Monday, June 12, 2006

Prescott and croquet

OK the fun's over now, but id just like to add my tuppenorth .
He was caught playing croquet while he was running the country
Shock Horror Probe !
Why the heck didnt Prescott admit that EVERY night he'd had the audacity to have a kip as well, much more heinous .
I bet Blair and most other premiers watch some comedy or something not related to runing the country all the time . Everyone has a bit of free time

global warming a myth ?

If you read some previous posts , you may be surprised at this one !
This has not been reported as an holistic item ,but the media coverage is well represented in its parts . I think no-ones really thought of it yet ?
It is simplistic itself . Global warming melts the ice sheets . This starts to shut down the Conveyor which moves warm water from the equator toward s the poles . This reduces the heat in the upper latitudes,cooling it .
I havent the mathematical model to show what actually happens as this is going to be a dynamic equilibrium [ and Im certain the experts havent put this aspect in their models either as its almost qualitative at present - the first report was last year when they discovered the Conveyor was down by 35% ].
The bottom line is that Global warming will heat up the tropics by a LOT , water levels will rise [ bye bye to lots of land- but dont know how much ] , but that a lot of the prediction will be less than thought as the rate of loss of ice pack will slow down over time. I still believe there wont be much left of the UK nor the large low lying cities in US/rest of world , but that mankind will survive [although probably not in India and those areas ] . i just wish id got the info to model it - would be good to know the expected level of rainfall in the tropics for instance - be HUGE!
So good news !

global warming and the USA

Well, its now out and in the media. The US govt has covered up global warming to its population over the last few years.
Bush an co have been consistent in denying it existed and have been editing technical publications to lay doubt on its existence , by for example replacing 'will' for 'may' in the sentence ' global warming will be a serious problem in the future ' Govt departments that tried to stop the cover up have had their heads of the section responsible sidetracked to other postings ,or had their contracts terminated .
Even last week Bush stated that the Gulf temperature was not responsible for the ferocity of hurricanes and im assuming that he left out the word 'totally' from the report he could say he got it from.
The water temperature is obviously responsible . You dont get hurricanes under a water temperature of [I think ] 25C .
Hurricanes use the water vapour pressure to grow . Im not a meteorologist so it could just be hurricanes just use the latent heat of the water to power themselves , in which case the power increase would be proportional to the water temperature . It is some form of function of the vapour pressure also [ie how easy it is to 'boil' the sea .
In which case the figures are :
temp pressure
0 deg C 4.6
10 deg 9.2
20 17.5
25 23.7
30 31.8
35 42.2 mm Hg [based on pure water not sea water, but the ratios will be the same]
in which case from 25C to 35 C implies a doubling of power .
The Gulf temperature is now the same as this time last year. [google gulf water temperatures for the govt publication] . So it looks like Katrina II could be on its way over the next few months .
Bush's stance is that his chums are in the energy business so he's got to look after them ,and its starting to look like it doesnt matter too much to him if the US loses a few cities in the meantime .
I hope im wrong , but it really does look as if New Orleans is going to be severely truncated as a city within a couple of years .

guantanamo bay suicide

3 guys committed suicide over the weekend .
US politicians had the audacity to say it was probably a publicity stunt !
These people could not really think they were dying in a war and as such they were destined for paradise . They committed suicide , their death counting for nothing in the actual act of strangulation. Thus they committed suicide , and in their own minds were bound for the Muslim equivalent of Hell, as the Koran specifically bans suicide .
In addition , although it was the first successful escape from the camp , many others have tried it but were foiled so we were told yesterday .
Suicide is much more common in prisons throughout the world so it cannot come as much of a surprise , although in that camp , they hadnt been tried , they didnt know the length of sentence they were serving , they have been denied most visitors , in short it must be a serious denial of human rights , whether they are guilty or not [ and no-one has said they are guilty] .
Couple this with the secret prisons elsewhere in the world ,which have recently been unearthed ,and you start to get serious question marks over the conduct of the USA . The populace is the same as ever , but the ruling party is starting to stink to high heaven. see next blog