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No climate debate? Yes, there is
Post Date: 2009-07-05 20:45:02 by farmfriend
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No climate debate? Yes, there is by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe July 1, 2009 IN HIS weekly address on Saturday, President Obama saluted the House of Representatives for passing Waxman-Markey, the gargantuan energy-rationing bill that would amount to the largest tax increase in the nation's history. It would do so by making virtually everything that depends on energy -- which is virtually everything -- more expensive. The president didn't describe the legislation in those terms on Saturday, but he made no bones about it last year. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2008, he calmly explained how cap-and-trade -- the carbon-dioxide rationing scheme that is ...
The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
Post Date: 2009-07-05 19:13:07 by farmfriend
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The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic The professional penalty for offering a contrary view to elites like Al Gore is a smear campaign. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Wherever Jim Hansen is right now -- whatever speech the "censored" NASA scientist is giving -- perhaps he'll find time to mention the plight of Alan Carlin. Though don't count on it. Mr. Hansen, as everyone in this solar system knows, is the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Starting in 2004, he launched a campaign against the Bush administration, claiming it was censoring his global-warming thoughts and fiddling with the science. It was all a bit of a hoot, given Mr. Hansen was already a ...
Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into 'Suppressed' Climate Change Report
Post Date: 2009-06-30 22:44:47 by rack42
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A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined. "He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying ...
NASA Supposedly Finds Missing Moon Landing Tapes
Post Date: 2009-06-30 10:52:03 by christine
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ECSTATIC space officials at Nasa could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years — new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing. The release of the new images next month could be one of the most talked about events of the summer. The television images the world has been used to seeing of the historic moment when Neil Armstrong descended down a ladder onto the moon’s surface in 1969 is grainy, blurry and dark. The following scenes, in which the astronauts move around the lunar lander, are so murky it is difficult to make out exactly what is going on, causing conspiracy theorists to claim the entire Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate ...
Rapidly Changing Human Evolution
Post Date: 2009-06-29 19:46:33 by Turtle
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Henry Harpending and Gregory Cochran’s recent book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, puts to rest the Left’s anecdotal assertions that genes don’t matter and that evolution ceased prior to humans leaving Africa 50~100 thousand years ago. In addition, they expound on Kevin MacDonald’s work on the history of Jewish culture and traditions that created the eugenic program of the Ashkenazi Jews in the Diaspora. They also explain the correlation between the recessive genes that contribute to modern Ashkenazi Jews’ high intelligence and genetic disease—genes that were beneficial in the highly literate niche that Jews dominated ...
Why Are There No Top-Quality American Cigars?
Post Date: 2009-06-28 19:39:30 by Turtle
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Dear Straight Dope: With all of the tobacco in the U.S., why are there no American cigars of any note? — Casey Fos The U.S. doesn't produce any premium cigar tobacco? That will come as a surprise to some tobacco farmers in New England. I didn't really say New England, did I? Yes, I really did. And no, I'm not just blowing smoke. First you have to know the three different types of leaf used in making a cigar. Each type requires different seed types, weather and soil conditions, and handling. The filler leaf makes up the bulk of the cigar and provides most of the flavor. There is nearly universal agreement that the best filler leaf in the world comes from a small region ...
The Climate Change Climate Change
Post Date: 2009-06-28 01:55:10 by farmfriend
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The Climate Change Climate Change The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt ...
The sony psi station
Post Date: 2009-06-26 23:26:56 by Clitora
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by D. Trull Enigma Editor dtrull@parascope.com "As the 21st century draws nearer, we can see that society's materialistic values, fostered in many respects by modern science and technology, have become outdated and unworthy. It is clear that we have come to another turning point in history and science. What we require to meet the challenges of these unpredictable and confusing times is a new paradigm to guide a new age. I believe that the key to this new paradigm lies in the research of biological, mental, and spiritual phenomena such as "Qi" and other psychic powers that have been overlooked by modern scientists.... I think that the results of my research could help ...
India successful in using remote viewing techniques and satellite technologies for counterintelligence and strategic intelligence
Post Date: 2009-06-26 23:25:05 by Clitora
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India successful in using remote viewing techniques and satellite technologies for counterintelligence and strategic intelligence Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent December 13, 2004 RAW India's equivalent of CIA has advanced quite a bit in recent days. Sources close to New Delhi report that RAW is using advanced satellite technologies and remote viewing techniques to look into foreign intelligence activities within India. Remote viewing is the paranormal activities with psychics that can sense into the future and unknown. CIA in America has used remote viewing for many years. Many times remote viewing has worked very well for the CIA and the Russian intelligence. Recent days ...
Earth Oxygen levels are dropping. Plankton to save Humanity. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-06-26 23:16:16 by Clitora
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Earth Oxygen levels are dropping. Plankton to save Humanity. Share: by Paschen | January 26, 2009 at 02:12 pm 1762 views | 57 Recommendations | 32 comments Photos Life, Volcano, Water, Sea, Earth Japan. Paschen. 879.-Photo-01 see larger image By, Uwe Paschen. The Problem with partial news in Science is that We do often see article claming this find or that result and every one that is not working with in science and research, jumps up or down screaming murder or glory. One day endorsing some thing and the next dismissing it all again with out checking nor knowing the facts or the detail and their implication nor their context. CJ are great for that, they either, endorse some thing or ...
Splitting Two Birds With One Gene
Post Date: 2009-06-26 14:27:35 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Splitting Two Birds With One Gene A single base pair change that turned a colorful bird entirely black probably guided the formation of a new species, researchers report in the August issue of The American Naturalist. "It looks like we have a single mutation that's driving speciation in these birds," J. Albert Uy, an evolutionary biologist at Syracuse University in New York, who led the study, told The Scientist. "It's one of the first if not only examples of this kind of thing in vertebrates." Eighty years ago, the late Harvard zoologist Ernst Mayr visited the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific and marveled at the variation in plumage color of the Monarch ...
The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics
Post Date: 2009-06-25 14:50:47 by X-15
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Statement 1: We believe that there is no scientific basis for any claim that the pattern of human genetic variation supports hierarchically organized categories of race and ethnicity The equality of rights of all human beings is an unquestionable, moral claim that cannot be challenged by descriptive, scientific findings [9-11]. As a normative commitment, equality is fundamental to our conception of human rights, and is not open to debate. Classification by racial and ethnic categories has, at particular moments in history, been used to further racist ideology [12]. In view of concerns that linking of emerging genetic data and race/ethnicity categories may promote racist ideologies, we ...
Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?
Post Date: 2009-06-25 14:14:09 by X-15
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Gregory Cochran has always been drawn to puzzles. This one had been gnawing at him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Tay-Sachs disease. Canavan disease. More than a dozen more. It offended Cochran's sense of logic. Natural selection, the self-taught genetics buff knew, should flush dangerous DNA from the gene pool. Perhaps the mutations causing these diseases had some other, beneficial purpose. But what? At 3:17 one morning, after a long night searching a database of scientific journals from his disheveled home office in Albuquerque, Cochran fired off an e-mail to his collaborator Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of ...
Global warming bill still contains some smoke and mirrors
Post Date: 2009-06-25 12:36:44 by farmfriend
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Global warming bill still contains some smoke and mirrors The European-style 'cap and trade' provisions on emissions will fuel only failure and should be replaced by a carbon tax. By Todd Darling June 25, 2009 George W. Bush fought global warming policy all the way to the Supreme Court. And he lost. Despite this judicial rebuke, he opposed climate-change legislation to the end. Now, with President Obama, White House views on global warming finally are in line with scientific data. But this doesn't mean that politics can't still trump science. Congressional response to the climate crisis has taken shape in the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act. The bill ...
PARASITE TIED TO GLOBAL BEE DEATHS
Post Date: 2009-06-23 12:39:45 by farmfriend
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PARASITE TIED TO GLOBAL BEE DEATHS The sudden collapse of honeybee colonies around the world, a condition identified in 2004, is most likely caused by the parasite Nosema ceranae, not the human causes alleged by environmental activist groups, Spanish researchers have reported in Environmental Microbiology Reports, a journal of the Society for Applied Microbiology. The researchers reached their conclusion after studying a large number of affected colonies and finding Nosema ceranae as the only common thread among them: Since 2004, honeybee populations around the world have been succumbing to Colony Collapse Disorder, characterized by worker bees leaving their hives and dying off without ...
Anonymous Internet
Post Date: 2009-06-22 15:32:03 by Lod
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Has anyone tried the patriotinternet.com anonymous surfing service? Thanks
Mystery of the Missing Sunspots Solved?
Post Date: 2009-06-20 19:46:45 by Ada
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ScienceDaily (June 19, 2009) — The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why. At an American Astronomical Society press conference in Boulder, Colorado, researchers announced that a jet stream deep inside the sun is migrating slower than usual through the star's interior, giving rise to the current lack of sunspots. Rachel Howe and Frank Hill of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson, Arizona, used a technique called helioseismology to detect and track the jet stream down to depths of 7,000 km below the surface of the sun. The sun ...
Jobs Had Liver Transplant
Post Date: 2009-06-20 15:41:07 by IDon'tThinkSo
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Jobs Had Liver Transplant Apple Chief on Track to Return to Work at End of June; No. 2 May Expand Role Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially. Mr. Jobs didn't respond to an email requesting comment. "Steve continues to look forward to returning at the end of June, and there's nothing further to say," said Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton. When he does return, Mr. Jobs may be encouraged by ...
Chemtrails - Welcome To The Twilight Zone
Post Date: 2009-06-20 00:26:55 by wudidiz
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Obama may fire pollution particles into stratosphere to deflect sun's heat in desperate bid to tackle global warming President Barack Obama is considering a radical plan to tackle global warming by firing pollution particles into the stratosphere to deflect some of the sun’s heat.The controversial experiment was touted yesterday as a possible last resort to help cool the Earth’s air by the president’s new science advisor John Holdren.‘It’s got to be looked at. We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table,’ said Mr Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Sunscreen: Could its rays be deflected as a ...
Why Was the Understanding of Ethnic Genetic Interests Delayed for 30 Years?
Post Date: 2009-06-18 13:18:13 by X-15
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The suicide of the West is far more than a figure of speech. All Western societies — and only Western societies — are voluntarily allowing mass immigration of peoples who are not ethnically connected to historical Europe. Not only are they allowing massive non-White immigration, it is being promoted as fulfilling the lofty ethical goal of increasing ethnic diversity rather than any practical goal such as the needs of the labor force. What this means in the long run is that Europe will cease to be Europe, not only culturally, but also genetically. There are several ways that one might think about this phenomenon, but certainly a compelling one is to think in terms of Frank ...
Have Changes In Ocean Heat Falsified The Global Warming Hypothesis?
Post Date: 2009-06-17 23:55:05 by farmfriend
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Have Changes In Ocean Heat Falsified The Global Warming Hypothesis? - A Guest Weblog by William DiPuccio Climate Science encourages guest weblogs from all perspectives of the climate science issue. Following is a guest weblog by William DiPuccio, who, although not a published climate scientist, has provided a view on the global warming discussion which is worth reading. Guest Weblog By William DiPuccio The Global Warming Hypothesis Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words express a foundational principle of science intoned by the logician, Karl Popper: Falsifiability. In ...
Boiling Hot Water Found in Frigid Arctic Sea
Post Date: 2009-06-17 08:52:17 by Horse
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24 Jul 08 – “Many miles inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found vents of scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor at temperatures that are more than twice the boiling point of water. “The vents, one of which towers four stories high, are located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, more than 120 miles farther north than other known vents. “The newfound vent field is one of the most massive such deposits ever found on the seafloor, said expedition member Marvin Lilley, a University of Washington oceanographer. “I wonder what's more powerful, scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor plus massive underwater volcanoes, or a 60-watt ...
White House says climate change damage has begun-
Post Date: 2009-06-16 15:38:01 by purpleman
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harmful effects from global warming already are happening and are worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House. Global warming already has caused more heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea levels, rapidly retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons and altered river flow, according to the document released Tuesday by the White House science adviser and other top officials. ... The "major disruptions" already taking place will increase as warming continues, the authors wrote. They project the average U.S. temperature could rise by as much as 11 ...
Obama's Energy Plan
Post Date: 2009-06-11 21:43:40 by farmfriend
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Obama's Energy Plan Written by Ed Hiserodt Thursday, 11 June 2009 07:00 Many factors have enabled the United States to become the wealthiest nation on Earth: limited government, secure property rights, a free-market capitalist economic system, a relatively stable currency, and an abundance of available energy. One might note that all of these elements are increasingly under attack from politicians, but a successful assault on the access we have to the energy that powers our economy would devastate our country — even if we did everything else right. We tend to think of energy as being used in factories, yet our American way of life is supported by the need for energy to perform ...
Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified
Post Date: 2009-06-11 10:50:26 by gengis gandhi
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Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified By Leonard David SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist posted: 10 June 2009 05:35 pm ET For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere – but no longer. A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned. The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the ...
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