My wife and I just saw An Inconvenient Truth at the cinema.
If you have any questions about global warming, and want to actually get some facts on the issue rather than dumbed down “opinion”, go see “An Inconvenient Truth”.
The most shocking item for me: Out of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, zero question the science. Out of the popular press, 53% of the articles question the science. Why do people deny global warming? Because if they admit the truth of it, they would have to do something about it. Now.
For me, it seems that most people are so far from reality that it will take the Greenland ice sheet melting, or one of the Antarctic ice sheets melting, raising sea levels and displacing hundreds of millions of people before the majority start to do something about it. Sigh.
Myself, I’d rather we took action before London and the South-East of England is flooded.
Finally! If the story at Boing Boing EMI abandons CD DRM is accurate we might be starting to see the end of the pathetic game played on CDs over the past few years.
This has been particularly frustrating to me as I haven’t owned a non-computer based CD player since 1995. I simply avoided the problem by refusing to buy CDs infected with DRM. The one time I did accidentally buy a CD with DRM I was at a Copy Protection meeting in DVB in Berlin, and Exact Audio Copy ignored the DRM and made a perfect rip during the meeting, while I sat opposite the Warner Brothers representative (it was a Warner Brothers CD).
Now, if we can get more download sites to sell non-DRM infected MP3s or AACs (like one of my favourites Maganatune life would be perfect. iTunes anyone?
I can’t believe it! I am writing in support of the Sun after all the bad things I usually say about that comic.
In The Sun Online - News: 27 ways to go green in 2007 they tell you 27 easy ways to be more environmentally friendly. Even I only manage 21 of them.