Mother Nature’s Hot Flush: Global Warming Groups Make Us Hotter
A TEAM of scientists from the University of Toronto team have found that “people feeling excluded said a room was colder than those feeling included”.
Yeah, having no friends keeps you cool. Does Mother Nature have too many friends? Are Friends of The Earth giving Her a hot flush?
The BBC contacts a Dr Lesley Prince, a lecturer in psychology at Birmingham University. He tells us:
“I particularly like the idea that if people are feeling despondent or lonely, you could help them feel better by putting the temperature up.”
Crank your engines. Plug in an extra fridge. And let’s all feel better about ourselves…
Spotter: June
September 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I’m a pathetic soul, I like hot soup on a cold day…
September 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I wonder if there’s a reward for turning in Enemies of the Earth?
People used to be declared enemies of the state, and the earth is just a collection of states, so we really ought to be able to put forward a reasonable legal case.
And there’s the World Bank, which is probably about as loathed an institution as it’s possible to get without being invaded and/or blown up, so it could do with some positive PR.
Now all we need is a bounty hunter prepared to take on June…
September 29th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Let’s ramp up the fear factor somewhat (I like my worries to be loooonng term)…
It’s not just the Earth’s menopause we need to worry about, it’s the solar system’s heliopause - the barrier (between us and space weather in the interstellar medium) generated by the sun’s magnetic activity and solar wind. The Sun’s average activity is at a fifty-year low right now, so the heliopause is shrinking against the push from forces beyond our little bubble of relative safety.
This may result in: unexpected and dangerous electromagnetic effects on our technology, more activity from the cometary nursery just outside our doorstep in the Oort Cloud and closer to home in the asteroid belt, perturbations in the magnetic fields of the gas giants and smaller, rocky worlds - like ours.
If we survive all these, then we must escape the Earth to colonise the nearer planets and asteroid belt for resources long since exhausted at home and to spread ourselves out in case of Earth-threatening asteroids and comets.
If we survive there we must escape the Solar System eventually as the Sun grows in size, swallowing the planets one by one before exploding in a supernova.
If we escape that we must leave the Milky Way before it inevitably has a cosmic car crash with another glaxy.
If we survive all that we must eventually find a way to escape the universe before heat-death or a big collapse finishes us off entirely.
Ever get the feeling someone’s putting obstacles in our way? Humanity is on a giant assault course. With a future like that who really killed JFK, whether lizardmen really run the governments and the bizarre popularity of Lily Allen all seem like small potatoes.
[Cheer up though, we've got to survive a world recession and resource wars to end all resource wars first. This is why I laugh at conspiracists. Reality is terrifying enough. Sweet dreams all [chuckle]]
September 29th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Cue The Animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1w5Hl8D0E
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 am
“A TEAM of scientists from the University of Toronto team have found that “people feeling excluded said a room was colder than those feeling included”.
Why do I get the feeling I might actually be INSIDE the matrix listening to crap like that?