I’m more like a Yeti, or abominable snowman, if you prefer.
“I don’t believe that the IPCC’s credibility can be damaged. If the IPCC didn’t exist, then why should anyone get worried about climate change?”
Ich glaube, die Glaubwürdigkeit des IPCC kann nicht beschädigt werden. Wenn es den IPCC nicht gäbe, warum sollte sich dann jemand Sorgen über den Klimawandel machen?
“Two German diplomats using the fictitious names of Yogi and Ingo were arrested” in Iran, Iran state television has announced.
No, not for using fictitious names (their real names are Yogi and Boo-Boo, I guess), for having had a hand in violent and deadly anti-government protests which broke out on a Shiite Muslim holy day December 27th last month.
Germans? Germans involved in violent and deadly anti-government protests? In Iran? Go figure. They don’t even protest violently or deadly when they have revolutions here, in Germany, much less during other folks’ anti-government protests far away im Ausland (overseas).
So like send them home immediately or something, Islamic Republic of Iran. The nerve.
“No German diplomats were arrested on December 27 last year,” German foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told a Berlin news conference.
It always comes about differently than you expected.
“A Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote the world’s most authoritative report on global warming have apologised after five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph.
The errors are in a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations-affiliated body.
All the mistakes appear in a sub-section that suggests glaciers in the Himalayas could melt away by the year 2035 – hundreds of years earlier than the data actually indicates. The year 2350 was apparently transposed as 2035.”
All I know is that they’re predicting -23 (centigrade) for Berlin this weekend. I sure hope that this is a glaring error too.
“2035 würden die Himalaya-Gletscher abgeschmolzen sein, warnte der Weltklimarat. Die Prognose fußt womöglich auf einem Zahlendreher – auf keinen Fall aber auf seriöser Wissenschaft.”
You’ve read all the books, seen all the TV reports and shows, even followed the Nobel Peace Prize awards. But if you haven’t dropped from adoration exhaustion yet, you still have this one last chance to do so. Although, well, actually we all know that this won’t really be your last chance. That was just a figure of speech or something.
Anyways… A German musical is set to pay tribute to you-know-who in an all-singing, all-dancing Obama musical (Obamusical?) extravaganza. It will soon premiere in Frankfurt and no force in the universe can stop it.
I think I’ll wait for the movie to come out. No, now I think I won’t. But maybe I will check out the DVD one day… In a galaxy far, far away.
But despite complaints on the Internet that this is yet another a rose-tinted portrayal of the president, event organizers stressed that Obama is not being idealized…
I mean snow, of course. And not just in Copenhagen either.
I know, I know. This is weather, not climate. I’m not stupid. Or more stupider than the next guy, I mean.
At the same time a draft document was leaked that would ask the world to keep temperature rise below 2C (3.6F). It would ask rich countries to cut greenhouse gases, but does not yet have legally-binding numerical targets. It would also ask developing countries to take action to reduce emissions for the first time. The leaked text caused anger among delegates just as President Obama arrived at the conference to “save the Earth”.
The Copenhagen Diagnosis? I’d say it’s something like “the show must go on.”
“The e-mails show some of the world’s top experts decided to exclude or manipulate some research that didn’t help prove global warming exists.
1998 was the hottest year since record-keeping began…but the temperature went down the next year, and it’s only spiked a couple times since.”
Der Watergate-Skandal brachte Richard Nixon zu Fall, Monica-Gate zerstörte die Glaubwürdigkeit Bill Clintons, und jetzt also Klima-Gate – der Verdacht, dass der menschengemachte Klimawandel nicht mehr ist als nur eine Verschwörung unter Klimaforschern.
Google Book Search bad. German Digital Library good.
Upset and suspicious about Google’s attempts to digitalize books, pictures, sculptures, notes, music and films to make them available for everybody on the Internet, the German Cabinet has just agreed on a plan to digitalize books, pictures, sculptures, notes, music and films to make them available for everybody on the Internet.
I’m not making this up, people. I wouldn’t be able to. Contrary to what you might think, Germans don’t like technology. Not unless its their own, I mean.
Culture Minister Bernd Neumann called the project a “quantum leap into the world of digital information.”
Thoroughly outraged by revelations about a gambling ring that has fixed or tried to rig at least 200 matches across Germany and the rest of Europe, including three in the Champions League, German football fans across the nation spontaneously took to the stadiums yesterday and began randomly beating the you-know-what out of each other.
“We demand stiffer sanctions for this match-fixing nonsense stuff immediately already,” roared one blood-soaked, club-wielding fan. “This kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable and is just the kind of thing that could give the sport of football (some call it soccer) a bad name.”
German police said on Friday they had dismantled a gang with more than 200 suspected members operating in nine European leagues.
Climategate was yesterday. “Zwei Wochen vor dem Klimagipfel in Kopenhagen bringen Hacker prominente Wissenschaftler in Erklärungsnot: Unter den geknackten Mails und Dokumenten finden sich peinliche Lästereien über Kollegen – und Andeutungen über Daten-Manipulationen. Ein gefundenes Fressen für ihre Gegner.”
“Die Wissenschaftler gehen zum Gegenangriff über.”
“Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.”
“In the 1999 e-mail, Jones wrote of using a trick to hide an apparent decline in recent global temperatures on a chart being prepared for use by a meteorological organization.”
Damn, this global warming debate really is a hot subject.
“The e-mail had been taken completely out of context.”
Observing Hermann 