So says Brian.

He’s a Global Warming skeptic. Like these guys:

… Some global warming skeptics in the science or political community dispute all or some of the global warming scientific consensus objecting to whether global warming is actually occurring, if human activity is truly to blame, and if the threat is as great a threat as has been alleged. Prominent global warming skeptics include Richard Lindzen, Fred Singer, Patrick Michaels, John Christy, and Robert Balling. …

Wikipedia

Of course there are pro-industry, right wing idiots that deny global warming as a knee jerk reaction.

But there are also serious scientists that feel there is not enough evidence. That the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has jumped the gun. Especially the “hockey stick” graph.

Read about critics here.

Or read a mainstream media article – BBC – What happened to global warming? That’s written by the Climate correspondent, BBC News.

You’ve heard skeptics before.

… But Brian now declares that global skepticism will be WIDELY covered by the mainstream media by Christmas.

Let’s see if he’s right.

We could go back to worrying about the next ice age.

Me, I’ve done no research at all. There are many bigger problems in the world occupying my attention.

About half the people in the world need corrective lenses.

Yet when you travel in the developing world, very few people wear glasses or contact lenses. They can’t afford them.

Taxi drivers, bus drivers work “blind”. It’s terrifying!

Josh Silver, a retired physics professor at Oxford University, has developed what he calls “adaptive glasses”. His specs are made of “tough plastic with with silicone liquid in the lenses. When purchased, each lense will have a syringe attached to it, and the wearer will be able to adjust the amount of liquid in the lenses — which essentially changes the prescription — without the need for an optician.”

About 30,000 pairs of his glasses have been distributed in trials in Africa. They work.

They plan to sell these at $1 each.

… Silver calls his flash of insight a “tremendous glimpse of the obvious” – namely that opticians weren’t necessary to provide glasses. This is a crucial factor in the developing world where trained specialists are desperately in demand: in Britain there is one optometrist for every 4,500 people, in sub-Saharan Africa the ratio is 1:1,000,000.

The implications of bringing glasses within the reach of poor communities are enormous, says the scientist. Literacy rates improve hugely, fishermen are able to mend their nets, women to weave clothing. During an early field trial, funded by the British government, in Ghana, Silver met a man called Henry Adjei-Mensah, whose sight had deteriorated with age, as all human sight does, and who had been forced to retire as a tailor because he could no longer see to thread the needle of his sewing machine. “So he retires. He was about 35. He could have worked for at least another 20 years. We put these specs on him, and he smiled, and threaded his needle, and sped up with this sewing machine. He can work now. He can see.” …

Guardian – Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better

official website – Adaptive Eyewear

(via Engadget)