Bad grades? Maybe the kid is just stupid.

(Would it surprise you considering his parents?)

Guerrilla marketing.

@ Ryan S

OK. So I should just listen to you then, is that it?

I was wondering how much of the TV series "Outsourced" was true.
Apparently quite a lot.

And don't forget that it's us in the "western world" who are profiting from this disequilibrium. Our clothes, computers etc are affordable (or cheap) because somebody else somewhere else in the world is working at starvation rates. Our corporations are plundering the natural resources of almost all underdeveloped countries without any benefit at all to those underdeveloped countries. Etc.

>> The best, I think, is the huge collection of countries in Europe who think the others are all arrogant

Being a European myself, the funny thing is that we mainly think this about the USA, not so much about each other. (Not to say we don't have a truckload of other stereotypes about each other.)

Shows a prejudice right there in your comment. How appropriate.

Just use the original title: "Bjork's 'Biophilia' Is One Heck of an iPad Commercial"

Not that I care in the slightest.

So the world is not going down the drain quite as fast as we thought.

What a relief.

And certain people will become pariahs of society because their database information was wrong. Oh wait, the government does not make any mistakes, my bad.

(BTW, the terrorist watch list already has more than a million people on it.)

I really feel like a genius sometimes.

>> The other answer, that they haven't known what they've been f***ing talking about for the past 20 years, just isn't as palatable to them or the people who write their checks.

Wrong. There is a consensus in the scientific field of climate change. The consensus is that global warming is real and that it is due to human activity, mostly greenhouse gasses like pollutants by cars and industry.

NOWHERE in the article does it claim any different. Maybe read the article first. Let me quote:

"A new study demonstrates why global surface temperatures defied a decades-long trend and didn’t continue to rise between 1998 and 2008"

Or in other words: temperatures didn't rise as fast as they expected.
This does not mean global warming is not real. (I really have to spell this out?)

>> This is f**g comical. The very thing causing "global warming" is now stopping it.

Wrong. It's not or was not stopping it, it was slowing it down during a certain period of time.

"This looks like a very solid, careful statistical analysis of the factors influencing recent global temperature changes,” says climate scientist Michael E. Mann of Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study. “There is a clear impact of human activity on the ongoing warming of our climate."

I'm not an expert, I'm just quoting the article.

>> So, does this mean that those scientist are saying global warming has stopped?

No. The answer is in the article.

>> you gotta be kidding me! They finally admitted they have no idea what the hell is going on

Wrong. See above. Or let me use another quote:

"“Humans do two things to the planet,” Kaufmann says. “They warm it by emitting greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane, and they cool it by emitting these sulfur aerosols.”

>> yet "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket".....

I could not find this quote in the original article. If you are going to make stuff up do not try to pretend it's coming from the original article.

>> They had to come up with something to explain the utter and complete lack of factual data to support anthropogenic global warming.

Wrong. See above or read the article. There is a consensus in the scientific world that supports global warming. This article does not say any different, it just increases our knowledge of what's going on.

>> This is why it is a good idea not to go all-in on these issues, like "I believe in Global Warming, that makes me superior to you fools who do not."

If you are not a scientist or a scientist involved in the field of climate change the only thing you can do is to rely on the consensus in the world of science in this field, if there is a consensus. There is a consensus that supports global warming.

>> Women are cattle to be herded and slain for our enjoyment?

Apparently. And apparently they're ok with it.

I think some reactions are a bit oversensitive.

(Obviously there are limits, but the best jokes are often politically incorrect.)

Only three pictures?

Agreed. But what if those "fellow earthlings" don't agree to let YOU live?