Forgot your password?

Close
typodupeerror

+ - Sea Turtles harmed due to Global Cooling->

Submitted by bricko
bricko writes "What can be done about the Sea Turtles being harmed due to the ongoing Global Cooling.

"Cold Weather May Be Cause of Sea Turtle Sickness"

Florida's Fish and Wildlife agency's sea turtle biologist Allen Foley says the longer winter is the "working hypothesis."

He says the lower water temperatures suppress the turtles' immune systems, leaving them "susceptible to being sick.""
Link to Original Source

+ - 1.8 Gigapixel camera on DRONE streams Million TERABYTES a day video->

Submitted by
bricko
bricko writes "Can see video of you from 20,000 feet and tell color of shirt.....
Look at this video.you can NOT hide.

The ARGUS-IS can stream up to a million terabytes of data and record 5,000 hours of HD footage per day. It can do this by the 1.8 gigapixel camera and 368 different sensors all housed in the ARGUS-IS.
Air Force intelligence aircraft, drones and manned planes, carry the sensor up to 20,000 feet up and can spot specific features of individuals down to the color of their clothes.

http://defensetech.org/2013/01/29/pbs-features-darpas-argus-is/#more-19251"
Link to Original Source

+ - Son of SOPA may be on the way->

Submitted by
bricko
bricko writes "Start the calls again....SOPA seems to never die.

Seems some congressmen have rehired former staff and are working with VP from Verizon to write up another son of SOPA.

Another sign, according to these sources, is that another former House Judiciary Democrat staffer, Stacey Dansky, vice president of government relations for Viacom, has been on the Hill recently promising members and staffers that a new bill is forthcoming – meaning in Hillspeak that industry attorneys are currently drafting the new bill. Prior to her departure in 2010, Dansky was the committee’s Chief Copyright Counsel when the Democrats controlled the House and the committee."
Link to Original Source

+ - Norwegian Research Institute says Global warming less extreme than feared..-> 3

Submitted by
bricko
bricko writes "Norwegian Research Institute says global warming is much less than anticipated.

Internationally renowned climate researcher Caroline Leck of Stockholm University has evaluated the Norwegian project and is enthusiastic.

“These results are truly sensational,” says Dr Leck. “If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate.”
Temperature rise is levelling off

After Earth’s mean surface temperature climbed sharply through the 1990s, the increase has levelled off nearly completely at its 2000 level. Ocean warming also appears to have stabilised somewhat, despite the fact that CO2 emissions and other anthropogenic factors thought to contribute to global warming are still on the rise.

It is the focus on this post-2000 trend that sets the Norwegian researchers’ calculations on global warming apart."
Link to Original Source

+ - Climate-Change Misdirection->

Submitted by
bricko
bricko writes "Historical analysis of wildfires around the world shows that since 1950 their numbers have decreased globally by 15%. Estimates published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that even with global warming proceeding uninterrupted, the level of wildfires will continue to decline until around midcentury and won't resume on the level of 1950—the worst for fire—before the end of the century.

The National Wind Technology Center outside Boulder, Colo.

Claiming that droughts are a consequence of global warming is also wrong. The world has not seen a general increase in drought. A study published in Nature in November shows globally that "there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years." The U.N. Climate Panel in 2012 concluded: "Some regions of the world have experienced more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia."

As for one of the favorites of alarmism, hurricanes in recent years don't indicate that storms are getting worse. Measured by total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), hurricane activity is at a low not encountered since the 1970s. The U.S. is currently experiencing the longest absence of severe landfall hurricanes in over a century—the last Category 3 or stronger storm was Wilma, more than seven years ago.

While it is likely that we will see somewhat stronger (but fewer) storms as climate change continues, a March 2012 Nature study shows that the global damage cost from hurricanes will go to 0.02% of gross domestic product annually in 2100 from 0.04% today—a drop of 50%, despite global warming."
Link to Original Source

+ - U.S. Leads World In Carbon Emissions Reductions - Without Carbon Tax....oops-> 2

Submitted by
bricko
bricko writes "Oops....Technology, market forces credited for reductions

  International Energy Agency says — U.S. Leads World In Carbon Emissions Reductions....AND WITHOUT A CARBON TAX

Efforts to curb so-called man-made climate change had little or nothing to do with it. Government mandated "green" energy didn't cause the reductions. Neither did environmentalist pressure. And the U.S. did not go along with the Kyoto Protocol to radically cut CO2 emissions.

Instead, the drop came about through market forces and technological advances, according to a report from the International Energy Agency."
Link to Original Source

"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde

Close