We really can't claim anymore that it's natural variations that are driving these very large changes.- Peter Stott, Met Office
Here's a BBC article that references work published in Nature Geoscience.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
OMG - climate change is for real!
OK, can we now please put to rest the naysayers - no respected scientists among them - that claim humans have not materially contributed to global warming?
Here's a BBC article that references work published in Nature Geoscience.
Here's a BBC article that references work published in Nature Geoscience.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Hard times if these forecasts play out.
America, and Americans face a stark decision - and a choice that must be made now. Not next month at the polls, not next week. Today.
We now sit literally days away, with a high probability, of a credit market "dislocation" that will change American finance and decimate the stock market. That is, worse - far worse - than what has happened thus far.
Try on for size 2-3,000 points down on the Dow from here. 25% more than has been lost thus far, more-or-less "all at once." The probability of this event is now in excess of 70% - within the next few days to two weeks.
Read the engaging piece here, in its entirety.
We now sit literally days away, with a high probability, of a credit market "dislocation" that will change American finance and decimate the stock market. That is, worse - far worse - than what has happened thus far.
Try on for size 2-3,000 points down on the Dow from here. 25% more than has been lost thus far, more-or-less "all at once." The probability of this event is now in excess of 70% - within the next few days to two weeks.
Read the engaging piece here, in its entirety.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Voting by the numbers - a win (sort of) for Greens.
On election night Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was happy to see more Canadians finding a home with his party. In reality, the number of people who voted for the Conservatives was down by 168,737.
The Green Party may not have won any seats in this election but it is still the only party which actually saw the number of people vote for it go up. The Green Party saw its raw vote increase by 276,679 people. The Greens garnered 6.8 per cent of the total votes cast nationwide. In 2006, the Greens got 4.5 per cent of the national vote.
The Greens also saw 41 of their candidates achieve more than 10 per cent of the vote in their riding. In 2006 there were just seven Green candidates who hit that point.
Five Green Party candidates also finished second in their riding. Three of those were in Alberta where overall the Greens got 8.8 per cent of the vote. Their best finish came in B.C. with 9.4 per cent of the vote, but they didn’t finish second in any B.C. ridings.
Data and more here.
The Green Party may not have won any seats in this election but it is still the only party which actually saw the number of people vote for it go up. The Green Party saw its raw vote increase by 276,679 people. The Greens garnered 6.8 per cent of the total votes cast nationwide. In 2006, the Greens got 4.5 per cent of the national vote.
The Greens also saw 41 of their candidates achieve more than 10 per cent of the vote in their riding. In 2006 there were just seven Green candidates who hit that point.
Five Green Party candidates also finished second in their riding. Three of those were in Alberta where overall the Greens got 8.8 per cent of the vote. Their best finish came in B.C. with 9.4 per cent of the vote, but they didn’t finish second in any B.C. ridings.
Data and more here.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Join the record attempt of people standing up against poverty.
October 17-19, activists from over 100 countries will Stand Up and Take Action against extreme poverty and hopefully set a new world record of 67 million people—or 1% of humanity—standing up against poverty (prev record is 43.7 million).
Link here to be counted and indicate you are also standing up.
This is probably the easiest thing we can all do in the fight against poverty, and it’s crucial that we do it to demonstrate to our leaders how many people around the world are ready to act together for this cause.
Link here to be counted and indicate you are also standing up.
This is probably the easiest thing we can all do in the fight against poverty, and it’s crucial that we do it to demonstrate to our leaders how many people around the world are ready to act together for this cause.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Play this all-too-real game of predicting the future
Q: What is Superstruct?
A: Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.
Visit/play here.
A: Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.
Visit/play here.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Harper's Auto-Pilot Economy [not] At Work
Government stewardship in today's economic climate? While asleep at the wheel, Stevie H has destroyed Canada's surpluses, eroded our infrastructure and exposed us to the risks of national privatization and closer financial ties to the US. All this while deregulating in Ft. McMurray and ignoring the urgent need to modernize Canada's economic strategies and priorities.
Read Dobbin's original piece in the Tyee.
Read Dobbin's original piece in the Tyee.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
It's getting so bad, it IS comedy.
"For anybody out there living in cave, let me just say this. Congratulations. You've apparently made the soundest real estate investment possible."
— Jon Stewart
"The point is this is one of the most important irrevocable economic decisions we will ever make. Let's make it in a state of panic."
— Stephen Colbert
— Jon Stewart
"The point is this is one of the most important irrevocable economic decisions we will ever make. Let's make it in a state of panic."
— Stephen Colbert
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Night of the living vote-snatchers
In the 2004 presidential election, over three million votes - 3,006,080 - were cast and not counted. And not just anyone’s ballots. U.S. government experts reported, for example, that a black voter’s ballot is 900% more likely than a white voter’s ballot to get “lost” in the machine. Bush fired the experts. Read Greg Palast's piece.
D & G predictions for the Paulson Plan
The plan will not save the US economy, and it won’t solve the problems that require a salvation plan in the first place today. Instead, it seeks to re-insert virtual fantasy credit into the economy, taken straight out of the public trough, so that same public can continue to buy homes. But is that in the interest of the people? Home prices are far too high, when set against historical levels. The reason why they are so high is because of cheap easy lying virtual fantasy credit. And that needs to be restored, even though it is the very core of the problem. How is it in the interest of the taxpayer to pay far too much for a home?.The story here.
What the government is doing now is making sure that the biggest losses will fall on the taxpayer, not on the banks. That is the plan. The misery unleashed on the American people is hard to oversee, but it will be horrendous.
Monday, September 22, 2008
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