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NASA Data: Greenland, Antarctic Ice Melt Worsening
Post Date: 2009-09-23 14:10:34 by Brian S
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(09-23) 10:01 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That's where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature. Some of those areas are about a mile thick, so they've still got plenty of ice to burn ...
Voices from developing countries at UN climate change summit
Post Date: 2009-09-23 00:47:53 by buckeroo
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Voices from developing countries at UN climate change summit www.chinaview.cn 2009-09-23 11:24:31 UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- While world leaders gathered at the United Nations for a historic summit on climate change on Tuesday, the developing countries urged the developed countries to acknowledge their responsibility for global warming and honor their promise of providing funds and technology transfer. Addressing the largest summit ever, General Assembly President Ali Treki, a veteran Libyan diplomat, said the poor countries, which are least responsible for the problem of climate change, often suffered first and most from its impact. "In sub-Saharan Africa, in the deltas ...
'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood
Post Date: 2009-09-19 13:16:29 by christine
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AMSTERDAM – It's not green cheese, but it might as well be. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood. Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity. "It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it." The museum acquired the rock after the death of former Prime Minister Willem Drees in 1988. Drees received it as a private gift on Oct. 9, 1969 from then-U.S. ...
Danish Wind Power Overblown
Post Date: 2009-09-16 13:10:49 by farmfriend
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Danish Wind Power Overblown Tuesday, 15 September 2009 23:00 Two Danish experts in the field of wind energy will be in Washington for the next three days to speak on the subject of wind generated electricity. One would expect they are here to brag on the fact that their country is a leader in the field and that they already satisfy, as President Obama puts it, "20 percent of the electricity through wind power." One would be wrong in such an expectation. They are here to warn us about the dangers of putting our electricity needs in the wind power basket. A nation of 5.4 million — between Missouri and Wisconsin in population — the windy nation is "carpeted" ...
The Science Cartel vs. Immanuel Velikovsky
Post Date: 2009-09-16 07:14:58 by Ada
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In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky culminated decades of research with a book titled Worlds in Collision that "proposes that many myths and traditions of ancient peoples and cultures are based on actual events." His approach was interdisciplinary, a rarity in the 20th century, taking into account astronomy, physics, chemistry, psychology, ancient history, and comparative mythology. He noted, for example, that Venus, the second brightest object in the night sky, was not mentioned by the earliest astronomers. He proposed that the planet was a newcomer to our solar system, a comet, appearing in historical times with an irregular orbit that caused catastrophic events on our own planet. ...
The Simple Electric Universe
Post Date: 2009-09-15 23:59:15 by Clitora
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The Simple Electric Universe by Wallace Thornhill 06 September, 2009 Some people in each successive generation believe that theirs is the one that has at last seen everything clearly, that their insights point to the truth, the final answer. Yet scientific discovery marches on and today's truth will become tomorrow's anecdotes. - Gerrit L. Verschuur, Interstellar Matters The Southbank, London, August 2009 >> The Southbank, London, August 2009. Photo: John Morgan. Cameraman: Gerald Pecksen [Click to enlarge] Since my last report I have been in England where I convened a meeting of people actively concerned with the Electric Universe and the problem of educating the public. ...
Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere
Post Date: 2009-09-15 00:17:54 by farmfriend
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Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere By Stuart Wolpert | 9/9/2009 3:00:00 PM UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, could improve the safety and reliability of spacecraft that operate in the upper atmosphere. "It's like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun. This discovery is like finding it got hotter when the sun went down," said Larry Lyons, UCLA professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and a co-author of the research, which is in press in two ...
Facial expressions 'not global'
Post Date: 2009-09-14 22:44:37 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Facial expressions 'not global' By Judith Burns Science reporter, BBC News A new study suggests that people from different cultures read facial expressions differently. East Asian participants in the study focused mostly on the eyes, but those from the West scanned the whole face. In the research carried out by a team from Glasgow University, East Asian observers found it more difficult to distinguish some facial expressions. The work published in Current Biology journal challenges the idea facial expressions are universally understood. In the study, East Asians were more likely than Westerners to read the expression for "fear" as "surprise", and ...
MERCURY RETROGRADE Murphy's Law as defined in the cosmos Mercury retrograde
Post Date: 2009-09-14 19:09:07 by Clitora
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MERCURY RETROGRADE Murphy's Law as defined in the cosmos Mercury retrograde Sometimes, stuff just happens. If you're concerned that the cosmos has it in for you, check the table below to see if Mercury might have been retrograde. Retrograde Mercury is the most commonly known astrological signature for Murphy's Law ("If something can go wrong, it will"), and is one of the first features intermediate astrology students learn about. Say it to a seasoned astrologer and you'll likely get an amused smile and some delightful stories about how things can get quite unexpectedly unhinged. Computers crash, software develops unexpected glitches, traffic jams ensue, ...
How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty?
Post Date: 2009-09-14 15:57:56 by Prefrontal Vortex
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How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty?Photoshop, of course. By Daniel Engber Posted Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, at 4:56 PM ET A picture taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope was released on Monday; the image, which depicts the birth of 100,000 stars in a far-away gas cloud, shows a splotchy shape in light red, set against a background of speckled blue-white stars and olive mist. How do these photographs get to be so pretty? Teams of specialists on the ground gussy them up for public consumption. Here's how it works: Telescopes like the Spitzer and the Hubble take black-and-white pictures using different filters to capture particular wavelengths of light. (The image released this week is a ...
Super-light sub has 'capability greater than U.S. Navy'
Post Date: 2009-09-12 21:31:17 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new generation of deep-sea submarines light enough to launch from a yacht could open up the ocean's depths to amateur explorers. The "Deep Flight" winged submersibles are experimental prototypes designed to dive to depths of up to 37,000 ft -- almost four times as deep as a giant squid dives -- descending at 400 ft/minute. They are the brainchild of submarine designer Graham Hawkes who is in the process of building commercial models that can reach those depths. Hawkes has been designing submarines since the 1960s, working initially with the British Special Forces and then for the oil industry. He now sells his designs to wealthy sailboat owners ...
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 ...
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