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K7RA Solar Update
Post Date: 2008-09-02 00:20:52 by Tauzero
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The K7RA Solar Update Our Sun is still very quiet, but last week's Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP035 mentioned a new sunspot emerging on August 21-22. Spaceweather.com showed the sunspot number on those days as 11, which is the smallest non-zero sunspot number. Because of the way the daily sunspot number is calculated, one sunspot gets ten points for one group, and one point for one sunspot within that group. Five sunspots in three groups yields a daily sunspot number of 35. But the official sunspot number from NOAA showed zero on both days. You can see it for yourself at, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt. It seems that this little spot that tried to emerge never ...
Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
Post Date: 2008-09-02 00:11:07 by Tauzero
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Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century Michael Asher Drop in solar activity has potential effect for climate on earth. The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted. The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots -- is an influencing factor for climate on earth. According to data from Mount Wilson Observatory, UCLA, more than an entire month has passed without a spot. The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749. When the sun is active, it's not ...
The 'consensus' on climate change is a catastrophe in itself
Post Date: 2008-09-01 14:59:07 by farmfriend
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The 'consensus' on climate change is a catastrophe in itself By Christopher Booker Last Updated: 12:01am BST 31/08/2008 As the estimated cost of measures proposed by politicians to "combat global warming" soars ever higher – such as the International Energy Council's $45 trillion – "fighting climate change" has become the single most expensive item on the world's political agenda. As Senators Obama and McCain vie with the leaders of the European Union to promise 50, 60, even 80 per cent cuts in "carbon emissions", it is clear that to realise even half their imaginary targets would necessitate a dramatic change in how we all live, ...
Scientist Predicts Ice Age Within 10 Years
Post Date: 2008-09-01 07:09:59 by richard9151
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University of Mexico expert says lack of solar activity to cause significant cooling that will last over half a century Tuesday, August 19, 2008 As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican ...
Ancient Sahara Graveyard Hints at Once-Green Desert
Post Date: 2008-08-29 20:24:20 by farmfriend
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Ancient Sahara Graveyard Hints at Once-Green Desert Friday, August 15, 2008 WASHINGTON — A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert. The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green. Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and colleagues were searching for the remains of dinosaurs in the African country of Niger when they came across the startling find, detailed at a news ...
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Post Date: 2008-08-29 20:14:03 by farmfriend
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Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea Written By: Krystle Russin Published In: Environment & Climate News Publication Date: August 1, 2008 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day. While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, many environmentalists are opposing the technology because it allows people to use fossil fuels and emit carbon in the first place. Mitigates Fossil Fuel Effects Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner, who is leading the research team, believes producing a ...
Out of Africa: the speed gene genie
Post Date: 2008-08-29 12:46:07 by Tauzero
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Out of Africa: the speed gene genie Andrew Stevenson | August 23, 2008 GOLD medallists raise their fists in jubilation and sleep well at night knowing they're the best in the world. Drawn from about 200 countries, they compete against one another under the utopian banner, "One world, one dream". But did they really beat the world or do the specific genetic characteristics of different population groups mean that the Olympics - open to ever-wider participation in the shrinking global village - are actually a race narrowed down to rivals from their own distinct ethnic group? In Beijing, for the first time at an Olympic Games, every competitor in the men's and women's ...
Teenage DNA sleuths expose New York fish fraud
Post Date: 2008-08-29 12:30:15 by Tauzero
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Teenage DNA sleuths expose New York fish fraud Fri 22 Aug 2008, 8:10 GMT By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent ACCRA (Reuters) - Up to a quarter of fish in stores and restaurants in New York City was mislabelled as a more expensive variety, according to samples collected by two U.S. teenagers and tested with modern genetic identification methods. In the worst cases, two samples of filleted fish sold as red snapper, caught mostly off the southeast United States and in the Caribbean, were instead the endangered Acadian redfish from the North Atlantic, according to the tests, revealed on Friday. "We never expected these results. People should get what they pay for," Kate ...
The Bird That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Post Date: 2008-08-29 10:33:32 by Tauzero
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The Bird That Dare Not Speak Its Name Get your sniggering over now. I am going to blog about the Penduline Tit. This post is actually safe for work. The Penduline Tit is not a body part but an ordinary-looking bird. Penduline refers to the pendulous nest that the birds build for their eggs. What makes the bird interesting to me is not its Beavis-and-Butthead caliber name, but how it raises its young. If you think that nature is never destructive, or that natural selection automatically finds beautiful solutions to life’s problems, this bird has a lesson for you. The Penduline Tit–do you mind if I just call it Remiz pendulinus?–is a common sight in Europe and parts of Asia. ...
Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier
Post Date: 2008-08-27 23:26:23 by angle
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes. The system has been improved from an earlier version which was shown in 2005 to have eliminated 99 percent of the H5N1 virus when airborne, Sharp official Kenji Ota told reporters. The plasmacluster ion technology, developed in 2000, disables airborne micro-organisms by releasing positive and negative ions into the air. Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces contaminated by their faeces, is currently considered the main cause of human infection with the H5N1 virus, according to the World Health Organization. But ...
Friend or foe, crows never forget a face
Post Date: 2008-08-27 19:41:22 by angle
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Scientist finds birds can recognize individuals, helping to identify threats Crows and their relatives -- among them ravens, magpies and jays -- are renowned for their intelligence and for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes. That ability may have to do with cross-species social skills. In the Seattle area, where rapid suburban growth has attracted a thriving crow population, researchers have found that the birds can recognize individual human faces. John Marzluff, a wildlife biologist at the University of Washington, has studied crows and ravens for more than 20 years and has long wondered whether the birds could identify individual researchers. Previously trapped ...
Nasa space program under threat
Post Date: 2008-08-25 22:45:37 by X-15
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Washington - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will become dependent on flights to the ISS by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft when it retires the shuttle fleet that has long ferried US astronauts into space in 2010. Nasa will only get its successor space vehicle, Orion, planned for a revival of trips to the moon, ready for flight in 2015 at the earliest. That leaves the needs of US astronauts visiting the ISS vulnerable to the possibility of a new Cold War between Washington and Moscow after ...
Carbonatite (Specifically Natrocarbonatite) Magma and a rare volcano...
Post Date: 2008-08-25 11:07:14 by Axenolith
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Stumbled across this while looking up some geo stuff, just to cool not to spread around :-) Natrocarbonatite at Oldoinyo Lengai
New climate record shows century-long droughts in eastern North America
Post Date: 2008-08-22 17:56:04 by farmfriend
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New climate record shows century-long droughts in eastern North America Tuesday Aug 19, 2008 by ANDREA GIBSON Weak sun created cool oceans, lowered rainfall seven times in 7,000 years ATHENS, Ohio (Aug. 19, 2008) – A stalagmite in a West Virginia cave has yielded the most detailed geological record to date on climate cycles in eastern North America over the past 7,000 years. The new study confirms that during periods when Earth received less solar radiation, the Atlantic Ocean cooled, icebergs increased and precipitation fell, creating a series of century-long droughts. A research team led by Ohio University geologist Gregory Springer examined the trace metal strontium and carbon ...
Intel touts progress toward intelligent computers [shape-shifting is real, people!!!]
Post Date: 2008-08-22 08:29:14 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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August 22, 2008 4:00 AM PDT Intel touts progress toward intelligent computers Posted by Stephen Shankland SAN FRANCISCO--I hope Intel warned the Luddites and pessimists away at the door, because the chipmaker had a lot of bullish statements Thursday about its belief that computers will become smarter than humans. At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner showed off a number of technologies in computing, robotics, and communication that he cited as evidence that Ray Kurzweil's concept of "singularity," when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, is impending. Demonstrations spotlighted the wireless ...
Did FBI Scientists Identify a Single, Unique Flask?
Post Date: 2008-08-21 06:29:54 by Ada
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We are slowly getting more information about the FBI's lack of a case against Bruce Ivins. When we first learned of his suicide, we were told that he was the anthrax killer. Period. Then we got a statement that there was some technology developed by the FBI for the purpose of this case. Is this why nearly 7 years passed before an arrest was made? The full briefing was still skimpy on the details, and not very convincing. But what we were told is that the anthrax was traced to a single flask that was in Bruce Ivins’ possession at Ft. Detrick. Then, Science Magazine reported on a "close reading" of the four relevant paragraphs in the 25-page written brief. We now had a ...
Two Wheels, Zero Emissions and Loads of Fun
Post Date: 2008-08-20 20:37:53 by tom007
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Two Wheels, Zero Emissions and Loads of Fun By Chuck Squatriglia August 20, 2008 | 4:07:09 PMCategories: Electric Vehicles, Motorcycles Ask Neil Saiki why he designed an all-electric motocross motorcycle and he'll tell you EVs are the future, dirt riders must be more environmentally responsible and the sport faces a shaky future because dirt bikes are so loud they'll make your ears ring. That's all true, but push him a little and he'll confess the truth. "I love to ride. That's the real reason I did it," he told us with a laugh. "I wanted to make a product that's crazy fast and fun to ride." The Zero X from Zero Motorcycles is an EV you can ...
Millions of "Species" on Noah's Ark?
Post Date: 2008-08-20 08:52:31 by Tax Pro Tester 2
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How could Noah fit millions of species in the ark? It is not as hard as you may think! Please be patient while page/video loads. Click for video explanation!
RushmoreDrive: We need a black Google
Post Date: 2008-08-19 18:53:06 by Tauzero
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RushmoreDrive: We need a black Google Is Google too white? No, we're not talking about the white home page that's so bright it motivates some people to change its appearance to save energy. We're wondering if it is too white, as in Caucasian, because so many white people use Google that it returns results that alienate the rest of the population. Johnny C. Taylor thinks so. In April he launched RushmoreDrive, a search engine that returns results more targeted at the black community (it's named after the North Carolina street where its offices are). "Someone said to me, 'We don't have a white Google, why do you need a black Google?'" he said during a ...
Wastewater often used in urban agriculture
Post Date: 2008-08-18 01:17:57 by angle
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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Wastewater is widely used to irrigate urban agricultural land in developing countries, a practice that has both advantages and disadvantages, a 53-city study presented at a water conference in Stockholm showed Monday. Wastewater agriculture contributes importantly to urban food supplies and helps provide a livelihood for the poor, but can also lead to health risks for consumers, particularly for vegetables consumed uncooked, the report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said. Wastewater has a "large potential... for both helping and hurting great numbers of urban consumers," IWMI researcher Liqa Raschid-Sally said in a statement. The ...
Sen. John McCain refutes a global warming denier
Post Date: 2008-08-17 11:30:46 by buckeye
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Poster Comment:"The debate is over."
INTRIGUING QUOTES ABOUT HAARP
Post Date: 2008-08-16 13:19:17 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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INTRIGUING QUOTES ABOUT HAARP A Read Through These Quotes About HAARP Makes You Seriously Question the Weather Patterns of Recent Years. Read also: * Unbelievers of HAARP Don’t See the Truth * HAARP Quotes Quotes About HAARP "Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm." - former National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, in Between Two Ages NOTE: Read more about Brzezinski in our article, United States Police State Quotes About ...
Climate of 2008 July in Historical Perspective
Post Date: 2008-08-15 10:12:09 by angle
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Major Highlights NOAA: U.S. Temperature Above Normal in July July 2008 was the 30th warmest July for the contiguous United States, based on records dating back to 1895, according to an analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The average July temperature, 74.9°F, was 0.7 degrees above the 20th century mean, based on preliminary data. U.S. Temperature Highlights July temperatures were generally higher than average across the West and Northeast and below average in the Midwest. Five states (Conn., Mass., N.J., R.I. and Utah) were much warmer than average. Rhode Island had its sixth warmest July, and Massachusetts and Utah both had their eighth warmest ...
'Latest Comments' Does Not Display for Me
Post Date: 2008-08-14 07:11:57 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Since... a few days ago, I can't get the 'latest comments' showing on my screen. I do see everything else - the right side section showing the latest articles, the top menu but no content for the 'latest comments'. I do get content when, for example I do 'check pings' - see all replies addressed to me with the exact layout that 'latest comments' should display. Is anyone else experiencing this? I am running the latest Firefox and I have the graphics turned off. I didn't change anything in my 4um setup in years.
A lone anthrax mailer? Skeptics question FBI case
Post Date: 2008-08-14 06:33:54 by Ada
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Was Ivins the lone anthrax mailer? Skeptics, conspiracy theorists question FBI case The story has all the ingredients for a good conspiracy theory: a killer germ created in a secret government lab, a government on the brink of war, a murder investigation with unanswered questions, and a suspect who committed suicide before he could be charged. The Justice Department considers the 2001 anthrax attacks solved, but for skeptics and conspiracy theorists, it's far from over. It has been a week since authorities laid out much of their case against Bruce Ivins, a psychologically troubled Army scientist who killed himself as prosecutors prepared to charge him as the lone anthrax killer. ...
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