Climate Change

Just for the historical record, I want to say that it kinda feels like the whole c-change debate has escalated a LOT lately, in terms of public visibility.
Even since my post below (10th October).

Not sure whn I went to see Inconvenient Truth, but I'm tipping that it was quite likely the catalyst for the recent upturn in discussion in the news I read on a daily basis.

I think Murdoch's decision to "back" climate change may predate the release of Gore's movie - the Sun (newspaper) going green etc etc.

History (and Google) will no doubt sort out the precise timeline.
This is just a personal note to myself that about now is when people started becoming ever so _slightly_ more interested/involved.

FYI - At this stage I'm completely convinced that warming is occurring...I _was_ even convinced that it was all attributable to CO2 emissions and other manmade influences.

Today I'm not so sure that the case really is wrapped up.
Now I'm not a practicing scientist, so of course this is purely me verbalising my current internal conversation on the subject.

Since talking to Treek, a friend who has a few geophysisist mates, I've done a lot of reading on the specific topic of the level of contribution _reliably_ attributable to CO2 etc. From what I've read (which may not be broad-ranging enough, and indeed may well be a biased sample itself) it seems that there _is_ still debate on this causal link.

I am well aware of the figures quoted in the Gore Slideshow (TM) regarding the number of peer-reviewed papers etc...however I have read at least one paper which questions the validity of the statistical methods used in the original study itself.

I really should stop here as I can't cite references; I'm not inclined to look them up either.

I haven't crossed to the c-change skeptic's camp, by any means.
I'm just unsure what it will take to prove either side of the argument.

Please is you're going to comment, try to be less vague on sources than I have been in this post!

Dave

Lots of Things

I made a tool storage thingy.

(Funky 80s red tubular steel welded bookcase frame, scored from the side of the road during the recent cyclone cleanup. With some shelves I cut from some craftwood sheets Damon gave me).

Jigsaws do not cut straight.

I am going to New Zealand in December (95% probability).

I was in the paper (again) today.

I'm off to fix a laptop on a boat (in a marina).

It is 7:43 PM

Doctor Poo

"Childish but well executed"

120 WHY?

Hmmm

Seem to be slacking off again.
This work thing is quite annoying really - not the getting up in the morning, that's later than before - just the absolute lack of time for anything else.

Ben Mc is leaving town. Kate, Max and ben are shifting to Alice for a while.
There was a suitably large party at Will & Danielle's to send him off.
For the first time in quite a while I was decidedly un-pissed.
I have switched to - shock horror - light beer!
In light of my recent stomach issues, I'm trying to at least drink less in percentage if not in volume.
Although the latter has been down quite a bit too.
I've been getting quite shitty with some drinking friends of mine...I'm finding it just a bit too hard to hang out with pissheads when you're sober.

So maybe my social sphere will be getting a bit of a rotation, of sorts.

Work itself, the content of the job, is fine.
Not doing it in as few hours a week as I'd been led to believe it would take, but that is probably a combination of me being anal and also the fact that the staff have slipped in terms of their process-following capacity.
It's possible there was a bit too much arse-wiping going on, but that is of course just conjecture. The fulltime nature of this position should mean I can be here long enough to straighten stuff out, even if it's through simple rote repetition.

I'll get a picture from my office window sometime soon.

(Yeah I know... an office job... Blergh! But the money is good)

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Some light reading?

Pacific Climate Change Strategy

Global security as a function of climate change

Now go back to sleep

Foz caught a fish

Sweet - Blogging for $$$

I'm writing this from a training session on blogging..haha.

Actually this class is going to be more about podcasting, on which I am not (yet) and expert.
But this first bit is just an intro to basic blogging with blogger and flickr.

Ok here's the podcasting deal:

Cheesy test file here (Click to listen)

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