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Monsanto clears USDA regulatory hurdle for new GMO corn
Post Date: 2015-10-25 06:02:27 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday signed off on a new genetically modified type of corn developed by Monsanto Co after a review concluded it posed no significant threat to agricultural crops, other plants or the environment. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it would deregulate Monsanto's MON 87411 maize, which was developed to protect plants against corn rootworms that can damage roots and drag down grain yields and be tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate. The so-called trait would be inserted into a line of corn seeds' genetic code and could be "stacked" with other traits. Glyphosate, ...
Study finds the warmer it gets, the more world economy hurts
Post Date: 2015-10-22 04:49:55 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world's nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new economic and science study. Compared to what it would be without more global warming, the average global income will shrivel 23 percent at the end of the century if heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution continues to grow at its current trajectory, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. Some countries, like Russia, Mongolia and Canada, would see large economic benefits from global warming, the study projects. Most of Europe would do slightly ...
Global Warming - The Skeptics
Post Date: 2015-10-22 04:40:33 by Tatarewicz
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JR... No one believes you any more, Seth-baby, and your BIG GREEN MONEY scam. Here's peer review scientists, in their OWN words, on the lying horseschitt of faux global warming: “Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.” “Inevitably in climate science, when data conflicts with models, a small coterie of ...
Scientists find two distant stars touching, and the results could be catastrophic
Post Date: 2015-10-22 00:08:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Some 160,000 light-years away, two stars are overlapping one another in what has been described as a potentially catastrophic ‘final kiss’. An international team of astronomers detected the dramatic double star system using the European Space Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope – not to be confused with the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope. The system, called VFTS 352, is the hottest and most massive double star system that’s so far been discovered. VFTS 352 is located in the Tarantula Nebula, which is the most active area of star formation in the Local Group of galaxies – of which the Milky Way is a part. But what’s so remarkable ...
Swatch Bellamy: These are the new pay-by-the-wrist Swatch watches using NFC (Near Field Communication) technology
Post Date: 2015-10-21 13:26:46 by X-15
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Swatch has joined forces with China UnionPay and Bank of Communications to introduce contactless payment “by-the-wrist” to China. Discover the four new Swatch Bellamy by clicking on “read more” … These are the first four watches combine exciting, colorful Swatch design with built-in NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. NFC technology uses high-frequency radio waves to enable electronic devices to communicate over short distances. The new Swatch Bellamy watches have all the fun, color and great design that Swatch is famous for – along with a built-in NFC chip hidden under the dial. Like a prepaid bankcard, a Swatch Bellamy watch allows customers to pay ...
Solar power could be cheaper than conventional electricity in three years: Australian report
Post Date: 2015-10-21 07:19:12 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Oct. 21 (Xinhua)-- Climate advocates say the coupling solar panels with battery storage could be the cheapest way to obtain electricity within three years, revolutionising the way Australians access their energy needs. Australia could be the premier market for home battery storage as electric feed in tariffs are phased out and grid electricity becoming more expensive, a Climate Council report released on Wednesday shows. The report argues by 2018, due to advances in battery storage and solar cells, Australian house-holds going off-grid will become more cost competitive, creating a potential 24 billion Australian dollar (17.36 billion U.S. dollar) market if just half of ...
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) charges Exxon Mobil 'affirmative campaign against science of climate change' echoes conspiracy case against Big Tobacco...
Post Date: 2015-10-21 06:20:30 by Tatarewicz
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On today's BradCast, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) joins me to explain the letter he sent late last week, with Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), to Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking an investigation and, if appropriate, prosecution of ExxonMobil. In light of internal company documents recently unearthed and published by Inside Climate News and by the Los Angeles Times revealing that Exxon knew about the "potentially catastrophic" dangers of global warming as early as 1977 and their subsequent funding of the climate change denial industry in an attempt to obscure their own science, Lieu tells me he believes that a conspiracy case, akin to the one brought against Big Tobacco, ...
A New American Revolution is Brewing
Post Date: 2015-10-20 21:03:09 by BTP Holdings
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Can America be great again? It’s a question many are asking in today’s trying times. So what I’m about to say might surprise you—might even seem controversial given all the doom and gloom you hear about America these days… I think we are on the cusp of a new revolution that is going to help America once again achieve greatness and return to her place as the strongest and most powerful economy in the world. And best of all, there’s nothing the fools in Washington, D.C. can do to get in its way. My name is Charles Payne, and you may know me from my show on Fox Business News or my regular appearances on Fox News. But I’m writing today to share what I ...
The Star Wars Beam Weapons and Star Wars Directed-Energy Weapons (DEW)
Post Date: 2015-10-18 08:35:23 by BTP Holdings
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The Star Wars Beam Weapons and Star Wars Directed-Energy Weapons (DEW) (A focus of the Star Wars Program) by Dr. Judy Wood and Dr. Morgan Reynolds (originally posted: October 17, 2006) Page 1: The Bathtub At the time this article was being developed, many people expressed disbelief that energy weapons existed outside of science fiction until they were reminded of the Star Wars Program, also known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)*. The name of this article was chosen as a reminder that energy weapons do exist and have been developed over 100 years. Most of this technology is classified information. It can also be assumed that such technology exists in multiple countries. The ...
GREENPEACE FOUNDER: LETÂ’S CELEBRATE CO2
Post Date: 2015-10-17 07:49:10 by Ada
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Following his interview with Breitbart London, Greenpeace founder Dr. Patrick Moore addressed the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London last night, telling them why he left the environmentalist group and became sceptical of man- made global warming. Here is his speech: My Lords and Ladies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to set out my views on climate change. As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age. If there were such a ...
GREENPEACE FOUNDER: LETÂ’S CELEBRATE CO2
Post Date: 2015-10-17 07:49:01 by Ada
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Following his interview with Breitbart London, Greenpeace founder Dr. Patrick Moore addressed the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London last night, telling them why he left the environmentalist group and became sceptical of man- made global warming. Here is his speech: My Lords and Ladies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to set out my views on climate change. As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age. If there were such a ...
Tesla's rolled out an Autopilot update - now its cars can drive themselves
Post Date: 2015-10-17 01:52:34 by Tatarewicz
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When the history of the self-driving car is written, 5 October 2015 may well make it in as a footnote: it's the day when Tesla began rolling out an Autopilot software update to its fleet of Model S cars. The long-anticipated update activates the self-driving hardware that's been built into the vehicles' manufacturing and production processes since late last year. To be clear, these cars aren't suddenly going to develop a mind of their own and start taking control - fully autonomous vehicles aren't yet road legal, for a start - but the update does allow Tesla drivers to go 'hands-free' on the highway. A manual override will still be possible at all times, but ...
Astronomers have been looking at the KIC 8462852 star system with puzzled anticipation.
Post Date: 2015-10-16 23:47:28 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Tabetha Boyajian, astronomer at Yale University, has been studying the star’s anomalous flickering. The star dims drastically every few years. “It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data,” said Boyajian. “We were scratching our heads. For any idea that came up there was always something that would argue against it.” Boyajian wrote a paper trying to explain the star’s erratic behavior, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Professor Stephen Hawking © East News/ Photoshot/REPORTER Stephen Hawking Supports Search for Aliens Despite Threat of Earth Invasion She also sent the data to fellow astronomer Jason ...
Babies born during summer are more likely to be healthy adults, research suggests
Post Date: 2015-10-16 06:17:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Children who are born during summer are more likely to be heavier at birth and taller as adults than those born in the cooler months, according to a study that followed the development of 450,000 people in the UK. For women, there seem to be even more benefits, with the study finding that summer baby girls actually start their periods later than those born during the rest of the year - which is an indicator of female adult health. To be clear, this was an observational study and it only found a correlation between these health markers and the timing of birth, so we still have no idea what could be causing the link. But the researchers suggest that getting more sun - and ...
Biohacking: Get Ready for Homemade GMOs
Post Date: 2015-10-15 19:59:53 by BTP Holdings
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Biohacking: Get Ready for Homemade GMOs Posted on October 15, 2015 by Brad Hoppmann Have you ever heard of a "biohacking" party? Biohacking is basically figuring out various tricks and shortcuts to enhance our physical processes such as athletic performance, sleep, mental clarity, weight loss, etc. I first learned about the concept a while ago. Yet it wasn’t until recently that I heard about parties being thrown devoted to discussions of biohacking right in your own kitchen by modifying genetic organisms. Not only are discussions going on, but one company now makes it possible to do your own, homemade genetic engineering. According to a recent article on the ...
How the internet works
Post Date: 2015-10-15 10:58:18 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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DARPA: Genetically Modified Humans for a Super Soldier Army
Post Date: 2015-10-15 05:50:08 by BTP Holdings
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DARPA: Genetically Modified Humans for a Super Soldier Army October 11, 2015 By Paul A. Philips You’ve seen it as science-fiction on TV or in the movies, but now it’s science-fact. I’m talking about the Pentagon’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) creation of a super soldier army with super human abilities achieved through genetic modification. Going on for some years, shrouded in secrecy, these mutants will make future wars totally different games. The genetic modification of specific human genes will give these soldiers certain characteristics advantageous on the battlefield, giving rise to the most amazing abilities and performances. ...
Catastrophic ice shelf collapse would see oceans rise for millennia, say experts
Post Date: 2015-10-15 03:38:06 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... With the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference set to commence next month with the objective of securing a binding, universal agreement to limit global temperature increase, there’s never been a more dramatically opportune moment for world leaders to take a meaningful stand against rising sea levels. And we don’t have any time to lose. New research published this week suggests that if temperatures rise just 1.5°C to 2°C above present levels it will result in a catastrophic collapse in Antarctic ice sheets, ensuring sea levels will rise for not hundreds of years – but potentially thousands. “The long reaction time of the Antarctic ...
German, Iran firms ink solar energy accord
Post Date: 2015-10-14 07:32:18 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Germany’s Green Energy 3000 GmbH has signed an agreement to generate 10 megawatts of solar power in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, a news agency says. The MoU signed with Khuzestan District Electricity Company (KDEC) is a prelude to the German holding’s construction of a 100-megawatt power plant in the province, KDEC head Mahmoud Janqorban said on Wednesday. He signed the agreement with Managing Director of Green Energy 3000 Andreas Renker who welcomed the new opening in trade relationship between Iran and Germany after the July conclusion of nuclear talks. “It is import to us to upgrade economic cooperation between Iran and German,” the Tasnim ...
Genetic changes could make pig organs usable for human transplant
Post Date: 2015-10-14 06:37:40 by Tatarewicz
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BOSTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A gene editing technique called CRISPR could allow scientists to genetically modify pig organs to be better matches for human transplant patients, according to new research. Researchers at Harvard Medical School found 62 DNA sequences in pigs, which are the remnants of a virus called porcine endogenous retrovirus, or PERV, that has been shown to infect human cells in lab experiments. Scientists think that pig organs could be used for human transplant patients because they are similar in size. PERV, and the intense immune response to pig cells, have held back their use. "Basically, this whole field has been in the doldrums for 15 years," George Church, ...
Watch Ted Cruz Embarrass Climate Change Scientist – With Science
Post Date: 2015-10-12 20:27:28 by BTP Holdings
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Watch Ted Cruz Embarrass Climate Change Scientist – With Science Ted Cruz is a veteran of the political circuit. Just when liberals think they might have him with his back against the wall Cruz manages to get the upper hand on his political opponents. In a recent exchange with one of the most liberal, pro-man made global warming alarmists around, Cruz managed to make him look quite the fool. Sierra Club President Aaron Mair simply couldn’t come up with an answer when Cruz asked him why satellite data didn’t support their argument global warming is taking place. For America wrote: Mair grew visibly uncomfortable during the judiciary subcommittee hearing as Cruz asked ...
British Petroleum's "Smart Pig" The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown
Post Date: 2015-10-11 13:14:31 by BTP Holdings
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British Petroleum's "Smart Pig" Tuesday, August 8, 2006 The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown by Greg Palast For The Guardian (UK) Is the Alaska Pipeline corroded? You bet it is. Has been for more than a decade. Did British Petroleum shut the pipe yesterday to turn a quick buck on its negligence, to profit off the disaster it created? Just ask the "smart pig." Years ago, I had the unhappy job of leading an investigation of British Petroleum's management of the Alaska pipeline system. I was working for the Chugach villages, the Alaskan Natives who own the shoreline slimed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker grounding. Even ...
With Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories Implode
Post Date: 2015-10-11 13:13:17 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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In the Southern Hemisphere, sea-ice levels just smashed through the previous record highs across Antarctica, where there is now more ice than at any point since records began. In the Arctic, where global-warming theorists preferred to keep the public focused due to some decreases in ice levels over recent years, scientists said sea-ice melt in 2014 fell below the long-term mean. Global temperatures, meanwhile, have remained steady for some 18 years and counting, contrary to United Nations models predicting more warming as carbon dioxide levels increased. Of course, all of that is great news for humanity — call off the carbon taxes and doomsday bunkers! However, as global-warming ...
Canadian firm opens facility to pull carbon from air
Post Date: 2015-10-11 03:46:29 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... Squamish (Canada) (AFP) - A company with global plans to pull carbon from thin air to make fuel, while tackling climate change, opened a pilot plant in this remote western Canadian community. Carbon Engineering, backed by Bill Gates and other investors, unveiled a test facility able to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using giant fans. That carbon goes through a series of chemical processes and emerges as pellets, which can be used to make fuel -- or simply be stored underground. The company was founded in Calgary in 2009 by David Keith, a Harvard University climate scientist, with funding from private investors. Unlike existing machines that capture carbon from ...
Controversy in China over Nobel Prize winner, academy membership rules
Post Date: 2015-10-11 00:36:50 by Tatarewicz
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Want China Times Chinese medical researcher Tu Youyou, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, is a controversial figure mainly because she is not a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences. Tu, 84, along with two foreign scientists, has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her role in developing an anti-malaria drug that has saved millions of lives in Africa and Asia. The award is considered a milestone in China's history of science and technology, as Tu is not only the first Chinese citizen but also the first Chinese-trained scientist ever to receive the prestigious science award. In China, she is a controversial figure who is being referred to by ...
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