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TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING
Bollywood stars Abhisek and Aiswarya Bachchan get the word out on global warming:
“Terrible, terrible things are happening to this Earth of ours and we want to use this platform to try to acquaint people about what it’s about and what they can do,” said Abhishek. “We’re using this opportunity to spread the word.”
Of what “opportunity” does Abhishek speak? Try this on for size:
The Unforgettable Tour, first announced in June, during the International Indian Film Academy Awards in Sheffield, England, will begin in summer 2008. It will consist of on stage re-enactments of popular Bollywood song-and-dance items ...
The tour will transit through 18 countries around the world with sizeable Indian populations and include stops at Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, London, Cairo, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Makes my own warmening jaunt look downright puny.
The Unforgettable Tour. Never heard of it.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 08 18 at 12:36 PM • permalinkTerrible things. Horrible things. Things that make you run screaming into the night! Things that make grown men break down in tears, and not liberal men either!
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 08 18 at 12:57 PM • permalinkWhat they are, I dunno. I just ride the hysteria.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 08 18 at 12:58 PM • permalinkAnd nothing says “scientific research” like a musical dance number.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 08 18 at 01:06 PM • permalinkActually, I’d pay to see “Watson and Crick: The Musical”! So long as they have the subplot of Crick being a very dirty old man and trying to feel up grad students.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 08 18 at 01:10 PM • permalinkNever mind, Richard. I found it. Paco Productions presents: Bollywood Cowboys Against global Warming.
And don’t miss the second feature: “My Date With Gaia”
Or they could just, you know, stay home and do something about that Cloud Of Death they’re spreading over SW Asia…
I’m just sayin’...
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 18 at 03:17 PM • permalink#9 Yes, that’s true, greene. I saw an Indian movie about one of the India-Pakistan wars and it had musical numbers in it.
So there’s an Indian trench being attacked by Pakistanis and after the Indians fight off the attack, one of the leads is comforting a dying Pakistani soldier and the two are calling each other “brother” and the corpses get up and go into a dance number while the lead sings a song about war’s horrors. (It was a decent movie, too. I mean that.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 08 18 at 04:12 PM • permalink#11 Paco, Mrs Skeeter wants to know if Paco Productions is interested in the movie rights to her next book.
I used to knock Bollywood movies until I watched my first one; Bride and Prejudice.
I now prefer to be entertained and amused by Bollywood rather than be enraged by Hollywood or Film Australia.Paco, I can’t get into the Bollywood site right now—something about wronwright and a hostage situation—but I want you to know, you’ve inspired me.
And it will serve you right…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 18 at 08:19 PM • permalinkPaco! in Rabbit Test! the thrilling conclusion!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 12:15 AM • permalinkHey! Have a look at Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics.
It’s 114 pages but here’s the abstract.
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional
works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported
in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary
atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting
with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law
of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost
all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for
granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. In
this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the underlying physical principles are
clarified. By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming
phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there
are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the
frequently mentioned difference of 33 ºC is a meaningless number calculated wrongly,
(d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a
radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to
zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.The maths is way beyond me but here’s one thing I’ve learned. The reason air warms up in a greenhouse is not because the glass lets in most wave-lengths of light and doesn’t let the long wave-lengths back out. It’s simply because the sunlight coming in heats up the ground and whatever other surfaces are in there. This heats up the surrounding air which then rises by convection. The incoming cooler air is then heated in the same way and rises in its turn - and so on. As long as no one opens the greenhouse door it will get hotter and hotter in there until the heat gained through sunlight shining in is balanced by the heat lost when the warm air bounces against the cooler glass. This has been in the literature since 1909!
Another quote:
“In summary, there is no atmospheric greenhouse effect, in particular CO2-greenhouse effect, in theoretical physics and engineering thermodynamics. Thus it is illegitimate to deduce predictions which provide a consulting solution for economics and intergovernmental policy.”
Hey, I thought I had that Bollywood studio shut down. I placed a padlock on the front gate myself. I’d like to know how McEnroe gets past my full proof security systems.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 08 19 at 07:59 AM • permalinkAnd by the way, I’d like to direct everyone’s attention to Janice’s intriguing discussion on the global warming thingy. Do NOT access the links on McEnroe and paco’s comments. They, um, possibly have viruses uploaded to porn sites. And macrame knitting sites. And stuff like that.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 08 19 at 08:02 AM • permalinkRebeccaH—Wasn’t that big a bribe. When wronwright infiltrates he REALLY gets into character: he’s cheap and easy….
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 04:23 PM • permalink
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Hm. Just the singing and dancing, and the snoring in the audience, is enough to raise carbon emissions to unacceptable levels.