I’m guessing that you found my blog via the personal attack against me that appeared in the Daily Telegraph blogs recently. I’m flattered that a blogger would go to such efforts to research my background. He even mentioned my hobby of 1940′s swing-dancing!

I would be *extremely* glad to have the theory of global warming disproved. If it wasn’t a problem, or not caused by anything within our control, I would be extremely grateful. I just feel that the vast weight of evidence points in the other direction, and don’t want to take that risk with the future of my global generation. The effects of climate change are already visible all over the world – including in my home country Australia, but also in the poorest and most vulnerable nations of the world – Kenya and Zambia are currently in crippling drought, whole island nations are preparing to move as sea-levels rise, and in India and Bangladesh the Ganges river is flooding more frequently as glaciers melt more rapidly. If that process completes itself, the lifeline of those nations will dry up. Water shortages could cause some of the greatest international security issues as nations fight over resources.

As a side-note, Newton’s theory of gravity is an excellent and practical approximation of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, at a human scale. As a physics graduate myself (as I assume you are with your comment), I am very glad that one can reliably apply Newton’s gravitational theory at slower and human scales – the mathematics behind General Relativity certainly aren’t practical in most daily-life situations.

Overall, now that it has healed, I’m extremely pleased with my tattoo, have recieved many compliments regarding it, and wear it proudly. If climate change theories are proved wrong at some stage in the future, so be it. Though I do sincerely doubt that this will happen.

With love, and hope for a safe future, Anna K

I’m guessing that you found my blog via the personal attack against me that appeared in the Daily Telegraph blogs recently. I’m flattered that a blogger would go to such efforts to research my background. He even mentioned my hobby of 1940′s swing-dancing!

I would be *extremely* glad to have the theory of global warming disproved. If it wasn’t a problem, or not caused by anything within our control, I would be extremely grateful. I just feel that the vast weight of evidence points in the other direction, and don’t want to take that risk with the future of my global generation. The effects of climate change are already visible all over the world – including in my home country Australia, but also in the poorest and most vulnerable nations of the world – Kenya and Zambia are currently in crippling drought, whole island nations are preparing to move as sea-levels rise, and in India and Bangladesh the Ganges river is flooding more frequently as glaciers melt more rapidly. If that process completes itself, the lifeline of those nations will dry up. Water shortages could cause some of the greatest international security issues as nations fight over resources.

As a side-note, Newton’s theory of gravity is an excellent and practical approximation of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, at a human scale. As a physics graduate myself (as I assume you are with your comment), I am very glad that one can reliably apply Newton’s gravitational theory at slower and human scales – the mathematics behind General Relativity certainly aren’t practical in most daily-life situations.

Overall, now that it has healed, I’m extremely pleased with my tattoo, have recieved many compliments regarding it, and wear it proudly. If climate change theories are proved wrong at some stage in the future, so be it. Though I do sincerely doubt that this will happen.

With love, and hope for a safe future,
Anna K

If James Hansen’s militantly held theories are disproved, you’ll have an unwanted additional indelible epithet.

Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity was thought a truth and was thereafter known as the Law of Gravity until Einstein’s arrival. He it was, incidentally, who said: “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be” (perhaps especially in a computer model with numerous variables?) and also: “The only source of knowledge is experience”.

Einstein knew that his theories were just that….. theoretical. Data since supports Einstein General Theory but has disproven Newton’s theory of gravity.

I’m confident that were he alive, Newton would be pleased. I doubt Hansen will he when and if he is facing similar irrefutable evidence that his theory is wrong.

Nothing certain in science except false theories proven so and that so many were fanatically held!

Thanks Maia,

In retrospect, you are correct in many ways.

I posted this to IGHIH in the hope that people would enjoy a piece written from a personal rather than journalistic perspective (In reading blogs, I often appreciate this perspective), and also to offer my thoughts on a definition of ‘Climate Justice’ – a term that is too often thrown about without being discussed in dept. I hope that this post sparked some discussion and or thinking about the term by those who read it.

Admittedly, I could have offered an exploration of the term without the personal aspect of the tattoo, but I daresay fewer people would have read the blog, had it been purely analytical.

You will see from my other blogs that I have offered more ‘current news’ and movement-focused pieces in my past contributions to IGHIH as well.

I find it interesting on the “How’s the blog doing?” post ( http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/10/27/hows-the-blog-doing/) that long-time readers of IGHIH lament the trend away from philosophical discussion and debate on the blog, and I wonder what the ‘ideal’ goal of blogs on this community should be – trending more towards news reports or towards discussion, or a combination of both?

Respectfully, Anna K

In retrospect, you are correct in many ways.

I posted this to IGHIH in the hope that people would enjoy a piece written from a personal rather than journalistic perspective (In reading blogs, I often appreciate this perspective), and also to offer my thoughts on a definition of ‘Climate Justice’ – a term that is too often thrown about without being discussed in dept. I hope that this post sparked some discussion and or thinking about the term by those who read it.

Admittedly, I could have offered an exploration of the term without the personal aspect of the tattoo, but I daresay fewer people would have read the blog, had it been purely analytical.

You will see from my other blogs that I have offered more ‘current news’ and movement-focused pieces in my past contributions to IGHIH as well.

I find it interesting on the “How’s the blog doing?” post (http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/10/27/hows-the-blog-doing/) that long-time readers of IGHIH lament the trend away from philosophical discussion and debate on the blog, and I wonder what the ‘ideal’ goal of blogs on this community should be – trending more towards news reports or towards discussion, or a combination of both?

Respectfully,
Anna K

I am sorry, but I do not think you should have published this on IGHIH. It seems like more appropriate material for a personal blog or Facebook note.

Respectfully,
Maia