Concensus has always been the enemy of science, there was concensus that the earth was the center of the universe, there was concensus that the earth was flat, there was even concensus that people should be bled with leaches to balance their fluids and make them well again, and there was concensus in the 1970s that after 40 years of cooling that Global Cooling caused by man made emissions from cars and smoke stacks was going to lead to the next ice age. Then concensus gave us Global Warming in the mid 80s, and now that it's not really warming anymore now the concensus is global instability. Science on the other hand is about doing an experiment and getting the same result, imagine if you would that nobody liked Newton, he was a jerk, didn't bathe, and was ugly. A horrible dinner companion, but regardless of his lack of popularity we have Newton's laws, anyone, everyone, anywhere can do Newton's experiments and get Newton's results. That is science, not computer models that can't predict the weather next Monday, can't take into account the sun spot cycle, can't take in all the variables of everything that affects the climate. Computer models are not experiments, they are fantasy and who's to blame people out there for being dubious of the outcome when the people spewing that nonsense have so much to gain financially (CO2 Cap and Trade), and the majority of the greenhouse gasses are water vapour, CO2 is plant food, it makes things grow, it doesn't kill the planet!

Seems to convenient that LulzSec is attacking so many big name and government websites all of a sudden, Seems more likely that it's a little covert government intervention to make sure some new laws against hacking get passed by Europe, Canada, Japan and the USA. I don't put it past them. I have foil at home, but really, I didn't make a hat out of it....

I feel dumber having read that article. Thank goodness it's 2.3 kilometers thick, so at a 1.8 millimeters per year over the past century that sucker will be melted in ONE MILLION, two hundred and seventy seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven years! And that's IF the melting continues at all, and even more unlikely keeps melting for the next 1,277,777.77 years. "But that is unlikely to happen for several centuries at least." That's the understatement of the millennium

And the issue with your arguments are that the largest volume and by far the most common greenhouse gas is WATER VAPOUR not methane, not CO2 and not Aerosols. Second grass put in a compost pile, and gas put through a cow emit EXACTLY the same amount of Methane. So the argument that agricultural animals cause global warming is easily disproved.

"Earth gets warmer, ice caps melt, coastal areas flood." I think what you meant to say was Sunspots cycle of the sun causes earth to heat up slightly, chicken little psudo-scientists get huge grants telling the people paying them what they want to hear. Politicians use studies to push their economic agenda Anyway the cycle goes; Earth gets warmer, some ice melts, more clouds form from evaporation, earth cools. Ice starts forming again. We never end up with Waterworld, or the day after tomorrow. That's Hollywood not reality

True, but the science done in the 1970s, after a 40 year trend of cooling, all showed that the world was cooling, and that carbon emissions from cars and smoke stacks was causing the cooling. They predicted an ice age approaching if the world cooled 4 degrees globally. Now the science is, after a 35 year trend of warming, all showing warming and that carbon emissions from cars and smoke stacks is causing the warming, they are predicting horrible storms and some sort of glacial ice melted waterworld. Sounds like somebody has not enough variables in their climate model, and doesn't really know how things work after all.

Your like cheap tent preachers in the southland.... you just keep changing the source of the evil, but the end result is the same "SEND YOUR MONEY TODAY!!!!"

That's so funny, this is the elementary school i went to as a kid. In the time of drab boxy brick boxes painted institutional green, this was an open concept designed school, the library had 30 foot ceilings with a small sunfish style sailboat in it for an interesting place to read. It's education program was as progressive as it's design... Sad to see that they've gone from that, to this sort of idiocy. What's next FM radio waves are causing brain cancer? What about HDTV air broadcasts, maybe that's why the kids in 2020 will have ADHD. LOL

Carots being good for vision, was a WWII rumor started by the British to try and hide the fact that they had radar.

Back in the 70s I watched popeye, But all I got out of it was candy cigarettes, and I recall I convinced my parents to get me a corn cob pipe. Think maybe that's why the popularity of that cartoon went down with politically correct movement and the smoking bans?

Totally agree, there is a big difference to giving a calculator to someone who already knows how to do the math by hand, than giving it to someone who doesn't know how to do the math by hand in the first place.

  It doesn't help you learn, and really can hinder the learing. If you only learn the trick and not the trade, you've learned nothing.

Being a motorcyclist I have also had trouble with induction rings.
The trick is to identify the ring, by the cut in the road.
Then to ride up one cut side of the ring as quickly as possible and stop abruptly at the end. If it's a double loop, the trick is to ride up the middle cut in the road.

And induction ring is creating a current like a motor does. But your bike, or my motorcycle is the magnet or metal in the motor, and the ring of wire is the coil. The speed and amount of metal makes a difference in the amount of current created.
Apparently once your stopped if you lean your bike over the ring, almost laying it down, it will help increase the current in the ring, changing the traffic signal.

My concern is, that even if they wanted to Monsanto has sued the seed cleaners, and public seed stores into the ground. Farmers used to plant hundreds of varieties of Corn and Soy and then keep and wash the seeds to plant them next year. But we are loosing the technology and the strains of plants to be able to do that. This could just be the beginning. Thank goodness it's only weeds that are resistant. Once it's a pest to the crop, which will come soon enough all the corn is vulnerable, all the Soy is vulnerable because they are all the same strain now across the whole country. What I have done, and what I encourage others to do. Boycott Monsanto, don't buy their roundup products. Buy Organic, you'd be amazed what your purchasing decisions tells the agribusiness. You CAN make them change. Great movie FOOD INC. just came out recently watch it and see where your food is coming from.

First. "There are no such things as kids who can't learn, just teachers that can't teach" Every teacher hears that in teachers college. Some kids learn differently but they all learn, the teacher just needs to put the effort in finding out how each kid learns. Second you should do a survey, 2-3 years after the kid has graduated, to both the parent and the student. Ask who are the best teachers you (or your child) had while in high school, and tell us why. And who are the worst teachers you (or your child) had while in high school. As a parent we know the bad teachers, the lazy ones that put no effort into teaching. The ones where our kids come home every day. Oh what did you learn? oh we just sat and watched movies. Ya what one. Oh The Terminator (ya that has English class potential LOL) the ones you meet at meet the teacher night and you can see that disinterested glazed over look in their eyes. Plus a few years after the kid is out of high school, a percentage of the questionnaires just won't come back because neither the child or parent cares. And yes some will come back gushing with hate, because of personality conflicts. But I guarantee you will see a trend a large percentage will show the worst teachers over and over and over again. And over and over you will hear how that one teacher changed the students life and turned them around in a subject. You could easily throw away maybe the bottom 5% of the survey to get rid of just personality conflicts, but if 50% of a survey comes back 2 - 3 years out of high school saying teacher so and so was the absolute worst i have ever had. Likely, one would hope, the kid and parents have been through quite a few teachers, hopefully more as the kid went to college, or university and experienced an array of teaching styles. And still that one bad teacher sticks out in both the student and parents minds. The one that didn't try and teach, or worse was the anti teacher that made your kid turn away from an interest in the subject. Then that teacher needs to be scrutinized, evaluated and probably fired. And those ones that changed kids and inspired them they need to be paid more and commended and kept for their good work.

Really? a the general paddled his desk chair eh? you sure that was you? Because sounds like the 1984 movie "Teachers" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088242/