1.12.06
Momento Verde
There?s not much future in predictions
Is it possible to make useful economic predictions spanning 100 years? World climate change forecasts require it.
WMO Consensus Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
1. Though there is evidence both for and against the existence of a detectable anthropogenic signal in the tropical cyclone climate record to date, no firm conclusion can be made on this point.
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2. No individual tropical cyclone can be directly attributed to climate change.
3. The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has largely been caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions.
4. Tropical cyclone wind-speed monitoring has changed dramatically over the last few decades, leading to difficulties in determining accurate trends.
5. There is an observed multi-decadal variability of tropical cyclones in some regions whose causes, whether natural, anthropogenic or a combination, are currently being debated. This variability makes
detecting any long-term trends in tropical cyclone activity difficult.
etc
Green fundamentalism
In a recent essay, Peter Berger, Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, argues that contemporary culture appears to be in the grip of two seemingly contradictory forces: one towards relativism, where there are no absolute truths whatsoever; the other towards fundamentalism, where an alleged absolute truth is militantly and uncompromisingly affirmed. The idiomatic formulas for these opposing forces he describes are, respectively, ?Let us agree to disagree? versus ?You just don?t get it?.
Berger argues that neither of these extremes can play a legitimate role in civil discourse, and that both are, in fact, closely interlinked and can easily morph one into the other. ?In every relativist?, he says, ?there is a fundamentalist about to be born, and in every fundamentalist there is a relativist waiting to be liberated?. Both forces, he maintains, are products of the pluralising effect of modernisation, and both serve only to shut down reasoned debate.
Europe to see 14 per cent price increase in Russian gas in 2007
Europe is to pay Russia's Gazprom 293 US dollars per 1,000 cubic metres of natural gas in 2007, a 14 per cent increase over current prices, the daily Vedomosti reported Monday.
The world is richer and healthier
Ainda a propósito do vírus da SIDA
2000 - The Department of Health outlined a five-year plan to combat AIDS, HIV and STIs. A National AIDS Council was set up to oversee these developments. At the International AIDS Conference in Durban, the new South African President Thabo Mbeki made a speech that avoided reference to HIV and instead focused on the problem of poverty, fuelling suspicions that he saw poverty, rather than HIV, as the main cause of AIDS. President Mbeki consulted a number of 'dissident' scientists who rejected the link between HIV and AIDS.
2001 - The HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women was 24.8%.
2002 - South Africa's High Court ordered the Government to make the drug nevirapine available to pregnant women to help prevent the transmission of HIV to their babies. Despite international drug companies offering free or cheap antiretroviral drugs, the Health Ministry remained hesitant about providing treatment for people living with HIV.
2003 - In November, the Government finally approved a plan to make antiretroviral treatment publicly available. The HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women was 27.9%.
2004 - The rollout of antiretroviral drugs began in Gauteng in March, followed shortly afterwards by other provinces.
2005 - At least one service point for AIDS related care and treatment had been established in all of the 53 districts in the country by March, meeting the Government's 2003 target. However, it was clear that the number of people receiving antiretroviral drugs was well behind initial targets. The HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women was 30.2%.
http://www.avert.org/aidssouthafrica.htm
2001 - The HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women was 24.8%.
2002 - South Africa's High Court ordered the Government to make the drug nevirapine available to pregnant women to help prevent the transmission of HIV to their babies. Despite international drug companies offering free or cheap antiretroviral drugs, the Health Ministry remained hesitant about providing treatment for people living with HIV.
2003 - In November, the Government finally approved a plan to make antiretroviral treatment publicly available. The HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women was 27.9%.
2004 - The rollout of antiretroviral drugs began in Gauteng in March, followed shortly afterwards by other provinces.
2005 - At least one service point for AIDS related care and treatment had been established in all of the 53 districts in the country by March, meeting the Government's 2003 target. However, it was clear that the number of people receiving antiretroviral drugs was well behind initial targets. The HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women was 30.2%.
http://www.avert.org/aidssouthafrica.htm
A propósito do vírus da SIDA
«Personally, I don't know anybody who has died of Aids,» Mr Mbeki said, adding when asked whether he knew anyone with HIV, «I really, honestly don't».
Thabo Mbeki,2003, presidente da África do Sul, um dos países do mundo com maior nº de infectados com SIDA
«Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.» «Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet,» «It's true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq,» «We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare. In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare. Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious»Wangari Maathai, primeira mulher africana a receber o Nobel da Paz
Thabo Mbeki,2003, presidente da África do Sul, um dos países do mundo com maior nº de infectados com SIDA
«Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.» «Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet,» «It's true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq,» «We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare. In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare. Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious»Wangari Maathai, primeira mulher africana a receber o Nobel da Paz
Cabala!
No CM:
Pois.
"Maniche" - alcunha dada por ser fisicamente parecido ao antigo avançado do Benfica - é dirigente da claque benfiquista No Name Boys. Sem profissão, o jovem de 27 anos foi anteontem detido pela PJ por tráfico de droga. Tinha, entre outras, uma pequena quantidade em pó de 2C-B, droga sintética alucinogénica nunca antes apanhada em Portugal.Quem é que querem enganar? É óbvio que a prisão do Maniche, é uma cabala para prejudicar o Benfica. Sem o 2C-B, como é que os jovens sem nome vão conseguir manter a capacidade de exteriorização no apoio à equipa?
Pois.
Direito do jornalista à opinião
Note-se que o que preocupa o vice-presidente do conselho deontológico do Sindicato dos Jornalistas não é a imparcialidade da informação mas sim a tomada de posição colectiva de um órgão de comunicação que pode impedir os jornalistas de expressarem a sua opinião individual.
Seria interessante saber em que espaços é que, na opinião do vice-presidente do conselho deontológico do Sindicato dos Jornalistas, os jornalistas podem exprimir a sua opinião sem violar as regras deontológicas.
"É absurdo que um órgão de informação tome uma posição colectiva sobre uma matéria deste teor", declarou à Lusa o vice-presidente do conselho deontológico, Avelino Rodrigues.
Este responsável considera que a atitude da direcção de informação da Rádio Renascença põe em causa o direito de opinião dos jornalistas que trabalham na rádio e defende que "cada jornalista, independentemente do local onde trabalha, deve ser livre de exprimir a sua opinião em todas as matérias".
Notícia do Público.
Seria interessante saber em que espaços é que, na opinião do vice-presidente do conselho deontológico do Sindicato dos Jornalistas, os jornalistas podem exprimir a sua opinião sem violar as regras deontológicas.
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