Nick Young

Is there any hope ?

YouTube - Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

Scientists say there is no chance that Europe’s Large Hadron Collider will produce an apocalyptic black hole or deadly catastrophe when testing begins in August.
Why does that not reassure me?
If The Large Hadron Collider Produced A Microscopic Black Hole, It Probably Wouldn’t Matter … I’m a strong believer in the precautionary approach. Why do [...]

What pray tell is this?

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The Independent (London, England), September 19, 2007
By Cahal Milmo
A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures — the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding — is now “very unlikely” to be avoided, the world’s leading climate scientists said yesterday.

Also filed in the scares-the-shit-out-of-me category is a story from the NZ Herald this morning titled: Earth could flip into environmental disaster
The Earth is in imminent peril and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change, six leading scientists say.
Writing in the Philosophical Transactions [...]

The top 25 censored stories from 2007 so far #3 is ‘Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger’ which is something pretty close to my heart. The rest are pretty US biased which perhaps shouldn’t be surprising.
Here’s the rest of the list:
#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies [...]

As far as vicious circles go, i reckon this is about as bad as it gets. Climate change is weakening the so called ‘Southern Ocean carbon sink’. The Southern Ocean carbon sink plays a big part in regulating the earth’s climate and mitigating the effects of our emissions. That’s a spiral to nowhere in my [...]