The End Of The World On Wednesday!

Well, not really, but 10-Sep-08 is when the LHC is going to rev up for the first time at .45 TeV.

If the world still exists on Thursday, then they hope to ramp up to 5 Tev by the end of the year and eventually to 7 TeV.

The sad part is, the potential end of the world should have been at the SSC, not CERN.

Short-sighted Congress...

We May Want Global Warming

According to this article in Milenio, the IPCC used only mathematics and did not include the Sun in their scenarios.

Auguring brief era of ice in 2010

Researchers from the UNAM considers erroneous reports on global climate change

An expert from the National Autonomous University of Mexico predicted that in about ten years the Earth will enter a "little ice age" which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.

Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM, as argued earlier during a conference that teaches at the Centre for Applied Sciences and Technological Development.

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Velasco Herrera [Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM] described as erroneous predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pursuant to which the planet is experiencing a gradual increase in temperature, the so-called global warming.

The models and forecasts of the IPCC "is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity," said the specialist also in image processing and signs and prevention of natural disasters.

If Herrera is correct, then the IPCC is woefully incompetent to make any sort of predictive claims at all. To ignore the Sun's contribution to the temperature of the Earth is sheer ignorance.

It may be that we need to INCREASE our carbon footprints, rather than reduce them.

Global Warming Indicator Bites The Dust

If this indicator is a non-issue, what about others? This is why the anti-AGW crowd want more RESEARCH rather than blind faith.

Faith is for religion, not science.

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NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face

November 13, 2007

PASADENA, Calif. – A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming.

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"Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming," said Morison [James Morison of the University of Washington's Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle].
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Science Or Faith?

Doubt is the foundation of scientific thought.

Yet, doubt is tossed out the window when global warming is the issue.

We are expected to accept the content of An Inconvenient Truth upon faith alone. Those who doubt this piece of work, who question its scientific content, are ridiculed and demeaned.

There are those who would be the first to ridicule those with a religious faith as fools, who take this movie and the unproven "science" within without demanding the slightest proof. They condemn faith on the one hand and embrace it on the other.

There are those who ridicule others as lemmings for adhering to a policy of which they disagree, but blindly follow the leaders of anthropogenic global warming into the unknown.

Those who follow An Inconvenient Truth and AGW demand that science be followed by ignoring its basic tenet.

They are espousing a religion, a faith, not science.

KHAN!!

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First artificial life 'within months'

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 6:42am BST
29/06/2007

Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacterium into another.
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No, it's not Ricardo Montalban crawling out of a test-tube, but maybe something more dangerous.
Or, maybe something beneficial.
Or, maybe as beneficial as it is dangerous...

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In a development that has triggered unease and excitement in equal measure, scientists in the US took the whole genetic makeup - or genome - of a bacterial cell and transplanted it into a closely related species.

This then began to grow and multiply in the lab, turning into the first species in the process.
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I wonder if we really know enough about genetics to do this sort of thing safely. Are we really able to predict what our DNA manipulation will produce? Do we really know enough about it to ensure that an artificial DNA strand doesn't have any sequences that might cause it to become the foundation of a microscopic bug that we have absolutely no immunity to?

What is in the Pandora's Box we are opening? Toys or fatally poisonous barbs? Do we have any clue?