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Recycled toilet paper may wipe out energy concerns Toilet paper that is made from new wood uses much more energy to produce than toilet paper made from recycled paper. However, your bottom will lose out in the battle...
Post Date:12/12/2009 09:27:36
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Copenhagen climate change blah blah Sorry, this felt a bit rushed and PollyFillaesque, I hope it?s vaguely interesting? Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 12 December 2009 So as we career towards a mediocre outcome in Copenhagen, why do roughly half the people in this country not believe in man-made climate change, when the vast, overwhelming majority of scientists do? It certainly predates the [...]
Post Date:12/11/2009 17:10:00
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UK Met Office: Global warming plus El Ni The UK’s Met Office (originally the Meteorological Office), which is part of its Ministry of Defence, predicted yesterday on its website: A combination of man-made global warming and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as El Ni
Post Date:12/11/2009 13:02:34
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Comets, meteorites, not volcanoes, gave Earth its atmosphere According to a new theory from British and American scientists, much of the elements in Earth’s atmosphere originated from gas, dust, and ice inside comets and meteorites that impacted the...
Post Date:12/11/2009 08:53:54
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Science forgotten in emails fuss
Post Date:12/11/2009 05:30:00
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Post Date:12/11/2009 01:06:31
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The Loneliness of Being A Skeptic in Copenhagen Tom Harris, the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition and a former PR executive with the High Park Group, was one of the organisers of the Copenhagen Climate Challenge as an alternative to COP15 conference. The conference was co-sponsored by the U.S.-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and the Danish group, Climate Sense. Speakers, dubbed in promotional material as "climate realists", featured high-profile skeptics including S. Fred Singer, Professor Ian Plimer and Christopher Monckton. John Vidal reports in The Guardian that the only clue he could find to the location of the conference was a sticker depicting "a happy-looking Eskimo standing on a clearly melting ice flow with a cheerful sun beaming down on him and his ice-cream under the words 'Hurra global warming'". One journalist noted that the conference was attended by only 60 people, comprising 15 journalists, 18 speakers and 27 audience members. One journalist estimated that t
Post Date:12/10/2009 13:33:25
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Planned Parenthood: ?That?s not a baby growing inside of you? This issue may be above Barack Obama's pay grade, but it is not above most people's understanding.  Hot Air has the story.HT Sykes / Hot Air
Post Date:12/10/2009 10:21:06
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so much for the three laws of robotics? When you try to build an artificial intelligence system, you probably want to make sure it won’tt going to turn on you when you least expect it. But how would you do that? According to the Singularity Institute which spends a lot of time thinking about the future, you just follow the plan to build a friendly machine immune to our human emotions. To think of it, maybe friendly would be a loose description, and benevolent would be slightly more accurate. However, one wonders why someone would actually build such a system and how it would apply to the real world? Considering that the likeliest use for AI would be in future military campaigns and that defense agencies fund a good deal of relevant research, it’s fair to say that friendliness is not their primary concern. One very important thing to remember about software is that it’s designed to perform a specific task. You can’t just build an application that does everything and expect to receive the resources and
Post Date:12/10/2009 00:46:32
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Run For Your Lives!!! Head for the hills... but not the hills of potatoes. Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest. Them spuds have eyes, and they're a-watchin' ye!
Post Date:12/09/2009 21:41:00
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Block Myostatin for Super Strength Scientists are working on a gene therapy that will stimulate super-human muscle growth with no apparent side effects. As published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the National Children?s Hospital (NCH) and Ohio State University have proven that blocking myostatin in monkeys will lead to skeletal muscle growth with few or no discernible negative side effects. Myostatin is the protein that helps mammals regulate muscle building, acting as a signal for muscles to stop consuming resources and stop growing. Blocking myostatin leads to enhanced muscle strength and continuous muscle growth. ... My concerns about myostatin have largely focused on potential organ damage, possible unknown dangerous effects on smooth muscle tissue, and ligament/tendon stresses. The NCH work addresses these concerns rather well. Macaques were observed for 15 months after receiving a gene therapy that promoted follistatin (and blocked myostatin) in their quadriceps. There was no obse
Post Date:12/09/2009 14:18:08
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Shooting at Information Overload: Right Target, Wrong Weapon A
Post Date:12/09/2009 08:06:07
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Bolivia has Enough Lithium for 4.8 Billion Electric Cars! [del.icio.us] At 4,085 square miles, Salar de Uyuni in Southwest Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat. Those salts contain large amounts of sodium, potassium, magnesium and lithium, and these days, it's the last element on that list that is attracting attention. According to the USGS, Bolivia has 35% of the world's lithium resources, and since in the coming years, electric cars and plug-in hybrids that use lithium-ion batteries are expected to greatly increase in numbers, this could mean big changes for Bolivia, South-America's poorest country.
Post Date:12/08/2009 13:38:10
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The Sombrero Galaxy Voted the best* picture taken by the Hubble telescope. Click to enlarge the photo (or better yet, go to this high-res photo at Wiki), and then while gazing at it, consider that this ONE galaxy contains the mass of 800 BILLION suns. A humbling thought.*This may be photographically or artistically the best, but the most important is still the "deep field" photo. Watch the video at the link.
Post Date:12/07/2009 18:54:00
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Climate Junket Culture Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden." And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish." Go read about the number of private jets flying in.
Post Date:12/07/2009 12:55:40
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Lead by example...or, you know, not 1,200 limos, 140 private plans at Copenhagen "Climate Summit". A few juicy highlights: On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to...
Post Date:12/07/2009 07:41:00
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The Big Blog Announcement Ok, folks, thank you for your patience bearing with me as I made noises about the blog shift, but wouldn’t reveal the actual details.
Post Date:12/07/2009 05:56:22
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Visible Earth: The Blue Marble [del.icio.us] This spectacular ?blue marble? image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public. This record includes preview images and links to full resolution versions up to 21,600 pixels across.
Post Date:12/07/2009 04:35:51
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The feet of clay of the man made global warming argument: Thought for the day version Daniel 2:31-40 (New International Version)31 "You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue?an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.Footnote: I'm not suggesting this passage of prophecy from the book of Daniel is a prophecy about climate gate, but rather than the foundations of the scientific consensus are made of clay.There are far too many vested i
Post Date:12/07/2009 02:03:00
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Japan's silence on the Global Warming data fiddling Whatever side of the Global Warming debate you might find yourself on, the silence on the leaks by the Japanese press is deafening. (BTW, NHK's News 9 last night found time for the Tiger Woods scandal, however...)Posted by KenYN in Science | Socs: 15
Post Date:12/06/2009 21:26:45
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