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Emissions
Post Date: 2009-09-12 19:14:02 by Clitora
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Emissions This page provides EPA’s answers to frequently asked questions about greenhouse gas emissions. Click on a question below to view the answer. Links throughout the answers will guide you to further information on EPA’s Climate Change site or from other sources. 1. What are the most important greenhouse gases? Where are they coming from and how have they changed? 2. Since 1990, how have greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. changed? 3. What are the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.? 4. What are greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector? 5. What are greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector? 6. How are individuals contributing to the ...
Widespread Arctic Wildlife Changes Seen with Global Warming [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-09-12 16:01:09 by buckeroo
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Scientists carying out studies of wildlife in the Arctic say global warming is causing dramatic changes in animal and plant life, threatening some species with extinction. The report is a compilation of studies of Arctic eco-systems by an international team of scientists who have been collaborating during the fourth International Polar Year,which ended in 2008. Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University and leader of the study team, says previous research has focused on the non-living or abiotic effects of global warming on the Arctic, including the melting of sea ice and subsequent rises in seawater levels. But Post says this is the first comprehensive report ...
Schrodinger's Cat experiment for real
Post Date: 2009-09-12 03:17:07 by Armadillo
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How to Create Quantum Superpositions of Living Things First photons, atoms and molecules. Now physicists want to create a quantum superposition of a virus, which will allow them to perform Schrodinger's Cat experiment for real. ... Having created quantum superpositions of photons, electrons, atoms and even molecules, one of the current obsessions is to create a quantum superposition of a living thing, such as a virus. The question is how to do this and whether it makes any sense to say these things are living at all. ... The experiment will first involve storing a virus in a vacuum and then cooling it to its quantum mechanical ground state in a microcavity. Zapping the virus with a ...
Scientists Now Know: We're Not From Here!
Post Date: 2009-09-11 09:28:00 by Clitora
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Scientists Now Know: We're Not From Here! (great pics at source) Summary & comments by Dan Eden for Viewzone Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted! This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy! How can this be? Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in ...
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth
Post Date: 2009-09-11 02:38:37 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth Posted on: Friday, 31 October 2008, 05:45 CDT During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again, around the time you reach the end of the page. "It's called a flux transfer event or 'FTE,'" says space physicist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible." Indeed, ...
What happens when it gets cold and there isn't enough energy? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-09-10 15:11:02 by farmfriend
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What happens when it gets cold and there isn't enough energy? September 9, 10:32 PM New Haven County Environmental Policy Examiner Kirtland Griffin Seems that every day you read about how successful the environmentalists have been at stopping a coal fired plant, a hydroelectric dam, or a nuclear reactor in favor of unreliable wind and solar power. This brings up a serious question, one that I would like to hear an answer from the enviros, politicians and others who are either preventing the building of these facilities or profiting from the alternatives. This would, of course, include our Connecticut governor and the entire Connecticut legislature that unanimously passed the climate ...
A skull that rewrites the history of man
Post Date: 2009-09-10 01:02:37 by Prefrontal Vortex
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A skull that rewrites the history of man It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia... By Steve Connor, Science Editor The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind. Scientists have found a handful of ancient human skulls at an archaeological site two hours from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, that suggest a Eurasian chapter in the long evolutionary story of man. The skulls, jawbones and fragments of limb bones suggest that our ancient human ...
Deep Inside Bacteria, a Germ of Human Personality
Post Date: 2009-09-08 22:38:50 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Deep Inside Bacteria, a Germ of Human Personality Scientists Hope to Fight Infections by Blocking the Social Creatures' Ability to Sense When They Have Sufficient Numbers to Attack By GAUTAM NAIK Bacteria are the oldest living things on earth, and researchers have long felt that they must lead dull, unfussy lives. New discoveries are starting to show just how wrong that notion is. For a simple, single-cell creature, a bacterium is surprisingly social. It can communicate in two languages. It can tell self from nonself, friend from foe. It thrives in the company of others. It spies on neighbors, spreads misinformation and even commits fratricide. "Really, they're just ...
Carbon Tax
Post Date: 2009-09-07 11:42:53 by Googolplex
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PC Attacks
Post Date: 2009-09-06 18:55:01 by Lod
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Poster Comment:My attack notifiers have been going nuts today. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks.
THE SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Post Date: 2009-09-06 17:30:37 by wudidiz
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THE SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT A STRUCTURAL ANALYSISBy Richard J. Boylan Ph.D. The secret "shadow" government is the large organisational network which operates alongside the officially elected and appointed government of the United States of America. Just as with the official government, the secret government has functional branches. Just as with the official government, the Shadow Government has functional branches. However, unlike the official government, the purpose of the non-executive branches of the Shadow Government is simply to distribute various functions, but not to achieve a system of checks and balances, as was supposed to happen constitutionally between the ...
EPA to declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant
Post Date: 2009-09-02 23:41:29 by christine
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Carbon dioxide will soon be declared a dangerous pollutant - a move that could help propel slow-moving climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters that a formal "endangerment finding," which would trigger federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, probably would "happen in the next months." Jackson announced her timeline even as top senators said they were delaying plans to introduce legislation that would set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions. Senators had been scheduled to unveil legislation next Tuesday, but the date has now been pushed back to ...
Hollywood piracy detectives close in on French town
Post Date: 2009-09-02 12:40:48 by X-15
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Anti-fraud detectives have turned their international fight against illegal downloads to a small French town, where a mystery pirate has been filming Hollwyood blockbusters at the local cinema and posting them on the internet. Detectives are so determined to nab the pirate that they posted an agent behind a life-size cardboard cut-out of John Travolta facing the cinema's audience for four days - but to no avail. Other Clouseau-style surveillance operations to unveil "THX fuck" – the culprit's internet pseudonym, which appears on peer-to-peer film sharing sites – have all proved fruitless. The pirate has confounded agents sent by Warner Bros and managed to ...
Global warming – much worse than we thought [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-08-30 12:00:30 by buckeroo
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In 2007 as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Bali Conference. That was a very great number of Neros assembled in one place complete with their fiddles. Ian McDonald The outcome of this conference, you will recall, was “hailed by governments as a success.” Which governments? And in what way can “a deal to start negotiations to adopt a new climate pact” be counted a success? Anyone can declare an intention to do something – but will it be done? Such deals are fundamentally meaningless. James Connaughton, Chairman of the ...
Single molecule pictured for the first time.
Post Date: 2009-08-29 21:38:01 by Armadillo
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This is very cool. It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said. pentacene The delicate inner structure of a pentacene molecule has been imaged with an atomic force microscope The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms. In the image above the hexagonal ...
International Paper Follows Monsanto's Blueprint to Grow `Frankenforests'
Post Date: 2009-08-28 11:49:01 by Brian S
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Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- International Paper Co., the world’s largest pulp and paper maker, plans to remake commercial forests in the same way Monsanto Co. revolutionized farms with genetically modified crops. International Paper’s ArborGen joint venture with MeadWestvaco Corp. and New Zealand’s Rubicon Ltd. is seeking permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to sell the first genetically engineered forest trees outside China. The Australian eucalyptus trees are designed to survive freezes in the U.S. South. Plantations of engineered trees would give International Paper a competitive advantage by providing a reliable supply of lower cost wood at a time when ...
School students find relief from summer heat under new 'fractal' sunshade
Post Date: 2009-08-26 22:55:36 by Prefrontal Vortex
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School students find relief from summer heat under new 'fractal' sunshade KYOTO -- Students at a Kyoto area high school have a new place to find shelter from the hot summer sun after their school teamed up with Kyoto University and Sekisui Chemical Co. to build a bower-like shady spot dubbed the "Fractal Sunshade." Kyoto Prefectural Kyotoyawata High School worked with Professor Satoshi Sakai of Kyoto University's Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies and Sekisui on the sunshade. The shade is made of vinyl chloride sheets cut into triangles, and allows sunlight through triangular spaces to dapple the ground below, hence the "fractal" name. ...
Gene Predicts Poor HCV Treatment Response in Blacks
Post Date: 2009-08-26 17:27:59 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Gene Predicts Poor HCV Treatment Response in Blacks Lack of a favorable genetic polymorphism (like a mutation) in people with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) predicts about 50 percent of all HCV treatment failures, according to a study published online August 16 in Nature. Because blacks are less than half as likely to have the favorable gene than white and Hispanic patients, this goes a long way toward explaining why they respond a lot less frequently to HCV treatment. One unexplained difference in HCV treatment rates has been in black patients. A number of studies, though not all, have found that black patients also respond less well than white patients. While some of the difference in ...
MJ Alive? Someone Wants You To Think So (Video)
Post Date: 2009-08-26 01:10:53 by TwentyTwelve
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MJ Alive? Someone Wants You To Think So Posted Aug 25th 2009 6:19PM by TMZ Staff This video is probably as real as the existence of unicorns -- but the clip, claiming to show Michael Jackson walking out of the back of a Coroner's van after his "death," is making the rounds on the Internet today. Read more: www.tmz.com/2009/08/25/mi...live-video/#ixzz0PGLeHd7h According to the LiveLeak post: "I checked the license plate number and it looks like the King of Pop is jumping out of the same van, his dead body has been in. I got the original video tape from a trustworthy source. I know him for years. And I am sure it´s real and Michael is alive." So ... Read ...
Trees advance in a warming world
Post Date: 2009-08-25 11:43:12 by buckeroo
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Trees around the world are colonising new territories in response to higher temperatures. From the US west coast to northern Siberia and south-east Asia, trees are growing at higher elevations, and at higher latitudes as the climate warms. Of 166 sites studied, trees are advancing at more than half, while they are receding at just two sites. The shift is revealed by the first global analysis of treelines published in the journal Ecology Letters. However, the trees aren't responding quite how scientists expected. Instead of advancing as summer temperatures rise, the trees' ability to colonise new areas appears to be more dependent on whether winter temperatures warm. Hospitable ...
The Japanese know it so why don't we....
Post Date: 2009-08-24 22:01:03 by Zenmaster
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This is English translation of a Japanese text from Benjamin's Blog today from Bill Hennessy Its worth a ponder ...... I am comfortable that this couldn't have been said better This is what I call good news. (In Benjamin’s Blog this morning). Bill Hennessy How Western civilization became like the Borg of Star Trek Western civilization has lost its most important asset: the ability to impartially seek the truth, no matter where it might lead. At its peak Western civilization used logic and science to blast away at superstition and ignorance. Any single person could, by means of evidence and logic, change the way Western civilization thought. The result was unprecedented ...
Analyst Bove sees 150-200 more U.S. bank failures
Post Date: 2009-08-24 11:47:33 by DeaconBenjamin
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent banking analyst said on Sunday that 150 to 200 more U.S. banks will fail in the current banking crisis, and the industry's payments to keep the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp afloat could eat up 25 percent of pretax income in 2010. Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities said this will likely force the FDIC, which insures deposits, to turn increasingly to non-U.S. banks and private equity funds to shore up the banking system. "The difficulty at the moment is finding enough healthy banks to buy the failing banks," Bove wrote. The FDIC is expected on August 26 to vote on relaxed guidelines for private equity firms to invest in failed banks, ...
Freak waves spotted from space-" waves as tall as 10 storey buildings"
Post Date: 2009-08-21 16:51:52 by gengis gandhi
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Freak waves spotted from space Wave, PA Esa tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites to monitor the oceans with their radar The shady phenomenon of freak waves as tall as 10 storey buildings has finally been proved, the European Space Agency (Esa) said on Wednesday. Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them. As part of a project called MaxWave - which was set up to test the rumours - two Esa satellites surveyed the oceans. During a three week period they detected 10 giant waves, all of which were over 25m (81ft) high. Strange disappearances Over the last two decades more than 200 super-carriers - cargo ships over 20 ...
In Hot Water: World's Ocean Temps Warmest Recorded
Post Date: 2009-08-20 15:50:30 by Brian S
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(08-20) 11:00 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The world's oceans this summer are the warmest on record. The National Climatic Data Center, the government agency that keeps weather records, says the average global ocean temperature in July was 62.6 degrees. That's the hottest since record-keeping began in 1880. The previous record was set in 1998. Meteorologists blame a combination of a natural El Nino weather pattern on top of worsening manmade global warming. The warmer water could add to the melting of sea ice and possibly strengthen some hurricanes. The result has meant lots of swimming at beaches in Maine with pleasant 72-degree water. Ocean temperatures reached 88 degrees as far ...
Study Shows DNA Evidence Can Be Faked
Post Date: 2009-08-19 15:59:57 by farmfriend
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Study Shows DNA Evidence Can Be Faked Written by James Heiser Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:37 In recent years, a popular understanding has arisen that DNA is an infallible form of evidence; whether one is speaking of a crime scene or a paternity test, whether on the news or in a crime drama, “The genes don’t lie.” But now a new study has found that DNA can be as open to falsification as any other form of evidence. According to a report in the New York Times, a paper published in Forensic Science International: Genetics claims, “The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also ...
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