Global Warming Confusion

Watching movies "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Great Global Warming Swindle" respectively perhaps will change your mind what does lead the global warming.

"An Inconvenient Truth"
This film which is very popular, is a documentary of former Vice President of USA Al Gore's presentation about global warming. Here, Al Gore describes clearly that human leads the global warming by producing Carbon dioxide. He presents supported data which explain the relation of CO2 production and the warm weather. CO2 production drives the weather becomes warmer. This situation which is called Global Warming has so many negative effects. The ice in the pole is melting and this condition leads the rising of sea water. CO2 mass production really dangerous for world's future and Global Warming is a big threat caused by human activities.


The Great Global Warming Swindle"
This is a documentary film made by British television. This film is controversial because contains so many contra argument about global warming. Here, Scientists, Economists, Journalists, disagree with Al Gore description about Global Warming. They argue that human do not lead the global warming. They think that Global Warming issue is just used by some big country to stop the third world to develop their country in industrial aspect (which is a threat for global warming).
They give an example of an African country which has no electricity and gas, but other big country suggest to use solar panel which is very expensive and unaffordable by people in that country. Why, because if they use modern electricity which produces CO2 in the process, this will support the global warming.
In this film, scientists also disagree the statement that human leads the global warming by producing CO2. Their contra argument based on their research which has the different result about what leads the global warming. First, CO2 produce by human is not as many as sea, volcano or other production. Secondly, The production of CO2 does not lead the warm weather but the warm weather caused the increasing of CO2 production. The sun activities is more appropriate reason about who drives the global warming, and the climate change will happen based on the sun activity.


Both of this film is a great way to exercise our critical thinking ability, he2.... Both of the films provide data and argument that really easy to understand and make us agree what they are talking about. So, what do you think? he2....

I personally think that human is responsible of this climate change. Why? Hem, not based on the data or any academic argument, but just because if I live in a city which has so many vehicles or industrial activities, I feel that the air quality is bad compared to other city which has small amount of industrial activities or vehicles.

So, let's make our world green, plant as many as trees, walk or ride bicycle to go to your office and decrease your electricity usage.

Here the link of the video (unfortunately there is no link to the "An Inconvenient Truth" video, if you have, let me know)
- The Great Global Warming Swindle

Moon Eclipse

Last night we had a beautiful moon eclipse. I took some pictures of it using my "not" SLR camera... Fuji Finepix s6500 fd. I uploaded those to http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-ehm/, so enjoy it. These are some of the pictures.











Ups the moon slipped.... no, it's because I didn't use tripod, he2....

Today's snapshoot

Should it be "n" turn, not "u" turn?




Offenders will be prostituted, oh sorry, perhaps prohibited, no it must be prosecuted....




Lovely forest for modern people




God's office? No, it's still in the earth..




Jesus love you too, mate..




check other photos here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-ehm/

Hiduplah Indonesia Raya

Happy Independence Day to my beloved Indonesia

Today is the the 62th of Indonesian independence day. We are invited by the Consulate General of Indonesia in Sydney to have a flag ceremony and gathering at Wisma Indonesia Rose Bay. Hem... great experience to have a flag ceremony here. The most important is we can meet many Indonesian there (Even, Sydney is full of Indonesian, he2...).These are some pictures of this occasion.


UNSW students and the Consulate General (3th from left... no it's me, the General is 4th)




Acehnese Dance



"Poco-poco"




Fanfare




Merdekah....

Courses have started

Session two has started. Now, I'm fully a student. My first course is Human Computer Interaction. HCI is a course that learning about how should we design something for end user. He2.. this is something that I like, because this course has a strong relation with psychology and arts, not only computer science.
I spent my weekend in Canberra and Snowy Mountain. I realized that I'll be busy with my courses after the session start, so I decided to spend my time travelling to other state and finding new experiences.
Together with Ppia Canberra, I went to Snowy Mountain (3hours from Canberra). Something weird was Sydney much colder than snowy mountain, hem...
The weather was very good, sunny and the snow was very tick. I played toboggan and learnt to play sky. He2... it was very interesting.
I slept at Dian's apartment in Australian National University (ANU) Unilodge together with Jati and Ichsan. I found that Canberra is a quiet city. I went to Questacon (Museum of Science and Technology) and it was really interesting. I tried the zero gravity simulation (free fall) and I swear I'll not try it again, hem... Visiting museum in Australia is a great way to relax and learn something new. It is a popular activities here. Hopefully students in Indonesia love the same.

Kuringgai, The Great Walker

Saturday, July 14, 2007... I woke up early and caught the bus to Central Station. There, I met Dian, Ichsan and Jati. We bought 4 train tickets to Mount Kuringgai.
Mount Kuringgai is located 60km north of Sydney. It has a great view and it is one of a national park in NSW.

The great North Walk sign.... jati and me (right)



We decided to take the Great North Walk route from Mt. Kuringgai Station to Berowa Station. It was 10km (5 hours walk)
I can say that it was a fantastic journey. We walked along the river and finally found a lake (unfortunately we didn't go to the lake because it was 5pm and we must catch the train)

The Leader... A-ehm




Dian and Ichsan..




I do believe Indonesia's bush walking or national park is better than here. The different is that in here, everything is well maintained: safety, clean, etc... If our park is maintained well... I think I'll not spend my weekend to go to the mall, he2.....

Let's move from plastic to paper bag

Two weeks ago, I had a discussion with some peoples about sustainable development. It was a very interesting topic. Unfortunatelly, I didn't have sufficient knowledge about sustainable development. One speaker talked about sustainable development in terms of politic, the other one had his own angle of view from economic field. My turn, I spoke about the use of paper bag to change plastic in our daily life activities. It was only a small angle of view, but this brought us the a deep discussion about environmental sustainability.

If we buy some groceries or any other things, the stores usually give us a plastic bag to bring the things we already bought. Sometimes we don't realize that this kind of plastic could not be recycled. Just imagine how many plastic bag used every day. It will increase the non-recycled garbages that have a lot of negative effects to our environment such as issues of global warming, environment destructions, etc.

Many countries in the world didn't use plastic bag anymore. They already used paper bag to change the plastic bag. They choose paper bag because it can be recycled. They aware about the future environment.

Today's International Herald Tribune newspaper gives us a lot of example of the efforts of many countries to recycle the trash. You can read it at http://www.iht.com/indexes/special/trash/index.php. This one is highly recommended to be read.

Indonesia has a lot of problem with trash. Plastic bag still used in a lot of sectors. why don't we try to change the easiest one. Start from supermarket, restaurant, etc?

Finally, it was just a discussion.