The Current Events Thread

[The Idiotic Oracle]

http://www.upworthy.com/in-case-you-mis ... lted?c=o98

oh

[Syobon]

Protip: that guy doesn't seem to be an environmental scientist and doesn't know what he's talking about.

[Exeres]

Whether he knows what he's talking about or not, it's hard to take him seriously when every other word out of his mouth is UH or UM or HRM.

[Syobon]

Anyway, short explanation: the earth has always been warming and cooling in cycles. Global warming means it's warming at a pace unexplainable by those cycles. Saying "hurrdurr it was this hot a thousand years ago" doesn't automatically invalidate all evidence to warming. It requires a shitton of research to truly determine whether global warming is caused naturally or by human causes, and whether or not we can survive a climate change.

[SaintCrazy]

And there is a large amount of archeological evidence that the Earth's temperature, CO2, and methane levels have deviated from those regular cycles ever since humans started practicing agriculture thousands of years ago.

It's one thing to say "Oh we have other things to worry about right now instead of climate change", it's another to completely ignore the science .

This is why I want to teach Environmental Science someday.

[SaintCrazy]

A local Methodist minister is observing Ramadan, to show solidarity with Muslims

He seems like a pretty cool guy. I've tried fasting before, it's pretty difficult. I can't imagine doing that for an entire month, it takes a lot of discipline.

[Tetrunes]

I still believe this

[Syobon]

Still believe what? That a robot apocalypse is even remotely likely to happen?

[somepartsareme]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... train.html

Teenager with Tourette’s beaten unconscious for inadvertently making Nazi salute on a train

A German teenager who can’t help making Nazi salutes because he suffers from Tourette’s syndrome was beaten unconscious by a black man who thought he was insulting him.
Gerrit Oeller, 16, was with two friends who tried to explain to the enraged man that the salute was not meant as an insult, and that he could not control his arm.

But when the Tourette’s led the teenager to grin insanely at the man as well, he went mad, hitting Gerrit so hard that he ended up unconscious.
The attack happened on an underground line in the Dulsberg district of Hamburg in northern Germany.

Gerrit said: 'He asked me if I thought it was funny and it made me nervous, which made me clench my teeth and he thought I was grinning at him. That was when he hit me. I went out like a light.'
His friends told him that another passenger had raised the alarm with station staff who had asked what was going on, but the pair had been too scared to say anything with the furious man there, only when he went off did they call the emergency services and police.

By the time police arrived the man had gone but they are studying CCTV footage in the hope of tracking him down.

Gerrit, from nearby Brunsbek, was taken to hospital where he was treated for a cut over his eye and a swollen jaw.

The boy's mother Nicola Oeller said: 'We don't really want to see him caught to have him punished, but we would like him to know that our son really is sick and it is a genuine condition, and maybe to apologise.

'He can't help himself. But there should be more awareness of the condition.'
In Germany some 5 million people suffer from a form of tic such as Gerrit has, but most are so mild that they are barely noticeable. Gerrit's arm straightening and the clenching of his teeth is of the more extreme variety.

[SaintCrazy]

I like how they used pictures of Hitler in that article. This is what that teenager totally resembled

[Tetrunes]

Probably nsfw because poop

I am extremely disappointed in my state.

[Madican]

If they do end up finding the treasure they're going to learn how international treasure law is ready to fuck them in booty. I can see at least three nations laying claim to it as soon as it's discovered.

[Dire]

The comment on the illustrator beating story... is just stupid.

[Mugenman88]

Olympic Conspiracy Theories

Good lord my rage at this cannot be expressed through words, someone get a gif quick

[Exeres]

Olympic Conspiracy Theories

Good lord my rage at this cannot be expressed through words, someone get a gif quick

After reading this paragraph:

So there you have it: the Royal Family, the Masons, the Illuminati, and the Elders of Zion are all putting on a Danny Boyle-directed, K-Pax-inspired show to distract us from the coming false flag alien invasion. Based on a card game. And that's why McKayla Maroney fell on her second vault.

I'm going to go ahead and say this article was a joke.