So do they think standing outside his house in balaclavas will make him stay?
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Posted: October 20, 2010 by brandonheathe in UncategorizedTags: claim token, technorati, technorati claim token
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So the new version of PES 2011 is out and it’s very different. No longer do you have to shape passes, instead where you aim the stick is actually a good guide to where the balls going to go. And no you have a handy power meter to show how hard you’ve decided to kick it. Being a veteran of PES i’ve been through many new versions and it’s obvious this one is a big change. Huge areas have been overhauled. The playing side and the managing side.
I was in my 11 season with Inter Milan in PES 2010 when I bought the new version and in all honesty at first I hated it. They’d removed the standard camera and now you have a puesdo TV camera which has a different perspective. It looks OK not as nice as I’d hoped but PES isn’t about the looks it’s about the playability. After hours work I finally seem to be able to pass it about properly.
Shooting however is still causing me serious issues. Most shots ballon over the bar with only the smallest amount of power. This seems to be pegged back making it more physically accurate. So too are player abilities. I always hate the first season, players are slow and shit. My first team in 2020 had 8 players over 100 and the others were late 90′s. My current teams is rocking 70-80s and has quite a few young 60s. I won’t really know how much better it is till i get a few years in.
They removed the awesome replay camera with an awful ground level camera. Not happy about that!
So for now the jury is still out but should I will the champos with my team of youngster I’m sure I’ll be loving it big time. Espeically if they brought Schwarz and Shaw back!
Carbon Dioxide – Really Contributing to Global Warming?
Posted: October 14, 2010 by brandonheathe in MusingsTags: an inconvinient truth, carbon dioxide warming, climate change, CO2, CO2 warming, global warming, global warming swindle
Recently, I watched an interesting documentary named “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. The documentary was produced in 2007 by Martin Durkin. I hadn’t paid much attention when it first hit the screens a few years ago, which made the experience all the more intriguing. I wondered how (since the release of the documentary) people were still quoting false facts and spreading misinformation today, as if Durkin had never bothered to open this can of worms in the first place.
The documentary supposes that CO2 or Carbon Dioxide (produced by all living things and forms of combustion) is not contributing to the global rise in temperature on a significant level. “The Great Global Warming Swindle” notes that a stream of cosmic particles regularly strikes our planet’s troposphere (this is scientific, demonstrable fact). This helps to form clouds, creating more cloud cover and cooling the Earth. However, recently the sun has interfered with this particle stream (this interference has occurred on-and-off throughout Earth’s history). During periods of increased solar activity, the solar wind deflects cosmic particles away from our atmosphere, reducing cloud cover.
This lack of cloud cover has caused the Earth’s temperature to rise mildly, though much higher temperatures were observed during the Earth’s “medieval warm period” – long before mass production or industrialisation. This rise in temperature has warmed the deep-ocean over an 800 year period and released CO2 from the ocean into our atmosphere. But what does this mean to us in reference to the relationship between global warming and CO2?
When Al Gore supposed that there was a relationship between the warming Earth and rising CO2 levels in his work “An Inconvenient Truth” (Davis Guggenheim, 2006) he wasn’t wrong. There is a strong relationship between the two factors; however he placed effect before cause. It is not CO2 which is causing the Earth to heat up; rather it is the warming of the Earth which is releasing more CO2 into our atmosphere. As mentioned earlier, when the ocean is warmed it releases CO2 into the atmosphere over an 800 year time-span.
Many leading climatologists are in fact angry that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have used their names in their work and taken comments they have made entirely out of context. It seems that clearly – politicians have seized a territory of science to twist to their own ends, especially since most climatologists do not even recognise the majority of the IPCC as scientific minds. The few ‘true’ scientists who were quoted in the IPCC’s work have (mostly) withdrawn all support for the IPCC, though their names remain as contributors to ‘controversial works of our time’.
If the assertions of the “Great Global Warming Swindle” are indeed correct, we can say that many 3rd world countries (such as Africa) who have fossil fuel resources available to kick-start their industrial ages are being conned by left-wing western political movements. They are being told to gain electricity for their homes via unreasonably expensive (and unreliable) renewable energy systems such as wind farms or solar panels, which many wealthy western home owners cannot afford.
If the main perceived threat of electricity generated by way of combustion is that it releases ‘dangerous’ CO2 into our atmosphere, when actually CO2 does not damage our environment (after all, we are all carbon-based life forms ourselves); maybe we should re-think contemporary theories. If for no other reason than to save the lives of those who are markedly less fortunate than ourselves.
You can find the documentary viewable online for free and without any registration requirements here:
