Myth of Global Warming Consensus Explodes...

Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate

From the article:

And this, from the American Physical Society site



(bold mine.)

This is part of the reason why I've said that all the scientists do not agree. "All the scientists" would be world-wide, since we are talking about a global concept, and in America alone we have an organization of 50,000 physicists that expresses some level of disagreement or concern.

At least this group is willing to participate in debate.

Is it not also worth noting that recently both India and China rejected the Global Warming by Anthropogenic CO2 emissions hypothesis?

All the facts are not in, all the scientists do not agree, and the debate is not over.

How to relieve stress...

By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have finally found a way to relieve stress. A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace and relieve stress is to finish all the things you have started.

So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of vocka, a pockage of Prunglies, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a chocolets. Yu haf no idr who dam gud I fel. Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee AR in ned ov inr pece.

Save the Arecibo Telescope: Write to Congress

Received the following from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) folks at Seti @ Home.

Just thought I'd pass it on for those that might be interested.

Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and the source for
the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that
will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The decision
to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S.
2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more support.

Please take a moment to help us SAVE ARECIBO.

Clicking the link below will direct you to a web page that allows you to print
out letters prepared for your Senators and Congressional Representative urging
them to support Arecibo. Printing and mailing the letters is really easy, too!
You will also have the chance to add a few personal thoughts, if you wish, to
let your Senators and Representative know why this funding is important to you!
And if you're really feeling passionate about saving Arecibo, please use these
letters as the basis for letters you write yourself, urging your congressmen
and women to vote to save Arecibo.

Because our representatives in Congress rarely give much attention to all the
email they receive, printing out and MAILING these letters via standard U.S.
Postal mail remains our best option for contacting them and our best hope for
saving Arecibo (The second best option is to call your representatives). Your
42 cent stamps on these letters could help us get the millions of dollars
needed to save Arecibo.

Our search cannot continue without the necessary support. Your work, as
SETI@home participants, represents an indispensable resource for conducting the
search. Now, we need your help to ensure that our other most valuable resource
- our eyes and ears to the cosmos - can continue to probe the universe as we
seek to answer the question: Is there anybody out there?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/arecibo_letter.php

Thank you for your help,

The SETI@home Team

Good Bye

A father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story & listened to her prayers which ended by saying: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma & good-bye Grandpa."

The father asked, "Why did you say good-bye grandpa?"

The little girl said, "I don't know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."

The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.

A few months later the father put the girl to bed & listened to her prayers which went like this: "God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy & good-bye Grandma."

The next day the grandmother died. Oh my gosh, thought the father, this kid is in contact with the other side. Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say: "God bless Mommy & good-bye Daddy."

He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night & got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch & watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be OK. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch & jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief & went home.

When he got home his wife said "I've never seen you work so late, what's the matter?"

He said "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life."

She said, "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me.
This morning, my golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson!"

Help! I'm being robbed!

George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to
bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on
in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom
window.
George opened the back door to go turn off the light but
saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your
house?" and he said "no". Then they said that all
patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his
door and an officer would be along when available.

George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and phoned
the police again. "Hello, I just called you a few
seconds ago because there were people stealing things
from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them
now because I just shot them." Then he hung up.
Within five minutes six police cars, a SWAT Team, a
helicopter, two fire trucks, a paramedic and an
ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence and
caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George: "I thought you said
that you'd shot them!" George said, "I thought you said
there was nobody available!"