Quote: The Guardian - The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry
| In the concluding part of a major investigation, Nick Davies shows how greenhouse gas credits do little or nothing to combat global warming |
But Today is Fathers Day and you should not have to read, I promised "an afternoon's worth" of video, So here are several documentary options. Now these videos tend to be longer then the usual 2 minute clips you maybe used to watching on the internet, with longer clips you can click on the video and it will direct you to youtube source, at that point you can enlarge the screen. Congratulations on Throwing Away Your TV.
During last Monday's Tag Series intro post I featured a Carl Sagan clip, he obviously did a good job a representing the Science Tag, so it's fitting that the first video today is a Carl Sagan Biography from A&E. It's two parts, the third video in the playlist is Sagan's famous "Pale Blue Dot" reading.
My favourite celebrity scientist is David Attenborough, who stayed out of the Global Warming debate for a long time. It wasn't until this documentary came out titled "Are we Changing the Planet" that he shared his thoughts to a wide audience. In this documentary he explains and shows examples of how humans are changing the planet.
So there you have it, thats roughly 2 and half hours of science right there. If you want to watch more I highly recommend the Science+Video Tag, and for news head on over to Netscape.
Now if hearing Sagan's voice makes you feel a little spiritual, that's cool, although it does have it's drawbacks, science and religion can work together, how? I have no clue... I will end this post with an article Mirengoff posted, it's a great find, an old dusty Albert Einstein article about Science and Religion.
Quote: Religion and Science
| The following article by Albert Einstein appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930 pp 1-4. It has been reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1954, pp 36 - 40. It also appears in Einstein's book The World as I See It, Philosophical Library, New York, 1949, pp. 24 - 28. |
