Jape - Floating
Nice female DJ at Apotheke put me on.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.
\Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety.
While environmentalists for the most part draw their conclusions based on climate information gathered in the last few hundred years, geologists, Plimer says, have a time frame stretching back many thousands of millions of years.
The dynamic and changing character of the Earth's climate has always been known by geologists. These changes are cyclical and random, he says. They are not caused or significantly affected by human behaviour.
Polar ice, for example, has been present on the Earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time, Plimer writes. Plus, animal extinctions are an entirely normal part of the Earth's evolution.
Plimer gets especially upset about carbon dioxide, its role in Earth's daily life and the supposed effects on climate of human manufacture of the gas. He says atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at the lowest levels it has been for 500 million years, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is only 0.001 per cent of the total amount of the chemical held in the oceans, surface rocks, soils and various life forms. Indeed, Plimer says carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but a plant food. Plants eat carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen. Human activity, he says, contributes only the tiniest fraction to even the atmospheric presence of carbon dioxide.
There is no problem with global warming, Plimer says repeatedly. He points out that for humans periods of global warming have been times of abundance when civilization made leaps forward. Ice ages, in contrast, have been times when human development slowed or even declined.
So global warming, says Plimer, is something humans should welcome and embrace as a harbinger of good times to come.
Full Article
Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.
\Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety.
While environmentalists for the most part draw their conclusions based on climate information gathered in the last few hundred years, geologists, Plimer says, have a time frame stretching back many thousands of millions of years.
The dynamic and changing character of the Earth's climate has always been known by geologists. These changes are cyclical and random, he says. They are not caused or significantly affected by human behaviour.
Polar ice, for example, has been present on the Earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time, Plimer writes. Plus, animal extinctions are an entirely normal part of the Earth's evolution.
Plimer gets especially upset about carbon dioxide, its role in Earth's daily life and the supposed effects on climate of human manufacture of the gas. He says atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at the lowest levels it has been for 500 million years, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is only 0.001 per cent of the total amount of the chemical held in the oceans, surface rocks, soils and various life forms. Indeed, Plimer says carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but a plant food. Plants eat carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen. Human activity, he says, contributes only the tiniest fraction to even the atmospheric presence of carbon dioxide.
There is no problem with global warming, Plimer says repeatedly. He points out that for humans periods of global warming have been times of abundance when civilization made leaps forward. Ice ages, in contrast, have been times when human development slowed or even declined.
So global warming, says Plimer, is something humans should welcome and embrace as a harbinger of good times to come.
Full Article
Robot attacked Swedish factory worker
A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.
"I've never heard of a robot attacking somebody like this," he told news agency TT.
The incident took place in June 2007 at a factory in Bålsta, north of Stockholm, when the industrial worker was trying to carry out maintenance on a defective machine generally used to lift heavy rocks. Thinking he had cut off the power supply, the man approached the robot with no sense of trepidation. But the robot suddenly came to life and grabbed a tight hold of the victim's head. The man succeeded in defending himself but not before suffering serious injuries.
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A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.
"I've never heard of a robot attacking somebody like this," he told news agency TT.
The incident took place in June 2007 at a factory in Bålsta, north of Stockholm, when the industrial worker was trying to carry out maintenance on a defective machine generally used to lift heavy rocks. Thinking he had cut off the power supply, the man approached the robot with no sense of trepidation. But the robot suddenly came to life and grabbed a tight hold of the victim's head. The man succeeded in defending himself but not before suffering serious injuries.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Floating Urban Beach Barge in Budapest
Rare pleasure of a new barge project. We're not the only crazy one's!
Hungary-based design team Urban Landscape Group recently completed an extraordinary summer project that allows visitors to float down the Danube in a portable pool! Dubbed Barge Beach Budapest, the sandy sailing island acts as a contemporary Turkish bath and open air pool situated in the waterways between the river’s edges. The pop up beach is constructed from three recycled barges and provides residents with a brand new public space to bask in the sun.
Inhabitat
Rare pleasure of a new barge project. We're not the only crazy one's!
Hungary-based design team Urban Landscape Group recently completed an extraordinary summer project that allows visitors to float down the Danube in a portable pool! Dubbed Barge Beach Budapest, the sandy sailing island acts as a contemporary Turkish bath and open air pool situated in the waterways between the river’s edges. The pop up beach is constructed from three recycled barges and provides residents with a brand new public space to bask in the sun.
Inhabitat
Building Living Structures
A young group of German architects are bending trees to their will to form a new breed of living architecture. The team is calling their tree-shaping system “Botany Building,” and while it may not be the cure to climate change, it’s an incredibly interesting way to create living structures.
Full article at Inhabitat
A young group of German architects are bending trees to their will to form a new breed of living architecture. The team is calling their tree-shaping system “Botany Building,” and while it may not be the cure to climate change, it’s an incredibly interesting way to create living structures.
Full article at Inhabitat
Monday, July 27, 2009
An apology is in order. I owe you. Has been a loco week but I'm back in action.
By the way.... All Points West this weekend.
Photo above courtesy of Giles Ashford
Costa Trip '09 - pit stop at local bar on the way up to the Turrialba Volcano.
Turrialba from a distance. Snapped this one from the car last week because its active again. You can see it smoking. I hope it knows smoking is bad for your health.
Random cow I spotted. Ears.
Tuesday Eve Parlay
Our friends from Rochambeau + Alejandro Pall & Rhett of the Chainsmokers. This is a friend overload. With the associated names, I believe we are in store for a dangerous night haha. Watch your sphinx.
By the way.... All Points West this weekend.
Photo above courtesy of Giles Ashford
Costa Trip '09 - pit stop at local bar on the way up to the Turrialba Volcano.
Turrialba from a distance. Snapped this one from the car last week because its active again. You can see it smoking. I hope it knows smoking is bad for your health.
Random cow I spotted. Ears.
Tuesday Eve Parlay
Our friends from Rochambeau + Alejandro Pall & Rhett of the Chainsmokers. This is a friend overload. With the associated names, I believe we are in store for a dangerous night haha. Watch your sphinx.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Monastery Built on Volcanic Plug
Taung Kalat, located in central Burma, thirty miles or so from the ancient city of Bagan towers above the earth like some sort of giant’s sand castle. Atop it there is a Buddhist monastery which rests upon the precipitous volcanic plug.
Article
Taung Kalat, located in central Burma, thirty miles or so from the ancient city of Bagan towers above the earth like some sort of giant’s sand castle. Atop it there is a Buddhist monastery which rests upon the precipitous volcanic plug.
Article
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Street Photography of Gareth James - London
Gareth James of London Street Photography showcases some fantastically gritty local street photography. Candid shots of what looks like primarily London’s lower-middle class are featured throughout the series which is completely in black and white. Among other themes, the series explores drugs, homelessness, music, and crime. Read More...
Gareth James of London Street Photography showcases some fantastically gritty local street photography. Candid shots of what looks like primarily London’s lower-middle class are featured throughout the series which is completely in black and white. Among other themes, the series explores drugs, homelessness, music, and crime. Read More...
Cartier Foundation in Paris Celebrates Graffiti
Exhibit Jul. 7 - Nov 29 (see preview below)
Bronx 1973
NYC 1973
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Flip One - NYC 1973
Exhibit at the Foundation
Link to Article
Exhibit Jul. 7 - Nov 29 (see preview below)
Bronx 1973
NYC 1973
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Flip One - NYC 1973
Exhibit at the Foundation
Link to Article
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Banksy Work Spotted in AFRICA!
Street artist collective Banksy had their newest street work spotted in Africa. Originally rumors had surfaced that the work was done in Cairo, but it is now rumored to be Mali. Regardless of where it is, Banksy has always been cutting edge on picking locations, creating pieces and really challenging the norm.
Read Full Article at Gradient Magazine
Street artist collective Banksy had their newest street work spotted in Africa. Originally rumors had surfaced that the work was done in Cairo, but it is now rumored to be Mali. Regardless of where it is, Banksy has always been cutting edge on picking locations, creating pieces and really challenging the norm.
Read Full Article at Gradient Magazine
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