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mizkit

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Feb 16, 2007 09:27

"Roman writers tell us that Cleopatra was intelligent and charismatic, and that she had a seductive voice but, tellingly, they do not mention her beauty." Because God forbid intelligence should make a woman attractive.

Once more scientists are astonished at how fast things move when they decide to go, regarding climate change. I find the ( Read more... )

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skeagsidhe February 16 2007, 14:14:44 UTC

You are 2 years and 11 days older than I am. I am 31. We are both born in June. It is February. Thus logic dictates that you are, in fact, 33.

tahnan February 16 2007, 15:13:20 UTC

See, I was going to phrase this as, "You're four days younger than I am...."

skeagsidhe February 16 2007, 15:19:22 UTC

Great minds think alike?

(Except that often they don't, which is what makes them great, but this is tangential)

shadowhwk February 16 2007, 16:25:22 UTC

And I was going to say, "you're a year and change younger than me, thus 33." Don't you love how we all keep track of your age for you?

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agrimony February 16 2007, 14:51:41 UTC

We had one of the leading authorities on global warming at Yale as a guest speaker for our physics class (he happens to be married to our prof). He had this very interesting slide that shows the cyclical nature of the warming period to ice age cycle. The most interesting part is where we are on the warming peak (that is, right at the end of the typical span, but we haven't dropped dramatically into an ice age). We appear to have, with our greenhouse gases, etc, 'cured' ice ages. Obviously, it's a tad too early to say so definitively, but the evidence is looking impressive.

But that we, as thirtysomethings, can notice the changes in the weather is pretty darn fast, all things considered. :) When you're talking about geological changes on this scale, it is pretty astonishing that we can not only quantify them scientifically, but distinctly /know/ in an empirical way to even the least scientifically inclined person, that this is all Very Different Now. :)

mizkit February 16 2007, 17:40:02 UTC

*laugh* Sure, sure, make the husband come in and do a presentation for the class...

Huh. That's really interesting. I am not inclined to believe that humanity is solely responsible for global warming, because temperatures do fluxuate and we are indeed in a comparatively warm epoch, but nor am I inclined to believe we're totally irresponsible for it.

And yeah, the empirical quantifiable evidence within our lifetimes is a bit mind boggling. I do realize that scientists are typically, uh, what's the word, uh. -stares vacantly- They err on the side of caution. There's a word for that. Reserved, but I don't think that's the one I was really looking for. Anyway, the point being, if they're constantly erring on the side of caution and constantly being really surprised by how bad things are turning out to actually be, then it sort of lends credence to the idea that things are in fact much worse than anyone (except Al Gore) is prepared to accept or conceive. Most of the doomsday scenarios are set out decades from now. Makes you ( ... )

logrusboy February 16 2007, 15:35:03 UTC

Women have brains? Who the hell didn't give me the memo?!!?!

And I'm pretty sure that if the US weren't pretending we'd never even heard of this mythical Kyoto place much less any agreements that were allegedly reached there that we'd be counting ourselves as a "developing nation" too....

darillian February 17 2007, 05:54:13 UTC

I love that image for your userpic - I suspect what it says is true.

We don't all work naked. *grin*

logrusboy February 17 2007, 15:03:14 UTC

Damn! Guess I better write another book!!

darillian February 17 2007, 05:52:51 UTC

On the warming: ANYONE who has lived in Alaska for the last 30 years or so knows there is globale warming. And I can't help but think that the only reason the politicians aren't buying it is because their homes haven't been destroyed by natural disasters or been buried in snow where they haven't seen snow EVER before. They also don't understand that shorts in February is not normal for Alaska.

And as far as the coin - do they not consider a) the methods used to engrave/mold and image for a small coin hundreds of years ago may not have allowed much detail and b) beauty has not always been defined as we now define it (anorexic twits that only look like women because of push up bras and excessive makeup).

Sexy boots don't count as faking beauty.