The path of ignorance

“Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world's top source of greenhouse gases, a 46-country survey showed on Monday. The report, by ACNielsen of more than 25,000 Internet users, showed that 57 percent of people around the world considered global warming a "very serious problem" and a further 34 percent rated it a "serious problem."… People in Latin America were most worried while U.S. citizens were least concerned with just 42 percent rating global warming "very serious." The United States emits about a quarter of all greenhouse gases, the biggest emitter ahead of China, Russia and India.” Reuters, Oslo. There are many mistakes made because forced ignorance, or because pursued blindness.

Dark dryness

“Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts today. The ecosystems that have underpinned all European societies from Ancient Greece and Rome to present-day Britain and France, and which helped European civilisation gain global pre-eminence, will be disabled by remorselessly rising temperatures, EU scientists forecast in a remarkable report which is as ominous as it is detailed. Much of the continent's age-old fertility, which gave the world the vine and the olive and now produces mountains of grain and dairy products, will not survive the climate change forecast for the coming century, the scientists say, and its wildlife will be devastated.” Stephen Castle and Michael McCarthy, Global Research, January 11, 2007. The Independent.

Dynamic emotions

In various moments of time, emotions evolve according to the influences of media and social constructs. This influences relative and circular values and is embedded in the black holes of the dynamic interchange of social influences.

Innocent unoticed impacts

Innocent beings embedded by orange notes pay the price of increasing obscurity from unnoticed smoke. “Traffic pollution from freeways may stunt development of the lungs in children aged 10 to 18, according to a study by researchers from the University of Southern California … Study data showed that both local exposures to freeways and regional air pollution had detrimental, yet independent effects on lung-function growth. Previous studies have demonstrated a link between regional air quality and lung function growth.” Ben Wasserman - foodconsumer.org, Jan 26, 2007

Shadow quarks

“Quarks and the Cosmos. Cosmology is in the midst of a period of revolutionary discovery, propelled by bold ideas from particle physics and by technological advances from gigapixel charge-coupled device cameras to peta-scale computing. The basic features of the universe have now been determined: It is 13.7 billion years old, spatially flat, and expanding at an accelerating rate; it is composed of atoms (4%), exotic dark matter (20%), and dark energy (76%); and there is evidence that galaxies and other structures were seeded by quantum fluctuations. Although we know much about the universe, we understand far less. Poised to dramatically advance our understanding of both the universe and the laws that govern it, cosmology is on the verge of a golden age.” Michael S. Turner, Science, January 5th.

Adiction face

“US Scientists have discovered that when a small area of a smoker's brain is damaged it often makes them quit smoking easily. It is possible that this discovery could lead to treatments that target that same area of the brain to help smokers give up the habit.” Medical News.
“A number of brain systems have been implicated in addictive behavior, but none have yet been shown to be necessary for maintaining the addiction to cigarette smoking. We found that smokers with brain damage involving the insula, a region implicated in conscious urges, were more likely than smokers with brain damage not involving the insula to undergo a disruption of smoking addiction, characterized by the ability to quit smoking easily, immediately, without relapse, and without persistence of the urge to smoke.” Naqvi, Rudrauf, Damasio, Bechara, Science 26 January 2007.

Human mind lost

“People with amnesia struggle to remember their past. They may also strugle to envision their future, according to a new study.” Greg Miller, Science January 2007.

Modern human house

Modern house is full of soft tones and soft forms, considered by many as abstract, but that are embedded into a quasi-metal structure that seems gives no support, sustaining what is left of human sensitivity. Humans get into this pattern for good or for bad, in the modern sense it evolves like a living sponge.

Baghdad detritus

“George Bush has always been a gambler but this is his most audacious bet yet. Most Americans now believe that America has lost the war in Iraq. Only last month the Baker-Hamilton group, a bipartisan group of wise men (and one wise woman) told Congress that the situation in Iraq was “grave and deteriorating”. It recommended a managed withdrawal, dangling the prospect of the bulk of America’s combat troops pulling out in early 2008. This week Mr Bush rejected that advice … It would be foolish to argue that Mr Bush’s plan is certain of success. Even if it does succeed, this would not be “victory” in any normal sense. Iraq is likely to be violent and unstable for years to come. Contrary to what Mr Bush said this week, the dream of turning it into a democratic model for other Arabs has died.” The Economist Newspaper Limited 2007

The linear pattern of altruism

Referring to study by Tankersley, Stowe and Huettel, Nature Neuroscience, 21 January 2007, “Scientists say they have found the part of the brain that predicts whether a person will be selfish or an altruist.”, BBC. “People may not perform selfless acts just for an emotional reward … Instead, they may do good because they're acutely tuned into the needs and actions of others.” Forbes.

Climate atomic nausea

“Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world, the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking has said. Professor Hawking said that we stand on the precipice of a second nuclear age and a period of exceptional climate change, both of which could destroy the planet as we know it.” Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent, 18 January 2007.

The moral arrow

Washington. “Saying they share a moral purpose, a group of evangelicals and scientists said Wednesday they will work together to convince the nation's leaders that global warming is real … “God will judge us for destroying the Creation. Therefore, we as evangelicals have a responsibility to be even more vigilant than others," … "Science can be an ally in helping us understand what faith is telling us," he said. "We will not allow the Creation to be degraded, destroyed by human folly." JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer, Wed Jan 17. The moral arrow always is capable of showing a double side, and can be associated with any other accompanying claim. Here it comes on the dirtied green for recover and help, after a failed trajectory of consent devastation.

Network of nuclear muscles

“The second nuclear era, unlike the dawn of the first nuclear age in 1945, is characterized by a world of porous national borders, rapid communications that facilitate the spread of technical knowledge, and expanded commerce in potentially dangerous dual-use technologies and materials.” Board of Directors, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The sharing and increase of information and knowledge of human beings, for good or for bad, is an inevitable trend, and the constituted blurred network will make necessary a new way of dealing with the human quest and values.

Building blocks of incredulity

“A leading climate-change researcher expressed doubt that growing public fears over the link between extreme weather events and global warming have any basis in science. He voiced concern that the ramifications of global warming on the numbers and severity of hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, damaging winds, floods and droughts had been exaggerated beyond their proven bounds.

 There are "no convincing links" between trends in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and trends in severe weather events, according to the scientist.” Adam Jensen,
January 15, 2007, The Tahoe Daily Tribune.

Small influence

“The good news for climatologists like UVic's Andrew Weaver is that their views on climate change have long enjoyed widespread support within the scientific community. The bad news is that the scientific community is only slightly larger than the Kevin Federline Fan Club.” Jack Knox, Times Colonist, Canada, January 13, 2007. In a social network of straight avenues and simple minds, small dots could slightly accumulate to change the course of the network, like micro-social explosions.

Looking at natural experiments

“Earth's climate cannot be replicated in a lab. So to understand how this critical component of the planet's heat regulation works, scientists must rely on "natural experiments." David Biello, Scientific American, January 6th. “A team of American and French scientists has developed a method to determine the influence of past volcanic eruptions on climate and the chemistry of the upper atmosphere, and significantly reduce uncertainty in models of future climate change. In the January 5 issue of the journal Science, …” SpaceRef.com

Collateral damage II

“Sandwiched between temperate Europe and African heat, Italy is on the front line of climate change and is witnessing a rise in tropical diseases such as malaria and tick-borne encephalitis, a new report says.” Tom Kington, The Guardian, January 6th.

Collateral damage

“The number of butterfly and moth species migrating to Britain for the summer has increased fourfold in the past 25 years, researchers have found … But while some visitors may be a delight to the eye, there are fears that they could drive out native species and bring disease with them.” Lewis Smith, Times Online, January 6th.

Dirty oxigen

“Climate change affects marine fishes through the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance. Laboratory data … led to the hypothesis that, as a unifying principle, a mismatch between the demand for oxygen and the capacity of oxygen supply to tissues is the first mechanism to restrict whole-animal tolerance to thermal extremes … thermally limited oxygen delivery closely matches environmental temperatures beyond which growth performance and abundance decrease.” Hans O. Pörtner and Rainer Knust, Science, January 5th.

Bush arguments and the enthusiam for post modern gunfire explosions

President Bush: “Failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States … our enemies would have a safe haven from which to plan and launch attacks on the American people.” “The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East … is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. On one side are those who believe in freedom and moderation. On the other side are extremists who kill the innocent and have declared their intention to destroy our way of life.” “A democratic Iraq … will be a country that fights terrorists instead of harboring them, and it will help bring a future of peace and security for our children and our grandchildren.”
In the center there is a magnet of incandescent lights projected over the approaching night, where there is no way out for the multitude of guns coming from the post-modern world. Arguments emerge from a center where hatred impressions are plasticized onto symbolic guns mixed with cerebral mass of success and pride.

Manipulation by the market muscle

“The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report accusing Exxon Mobil of spending millions of dollars to manipulate public opinion on the seriousness of global warming”, Clifford Krauss, International Herald Tribune, January 4th. And another interesting finding: “Industry funding of nutrition-related scientific articles may bias conclusions in favour of sponsors' products, with potentially significant implications for public health.” Lesser et al. PLoS Medicine, January 8th. The multiple facets of the hyper constructed reality are a significant element of human societies, where in modern times there is a determinant influences of mass media, and their overwhelming window frame approach.

The nightmare of climate change

“A dire set of predictions of the consequences of global warming in Europe is contained in a report for the European Commission. It forecasts that by 2071 climate change will cause droughts and floods that will kill 90,000 people a year while damage from rising sea levels will cost tens of billions of euros.”, Andrew Bounds, Financial Times, January 5th.
Dreams are never easy and deformation of reality follows from the very way in which they evolve. Predicting those future trajectories while asleep could break down the construction of present dreams.

Sensible words in a difficult trend

To fight climate change: "Every part of the way we work, go to school, the way we live is going to have to change … Not change for the worse, but change so that we live in a way that respects the environment rather than abuses it." UK Environment Minister David Miliband.

Humanly caused seasonal brain insomnia

“Bears appear to have stopped hibernating in Spain's northern mountains, according to Spanish scientists who blame climate change for the behavior”, Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News.

Heat trap

“Polar bears currently face an uncertain future. Climate change is causing the decrease of Arctic sea ice on which polar bears hunt their prey, feed, mate and frequently den. Current climate projections indicate that the polar bear's ocean habitat and habitat for their prey are imperiled by these warming trends.” WWF's vice president Bill Eichbaum.

Thinking of climate change in China

“Climate change will harm China's ecology and economy in the coming decades, possibly causing large drops in agricultural output, … will increase the instability of agricultural production, … If no measures are taken, in the latter half of the century production of wheat, corn and rice in China will drop by as much as 37 percent.”, AP, Beijing. Jan 04, 2007.

Heat formation from ice

“A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned.” By By Cahal Milmo, The Independent.

Realization of a fallen trajectory

“A huge portion of ice broke off from Canada’s Ellesmere Island last year, but it was not until this year that scientists, using satellite photos, realized the full dimension of the catastrophe.” Nicolae Alexa.

The face squares and the shame of post-modern world

“Each United States service member who has died in Iraq and has been identified by the Defence Department is represented by a small square to the right. The squares are ordered by date of death, with the most recent deaths appearing in the upper left corner” The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB1.html

The future of religion and beliefs

“People's fascination for religion and superstition will disappear within a few decades as television and the Internet make it easier to get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.” Alok Jha, The Guardian.