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WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the TV movie options available this week.
We’re giving you three options for this evening because the news will be grim and we know you might need a bit of an escape.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Look, we know it’s not even Halloween yet but we also know there are people who are obsessed with Christmas and who love a festive flick no matter what time of year it is. And this is a classic. Sit back and watch Kevin make absolute fools out of Harry and Marv again – this time in New York.
Double Jeopardy
When her husband fakes his own death and frames her, Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is convicted of murder. When she realises her husband is still alive, she manages to get early release for good behaviour and sets out to track down him down, knowing that she can now actually kill him and get away with it.
Bruce Almighty
TV reporter Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) has a go at God, telling him he’s not doing his job properly. Unsurprisingly it doesn’t go down well and Nolan is offered the chance to show he can to do a better job of it.
Ghostbusters (the reboot)
This reboot of the 1980s comedy franchise stars Melissa McCarthy, Kirsten Wig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth. The four women and their assistant start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Yes, it bombed in the box office when it was released, but by Friday you might really need something lighthearted to watch and this at least won’t make you cry.
The Queen’s Gambit
It’s not exactly a movie, but it is a limited series drama so it’s like one very long movie. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) discovers an astonishing talent for chess. Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast while determined to succeed in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
In the French Riviera, two con men compete to scam a rich woman out of $50,000 using some elaborate (and amusing) tactics. If you have never seen it, it’s a must watch.
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Yo Malahide
Climate Change will affect everyone
@David Hughes: it was worse 21 years ago
@David Hughes: ye it’s really hot in the Sahara at the moment
@David Hughes: If every weather event is now climate change, what was is 50,100,200 years ago?
@Verners Tess: 50,098,179 BC
@Verners Tess: 50.1 million years ago was during the tail end of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, it was a lot warmer than today.
The warm climate caused by oceanic circulation and higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Antarctic continent wasn’t yet cut off from south America (Drakes passage hadn’t opened up yet) and Australia and Antarctica were still part of the same continent. Without a circumpolar ocean circulation, Antarctica did not act like a huge radiator like it does today.
There was also the collision between India collided with Asia 50 million, the beginning of the Himalayas:
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298462&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
This collision increased physical rock erosion and weathering of rock, this resulted in the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere, and in turn caused gradual climate cooling
See: “Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic
climate trend”
“The early Eocene (55 to 50Ma) was the warmest period during the Cenozoic. Various climatic indices suggest that tropical conditions extended 10 to 15 of latitude poleward of their present limits. Eocene tropical assemblages of foraminifera and coccoliths have been found in North Atlantic sediments (Haq et al., 1977). Vertebrate fossils of alligators and flying lemurs have been found from a site on Ellesmere Island, west of Greenland (Dawson et al., 1976).”
@Verners Tess: Basically, the climate did change but the change was a very slow, over millions of years…
https://www.global-climate-change.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot_26-1.jpg
Continents moved by centimeters per year, ock weathering, CO2 extraction and changes in ocean circulation took place over 10 million years. Life was able to adapt e.g. evolution of horses, but we’re changing climate 25,000 to 50,000 times faster now. That is faster than life can adapt, that is catastrophic.
Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum – https://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6071/959
@Pat Breen: so what’s your point
@Verners Tess: climate not changing
@David Jordan: doubt anyone who liked that comment read ur copy and paste wikipedia job.
@Simon: I did
@David Jordan: thanks for the info!
@David Jordan: tldr so what you’re saying is we need two continents to bash into each other and problem solved.
cant see why this hasn’t been done yet.
@Simon: I’m a geologist.
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