Saturday, July 25, 2009
Oh no.
Mommy...
"Worst of all is what Raymond Pierrehumbert, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, calls the “Sword of Damocles” scenario. ...According to Pierrehumbert, sulfur aerosols would cool the planet, but we’d risk calamity the moment we stopped pumping: the aerosols would rain down and years’ worth of accumulated carbon would make temperatures surge. Everything would be fine, in other words, until the hair snapped, and then the world would experience the full force of postponed warming in just a couple of catastrophic years."
posted by James Hussein Dixon : 7/25/2009 04:44:00 PM
"Worst of all is what Raymond Pierrehumbert, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, calls the “Sword of Damocles” scenario. ...According to Pierrehumbert, sulfur aerosols would cool the planet, but we’d risk calamity the moment we stopped pumping: the aerosols would rain down and years’ worth of accumulated carbon would make temperatures surge. Everything would be fine, in other words, until the hair snapped, and then the world would experience the full force of postponed warming in just a couple of catastrophic years."
posted by James Hussein Dixon : 7/25/2009 04:44:00 PMFriday, July 24, 2009
Friday Out of Focus Cat Bluhrging
California's recovery starts with vegetables. And fruit.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
doing the dozens
Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested a few days ago for Entering His Own Home While Black and Insufficient Deference to Blue Team Colors. My favorite part of the incident:
I will never be that cool.
via ATR
posted by Scats : 7/22/2009 05:15:00 PM
Gates asked the police officer for his badge number and name several times but received no response. The sergeant told Gates that they could discuss the matter further outside, to which Gates allegedly replied,"ya, I'll speak with your mama outside."
I will never be that cool.
via ATR
posted by Scats : 7/22/2009 05:15:00 PMmore like this, please
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Move Over, Matt Taibbi
In his new article for the New Yorker, "Cocksure," the writer Malcolm Gladwell advances a simply fascinating thesis:
Think about it: they were psychological.
posted by Blicero : 7/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
...that the roots of Wall Street’s crisis were not structural or cognitive so much as they were psychological.
Think about it: they were psychological.
posted by Blicero : 7/21/2009 12:00:00 AMMonday, July 20, 2009
Cronkite
It's a shame he had to besmirch his title as the Most Trusted man in America and spend his senescent years advocating on behalf of partisan political causes.
posted by Blicero : 7/20/2009 09:25:00 PM
posted by Blicero : 7/20/2009 09:25:00 PMmy denial
