Climate-gate... why do they even call it that...?

[kageisuke]

I never saw HP: HPB in iMAX like I wanted to. Chalk it up to ten dollars for one movie just not being fiscally responsible. And now it's out on DVD. ~___~

And why do people keep calling it.... 'climate-gate'. What do gates have to do with it. I never knew why it was called watergate, either. Obviously I need to research more.

On the issue though, I've been of two minds about it. There's one: Humans like to fuck up things and have been doing so for millenia. It's not that inconceivable that we ruined the atmosphere by being douches and not curbing how much poison we put into the place we live, whether ignorantly or purposefully for greed purposes. [Whatever happened to that hole in the o-zone layer?] And then there's two: we're one species, and while we've done a lot to change our environment to suit us, are we so bigheaded to think we changed the world on our own? That the earth isn't going on spinning around as usual and we have nothing to do with what happens as far as climate?

Eh. *shrugs* Though a lot of people pointing fingers at Al Gore for getting the hype up about global warming and us being the blame, did he know it wasn't real? You'd think, 'presidential candidate should know what for, eh?' but he might not have known about the lies either. I haven't seen any proof in those e-mails that he knew -though someone feel free to correct me- so he might have more egg on his face than the rest of us anyhow. How many of those scientists didn't want it to be known that nothing was really wrong because they might lose funding? Hrmmm.

Oh well.

Another thing that amuses me isn't Tiger Wood's situation, but the fact all of these 'experts' and people 'in the know' come out of nowhere to try and give him advice. Leave the man alone. He doesn't owe any of us an explanation. Good lord, he has enough shit to deal with without completely uninvolved people breathing down his neck for facts that aren't any of their business.

My real question is, are police reports, mugshots, ect, SUPPOSED to be on public record? How do reporters and such get that information? Informants? Do they just go to the station/library and browse through mugshots? Do they get sold to the highest bidder? What is it? Seems like an invasion of privacy to me, especially if it happened on your own private property.

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[bayrdsm.livejournal.com]

Wow you really have a lot on your mind...

Al Gore is an idiot, nuf said. Um yeah you're totally right about the Tiger thing; leave the man alone. People are unfaithful on a regular basis, it's nothing new. Reporters/whoever will latch onto anything to sell a story, it's pathetic.

I love HP!

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I tend to think about things as they come up, then finally post a blurb that has several days worth of stuff. >_>;

I wouldn't mind if they, you know, reported on stories I cared about. Which usually doesn't involve who is screwing who, who got a lucrative sports contract, or who got busted for drug possession. I really couldn't care less. e___e

Haha, I need to reread HP. I forgot what happened \o

[mozarteffect.livejournal.com]

It's called Watergate because it all happened at the Watergate office complex. :B It's not even supposed to be called Watergate, it's the Watergate scandal.

American news just feels the need to be cutesy and put "--gate" at the end of every single idiotic minor happening ever to make it seem more scandalous. Because it's not like there are other things happening in the world that need more attention or anything, oh no, we need to put gate at the end of things like Jessica Simpson gaining some weight or Michael Phelps doing pot, oh dear.

And that is your daily lesson about how malformed American news is. :B

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Mozamon is so full of knowledge! *takes notes*

And yeah. I knew American news likes to skew itself, but that's for ratings. If people didn't give those stupid stories any traction then they wouldn't report it. Oh well. *boots the media*

[sannask.livejournal.com]

back in the 60s and 70s, industrialized nations really were fucking up the land pretty bad, ecologically speaking. acid rain was real. leaking landfills were real. shit like that actually went down. all the stuff about "we need to take care of the planet!" really was something that needed to happen immediately.

and we did. we cleaned up the factories that were causing acid rain. we developed better landfill systems. we fixed car engines so they weren't doing all the nasty crap they were doing before.

now all those people who made so much money being lobbyists when there was a Really Bad Problem Happening Right Now And We Need To Fix It RIGHT FUCKING NOW, suddenly found themselves facing unemployment. what did they do?

never missed a beat and kept on yelling. insisted the problem was still there and they should still be getting paid to yell at people to fix it.

granted, there are many things that the world population needs to do, and keep doing, to keep the planet healthy. good eco-stuff is just a good idea. ethically responsible, etc. but honestly? i don't think there's as much to freak out over as there was 40 years ago.


and i /think/ police reports etc are public record, you go to, maybe, the courthouse (?) and can find things like this. unless the court seals stuff. i'm kind of fuzzy on the specifics but there's a lot of it that can be (quite legally) gotten by someone who knows what to ask for.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Ffff. Well. Gotta hand it to them. They kept their jobs, even if I think lobbyists shouldn't be allowed to sway people. What ever happened to making people research instead of whispering all the stuff they want to hear right into their ear? Oh wait. That's how politics always worked. e___e

I wasn't alive fourty years ago. :< So a lot of that stuff I only know from history class and forgot it >_> But yeah. What concerns me is that people will think that just because the need isn't DIRE that they can go back to the wasteful ways instead of being pro-active.

Mmm, that's probably it. But still. They know about these things AS SOON AS they happen. So either the stalkerazzi see them being pulled over [which would mean they'd get pictures of it themselves, which is probably not the case] or it gets leaked to them immediately and they pounce on public record. Amazing, how it takes forever for the government to do anything, but the public record is filed for celebrity misfittery is available right away. =__=

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

All I gotta say about "climate change" is that: the earth has been around for billions of years. It's weathered Ice Ages, meteors and all kinds of shit. I think it's the HEIGHT of arrogance to assume that one species can have enough of an effect on a planet to effect it long term.

They're not worried about the EARTH but about THEMSELVES. The earth will adapt and go on surviving like it always has. Climate change is a natural phenomenon that happens without greenhouse gasses to blame it on. We've had warming periods, cooling periods, etc -- protip: the earth has been COOLING since 1998. 8|

Should we be good stewards of the earth since we're the dominant species: YES. Should we go overboard and run around flailing our arms like idiots and listen to morons like Al Gore who doesn't know his ass from a piece of dark matter? No.

/my 5 cents

Also: Watergate Hotel and Office complex

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Fff. It'd be amazing if we blew up the Earth though. JUST THROUGH CLIMATE CHANGE. It'd be amazing \o Like that Hadron Colllllllaaander. *tosses a salad in it*

Yeah. Watergate. *still doesn't remember what it actually was; goes off to stave off my ignorance; or waits for you to do it for me*

[pridefall.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for being uninformed, but, whut? Wasn't/Isn't Global warming something that's happening constantly (despite the claimed "cooling" of the planet) due to how much crap we put into the atmosphere on a yearly basis?

I know the planet changes, and I know we won't destroy it, but ffs, as far as I know the polar ice caps are melting because of what we've done to the planet, and this is a moderately bad thing.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Global warming... reminds me of when everyone was going batshit over El Nino.

Well, there's two sides. The environmentalists who say we're causing great harm with our greenhouse gases and heating up the earth and melting the polar ice caps and raising the water level and fucking shit up. I can agree that we're fucking shit up. That just goes with being human is seems.

But there's also the fact that... the earth could just be doing its normal thing without heed to us and our silly technology and interwebz. During the age of the dinosaurs the earth was warmer than it is now as well. Much warmer. I think people are more subtly worried about their own lives and how being on a warmer earth effects THEM rather than just the environment. We could all drop dead tomorrow and the Earth still might be 3 degrees warmer in 50 years. We'll never know. We only have data based on things we dug up since no one was around to stick a gauge in the air to measure the temperature, and even 100 years ago we didn't give a rat's ass in the first place.

[pridefall.livejournal.com]

Still, all that said: if the polar ice caps melt, everyone on my entire island is going to have to evolve gills to survive.

I understand there's two sides to the argument, but. Idk. It just sits wrong with me that both sides can dismiss the other so easily, human nature or not.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Yeeah. I'm far enough away from the coast where... I'll just end up with a seashore home instead. =| But yes, I hope your island stays happily above water.

Putting both sides into a reasonable and logical idea is just too much work, it seems. I'm sure there are others who think it's a combination of the two, but being logical doesn't sell.