Global warming

Finally back from reservist! Doesn't it feel great to be a civilian again? Ok lah, this round of ICT was not that tough. We were doing ATEC 1 which is basically individual proficiency testing, so no outfield exercise. And I wasn't tested. I got poked twice this week tough, which brings it to a total of being poked 3 times with a 16 gauge needle in 2 and a half weeks! If you know how big a 16 gauge is you'd probably faint.....

Went to Vivocity last night to watch An Inconvenient Truth with some friends. One guy observed that I was talking in Army lingo, I guess it will take a few days for my civilian conversion course haha! The movie was quite interesting, but seriously I'd like to hear more than just Al Gore talking. He's a good talker, but still, $9.50 to hear one person talk?!! I think Michael Moore is more interesting though he is probably a lot more biased. Did I learn a lot more from Al Gore's speech? Not really. Is he scientific enough? Definitely not, because he totally did not talk very much about the skeptics scientific point of view. Zero citations disagreeing with global warming in his sample of papers. But there are indeed papers out there that disagree with global warming, he just didn't dig hard enough. Read Michael Crichton's book (forgot the name) to find references. Like all politicians, he's really just using his charm to present the facts. Oh and not to mention the entire movie is a big Apple advertisement!!

We all noticed some mismatch between the crowd and the stores at vivocity. The crowd is largely a family crowd, lots of uncles aunties and their kids, making A LOT of noise! But the stores are largely upmarket boutiques, which cater to the hip and well-heeled. I suppose those well-heeled shoppers wouldn't want to squeeze with the sweating heartlanders with kids in tow. And not to mention that the first floor has a huge atrium which attracts numerous shoppers, but once u go up the escalator the aisles are tiny, and you literally have to squeeze to get from one point to another. I've never seen any mall with such small walkways, other than beach road Army Market!! Poorly designed indeed. But I guess the crowd is coming, so its a success. But are they spending enough to cover the cost of developing this sprawling complex?

Back to global warming. Gore says that the world population is too large, becoming unsustainable. However, many rich countries in europe and asia are shunning immigration and encouraging people to have more and more kids. And these are precisely the countries who are most aware of the global warming problem. I guess it's all going downhill......