Leituras interessantes #4

Yes, there are ferocious cyclones in the world, as they always have been. But first, you can’t argue that global warming is making them worse, when the indicators are *lower*. Second, claiming that CO₂ cuts is the way to tackle cyclone damages is simply immoral. Even if we cut emissions dramatically, it will have only little impact in 50-100 years. If you want to help places like Tacloban and the Philippines, it is all about adaptation. 

- Bjorn Lomborg

Como refere um comentário no post acima referido, o que matou aquela gente toda foi a pobreza, a corrupção e a inacção de um governo que não evacuou a população nos dias anteriores como aconteceu no Vietname. É triste, mas é assim.

Lido por aí #8

Pessoas que falam por falar, frase feita atrás de frase feita, sem pensar, porque não sabem ficar caladas, porque o som disfarça o vazio, porque não perguntam porquê, todos devíamos ter um grilo falante em cima do ombro a perguntar porquê, porque estás a fazer isso, porque estás a postar fotos em bikini no facebook, porque é que vais comprar isso, porque é que estás a apitar, porque é que continuas casado, porque é que não páras de comer, porquê, porquê, porquê. Vidas mais simples e mais fáceis, era o que era.

Da Febre dos Fenos

Lido por aí #7

E todos os dias nas margens da Europa dão à praia seres humanos que não têm a sorte dos golfinhos, o poder dos políticos, a oportunidade dos colonos ou o dinheiro dos investidores, só têm esperança e por ela morrem, às centenas, no mar mediterraneo da europa do século XXI. Seres humanos que provavelmente preferiam ser tratados como animais, daqueles que estão à beira da extinção.

Da Febre dos Fenos

Isto promete muito

Arcade Fire FTW!

(mas o que se passa com o Win e a sua dança... amaricada?!)

Isto promete

Ralph Fiennes FTW! (whatever that means)

Leituras interessantes #3

Animals in their Environment - Winner - The water bear - Paul Souders (USA)

The fact that most images of polar bears show them on land or ice says more about the practical difficulties faced by humans than it does about the bears’ behaviour. With adaptations such as thick blubber and nostrils that close, polar bears are, in fact, highly aquatic, and they spend most of their time hunting seals on sea ice and are capable of swimming for hours at a time.

Behaviour: Cold-Blooded Animals - Winner - Dive buddy - Luis Javier Sandoval (Mexico)

Great Expectations #2

“He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.” 

― Charles Dickens

The amazing intelligence of elephants

Researchers have found that elephants understand pointing. It's more evidence of their intelligence, yet people still hunt them

Anna Calvi has an aura

Aura is an important but somewhat uncommon trait in singer-songwriters; that certain presence which some artists just have. It’s not really something you can learn or develop but it can be the difference between good and great. Anna Calvi has an aura.

Leituras interessantes #2

That 95% certainty means there is only a 5% chance that nature, or something else, aliens, God, the CIA, is changing the climate.

The Climate Sceptic Party

(...) As temperatures have declined and climate models have failed to predict this decline, the IPCC has gained confidence in catastrophic warming and dismisses the pause as unpredictable climate variability.

Judith Curry

Oceanic Cloud Decrease since 1987 Explains 1/3 of Ocean Heating

By Roy Spencer, His Blog, Oct 3, 2013

Numerous other prominent scientists — even many who have worked with the IPCC and accept some of its global-warming theories — have been equally critical. (...) “They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase,” added Dr. Lindzen, who has published hundreds of scientific papers. 

The New American

JC conclusion

What a relief that the IPCC consensus has decreed with high confidence that solar variations won’t influence the 21st century climate. For a minute there, after reading the NRC Report, Svensmark and Vahrenholt, I thought us scientists might have more work to do to figure out how the Earth’s climate system works. - Judith Curry

Sound+Vision

No essencial, (Shinead) O'Connor vem dizer à sua assumida discípula que tem de saber evitar que o negócio da música a "transforme numa prostituta", apontando o equívoco central da sua pose: "NÃO se trata, de modo ALGUM, de um reforço do teu poder ou de qualquer outra jovem fazer passar a mensagem segundo a qual deves ser avaliada (inclusive por ti própria) mais pelo teu apelo sexual do que pelo teu óbvio talento."

  O'Connor + Cyrus (BBC)

Great Expectations, de Charles Dickens

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach. (...) Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

NIPCC Vs IPCC

For example, just this past May, a blockbuster finding was published that the climate sensitivity—how much the earth’s average surface temperature increases as a response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations—is some 40% less than the average value characteristic of the collection of climate models that the IPCC used to produce the projections of future climate change—projections which are at the heart of the IPCC reports. But by the time this paper was published (and several others with similar conclusions), it was far too late to go back and try to fix the climate models and then rerun the projections. - Daqui.

The 14-page NIPCC Summary for Policymakers is illuminating and easy to understand. It should be read by legislators, regulators, journalists and anyone interested in climate change science. - Daqui.

Só podem estar a gozar / Não sei se hei de rir se chorar

Global Warming Could Explain Exponential Sea Ice Growth According to his National Science Foundation-funded research, global warming might be responsible for this record increase of sea ice.

Resumidamente, até os ganhos de extensão de gelo no Polo Sul são devidos ao Aquecimento Global (como é estúpida esta expressão e como é que há gente que ainda a martela), que, por sua vez, e segundo as previsões catastrofistas dos ecobilionários, levará a um mundo sem gelo num futuro próximo. Ah pronto, assim sim!

Lido por aí #6

As conversas mais íntimas e interessantes são tidas lado a lado, em bancos de jardim, dentro de carros ou durante passeios.

Na Febre dos Fenos

A Viagem do Elefante

Tão lindo. Mas a banda sonora é, no mínimo, despropositada.

Leituras Interessantes

Às vezes, dá-me gozo ser eu. Os outros falam. Eu vou lá e faço.

Do Alugo-me

Há que ter calma e não querer viver num mundo que não existe, sem ordinários nem militantes do Bloco de Esquerda.

Da Bomba Inteligente

Previsões e aldrabices vs realidades
12 de Dezembro de 2007:
A BBC faz eco de (mais) uma terrível previsão: 'A partir de 2013' não haverá gelo no Árctico durante o Verão;
7 de Setembro de 2013:
O Daily Mail anuncia: a área do Árctico coberta de gelo é hoje 60% maior - mais um milhão de quilómetros quadrados - que aquela de há um ano atrás. Aproxima-se o Arrefecimento Global!

Do Espectador Interessado

"If it’s science, it isn’t consensus; if it’s consensus, it isn’t science." - Michael Crichton

Idem 

Angry Giraffe

This giraffe took such a dislike to this cyclist - who was taking picture of the giraffe on his mobile phone - that the enraged 18-foot-tall creature gave chase, eventually destroying the cyclist's mountain bike. The cyclist who stirred up the giraffe's anger, Louise John Rex and his friend Ryk van Niekerk, who took the footage, were travelling by bike across the Groenkloof Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa.'I had to jump off my bike immediately - there was no time to drive away,' said Louise

Das coisas virais

Why my Jennifer Aniston interview went viral

Vale muito a pena espreitar as entrevistas. A da Mila Kunis é ainda melhor!