Global Warming Myth

Since the 1980’s a few scientists had a theory that increased Co2 emissions would cause temperature rises, now little over 20 years later this theory seems to have been taken as fact by the majority of people. The media are now one of the main sources of information regarding global warming and politicians are now catching on with public demanding better ways to dispose of rubbish and cleaner emissions from cars and busses. It’s very easy to look at global warming now and see that it is a fact, however is it? Have you ever seen global warming evidence or have you just believed the crowd and this myth of global warming?

One of the main fears of global warming is that it will cause more storms, coast line flooding and generally destroy our climate which may kill thousands of animal species. Without going into a lot of scientific detail the earth is warming, however if this is to do with us seems unlikely. During the 20th Century the climate of the planet has risen by 0.6c. From looking at the evidence it seems very unlikely that this climate change is to with us. For instance even if Co2 did raise the temperature did you know when a volcano explodes it gives off twice the amount of Co2 that America makes in a whole year? Did you know that cows are higher Co2 polluters compared to most modern cars? It seems that nature on its own is responsible for more Co2 pollution over the years compared to us; cows have been around far longer than cars. The Earth has always had climate changes over the years, just look at the ice age and that went alright.

Storms and floods are said to increase with global warming, there have always been storms and floods but to say that they will increase is very far fetched. Some Scientists around the world believe that the Earth is slowly dying however some don’t believe this. Dr. John Christy, professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville said: "I remember as a college student at the first Earth Day being told it was a certainty that by the year 2000, the world would be starving and out of energy. Such doomsday prophecies grabbed headlines, but have proven to be completely false."

I believe that global warming is a myth. This myth is used by the media and politicians to drive fear into people which is what feeds commercial success and gives politicians common ground to interact with people. To say that the climate is caused by humans is very unlikely due to the lack of evidence supporting that claim and I am willing to bet any amount of money that the ice caps will still be around in 40 years time.

Got The Job!

Well I got the Job! I am now a crew member at McDonalds which means for the first time in my life I have regular money income!

2nd Interview!

I have my second Mc Donalds interview! According to Alex Fry this isnt really something to be proud of and in a way I agree, soon I maybe a grease monkey. However getting a job will mean for the first time in my life I will be earning money! However I won the first battle but the war isnt over. For the second interview its one on one with the head of the store... in an interview. So I should be fine, left to my own devices I can talk for a while. I only hope that connection between my brain and my mouth doesnt become loose during the interview!

If I do get through the first interview apparently I have a 2 hour long health and safety talk! Now that will be boring. Apart from pointing out the obvious these talks will mentally cripple anybody who takes them seriously.
(if your are one of the people from mcdonalds viewing my blog I would like to point out im joking, health and safety is great and is very important...)

The Puzzle of God

One of the most frequently asked questions I get each week is about my personal beliefs. Some ask if I’m a Christian, Atheist, Pagan or part of some other cult. Back in May 2005 I took my confirmation to become a Christian. Back then I was fully on for God however now in 2007 I look back on my commitment to Christianity and instead ask the question ‘Why did I make that decision?’ This has been one of the hardest questions iv come to face with and since mid 2006 I have been struggling with the idea of a Christian God ever since. So the short answer to what do I believe in at the moment is nothing. I don’t know if a God exists and I have no evidence to say that he doesn’t. However despite my lack in faith I still have a sharp mind which I am trying to use to bring myself to some sort of conclusion so that I may have rock solid beliefs within me.

Amongst my Christian friends they would be most interested in why my lack of faith. I believe the thing that started me questioning God was logic. I went to a number of sermons at Soul Survivor and usually every Sunday at church, I still do go to sermons. Somehow the character of God being shown by others certainly didn’t match up with my idea of God, the feelings I had inside of me. So looking at this logically then a God would have to be personal to each person, almost unique in ways and characteristics. Obviously then you could either say “well maybe there is more than one God?” or you could do what I did and thought “Isn’t this evidence that one God doesn’t exist?” Either way this widened my gap of questioning and brought me onto some more questions. Every time I go to church I look around. Since I go to a youth group people are very young there, lack knowledge (as I recently recognized in myself) and seem to always be having a good social time. Not only this but the actual youth group is run by young people. How then is it possible to take everyone seriously? Everybody is young and doesn’t yet have full knowledge of the world around them and yet they believe in a God. In my own experience believing in a God is a very easy thing to do when you go down to church Sunday and everybody is worshipping and having fun. However looking out at the real world, no sign of a God can be found. One of the biggest obvious questions is about suffering; that question leads onto our freewill, that onto Gods characteristics. All of these questions to me don’t have any answers and eventually you’re left with confusion and a mind boggling puzzle, a puzzle that would take a lifetime to solve.

To put it bluntly, I’m not against the existence of God like some people may believe. I want a God to exist, life after death is a wonderful thought and the idea somebody more powerful than yourself loves you forever. I’m currently going out with a girl who is a Christian and for me to share her beliefs once more would be an amazing thing. However the fact is there staring me in the face, I will only believe in God unless I see physical proof because I don’t believe I could ever believe in something without visual evidence. If a loving God does exist then I’m sure I will see this evidence sometime in my life, maybe I’m meant to be questioning at the moment in ‘God’s big plan’? I only hope that this questioning one day ends.

Interviews and Waiting Games

Well I had my McDonalds interview today which was interesting. For the first interview all the people that turned up for the jobs were put into two groups. We then were given tasks, which were boring and pointless. Anyway I thought the whole process went well and on one of the tasks I actually lead the team discussions which hopefully put some limelight on me. Anyway I dont know if I have got the job yet. Ill only know that in my second interview. So hopefully ill get a phone call soon!

On a different note I love global warming! Its the best thing which happened since cheese! Such good weather at the moment.

System Of Education

1. School is for Practice
2. Practice Makes Perfect
Conclusion... Nobody is perfect so why go to school?

School it seems is a drain, a waste of time to just prove the point that you could do the work right from the very beginning. School also runs under the same type of values as the media, these values are all that of fear. Fear is used to scare people into thinking unless they have the right grades they wont be able to do what they want. Schools try to get all the students to university simply to gain education points and the goverment drains money from the students with student loans. This is a maze of weeds preventing most from becoming something; this maze of weeds also prevents people seeing the light at the end, this lacks motivation. In the end we are left with an education system that is brutal, unforgiving and selfish.

Having said that we need this education system and the only way to get past the weeds blocking our paths is to fight back by going along with the system.

We have two choices...
1. Either stop working and get destroyed by the weeds
2. Fight back the weeds and find your goal

Im fighting back the weeds by doing my work at school and staying out of trouble. Some may look down on me because of this and may say 'He is a sucker to the system'. I assure you the system of education is more powerful than a bunch of students and whilst we are all tangled in the weeds its impossible to fight them all back. The only way to destroy the weeds is to come out the other side with your grades and friendships you made along the way. We are then able to look down on the forest of weeds and make a difference to those are fighting through.

Return From Worcestershire

Im back from Worcestershire and it was great fun! In the past few days I have driven quad bikes and flown helicopters. The house was fairly big and was surrounded by fields which was nice compared to being surrounded by outer London buildings. The quad bike was very fun! I was on it non-stop at one time to the point it just ran out of fuel! The helicopter was also fun however my dad was better at landing it compared to me.

Anyway im back in the working world again! Im sure all the teachers will be working us like mad leading up to the exams so my aim over the next couple of months is to simply keep my sanity!

Hope at Last

I may have a job soon! I have been looking for a Job for the last 4 months and finally a glimer of hope has appeared in the form of Mc Donalds. Okay, it maybe hard work and I may find myself turning into a grease monkey but the pay is good! Finally my dream of owning a Ford GT is coming closer, I can almost smell the burning fuel and hear the sound of screaming environmentalists.

On another note I am going away on holiday tomorrow to Worcestershire to some family friends. Should be good fun and finally gets me away from the boring depths of Cheam!

Mobile Upgrade Time!

Well it’s that time of the year again and it’s time for me to upgrade my mobile. Now this year I have a bit of a problem with getting a new mobile. A couple of years ago getting a new mobile was an easy task since technology was moving so fast it was obvious which was the best mobile. However there are so many mobiles on the market it’s difficult to choose one that would fit exactly to my needs.

Now on the phone market there is a lot of activity with mobiles coming from Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Nokia, Motorola, Asus and now even Apple so there is a lot of competition. However three phones seem to stand out of this forest of beautiful materialism and they are:

- Sony Ericsson W880i
- O2 XDA Graphite
- Nokia N95

Now I bet your wondering why on earth I only listed these three phones out of the dozens I could have picked. The fact is these three phones are the example of ‘next generation’. All of these phones aren’t some ‘easy middle job devices’ companies made to only make money. Companies made these three mobiles to show what was possible, these phones seem to have feeling put into them and this is reflected by their nature.

Sony Ericsson W880i
Now since I already own a Sony Ericsson W810i obviously this new mobile announced by Sony interests me hugely. The design seems to be based off an apple iPod, except Sony has improved it by giving the design a more mature sophisticated look. However it’s not just the look of this mobile which is impressive, just like an iPod it’s built for music from the ground up and includes a huge 262K colour screen which is a fast improvement from the Sony Ericsson W810i 64k screen. However there is a down fall and this down fall proves the modern isn’t always the best. The W810i model uses ‘Memory Stick Duo’ memory cards which are fairly large but allow storage up to 8Gb which leaves many iPod nano’s far behind. However the new W880i model uses a new kind of memory technology called M2. These memory cards are about the size of an ant, however so is the memory with a maximum storage capacity of 2Gb. Although this is a lot of space for a mobile device I can help thinking was the Sony Ericsson slim fast look worth it? Again this slim design seems to have limited the phone in a number of different ways. The camera on the back of the phone is exactly the same as the W810i model but worse since it doesn’t have a flash, onboard speakers are worse with less depth which makes music even more high pitch and the keypad is difficult to use if you have large fingers like me.
Overall this phone is stylish, sophisticated but somewhat lacking the minimum output expected from a modern mobile phone.

O2 XDA Graphite
This mobile may look ugly and bulky looking however things do get better. This mobile is more than a mobile, it’s a computer complete with Processor, Ram and Operating System. Powered by a powerful Intel XScale 416Mhz processor, 64MB Ram and 128Mb of memory with a M2 add on capacity with a maximum of 2GB this phone is basically a travelling office. It even uses the highly advanced Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system complete with Office, Window Media Player and MSN. Built in Wifi allows this mobile to connect to wireless access points which is excellent for on the move work. However the downside definitely comes from the battery front with a minimum of 4 hours talk time, however from the amount of features this mobile contains it’s worth it. Once more this mobile is built by Asus, so needless to say this device should be something special...

Nokia N95
As soon as I saw this phone the word ‘elegant’ came to mind. The smooth edges and rounded style are like that of a perfectly formed woman. This isn’t just another Nokia N series slider phone, this phone slides both ways. Slide down and the key reveal themselves like legs hidden beneath the dress and an upwards slide shows the lovely blue glowing media keys. This mobile defines what a media mobile should be with a huge 16 million colour screen and 5MP camera. With the capacity to store up to 2Gb worth of music this mobile seems to be the best mobile out on the market, or is it? I have used the Nokia N70 and that is dead slow, infact is takes about a minute to switch the thing on. Embarrassingly the Nokia N95 is used exactly the same technology. I just hope Nokia have sorted the slow speeds out otherwise this mobile will be useless as a media devices, infact XDA Graphite maybe better.

Conclusion

Now for the conclusion. All of these mobiles are something special Sony Ericsson W880i is a beautiful music phone, XDA Graphite is a portable desk and Nokia N95 is a media center. Dispite this I still have a hunch that the mighty Sony Ericsson W810i maybe better. Even though it is now a couple of years old the W810i as a music phone still sets the benchmark. Its small, good looking and gets the job done. Unless I want to take some fancy 5MP pictures all the time there is no need for me to upgrade to any of the above mobiles. Basically this means this whole feature of my blog was pointless. Ill update my blog once I have got my new mobile.

Welcome All

Well this is my first blog. I have written stuff on myspace before but to be honest we all know myspace has issues all the time, especially with the 'down time' amount. I think getting a myspace was the worst thing I could have ever done. Over the past 18 months of owning a myspace I must have spent at least 2 out of the 18 months waiting for myspace to load! However now I have a blogspot and I know this is sad, but im quite excited by this blogging business. My aim is to keep this space completely up to date with my latest ramblings about life which includes current news affairs, latest technology news and my moanings. Of course all of these topics will be highlighted with my rather abstract humor and imagination so hopefully this blog will be something worthwhile in the end.... or just another waste of time.