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Weird Science
Some Like It Hot A day in the life of...
Rachael Dolan provides an CO2 emission of A reality TV addict
120g/km. In 1997, the
overview of global warming: its United Nations drafted by Alex Fisher
the Kyoto Agreement
politics, consequences and which came into effect in
2005. By 2008-2012,
solutions countries that signed
have to reduce their GHG
emissions to 5% below
their 1990 levels.
On a national level,
UK air duty prices were
Simon Bishop raised in an attempt to
discourage unnecessary
travels to deep- air travel, since on aver-
age, one aeroplane trip THEY say the first step watching reality TV, but
est, darkest uses 20% of the yearly to curing an addiction is I think at the end of the
carbon footprint per per- admitting it. So here I day it is entertaining,
Powys son. The UK Climate go… My name is Alex, and no matter how
Change Bill was released and I am a reality TV much people deny
LAST Friday, my girl- on 13th March 2007, addict. Not the coolest watching it, you can’t
friend and I travelled to entailing a mandatory thing to have to admit in help but get caught up
Machynlleth, Wales, sim- 60% cut in the UK’s car- the university newspa- in the drama of
ply because it had an bon emissions by 2050 per, but I feel by writing Celebrity Big Brother
exciting (though unpro- (compared to 1990 lev- about my addiction I (especially this year) or
nounceable) name and els). This was a result of will be able to help whether Ray or Leona
because we could. After cross-party political pres- many other struggling was going to win The X
confounding the lady at sure and a mention of a students. Factor.
the ticket booth with Bill in the Queen’s Speech Being a third year A typical week in
subtitles, we boarded in November 2006. history student, most the life of a reality TV
the train and sat back as A recently compiled people would assume I addict begins on lazy
the Cambrian Mountains Climate Change Map dis- am uncontrollably Sundays with
provided a magnificent played that, as tempera- bogged down with a Shipwrecked. Monday
backdrop to a journey ture will increase, so will 12,000 word disserta- night is fashion night
into the unknown. the number of illnesses, tion as well as many with America’s Next Top
Our sanguine spon- epidemics and deaths. other essays and pieces Model, watched by many
taneity paid off immedi- There will be severe of coursework, and they only to see how insane
ately, having landed in flooding and drought in would indeed be cor- Tyra Banks is going to
an idyllic retreat in the places, reducing the rect. However, being a look or act that week.
countryside, a town with amount of clean drinking reality TV addict, I have Coupled with the highly
an Aga shop and impec- water and malnutrition the added woe of man- addictive Project
cable manners, including due to crop destruction. aging my time and sub- Catwalk with robotic
an apparently uncouth In the Andes and Asia, sequently, my never presenter Kelly
gang of spiky-haired where water is extracted ending pile of work, Osbourne, and the new
youths defying stereo- from glacial ice, the rising around a TV schedule. series of The Simple Life,
type and holding doors temperatures will cause I don’t know what it Monday nights could
open for visitors. It was serious water shortages is, but ever since the not be better. Tuesdays
lovely. But this is a sci- as the ice will melt, and turn of the millennium are full with Gillain
ence column, so I shall Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth tackles the once it’s gone, it’s gone. and the barrage of reali- McKeith’s You Are What
get to the point. reality of global warming In Peru, they obtain water ty TV programmes hit- You Eat (she is a scary
Machynlleth is home from glacial fossil ice and ting our television woman) and WAGs
to the Centre for GLOBAL warming is a real released into space, since the increasing tempera- screens, everything else Boutique (what will they
Alternative Technology issue with real conse- they increase the atmos- tures have led to a 25% has become second think of next?).
(CAT), a project offering quences, and it affects phere’s opacity and also reduction in the amount best. Wednesday’s favourite
solutions to the chal- real people. Impossible absorb infrared radiation, of drinking water avail- I seem to have an in our house is
lenges facing the planet, to get away from, it is in keeping it inside the tro- able. The World Health irrepressible joy in see- Relocation, Relocation
from pollution to the the papers nearly every posphere and warming Organisation, WHO, esti- ing members of the pub- with Kirstie and Phil
new obsession - climate day and there are con- the Earth. mates that five million lic humiliate themselves (geniuses) and
change. It aims to stant reminders about Over the past centu- severe illness cases per on national TV simply Thursday’s is 10 Years
inspire, inform and how we are ‘destroying ry, average temperatures year are due to climate by living in a house Younger. Friday nights
enable, to help visitors the planet’ in the media. have risen by 0.74°C and change and this will dou- together, celebrities are always entertaining
and businesses reduce Until recently though, are still rising. The ble by 2030. attempting to sing or with American Idol and
their environmental despite its coverage, result is longer summers, In February 2007, dance without embar- finally Saturday’s
impact and hopefully politicians have been less snow in winter and New Scientist magazine rassing themselves, and extravaganza Dancing
avert disaster. It even denying its existence. melting polar ice caps. published an article on most importantly on Ice. And while the lat-
has a water-powered cliff However, now that scien- The melting ice caps have the use of lunar dust Americans, always the ter is finishing this
railway. tific opinion is almost caused sea levels to rise clouds as a protection Americans, trying to get week, a reality TV addict
We all know we’re unanimous in believing and affected the water against the Sun’s rays, to famous one way or can always rely on the
destroying the environ- the phenomenon, it has cycle. Extreme weather, prevent further warming another; modelling, fact there is another
ment. It’s a topic we can- been the subject of many flooding and longer peri- of the Earth. Curtis singing, dancing, cook- reality TV programme
not escape. political discussions. ods of storms are expect- Struck states that “lunar ing, anything you can being lined up to take
Unfortunately, by and Three things control ed. dust particles are the think of. its place, particularly
large, we do not care – global temperature: solar In 2006, England right size and would scat- What is the attrac- this week with what can
our conveniences are emission, volcanic emis- experienced the hottest ter sunlight if hit”. tion I hear many of you only be described as
often preferable to sion and greenhouse summer ever recorded; When mined and cynics ask? My honest car-crash-but-com-
change, so apathy per- gases (GHGs). Solar and whether it was a good or placed in two strategic answer would be that I pellingly-addictive-TV,
sists. Yet change needn’t volcanic emissions have bad thing, it spurred the places in the moon’s am not exactly sure. It Comic Relief Does Fame
be drastic: wilfully recy- not increased significant- politicians to improve orbit, they would form could be the “schaden- Academy (none of them
cling or choosing an ly recently, so the main their manifestos and as a stable clouds and would freude” concept; revel- can actually sing!)
energy-saving light bulb cause are the GHGs. The result, the “Go Green” block the Sun for 20 ling in the misfortune of While I may have
over Edison’s original is increase in the amount of campaign was launched, hours once a month. others, and watching Z- tried to quit on a num-
a significant start. fossil fuel consumption is to improve recycling and There was conjecture that list celebrities such as ber of occasions, it has
Indeed, the humble tung- causing an increase in reduce carbon footprints the dust would reflect the glamour model Jordan proven to be too hard.
sten design is to be Greenhouse Gas emis- left by people. sunlight at unusual times, or washed up pop singer Reality TV is entertain-
phased out of the UK by sions, including C02, Programmes such as Meet but Struck is adamant Peter Andre eat bugs in ing, funny, and for a
2011. NO2, CH4, and CFCs. the Hawksworths aim to that it would reduce the the jungle, seeing one of student the most attrac-
This week, Rachael The Earth gets its improve awareness and overall amount of sun- the aspiring models on tive thing about it has to
Dolan gives us an heat from the Sun provide advice on how to light. America’s Next Top be it requires no brain
overview of Global through infrared radia- reduce their carbon foot- Lunar dust is just one Model fall over on the power! Maybe in July
Warming. Once you have tion: 30% is reflected back print. solution, but we must catwalk, or one of the when I am thrust into
finished reading, think to space and 70% is On the 7th February, reduce our carbon output Dancing on Ice stars trip the real world of a 9 to 5
about the changes you absorbed to warm the 2007, the EU Commission before resorting to such and fall down in a most day job my addiction
can make, and put them surface. With more GHGs, proposed that by 2012, measures. So, switch off entertaining fashion. will fade, but for now I
into action without the reflected radiation all new cars must corre- a light, recycle a bottle That is certainly one think I will accept and
delay. has further to travel to be spond with the target and help save the planet! of the reasons I enjoy enjoy it!