The federales over at NASA have pinpointed exactly the kind of climate change smoking gun long-denied by the Bush admin. But with their head in the clouds, the Bush posse is running away from less real dangers. Best of luck, Stephen Johnson. You have your work cut out for you.
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jav,
recently you wrongly blogged that GWB wanted to drill for oil on decommissioned military bases...he talked about refineries...now this crap. i'm no fan of GWB but please stick with architecture as that is what i presume this site is about.
uh...hi rls,
in case you hadn't noticed, this site is about more than just architecture.
yes you are right, i just g-newsed it and he wants to build refineries on military bases, which is an equally dubious idea, given how relatively little that matters to most of the communities that surround military bases and their desire to see the land used for less toxic purposes. In response to your comment, I don't envision us posting less news about general world geopolitics, given that all of those issues are inherently spatial.
yeah, javier. and do make certain you dont expand 'world geopolitics definition' to include kyoto protocal -- has nothing to do with architecture as long as W is in office. its not our fault that our buildings are the biggest contributors to CO2 and climate change.
...correct me if I'm wrong, but no one is arguing that the climate isn't warming. The argument is over the cause, correct (man or universe)? According to this other article on CNN.com here, the climate change is well within natural phenomenon throughout the history of our planet. According to the article, while swings of over 6 deg celcius have occurred naturally in periods of as little as 50 years in the past, the current increase in temperature caused by human influences is only thought to be roughly 0.6 deg over the past 150 years...
I'm not saying to drop sustainability, but maybe the sky isn't quite falling...
some people also like to think that evolution is somekind of leftwing conspiracy. i understand that while maybe the sky isn't falling, a lot of people want to cover its brown haze with their hand and not meddle with business as usual.
TED wrote:
"it's not our fault that our buildings are the biggest contributors to CO@ and climate change."
I'm not buying either of those assertions at half-price without backup...actually I think you're flat wrong, but please show me the light.
oncentJay,
nicely put.
Javier,
who is really cover their eyes?
Recently from the Telegraph writes of magazines' refusal to publish "an international study showing that fewer than one in 10 climate scientists believed that climate change is principally caused by human activity."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/01/wglob01.xml
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