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Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change
Post Date: 2008-01-04 20:40:47 by farmfriend
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Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change January 2, 2008 Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun’s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era. Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again. ...
If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything
Post Date: 2008-01-02 17:48:37 by Ninpo
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If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything Posted June 26, 2007 | 07:23 AM (EST) Read More: Al Gore , Breaking Politics News stumbleupon :If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything digg: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything reddit: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything del.icio.us: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything Oddly, if the goal is to slam Al Gore, it often seems as if standards of serious discussion suddenly vanish. Even scientific information -- which you'd think people would be inclined to wield cautiously -- gets treated as if it's putty. That was on full display with ...
Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore
Post Date: 2008-01-02 17:41:52 by Ninpo
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Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls “global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions.” The ad, which will be aired in more than a dozen cities across the country, is being released just a week before the May 24th opening (in LA and NYC) of Al Gore’s new movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. Who is CEI? The Washington Post explains: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning ...
New Little Ice Age
Post Date: 2008-01-02 17:08:16 by farmfriend
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New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming? by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt † Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity Klammerfelsweg 5, 93449 Waldmünchen, Germany mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Frau Landscheidt http://bourabai.narod.ru/landscheidt/ Gedenkseite mit weiteren Artikeln Abstract: Analysis of the sun's varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC's speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8° C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected. It is shown that minima in the 80 to 90-year Gleissberg cycle of solar activity, ...
Next-Generation Photovoltaics: Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells
Post Date: 2008-01-02 10:29:24 by Liberty_Zippo
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Nanocrystalline photovoltaic devices have become viable contenders for large-scale future solar-energy-conversion systems. Solar cells that copy nature’s very own energy-conversion process could constitute the next generation of green energy-generating sources. Based on photosynthesis, in which plants transform the sun’s rays into stored energy, mesoscopic injection solar cells offer credible and attractive alternatives to solid-state p-n junction devices (explained below). These relatively new nanocrystalline photovoltaic devices, which were invented in the early 1990s, promise viable solutions to future large-scale solar-energy conversion issues on the bases of cost, ...
Mars rovers find new evidence of 'habitable niche'; perilous third winter approaches
Post Date: 2008-01-02 03:07:40 by farmfriend
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Mars rovers find new evidence of 'habitable niche'; perilous third winter approaches By Lauren Gold Inch by power-conserving inch, drivers on Earth have moved the Mars rover Spirit to a spot where it has its best chance at surviving a third Martian winter -- and where it will celebrate its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since bouncing down on Mars for a projected 90-day mission in January 2004. Meanwhile, researchers are considering the implications of what Cornell's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, calls "one of the most significant" mission discoveries to date: silica-rich deposits uncovered in May by ...
Another good reason not to fly: NASA gives glimpse of air safety survey
Post Date: 2007-12-31 21:14:55 by richard9151
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2 hours, 22 minutes ago NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. The data reflects hundreds of cases where pilots flew too close to other planes, plunged from altitude or landed at airports without clearance. NASA published the findings — contained in 16,208 pages — but did not provide a roadmap to understand them, making it cumbersome for any thorough analysis by outsiders. Released on New Year's Eve, the unprecedented research conducted over nearly four years relates to safety problems identified by some 25,000 ...
Sacred Weeds: Amanita Muscaria, Video
Post Date: 2007-12-31 14:10:29 by gengis gandhi
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Violin Playing Robot
Post Date: 2007-12-31 13:23:16 by robin
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Violin Playing Robot Uploaded: 17 December 2007 Violin Playing Robot Toyota Motor Corp. Continuing the evolution of their trumpet playing robot, Toyota Motor Corp. has developed their Violin Playing Robot which now has more precise manual dexterity making it able to perform fine motions and Toyota hopes to apply this robot to a variety of uses as well as playing the violin With easy bipedal motion, the Violin Playing Robot can run as well as stabilize itself when knocked off balance and can jump due to its improved ankle joints. It has 17 joints with special sensors to make fine motions possible such as vibrato, a change of the note through slightly varying the finger position. ...
Science vs Faith Flowchart
Post Date: 2007-12-30 18:07:13 by Split
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Has global warming stopped?
Post Date: 2007-12-29 23:09:36 by farmfriend
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Has global warming stopped? David Whitehouse 'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001' Global warming stopped? Surely not. What heresy is this? Haven’t we been told that the science of global warming is settled beyond doubt and that all that’s left to the so-called sceptics is the odd errant glacier that refuses to melt? Aren’t we told that if we don’t act now rising temperatures will render most of the surface of the Earth uninhabitable within our lifetimes? But as we digest these apocalyptic comments, read the recent IPCC’s Synthesis report that says climate change could become ...
Tens of millions of birds disappearing across North America
Post Date: 2007-12-29 17:01:26 by robin
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Tens of millions of birds disappearing across North America CBC’s The National reports that tens of millions of birds are disappearing across North America. The following video is from CBC’s The National, broadcast on December 28, 2007 Posted December 29th, 2007 at 9:51 am By Michael Aivaz
Adobe Spying On Its Customers
Post Date: 2007-12-29 14:40:39 by PSUSA
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It's not all that surprising these days to hear about software companies having their software "phone home" in some manner or another, though it's often quite annoying. However, it looks like Adobe has taken this to a new level. Click for Full Text!
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Future Shock
Post Date: 2007-12-29 11:48:17 by richard9151
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Weapons with the ability to debilitate crowds of people with just one sweeping motion will be for sale to both the military and police officers in the United States and Europe. Unlike the proximity challenges posed by the current commercial stun guns, the new weapons have the capability of hitting a number of people at the same time and cover greater distances. The new electric stun guns were designed as an answer to the limitations of the Taser gun. The weapons have already been employed by several U.S. police departments and are undergoing tests within certain police forces in the UK. Some downsides of the Taser gun include its inability to stop vehicles and provide adequate crowd ...
Coming Soon -- Microwave Gun That Can Destroy Your Car From 600 Feet Away
Post Date: 2007-12-29 11:44:37 by richard9151
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A Pasadena, California company has created a device that will destroy a car’s electrical system and stop it dead in its tracks. Just one pulse from this beam disables cars up to 50 feet away. How does it work? One beam pulsed in a burst lasting just 50 nanoseconds disrupts your vehicle's electrical system. The radiation can overload wires, or damage or upset your car's central microprocessor. Their prototype is 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, 1 foot thick, and weighs just under 200 pounds. With proper funding, it may be possible to create a device weighing only 50 pounds that works from 600 feet away. It operates on the same general principle as a microwave oven, but at a 300 ...
NASA Delays Atlantis Shuttle Launch Indefinitely
Post Date: 2007-12-28 13:48:21 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, December 28 (RIA Novosti) - NASA has again postponed the Atlantis shuttle launch, scheduled for January 10, but this time indefinitely, the space agency's website said on Friday. The launch, which is due to deliver the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station (ISS), has been repeatedly delayed since December 6 over problems with faulty fuel tank sensors. "This work will take some time to properly accomplish and to certify the redesigned configuration before flight. While a launch on Jan. 10 is no longer achievable, no launch date has been discussed. The program will take time to assess progress of the work before setting a ...
Honda Gearing Up to Unseat the Mighty Prius
Post Date: 2007-12-27 21:02:19 by tom007
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Honda Gearing Up to Unseat the Mighty Prius By Chuck Squatriglia EmailDecember 26, 2007 | 7:05:23 PMCategories: Hybrids, Industry Gd4936672hondasnewconceptc9495_2 Honda brought the first gas-electric hybrid to America when it launched the funky Insight in 1999, but it was soon overshadowed by the Toyota Prius and Honda's been trying to catch up ever since. After eight years playing second-fiddle, Honda has decided enough is enough. Company president Takeo Fukui says Honda is investing heavily in hybrids and insists the race "has just begun." The technology's first phase was all about cultivating a green image, Fukui says, clearly taking a swipe at Toyota. The next ...
How to Eliminate America's Addiction to Oil
Post Date: 2007-12-27 09:33:40 by richard9151
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Innovative technologies such as hydrogen, renewable energy, and energy efficiency can eliminate our reliance on foreign oil. A Hydrogen “Manhattan Project” for Energy is needed to accelerate the transition to a Hydrogen Economy and ensure that this vision becomes a reality within the next 10 years. There is no need to wait 20 to 40 years to achieve the Hydrogen Economy vision and eliminate America’s addiction to oil. Introduction Can America's addiction to oil be eliminated? Several innovative renewable energy technologies and greater implementation of energy efficiency can eliminate our reliance on foreign oil. Hydrogen and fuel cells represent one of the most ...
McCall melt links the Arctic eras
Post Date: 2007-12-26 14:50:10 by robin
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McCall melt links the Arctic eras By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Alaska Air temperature readings were taken manually in the old days Science can be a lonely business. "Sometimes you'd just land and set up your equipment," recalls Carl Benson, "and the pilot sees clouds rolling in and says 'I'd better get out of here, do you want to come with me or do you want to stay'? "So you push the 'plane round so they can take off, and you don't know when you're going to see them again." Dr Benson is one of a band of scientists hardier than most who have spent ...
Japan Mines `Flammable Ice,' Flirts With Environmental Disaster
Post Date: 2007-12-25 18:48:09 by DeaconBenjamin
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Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Fifty-five million years ago the world's climate was catastrophically changed when volcanoes melted natural gas frozen in the seabed. Now Japan plans to drill for the same icy crystals to end its reliance on imported energy. Billions of tons of methane hydrate, frozen chunks of chemical-laced water buried in sediment some 3,000 feet under the Pacific Ocean floor, may help Japan win energy independence from the Middle East and Indonesia. Japanese engineers have found enough "flammable ice" to meet its gas use demands for 14 years. The trick is extracting it without damaging the environment. Japan is joining the U.S. and Canada in test drilling for ...
The Pentagon's Electronic Warfare Program
Post Date: 2007-12-25 13:17:15 by robin
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The Pentagon's Electronic Warfare Program Maximum Control Of The Entire Electro-Magnetic Spectrum In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the Information Operation Roadmapwhich outlined, among other things, the Pentagon's desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. If you are unfamiliar with this document, more detail can be found in a previous article here. www.knowledgedrivenrevolu...20071105_IOR_1_Thrust.htm Dominate From the Information Operation Roadmap: "We Must Improve Network and Electro-Magnetic Attack Capability. To prevail in an information-centric fight, it is increasingly important that our forces dominate the ...
Techology Runs Amok - Exploring the Singularity
Post Date: 2007-12-25 11:50:48 by YertleTurtle
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The point in time when current trends may go wildly off the charts--known as the "Singularity"--is now getting serious attention. What it suggests is that technological change will soon become so rapid that we cannot possibly envision its results. Technological change isn't just happening fast. It's happening at an exponential rate. Contrary to the commonsense, intuitive, linear view, we won't just experience 100 years of progress in the twenty-first century-it will be more like 20,000 years of progress. The near-future results of exponential technological growth will be staggering: the merging of biological and nonbiological entities in bio-robotics, plants and ...
Tree Rings Show Earth May Have Global Cycles of Warming, Cooling
Post Date: 2007-12-23 00:13:35 by richard9151
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WASHINGTON -- An unusually warm period a millennium ago may have been part of a natural planetary cycle, researchers say in a study of tree rings that scrutinizes the link between human activity and climate change. The study, appearing Friday in the journal Science, analyzed ancient tree rings from 14 sites on three continents in the Northern Hemisphere and concluded that temperatures in an era known as the Medieval Warm Period about 800 to 1,000 years afo closely matched the warming trend of the 20th century. In recent years, many climate scientists have said an unprecedented warming spell that began last century and continus is caused by the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is ...
Transformer Explodes, Mobile Homes Burn
Post Date: 2007-12-22 23:50:04 by Dakmar
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AUBURNDALE - A transformer explosion and fire destroyed two mobile homes Saturday, Polk County authorities said. The singlewide mobile homes in a park at 2202 Shilah Road were unoccupied during the 6:06 p.m. explosion and resulting fire, but the blaze left two people homeless, said a spokesman for Polk County's emergency medical services and fire department. The explosion ignited one mobile home, and flames spread to the adjacent structure, the spokesman said.
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Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer viruses
Post Date: 2007-12-21 22:14:05 by gengis gandhi
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Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer viruses This stunning censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its huge liability--the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide. This segment of In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism, produced and freely contributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, features the world's leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains why Merck's vaccines have spread AIDS, ...
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