Monday, April 06, 2009

Earth in the Balance

I don't want to alarm you, but I will. As a scientist, my job is to make observations, and interpret them. I have been tracking the amount of sunlight (minutes of daylight) reaching me in State College, PA since the beginning of the year. I have plotted the results below.

I have also noticed the days have been getting longer. Nice, huh? We all enjoy the sunlight. But the rate of change in the amount of sunlight has been increasing. I cannot stress this enough. You won't enjoy the increase later on, let me explain. With my data I constructed a sophisticated computer model to predict the amount of sunlight we will be getting later on this year. The graph is below:


Before my next birthday, we will have 24 hours of daylight. This will wreak havoc on our ecosystem, causing destruction not seen since, well, ever. The planet will be scorched, human civilization will end. State College is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of sunlight! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

I think some type of subterranean dwelling will allow human kind to survive, so you better get to work on yours. The government doesn't want you to knwo this...when I contacted several obervatories with my predictions, they laughed...They know the truth, though...

By the way, you're welcome.



7 Comments:

Anonymous Mike Russo said...

Talk about an ultraviolet catastrophe! Hahaha.

April 06, 2009 1:22 PM  
Blogger brando said...

I laughed out loud.

April 07, 2009 11:56 PM  
Blogger Theodore said...

the best blogpost I've read in a while...

April 08, 2009 8:47 AM  
Blogger Michael L. Heien said...

I am just pleased to be doing good works.

April 09, 2009 6:29 PM  
Blogger Timothy Richmond said...

I should show this to my environmental science class . . . . but they would probably say it disproves global warming and my teaching would be all for naught.

April 20, 2009 7:02 PM  
Blogger Michael L. Heien said...

you should show it; it makes a good point about extrapolation and the need for good moddels/complete data.

May 04, 2009 9:02 AM  
Blogger Michael L. Heien said...

its also completely nuts.

May 04, 2009 9:03 AM  

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