Josh writes:
There has been a considerable fuss about the feel-good 14th Edition of the Times Atlas of the World even in the Guardian, which did elicit an apology from the Times.
Subsequently James Delingpole wrote a delightful spoof which did not go down too well in the Maldives government.
Comment and cartoon at BishopHill too, of course.
I suggest to the ‘Times Atlas of the World’ staff that they get with the early 21st century and do their maps with Riemannian geometry and linked topology instead of their currently old Euclidean mapping.
To manifoldness.
John
is this a metaphor for the crash of the CAGW narrative?
23 Sept: CBS: NASA’s UARS satellite falls toward re-entry
NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, out of gas and out of control, is not descending toward re-entry as rapidly as expected, officials say, likely delaying the satellite’s kamikaze plunge to Earth by a few hours to late Friday or early Saturday…
No more fuel is available for maneuvering and the satellite’s re-entry will be “uncontrolled.”…
But computer software used to analyze possible re-entry outcomes predicts 26 pieces of debris will survive to impact the surface in a 500-mile-long down-range footprint…
“We looked at those 26 pieces and how big they are and we’ve looked at the fact they can hit anywhere in the world between 57 north and 57 south and we looked at what the population density of the world is,” he said. “Numerically, it comes out to a chance of 1-in-3,200 that one person anywhere in the world might be struck by a piece of debris. Those are obviously very, very low odds that anybody’s going to be impacted by this debris.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/home/spacenews/files/uars_decay.html
It’s tempting (but at £150 a shot not that tempting) to buy a copy of the Atlas in order to search for other ‘tiny errors’ that may have crept in to support the AGW religion.
At the rate they’re falling, we soon won’t have one credible source of information left in the UK.
@ZT .. Cameron may decide that a Falklands/Maldives rerun is the the only thing which can save his government……the only thing causing hesitation is the assessment from MI6 that Maldives would probably win.
Unlikely. For some time now intelligence assessments from SIS have followed the style of the accountant who was asked to add 2 and 2…or indeed UEA…
“What would you like it to be?…”
This is dangerously funny! I laughed so hard that I started choking. After a couple minutes an office buddy asked me what was wrong. Doubled over in laughter, I could only manage to say “warmists… they’re such idiots…” as I wiped a tear from my eye.
I’ll be hanging a framed laserprint of this on my cubicle wall. Genius! Not for sale in the Maldives, hahaha stop it hahahahaha!
Wasn’t there a book written about a society, which had an entire bureau, dedicated to removing facts from reference materials, and new “facts”? GK
You mean… Waterworks was a prophetic film???
Atlas Mugged.
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G. Karst ,
Animal Farm?
Brave New World?
1984?
Fahrenheit 451?
We The Living?
Clockwork Orange?
. . . . .
John
If flooding waters acted in a politically correct way what places would or would not be flooded?
Dry-land is a myth!!!
Politically correct flood waters, hmmm.
It wouldn’t flood anywhere that would affect people, so it would be isolated high ground areas, since high ground is most often forests and reserves. But it couldn’t adversely affect the environment either, it would have to be arid and desert regions. But then that would cause erosion problems and it sure can’t affect the pristine nature and harsh beauty of those areas. Ah, the only politicly correct place it could flood would be off shore, probably outside the international zone line.
First post-normal science, now post-normal cartography. Is this a great world, or what?
Pity the poor ship captain that navigates based on the Times Atlas.
Niel says: You mean… Waterworks was a prophetic film???
…uuuuhhhhh, that be Waterworld, Dude.
The Atlas seems to be one of the few things not available for a price (=”for sale”) in the Maldives, then. It’s a land with lotsa luxurious liquidity!