Lessons from The Teacher
Brandon & I went to see KRS-One at the Anaheim House of Blues. It was a little weird seeing him in, basically, Disneyland. However it seems they have a fairly good stream of hip-hop artists, as Wyclef, Method Man and Jedi Mind Tricks are all appearing in the next month or so. Not bad.
The show itself was outstanding. Big thumbs up for KRS-ONE live. I wished some of his best-of songs had been longer, as typically only did a few verses, hoping from song to song. He’s known as the teacher, having self-educated himself at public libraries while homeless on the streets of the New York, and mixed in various rhyming philosophical dialogue.
Hands down, best part of the show came during Higher Level. As the song starts, he tells the crowd to hang on a minute & then disappears from the stage. A fair bit of time goes by time before realizing he’s come out around & is working his way through the crowd to the center where he continued to rap for another 20 minutes or so. At one point, he moved within a few feet of the area back by us.
Not sure who’s hand that is, but could have been anyone as the crowd was going nuts around (as well as whipping out cell phones for pics). Hopefully he’ll be back in LA soon.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
You’re lucky, I love KRS one.
I have some links for you.
You mentioned some questions about predictions made about global warming. In 1979, the National Academy of Sciences produced a report, now known as the Charney Report, to study CO2 induced global warming. You can find that here:
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~brianpm/charneyreport.html
Also, there is an article here, written in 1999, by James Hansen about the state of the global warming debate in 1999, with some interesting information about his testimony before congress in 1988.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/
Especially noteworthy is this quote:
“We have presented evidence (Hansen et al. 1997) of a disequilibrium of at least 0.5 W/m2. This imbalance is the basis by which we could predict that record global temperatures would occur within a few years, that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s, and that the first decade of next century will be warmer than the 1990s, despite the existence of natural climate variability.”
August 12th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Thanks! It was interesting to see the viewpoint from the 70s & I really liked what Hansen said in the 2nd. At the close, Hansen indicates the imbalance is measurable via the ocean temptature & data should be detectable in the next several years. As it’s been about 7, do you know if there was ever any followup?
August 14th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
2005 was the warmest year on record. Previously, 1998 was the warmest year. 2006 might beat 2005.
Although 1998 was a big spike and avg. global temperatures for the next several years were lower, they still continued to trend upwards until the present.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/
August 16th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
About ocean temps specifically, realclimate.org has a post up right now about some new numbers, with links to some of the original papers.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/ocean-heat-content-latest-numbers/