Comments on: Feminism: Destroying the Planet

By: zerosix

zerosix — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:08:46 +0000

Amara, but wait, graph internet usage to %girl/boy and you will find the graph is almost identical…hmmmmmm.

By: gringo

gringo — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:25:18 +0000

Beta-male?

Why don’t you test that by allowing Gore to punch your face?
Oh, maybe you are afraid of becoming two-dimensional all of a sudden?

That would be the result of Gore’s punch. Trust me he can hit like noone else. Not even Ahhhhnold.

By: El feminismo destruye el planeta (Â¡anda ya!)

El feminismo destruye el planeta (Â¡anda ya!) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:44:30 +0000

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By: Amara

Amara — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:22:13 +0000

Kramer, The CO2 from ocean island basalts? I know the geochemists like the Hawaiian island basalts because of what seems to be a long conduit to an undegassed reservoir in the mantle where the abundances of the noble gases are high.

Elliot, other places you can look if you are interested in the primordial CO2 are well gases (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/285/5436/2115) and ‘popping rock’, which are mid-ocean ridge basaltic glasses thought to be undegassed material from the Earth’s upper mantle. It is called ‘popping rock’ because when they are recovered from the seafloor and sitting on the ship’s deck, they ‘pop’ from the gases trapped in individual vesicles. Is that cool or what?

By: Kramer

Kramer — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:06:07 +0000

Elliot:

Data from Antarctica is from analysis of air trapped in ice cores.

Data from Mauna Loa is data from measurements of CO2 (begun by the very forward thinking Ralph Keeling).

By: Elliot

Elliot — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:14:50 +0000

I just gotta ask. Why did the data collection site shift from Antartica to Mauna Loa?

By: arensb

arensb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:46:20 +0000

Feminists? Oh, please. The CO2 graph makes it clear that greenhouse gas emissions really took off in 1859, the year when Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published. Clearly the problem is evilutionism; feminism is at best an evilutionist ally.

(Though there’s also a bit of a reduction in CO2 levels around the time when the Germans caused all that unpleasantness in Europe in the last century; I don’t know how to explain that.)

By: angryScientist

angryScientist — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:32:54 +0000

Sorry, I fail to see anything surprising or amusing in any of this. Rich countries produce more CO2 and send more girls to school. So what?

So…feminism is destroying the planet, while making the country richer. Ergo, feminism=capitalism?

It isn’t the data that’s funny, it’s the interpretation. The double-whammy irony is that equally dubious connections are reported with a straight face all the time.

By: Ponderer of Things

Ponderer of Things — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:31:10 +0000

I like correlation of number of cell phones per capita with lifespan. If we only got Africans nations some cell phones, their life expectancy will immediately increase from 30-something to 70-something years!

By: Lexia

Lexia — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:08:24 +0000

Sorry, I fail to see anything surprising or amusing in any of this. Rich countries produce more CO2 and send more girls to school. So what?

I think it’s got a lot to do with the recent rise in dubious trend stories published by papers that should have known better. But that’s just my own correllation.

Good thing the aliens will come soon and colonize the planet.

Tiptree’s two possums that shipped out in ‘73 will be coming back with those aliens from Roswell. Then things’ll get fun.