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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 ...
NASA Study Shows Sun Responsible for Planet Warming
Post Date: 2009-06-11 08:55:55 by Kamala
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NASA Study Shows Sun Responsible for Planet Warming By Bob Ellis on June 5th, 2009 Click to enlarge (Credit: Robert A. Rohde) From DailyTech, we have still more evidence that any warming occurring on planet earth is coming from natural sources and is cyclic in nature–NOT from the evil capitalism that Al Gore, the UN politicians at the IPCC and other socialists love to blame. From the article: Now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the ...
Rainwater Harvesting Poised To Grow In US West
Post Date: 2009-06-11 06:24:06 by Kamala
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Rainwater Harvesting Poised To Grow In US West by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 06. 6.09 Design & Architecture Buzz up! With the news that the US State of Colorado has decided to make it legal for small farmers to collect rainwater - holding out the possibility that city dwellers, too, may one day be offered legal means to harvest rain - a tipping point approaches. Driven by the intersection of sprawl & extended drought, and amplified by a citizenry's enduring fondness for 'individual responsibility,' rainwater harvesting techniques are poised to spread, once freed from inflexible and counterproductive water management traditions stemming from the late 1800 ...
The Best Selling Car In The U.S.
Post Date: 2009-06-09 18:00:28 by Kamala
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Poster Comment:The Little Tikes Cozy Coupe, which is about to enter an auto museum in Cleveland sold 457,000 units in 2008, beating the Camry which sold just 436,000 units. It didn't beat out the Chevy Silverado or Ford F-150, of course, but those are trucks. See, people don't want tiny "green" cars.
Sowing Seeds of Starvation: Monsanto Hype in Growing Food Crisis
Post Date: 2009-06-07 23:05:49 by richard9151
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An ad that recently ran during the American Public Media show Marketplace, sponsored by Monsanto, the world’s largest corporate agribusiness chemical firm, touted how Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) seeds are going to save the world from environmental catastrophe and human hunger. The Monsanto ads are, quite simply, false. The premise of the ad is that Monsanto’s GM seeds are going to save the world from environmental catastrophe and human hunger, but the reality of Monsanto’s seeds and the company’s ethics and commitment to fighting world hunger have little to do with either. Eighty-five percent of all GM seeds are engineered for herbicide tolerance, most of ...
Interesting looking clouds seen
Post Date: 2009-06-06 09:42:55 by PSUSA
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Sweat = Threat? Army Looks at ‘Abnormal Perspiration’ as Sign of ‘Harmful Intent’
Post Date: 2009-06-01 12:12:11 by christine
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If you walk weird, make funny faces, or sweat a little too much — watch out, when you walk into an airport. The U.S. military wants to use those irregularities as “indicators” of “possibly suspicious and harmful intent.” The Army recently asked for proposals for a new suite of biometric sensors that will hunt for bad-minded people by examining their “expressions, gait, and pose” from afar. The “Image Analysis for Personnel Intent” project is also supposed to spot would-be evil-doers through their “abnormal perspiration and changes in body temperature.” (Note to would-be Osamas: Don’t send the sweaty guy to hijack the plane.) The ...
(NY State) May to go out under a freeze watch
Post Date: 2009-05-31 14:11:08 by Jethro Tull
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The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for many parts of New York from Sunday through Monday morning, including Oneida County. Widespread frost and freeze conditions are possible tonight and into early Monday morning. The region’s low temperature for today is expected to be about 36 degrees, which also is the record low temperature for May 31, according to WKTV meteorologists and weather archives. The record was set in 1966. A low of 50 degrees is expected for Monday. The record low for June 1 is 31 degrees, which was set in 1945, according to weather archives.
Poster Comment:The science of global warming is over. It's freezing.
Forensic Scientists Working on Technology to Render Face Photos Solely from DNA Left At Crime Scene
Post Date: 2009-05-29 13:24:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Forensic Scientists Working on Technology to Render Face Photos Solely from DNA Left At Crime Scene Sunday, May 24, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer Key concepts: DNA, Genes and Skin pigmentation (NaturalNews) Forensic scientists are working on a way to reconstruct a person's face based on their DNA, allowing police to identify people more effectively from something as simple as a piece of hair or flake of skin, according to research presented at the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Currently, researchers can compare DNA samples taken from suspects with those found at a crime scene to help secure convictions, but this is only ...
Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
Post Date: 2009-05-26 13:55:05 by Disgusted
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President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan. The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final. The announcement will coincide with ...
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, First Hour
Post Date: 2009-05-24 16:14:15 by Deasy
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series presented by Carl Sagan. covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. It is the most widely watched PBS series in the world.
Poster Comment:If you miss hearing Dr. Sagan say "billions" it's archived here for posterity. His tour of the universe is always a humbling experience. Exceptionalists of all stripes should watch this at least once.
Shuttle coming in Fox Coverage
Post Date: 2009-05-24 11:38:00 by Itistoolate
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www.dougberndt.com/fox-news-live.htm
Colusa power plant shows importance of fossil fuels
Post Date: 2009-05-24 11:14:00 by farmfriend
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Colusa power plant shows importance of fossil fuels By Jim Downing jdowning@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, May. 24, 2009 - 12:08 am | Page 1D The Capitol may be buzzing about renewable energy, but 70 miles up Interstate 5, the biggest thing going is a new Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power plant that will run on natural gas. In Colusa County, which routinely has the state's highest unemployment rate, officials are looking to the billion-dollar project as a bit of an economic balm. As many as 650 construction workers will build the plant – though most will come from outside the county. Taxes on the project should give a nearly 10 percent boost to the county's general fund. ...
MONKEY SKULL FOUND: THE LINK IN HUMAN EVOLUTION?
Post Date: 2009-05-19 10:18:34 by christine
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At 1430 GMT, SKYNEWS will reveal pictures, 47-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of monkey hailed as 'missing link in human evolution... direct link between apes and man'... Developing... In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans. Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives ...
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