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INTENSE REGIONAL WARMING NOTED
San Francisco Chronicle science writer Carl T. Hall:
Scientists said they expect the ozone layer will have fully recovered sometime around 2065-2075—just in time for global warming to have a shot at destroying all life on Earth.
All life? Well, it’s easy for us to scoff; but consider how much warmer it’s getting in occupied France:
An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year.
One solution: faster cars. Try catching this, you Jihadi burnouts!
(Via James Taranto)
0 to 60 in one second
Down South that’s call haulin’ ass. I assume that the “really sweet racecar-style interior” consists of something to keep your head from snapping off, when you smash the pedal, to metal.
Our words really can’t do it justice
The only word I can think of that you can spit out in 1 second, is a four letter word...maybe.
Contrary to being safe from Iran, I see France as the possible flashpoint for the all-out “crusader"/Islamic shooting war. Police will be murdered, they’ll kill some rioters, and the retributions will begin. Europe might very well go up in flames, if Islamic countries jump in. That little bastard in Iran has already threatened them.
Yeah, I agree with RebeccaH. France is in for a lot of strife. It may be, as you say, the Western battleground.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 10 21 at 10:13 AM • permalinkThe French aren’t much for stand-up war, but they’re probably better than the Germans at running an occupation, and they’ve even had practice doing it on their own turf.
It’s going to bet really ugly.
Posted by Andy Freeman on 2006 10 21 at 11:57 AM • permalinkNoooo.... the French solution would be to eliminate the private ownership of the ozone pollution car- and force the entire population to rely on public transport!!! Then the Jihadists cannot burn any more cars - ergo problem solved.
Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 10 21 at 01:26 PM • permalinkScientists said they expect the ozone layer will have fully recovered sometime around 2065-2075—just in time for global warming to have a shot at destroying all life on Earth.
Ah yes, but in this article from the Australian, CSIRO’s atmospheric scientist Paul Fraser is reported as saying,”the size of the hole is due to the effect of atmospheric influences like wind and temperature” and “This is the coldest year ever”.
Meanwhile over in the SMH in this article , Dr Andrew Klekociuk, another atmospheric scientist, is reported as saying that “the cold could be linked to climate change.” And in the same article, “ Extremely cold temperatures over winter, down to minus 93 degrees in the upper atmosphere, were behind the expansion of this year’s hole” and “Some global warming scenarios point to a balancing cooling effect in the upper atmosphere.”
How brilliant can some people get? The coldest year ever and it’s global warming! (Actually I think a better phrase would be the coldest year on record, argh - maybe I shouldn’t be so picky)
But don’t worry about the Ozone Hole because “estimated levels of the destructive gases peaked above Antarctica in 2001 and are now declining”
Eureka - got it! We have no problem now, because after the initial ‘problem’ was identified an international plan of action was developed to solve the ‘problem’. As that plan is now being implemented, the ’problem’, by definition, must go away. Any other event that suggests there could be other factors involved will be dismissed. Of course the real solution to the hole in the ozone layer now is to stop measuring it.
Okay, the French are, on the whole, the sniffiest aristo-pseuds amongst the Westerners. You’d be forgiven - judging by the way they act in their nine to five (or should I say ten to four) capacity - that they’re not with us.
However, wait until their backs are against the wall; then we’ll really see their mettle. Look up levée en masse on Wikipedia.
Okay, this was a movement in response to a pretty much universal declaration of war from everyone else due to a spot of prior naughtiness when the French intelligentsia-rabble tag-team showed their - erm - kinky side and did some really, really unthinkably sick and nasty things to various members of the French aristocracy. Before they killed them. Point is, the rest of Europe were mightily pissed off by the somewhat shabby treatment meted out to the French toffs, and they all simultaneously declared war on France. Thing is, revolutionary France rebuffed them time and time again with their whole levée en masse thing. Then Napoleon came along and kicked continental arse for several years, before mistakenly thinking that Spain was worth conquering and the vista might be more attractive from Moscow. He subsequently succumbed to the staying power of those seafaring, empire-building Brits. Not a bad run for the French, though.
Point is: suitably motivated, the French can fight.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 10 21 at 10:36 PM • permalinkJames has a point and lets face facts, ONE country in particular has gone to France cap in hand asking for help.
Looking at you America!
The rest of us just ignoring the Britsish Monarchy till they became postage stamps. Much more civilised and gave us more time to focus on kicking their ass in all the sports they invented.
The French of 200 years ago are not the French of today.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 21 at 10:53 PM • permalink0 to 60mph in one second requires an average acceleration of nearly 3g (g = gravitational acceleration at earth’s surface = 9.8m/s²). Tyre-driven vehicles cannot accelerate at more than 2g. (Actually, I think the limit is somewhere from 1.5g to 1.8g. Maybe someone else here knows for sure?)
0 to 60kmh in one second might just be possible with the right tyres, all-wheel drive and some fancy engineering.
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2006 10 21 at 11:35 PM • permalinkAn average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year.
By Lancet Math™ the harsh reality is that 134,120 cars are torched nightly; there are 17,960 daily attacks on police with a total of 3,590,000 police injuries so far this year.
What? That doesn’t sound reasonable?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 10 21 at 11:50 PM • permalinkRe #22: that limit comes from static friction between the tyres and the road. After posting (why don’t I ever remember these things before posting?!), I remembered that heating up the tyres, like drag racers do, can get you much greater friction.
That’s what’s going on! Those kind young men are just trying to help the car-owners leave the area more quickly ...
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2006 10 22 at 12:06 AM • permalinkThe huge problem faced by the Frogs in this war is that they don’t have the Americans, the Brits and the Aussies to bail them out this time. Not that they have shown much gratitude for our saving their arses in WWI and WWII anyway. You’re on your own in this one, sports! Bonne chance, you’re going to need it!
Spectacularly untrue dropshort.
The Commonwealth Graves in France are much better cared for than the any government cared for cemetary here.
Just one single example would be the town of Le Quesnoy have renamed a substantial amount of their town with New Zealand names, fly the New Zealand ensign daily and observe ANZAC in memory of the NZ Rifle Brigade liberating their town in an old fashioned storm assault (over old fashioned fortifications) without a preparatry bombardment to spare those historic fortifications from damage.
They also made a very public stand against the french government during the fallout from the French sinking the Rainbow Warrior.
They greet Kiwis (& Aussies) with an enthusiasm you’d have to go the Crete to surpass.
Ever gotten into a fight with French Para’s just out of interest?
Coyote, the graves are splendidly maintained but it’s the Commonwealth War Graves Commission that’s responsible. French country folk are often splendid but the French Government has been damaging to us in respect of their agricultural policies which have artificially depressed markets around the world, making life very tough for our farmers (not to mention destroying African economies); they have been conspicously absent in the war on terrorism; and we’d have rather they had conducted their nuclear tests in their own backyard rather than ours. That’s 3 or 4 rds FFE. Cheers.
The French of 200 years ago are not the French of today.
Alas, this is true. Would that the likes of La Fayette were still around.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 22 at 03:11 AM • permalinkLa Fayette is one of my favorites of the Revolution, both American and French, but he could not withstand the Rousseau-lovers who took over and slaughtered tens of thousands in the name of Virtue.
Sadly, RebeccaH, I think you are absolutely right about France being the flash point. If one believed as they do, that appeasement is the answer, then Amamadman and the rest of the war-mongering murderers would certainly spare them. But of course, they aren’t right and their appeasement has made them a easy target. Hard lessons. I don’t think it is a good thing for us, no matter how we feel about the French. It seems that we are destined to have to fight a true World War once again, since the West refuses to fight the initial battles in such a way as to nip it in the bud.
’It seems that we are destined to have to fight a true World War once again’
before we do that we have to fight the war of propaganda which has also been largely ignored.
However Britain could be on the watershef of awakening.
Al-Qaeda is winning the war of ideas, says Reid
John Reid has issued a dire warning that the Government risks losing the “battle of ideas” with al-Qaeda.
from Daily telegraph.co.uk
The Home Secretary spoke out at an emergency meeting of ministers and security officials amid an ever-growing threat from home-grown Islamist terror groups.
Unfortunately the last PM with any guts was Margeret Thatcher and she was betrayed by the turncoats in her own party.
The state of the consevative party is testament to that even today.All life on earth? I believe they have misunderestimated Thermus aquaticus and its extremophile ilk.
davo, it will come to an all out war because we are losing the propaganda war. There are those who recognize that this is a war of ideas, but there are too many Westerners on the left who think they can stand with the jihadists with impunity, and too many on the right who think they can fight an altruistic war--which is a contradiction in terms. The left is mostly hopeless. The right has integrated too much of the multi-cult, PC thought control rhetoric. I am constantly amazed at the level of indoctrination that has taken hold. I shouldn’t be, of course. We’ve all been living with it for some thirty years now, and there are a couple of generations who have heard little else. Since we think in concepts defined by words, the work of the PC bunch, heard from almost every quarter, affects all who accept any part of it. It rots he brain and robs it of reason.
The war of ideas isn’t just with Islam, but with the corruption in our own thinking that allows the Chomskys, Fisks, Pilgers and Miranda Divides of the world to determine the language we’re allowed to use to set the terms of the argument. Accept the terms and you’ve accepted their premises; the most consistent will always win such an argument.
Salty
Yes, the problem is as much our own descent into degenerate thinking as the constant assault from the islamists who have learnt propably from the old Communists how to exploit those faults to their advantage.
Do civilisations collapse frome within and the barbarians simply come in and pick up the pieces ?Hey y’all. Dont give in too quickly to despair and defeatism.
There’s iron plenty enough left to us as a culture. Even now, with an ROE that borders on treason in it’s molly codling of the enemy and a demonstrated proclivity to throw our own fighting men under the nearest bus, there’s still young men lining up to serve.
DO NOT make the mistake of assuming that the squeaky wheels are anything more than broken and loudly dysfunctional noise makers.
There’s plenty left to us that still know there’s a fight on and have every intention of doing their part.
Of course, a key indicator that, as a society, we’ve really started to take this seriously will be the “trendy traitors” and “enemy friendly” scum among us will have real and true reason to fear.
History is replete with examples and lessons on what is done to those who manage to acquire such a blood debt as our illiberal left has done.
The “left” has become that stench of cultural rot that draws the predetors out to attack the rest of us. That will be corrected in time and “the body politic” will heal and become whole again.
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Slightly O/T, but at least France shouldn’t have to face the wrath of Iran. Ahmamadman has issued an ultimatum to countries who stand with Israel.