Climagate

Better late then never,

I have been following some developments of general environmental and sustainable issues in the international arena and some deeper insights into a few speficic themes for a while now, but some outcomes are impressing me lately. Not just the ongoing debates pertaining the climate change meeting in Copenhagen but the backgroung on the fight in between skeptics and data published from scientific institutions and IPCC about climate change research for instance

Even though I consider myself pretty green and peaceful, the skeptics do have a point on transparency in the international area, democratization of the data and the revision of peer review procedures. The funny thing is that a "scandal"  like this one, that the Amis name as Climagate and which has been on American news for the past weeks, has a clear discredit point: its motivation.

Apparently, skeptics claim to have found several scientific errors and "tricks" within samples utilized, methods, calculations, codes of the used softwares among others. I ll dig a bit on that later.

Prisons

Moinsen,

It took a while but I am writting again. I decided to manage my time differently and unfortunately the Blog was relegated due to higher ranked priorities.

Hopefully, I'll put some more effort into it. At least in order to practice.

Here an is an image of a prison cell in Norway. Besides freedom itself (what could be relative to some extent), their rooms look better, including a TV, than the supposedly new Studentenwohnheim Gemeinschaft (Studenten-WG) in which I inhabited the past year. Probably the rooms are quieter considering how walls are built (lucky prisioners).

Ich glaube es wäre schon zumindest versuchen auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Es erscheint dass man braucht eine lange Zeit die Sprachefähigkeiten zu entwickeln aber schon eine gute Übung für mich. (I should write in German to practice).

Anyways, I put some other examples here taken by Juernge Chill giving him a prize in arquitecture photography.

 

 And now some examples for Latin America. Firstly,  in Brazil an overcrouded female cell and the solution taken by some states such as ES and SC to it (yes, containers):

Male prisioners:

I suppose this is proportionately usual to the cities' size. Even though it woud not  such a surprise if most of smaller cities also happen to have penintiary superpopulation. In Peru the Cañete II does not look much different as well as in Argentina.