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Understanding climate change and weird weather

Allen Lew — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:36:25 +0000

No, you cannot blame individual events like [the tornado in Brooklyn] on climate change, as it was possible for them to occur even without the human-made changes to the atmosphere. However, it is fair to ask whether the human changes have altered the likelihood of such events. There the answer seems to be yes. Storms driven largely by latent heat, and that includes thunderstorms, are expected to become stronger as the air becomes warmer and contains more moisture. Global warming does cause just such a tendency.

-James Hansen, scientist at NASA

Great quote about hiring people

Allen Lew — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:32:30 +0000

Your College is Not a Technical School-
“Never hire a human being who had a 4.0 in college. If they had a perfect GPA, it means they bought the act and never screwed around. Now a 2.0 is probably not so good. But the ones who had 3.0, yeah! Those are the freaks you want!”

I really wonder if that’s true.

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Future Problems with Facebook entries?

Allen Lew — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:48:19 +0000

Future Problems with Facebook entries?- ”I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebody’s Facebook entry will come back to bite them,” Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Related posts: Gawker gets … finish reading Future Problems with Facebook entries? Related posts: