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Glacier Retreat Has Beneficial Impact on Climate Change [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-28 03:18:30 by buckeroo
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This remarkable colonisation is having a beneficial impact on climate change. As the blooms die back phytoplankton sinks to the sea-bed where it can store carbon for thousands or millions of years. The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and in the longer term, the level of the oceans. Studied by glaciologists, the temporal ...
Girls on top
Post Date: 2009-12-27 14:00:47 by buckeroo
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IT HAS been known for a while that stressful conditions such as famine result in more girls being born than happens in good times. The shift in the sex-ratio is tiny—around 1%—but in a large population that is still noticeable. A possible evolutionary explanation is that daughters are likely to mate and produce grandchildren regardless of condition, whereas weedy sons may fail in the struggle to have the chance to reproduce at all. In hard times, then, daughters are a safer evolutionary bet. Regardless of why the shift happens, though, it has long been argued that the moment when it happens is conception—or, more probably, implantation. A womb exposed to stress hormones, runs ...
Doctors see sign of highly drug-resistant TB
Post Date: 2009-12-27 06:53:55 by Disgusted
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LANTANA, Florida — It started with a cough, a cool-season hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood. I'm dying, he told himself, "because when you cough blood, it's something really bad." It was really bad, and not just for him. Doctors say Juarez's incessant hack was a sign of what they have both dreaded and expected for years — ...
Psychology experiment - Change blindness
Post Date: 2009-12-26 14:35:58 by A K A Stone
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Anthropogenic Global Warming is a Farce [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-25 01:43:05 by farmfriend
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Anthropogenic Global Warming is a Farce By Alexander Cockburn December 24, 2009 The global warming jamboree in Copenhagen was surely the most outlandish foray into intellectual fantasizing since the fourth-century Christian bishops assembled in 325 AD for the Council of Nicaea to debate whether God the Father was supreme or had to share equal status in the pecking order of eternity with his Son and the Holy Ghost. Shortly before the Copenhagen summit, the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) were embarrassed by a whistleblower who put on the Web more than a thousand e-mails either sent from or received at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, headed by ...
CrossTalk on Climate: Dopenhagen?
Post Date: 2009-12-23 18:33:26 by farmfriend
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Poster Comment:Piers looks a lot different than I had pictured him.
The "Science" Mantra
Post Date: 2009-12-22 10:08:14 by Eric Stratton
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The "Science" Mantra Thomas Sowell Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable. Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own ...
Genetic predeterminants of diabetes in blacks identified
Post Date: 2009-12-18 16:25:52 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Genetic predeterminants of diabetes in blacks identified Researchers identified inherited genetic variations between black and white Americans that may lead to less efficient glucose metabolism and predisposition to diabetes in blacks. “We found gene expression profiles that suggest carbohydrate metabolism should be different in [blacks] in our population compared [with whites],” Cam Patterson, MD, of the division of cardiology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said in a press release. Patterson and colleagues identified 151 differentially expressed genes between blacks and whites that were associated with glucose and glucose metabolism; the majority of the ...
Geologist caused quakes, faces 5 years
Post Date: 2009-12-18 07:41:25 by noone222
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BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Swiss company geologist pleaded not guilty to knowingly causing $8.7 million in damage after his pioneering geothermal project caused earthquakes. Markus Haering, a project designer with Geopower Basel AG, said local people knew of the risks in his company's drilling 3 miles into the ground beneath Basel, Switzerland. But he admitted Geopower "had very little knowledge of seismicity" before drilling, The Times of London reported. The project caused a series of earthquakes, including one that measured 3.4 on the Richter scale. Basel, located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, sits on a fault line and was destroyed in a ...
Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming
Post Date: 2009-12-18 06:19:52 by Ada
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Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages. Feast your eyes on this news release from Rionovosta, via the Ria Novosti agency, posted on Icecap. (Hat Tip: Richard North) A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as “Climategate,” continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global ...
Suppression of Science Within Science
Post Date: 2009-12-17 06:41:52 by Ada
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I wasn’t as surprised as many others were, when it was revealed that climate-change "researchers" had discussed in private e-mails how to keep important data from public view lest it shake public belief in the dogma that human activities are contributing significantly to global warming. I wasn’t particularly surprised because just a few weeks earlier I had spoken at the Oakland Rethinking AIDS Conference about the dogmatism and strong-arm tactics that are rampant in a seemingly increasing range of fields of medicine and science. PowerPoint presentations of most of the talks at the Conference are available at the Conference website. Here’s a slightly modified, more ...
Historic First Flight of Boeing Dreamliner
Post Date: 2009-12-16 19:09:00 by tom007
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Is Global Warming a Religion?
Post Date: 2009-12-16 12:02:37 by phantom patriot
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http://video.foxnews.com/1255382...global-warming-a-religion
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up
Post Date: 2009-12-16 07:10:33 by Ada
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Al Gore's office admitted that the percentage he quoted in his speech was from an old, ballpark figure There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski ...
Black Hole Closer to Earth Than Thought
Post Date: 2009-12-15 23:24:48 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Astronomers have accurately measured the distance between Earth and a particular black hole for the first time. And wow, is it close. The researchers determined that the black hole V404 Cygni is located 7,800 light-years from Earth — or just slightly more than half the distance that was previously assumed. That puts it relatively nearby to Earth, where the distance to the center of the galaxy is about 26,000 light-years, and the nearest star beyond the sun is a mere 4.2 light-years away. The more accurate distance measurement will enable scientists to paint a better picture of how black holes evolve, the team says. "For example, we hope to be able to answer the question as to ...
Aussie scientists find coconut-carrying octopus
Post Date: 2009-12-15 23:03:29 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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SYDNEY – Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. Julian Finn and Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne observed the odd activity in four of the creatures during a series of dive trips to North Sulawesi and Bali in Indonesia ...
Merry Christmas- Elvis at his best with Martina McBride
Post Date: 2009-12-15 18:58:51 by Itistoolate
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Previously undiscovered ancient city found on Caribbean sea floor
Post Date: 2009-12-15 15:29:43 by christine
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WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) - EXCLUSIVE - Researchers have revealed the first images from the Caribbean sea floor of what they believe are the archaeological remains of an ancient civilization. Guarding the location’s coordinates carefully, the project’s leader, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, says the city could be thousands of years old; possibly even pre-dating the ancient Egyptian pyramids, at Giza. The site was found using advanced satellite imagery, and is not in any way associated with the alleged site found by Russian explorers near Cuba in 2001, at a depth of 2300 feet. “To be seen on satellite, our site is much shallower.” The team is ...
Poll Shows Drop in Belief in Global Warming
Post Date: 2009-12-14 23:39:14 by farmfriend
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Poll Shows Drop in Belief in Global Warming Written by James Heiser Monday, 14 December 2009 11:15 A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that a clear majority of the American people do not believe global warming should be a high priority for government action. What they do believe should be the priority is the economy. According to a story at CBSNews.com, With world leaders debating how to address climate change in Copenhagen and the U.S. Senate poised to take up a climate bill in the coming months, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that just 37 percent of Americans believe the issue should be a priority for government leaders. That's a significant drop from April of 200 ...
Piganini Ventro quatro
Post Date: 2009-12-13 21:15:29 by tom007
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Dutch politician asks if aid really aids
Post Date: 2009-12-12 05:53:14 by Ada
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In a new book, former politican Arend Jan Boekestijn joins the choir of people challenging the usefulness of development aid. Arend Jan Boekestijn, a former member of parliament for the right-wing liberal party VVD, presented his long-awaited book about development aid on Thursday. The book, which he has promised will "reveal all" about development aid is tellingly titled: The Price of a Bad Conscience. Its main tenet: the current tools of the development trade lead to aid-addiction in receiving countries and something needs to be done about it fast. "I fear that development aid in its current form does more harm than it does good," Boekesteijn said on Thursday ...
The Fiction of Climate Science
Post Date: 2009-12-11 06:12:05 by Ada
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Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age." Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age." OK, you say, that's media. But what did our rational scientists say? In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world ...
Revolutionary lens implants gives wearers amazing HD vision
Post Date: 2009-12-10 21:48:15 by christine
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The first patients in Britain have had lens implants that gives them 'high definition' vision. The artificial lenses improves the wearers sight to such an extent that it is sharper even than the ideal 20/20. Eye surgeon Bobby Qureshi, who led the pioneering team at Spire Gatwick Park Hospital, described the tecnique as a 'hugely signifcant development.' 'We have the potential here to change patients’ vision to how it was when they were young,' he said. The process involves implanting the lens into the eye using the standard procedure for cataracts and then fine-tuning the focus. The lens, made from a special light-sensitive silicone, is the first that can ...
Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia
Post Date: 2009-12-10 17:19:06 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia 73 Southeast Asian and East Asian populations genetically mapped Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations. Now, for the first time, these studies have been extended to 73 Southeast Asian (SEA) and East Asian (EA) populations. In a paper titled, "Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia," published online Science on 10 Dec. 2009, over 90 scientists from the Human Genome Organisation's (HUGO's) Pan-Asian SNP Consortium report that their study conducted within and between the different populations in the Asia continent showed that genetic ...
Ten Facts & Ten Myths On Climate Change
Post Date: 2009-12-10 11:31:11 by Original_Intent
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Ten Facts & Ten Myths On Climate Change By Prof. Robert M. Carter James Cook University, Queensland, Australia Global Research.ca 12-9-9 1. Climate has always changed, and it always will. The assumption that prior to the industrial revolution the Earth had a "stable" climate is simply wrong. The only sensible thing to do about climate change is to prepare for it. 2. Accurate temperature measurements made from weather balloons and satellites since the late 1950s show no atmospheric warmingsince 1958. In contrast, averaged ground-based thermometers record a warming of about 0.40 C over the same time period. Many scientists believe that the thermometer record is biased by the ...
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