The availability cascade is leading to more and more stories of the extreme events supposedly caused by global warming. The real irony is that the serious and much more dire consequences of global warming are developing much to slow to attract the attention of an increasingly less informed and celebrity-sex-scandal-obsessed public.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The Eight Most Sobering Reports of 2007
Below the depressed polar bear you’ll find the eight most sobering reports from the year just closed. This is where the facts meet consequences, the rubber meets the road. A lot of research and valuable thought has gone into these reports - definitely worth your Digg to help get them circulated.
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The Eight Most Sobering Reports of 2007
Below the depressed polar bear you’ll find the eight most sobering reports from the year just closed. This is where the facts meet consequences, the rubber meets the road. A lot of research and valuable thought has gone into these reports - definitely worth your Digg to help get them circulated.
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Antarctica’s Penguins Suffering From the Heat
The warming of an entire planet has dire consequences for everyone. Antarctica has indeed been suffering from a warming planet, brings us to the Adélie penguins. The mid-latitudes of the Antarctic Peninsula have long been their home, but due to rising temps, their population has declined by 80%.
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Global Warming denial industry still going strong
Alarmingly, there are still intelligent people denying the influence man has in increasing global temperatures. From a layman's perspective, the science does not seem complicated. Carbon Dioxide traps heat, man is pumping lots of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere, therefore man is at least partly responsible for heating up the planet.
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A Message of Hope for 2008
Today we embark upon another tour around the Sun on this precious spinning rock we call home. It is an honor to be among you – the great messengers of change in our time of need. Our journey this time around can be purposeful and productive if we keep in mind the quintessential human capacity that makes progress possible – hope.
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Literature and the Environment
A conference that explores the two worlds, somehow closer than most would think... in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Maybe this is how *OUR* universe came into being
MUMBAI: Not much is known about the Big Bang - the explosion which is said to have created the Universe. A thorough knowledge about it eludes even scientists. However, come 2008, it seems that the conditions thought to have existed 13 billion years ago will be recreated in a 17-mile-long tunnel on the Swiss-France border....TIME TO SAY BYE?
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Ten Common Statistics Mistakes
A list of ten common mistakes in statistics and probability for newbies to avoid.
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NYT Takes on Al Gore and Climate Alarmists..Happy New Year!
The new year is beginning with some very serious shots being fired across the bow of the manmade global warming myth and at alarmists using it to advance their deplorable agendas.
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SOHC engine vs DOHC engine
Good information and summarization for understanding Single Overhead Camshaft and Double Overhead Camshaft
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Costume Jewelry
Reasonable cheap but cool!!! Costume jewelry (also called fashion jewelry, junk jewelry or fake jewelry) is jewelry that is made of less valuable materials, including base metals, glass, plastic, and synthetic stones, in place of more valuable materials such as precious metals and gems. Costume jewelry is usually inexpensive, and often flashy.
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Top 10 Arguments For The Existence Of God
You've heard a lot of arguments claiming to prove God exists. But how many actual arguments are there? Most fit into these top 10 most popular ways to prove God exists.
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The Top 100 Videos of 2007 by VideoSift
These are the top 100 online videos of 2007 as voted by the members at VideoSift.com
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a burlesque beauty with a cute little booty
Honey Pot, seen stripping off her bra, is a member of Bella Minx, Providence's best kept burlesque secret.
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How I Introduced the French to Onion Rings
Off The Beaten Track ... As you laze about this first day of 2008, perhaps burdened with the feeling of having a percussion jamboree banging around your head, a result of just that "one too many" libation indulged in during the Eve's soirée, The Garlic has espied a relatively new blog on the World Wide Web that looks to be very promising.
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Harmilda the cow
The cow from beyondthecow.com, Harmilda is th unofficial town mascot from Harvard, IL.
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Merchant Ships Powered by Kites
This month is scheduled the maiden voyage of the first cargo ship in the world to be partly powered by an enormous kite. This could be the first step in a revolution in nautical wind propulsion for cargo ships.
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Solar panels to go in 30% of Japanese houses by 2030
Under the government-mandated target, the number of solar-powered households would increase to 14 million from the current 400,000 and the capacity of such generation would expand 30-fold from the current 1.3 million kilowatts.
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WWP on Idaho's wolf population management plan
Western Watersheds Project on Idaho's Wolf Management Plan. "Many folks will like to read this, find a lot of good information and see how thoroughly political, rather than scientific the plan is. There is great information placing wolf caused livestock mortality into context with other kinds of losses."
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Defenders of Wildlife on Idaho's Wolf Plan
"Defenders of Wildlife, the Boulder-White Clouds Council, Lands Council, Western Watersheds Project, Wolf Education and Research Center, and the Wolf Recovery Foundation wish to express our very serious concerns with...Idaho Wolf Population Management Plan"
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WWP on Idaho's Wolf Management Plan
Western Watersheds Project’s comments on Idaho wolf population management plan. Idaho's wolf plan is unscientific and will result in the death of many wolves. Here is a sound critique of the plan.
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Programming your Brain for Success: Basic Brain Biology
There are billions of brain cells (neurons) in your brain forming a highly complicated neural network. This very moment millions of brain cells in your brain are sending messages to one another by causing electrical firings and producing thoughts, emotions and feelings.
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Trees that Still Seem to Breathe
Courtesy of As we advance through this strange landscape we seem to go back in time. Our minds go back to a prehistoric age, enveloping us in a sense of mystery and the unknown. It is a strange sensation. We walk among red hills speckled with the contrasting green of the bushes. In the distance, eucalyptus groves sway in a dance generated by the h
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Mark Udall on Science, Technology, and Space
Congressman Udall talks about the work he's done to keep Colorado on the leading edge in space sciences, and his plans for the future should he be elected to the U.S. Senate. His district is home of Ball Aerospace, NIST, NCAR, the University of Colorado, and several other important contributors to space sciences and other technology research.
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‘UFOs are seen as a joke but...'
SIGHTINGS of unidentified flying objects have soared in the last month, with at least two a week seen by airline pilots in South Wales. Dancing lights, large craft and mysterious flashes are among dozens of UFOs sighted above Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys in the last few years.
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False Tinnitus: Silence May Lead To Phantom Noises
Phantom noises, that mimic ringing in the ears associated with tinnitus, can be experienced by people with normal hearing in quiet situations, according to new research published in the January 2008 edition of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
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The future of food: Kitchen-counter lab
In the kitchens of today's cutting-edge chefs, food processors share prep space with appliances straight out of the lab. See a gallery of the most extreme kitchen tech, as well as some more accessible gizmos for the home chef.
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Second thoughts on life, the universe and everything
They are the intellectual elite, the brains the rest of us rely on to make sense of the universe and answer the big questions. But in a refreshing show of new year humility, the world's best thinkers have admitted that from time to time even they are forced to change their minds.
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Navy, Environmentalists Await Sonar Ruling
A federal judge in California is scheduled to release a decision this week that will outline what the Navy must do to protect whales and other marine mammals from the loud blasts of its sonar equipment.
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