26 Jun 2006
First compilation of tropical ice cores shows two abrupt global climate shifts

Repeat after me: there is no global warming ... there is no global warming ... there is no global warming ... pass the sunblock ...

The only real question is if we (as in humans) are the cause: on that there can be legitimate debate. But even if we're not the problem, we'd better be the solution, or there's gonna be a hot time in the old town tomorrow.

For the first time, glaciologists have combined and compared sets of ancient climate records trapped in ice cores from the South American Andes and the Asian Himalayas to paint a picture of how climate has changed - and is still changing - in the tropics. Their conclusions mark a massive climate shift to a cooler regime that occurred just over 5,000 years ago.

(link) [EurekAlert! - Breaking News]

20:34 /Technology | 2 comments | permanent link

Justices pooh-pooh Winnie the Pooh

Hmmm, the stories are nearly 80 years old, the authors been dead for fifty years and we're still arguing about "control" of an imaginary bear ...maybe Mr. Milne should've killed off Winnie in his final tale to to insure that nobody else could ever bring him back!

If this doesn't illustrate the absurdity of todays copyright in perpetuity I'm not sure anything does.

The Supreme Court refused on Monday to decide whether the granddaughter of A.A. Milne, British creator of Winnie the Pooh, can recapture control of the copyright for stories featuring the children's book character.

(link) [CNN.com]

15:08 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link