At An Accelerated Warming Trend, It Will Take 766 Years For Global Temperature To Rise One (1) Degree; Friendly Numbers

Scientists now agree that "global warming" stopped 15 years ago.

Scientists do not know why "global warming" stopped.

So, what if the earth actually begins to cool again? That scenario was never put into this model being reported today.

Regardless, at the accelerated rate of "warming" that occurred in the two decades prior to 2005 (that has now quit), I am being told it would take 766 years for the earth's surface temperature to rise one (1) degree.

766 years for one degree rise in temperature. 

That's beyond my great-great-great-grandchildren's investing lifetime.

And, of course, that assumes the world begins to warm up again. Right now, the earth stopped warming 15 years ago, and scientists do not know why.

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A Note To The Granddaughters

Arthur Miller's Deciphering The Cosmic Number is absolutely fascinating.

In Genesis, Jacob gave 220 goats to Esau. Quick: why?

220 is one-half of a pair of friendly numbers.

"In Genesis Jacob gave 220 goats to Esau on the grounds that one-half of a friendly pair expressed Jacob's love for Esau. Arab numerologists have written about the practice of carving 220 on one fruit and 284 on another, eating one and then offering the other to a love as a sort of mathematical aphrodisiac."

Friendly numbers are two numbers whose divisors add up to the other number in the pair.

"Someone asked Pythagoras whether he had a friend. He replied, "I have two: 220 and 284."

"The numbers 220 and 284 are friendly because the numbers by which 220 can be divided to yield a whole number (1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 33, 44, and 110) add up to 284; and the divisors of 284 (1, 2, 4, 71 and 142) add up to 220. Friendly numbers may be just another fascinating piece of mathematics, or they may have some use. Presently no one knows."

"The pair of friendly numbers 284 and 220 were well known. In the Middle Ages talismans inscribed with them were worn by a couple to advertise their love for each other."

It is, understandably, difficult to find every pair of friendly numbers.

Miller continues: "A few hundred friendly numbers were known in the 1950s; with the help of high-speed computers, twelve million have now been found. Pythagora's discovery of this pair was rather extraordinary. Apparently it was an inspired mental leap after a great deal of hard work."

Fascinating.

So, now you give your friend a card with the number "220" on and keep another card for yourself with number "284" on it, or inscribe two wood blocks with these numbers to hang on the wall.