show Good Eats on the Finnish Jim channel under the name Hyvää ruokahalua, which as a translation looses the spirit of the show completely. Hyvää ruokahalua means 'Bon appetit', when Good Eats is a geeky cooking show. The Finnish name just doesn't fit. I've watched it in the past as recommended by kusoyaro, before it was on Finnish television.Yesterday I vacuumed the whole house. It was high time as I found a 5cm long centipede (tuhatjalkainen) in my room. I don't know, if that was connected to how dirty it was, but it wouldn't hurt to clean a bit. Centipedes are one of the few bugs that creep me out. They're just eww. They're so fast too. Tikru, one of our cats, is the designated bug exterminator of the house as she eats all the bugs that she comes across, especially the ones that fly, but she wasn't home when I found that centipede. ;_; Tikru eats mosquitoes, flies, butterflies and sometimes she even chases after bees, but she doesn't eat ants. We used to jokingly call her the fierce huntress, but now days she also hunts mice and stuff, besides bugs. But bugs have protein, right? So they can't be all that bad for her. :pLast night I watched the document Inconvenient truth from telly. I'd been meaning to watch it so it was good catching it on telly. It's basically a documentary about Al Gore's crusade to inform people about global warming. Considering the subject it was a very entertaining and funny documentary. The only thing that I felt was missing from it was the problem with melting methane clathrate (metaaniklatraatti). There's twice as much of it stored in the cold bottom of the oceans and some locations on land than the whole known coil, oil and natural gas reserves combined (when measured as carbon). If it melts and gets into the atmosphere, it warms the temperature much worse than carbon dioxide (hiilidioksidi). In other words, if the global warming raises the temperature of the globe so much that the methane clathrate is released from the oceans, we're fucked.
It's great that the general consensus is finally starting to be aware of global warming and now practically all the politicians all talking about it, and not just the "green" ones. At least that's the feeling that I've gotten in the past year or two. People accept global warming, that it's actually happening and that it's not just some treehugger propaganda. And by people I'm not pointing any fingers but referring to the general masses. Things are starting to change.
It's great. It's finally happening. But I can't help the feeling that people are heedlessly running around screaming about global warming. There's such a huge focus on global warming right now that we are forgetting other environmental issues and the reasons that the climate is changing like this. Global warming is a global problem, but for me it seems that people aren't seeing the whole picture. We're focusing on the effect and trying to fix that, but we're not seeing the cause. Just fixing the effect - global warming - will not remove the cause. If we do nothing about the cause, then there are going to be environmental problems in the future as well. But I do not know if even a matter as big as global warming is going to change how people feel about the connection between humans and Earth. Are we at the top of the food chain? Is it our right as such to exploit this planet where we all live?
I strongly doubt that anything's going to truly change. I don't know what kind of global catastrophe it would take for people to change the way that they think. Some of the worst case scenarios that have been mentioned as possibly happening in the future because of global warming include drought, desertification (aavikoituminen), shortage of water, heat waves, and tornadoes, typhoon and hurricanes getting worse, extinction of species, and lets not forget about the sea level rising six meters when large portions of the polar ice and Greenland glacier would melt, thus making hundreds of millions people homeless. And nobody really knows what's going to happen, if the sea currents and winds gets messed up because of global warming. As a whole it would be an unseen humanitarian crisis, but I'd still say that people would have their hands full with just coping. Would we actually learn? Or would we just repeat the same mistakes again? I don't think that any of the scientists have tried to predict that. :pI'm going to the The Night of the Arts tomorrow after many years. I hear that now days it's more about arts than the drinking, unlike years ago when I last was there. I'll take pictures for you guys.