Urban Survivalists

It´s good to be prepared for the worst but don´t go crazy about it.

Also I fucking hate fox…..

WOG out.

Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away

From the article:

Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent’s western coast.

Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth’s ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water, The Australian reports. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilisation of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.

However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.

East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week’s meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown “significant cooling in recent decades”.

For the record, STOP LISTENING TO JUST ONE SIDE OF AN ARGUMENT YOU STUPID GLOBAL WARMING FANATIC ASSHOLES…

Now to the point here, we obviously don´t know what is happening to our earth, just look at this article, I suggest we find out what is happening before we make any rash decisions about what to do in the situation.

Dr Allison said there was not any evidence of significant change in the mass of ice shelves in east Antarctica nor any indication that its ice cap was melting. “The only significant calvings in Antarctica have been in the west,” he said. And he cautioned that calvings of the magnitude seen recently in west Antarctica might not be unusual.

“Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years.”

Just look at the facts here, if you can´t see what I´m seeing here well then maybe your in need of some glasses becasue it´s clear as day.

We can´t make accurate predictions when we don´t have all the data, it´s just as simple as that.

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WOG out.

The Sun is quiet, too quiet…..

From article:

The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century.

There are no sunspots, very few solar flares – and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.

The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.

The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits out flares and planet-sized chunks of super-hot gas. This is followed by a calmer period.

Last year, it was expected that it would have been hotting up after a quiet spell. But instead it hit a 50-year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity.

According to Prof Louise Hara of University College London, it is unclear why this is happening or when the Sun is likely to become more active again.

“There’s no sign of us coming out of it yet,” she told BBC News.

“At the moment, there are scientific papers coming out suggesting that we’ll be going into a normal period of activity soon.

“Others are suggesting we’ll be going into another minimum period – this is a big scientific debate at the moment.”

In the mid-17th Century, a quiet spell – known as the Maunder Minimum – lasted 70 years, and led to a “mini ice age”.

This has resulted in some people suggesting that a similar cooling might offset the impact of climate change.

I have been reading alot about global warming and global cooling in relation to the sun recently.

And I have to say that when important things become very quiet it´s never a good thing, in so many ways.

I guess we´ll just have to see what the sun has in store for us.

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WOG out.

Atmospheric sunshade a very bad idea.

From article:

Pumping aerosol particles into the atmosphere to create a sunshade could take a heavier toll on solar power generation than expected.

For every 1 per cent of the sun’s rays deflected into space, the average output of solar systems that rely on direct sunlight would drop by 4 to 5 per cent, says Daniel Murphy at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado. Geoengineers propose scattering 1 to 2 per cent of sunlight.

Aerosols scatter the light that hits them, but only 20 to 25 per cent of that is reflected into space. The rest reaches the ground as diffuse light. Since this light doesn’t come directly from the sun, it isn’t collected by solar systems that concentrate sunlight onto thermal power generators or high-efficiency solar cells. Their optics track the sun during the day and focus an image of it onto the power-generating elements, so they can produce much more power than flat solar cells.

Losses could reach 20 per cent in the late afternoon during summer, Murphy warns, because more light is scattered when the sun is lower.

Research has previously shown a sunshade could also trigger droughts in some regions.

This is called a rash action for something we quite don´t understand and yes I mean global warming.

We don´t really know what is going on with the planet right now and some crazy ass person wants to pumping aerosol particles into the atmosphere to combat something we quite don´t understand, that scares me more the all the terrorists in the world combined.

Also it sounds alot like what the humans did to the machines in Animatrix: The Second Renaissance and that fucked up the planet beyond repair.

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WOG out.

Robot to hit the catwalk

From the article:

Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.

The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and a shoulder length hair-do boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.

‘Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C,’ said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media premiere at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo.

The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms – including batteries. She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.

‘If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny,’ said one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita.

‘We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style.’ The institute said the robot ‘has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry’ but is not for sale at the moment.

Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed bright smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices.

The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions – a mistake the inventors put down to a case of the nerves as a hail of camera shutters confused her sound recognition sensors.

I love the Japanese, flesh models are going bye bye.

Japan will probably be one of the first cybernetic nations and I hope Sweden isn´t that far behind.

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WOG out.