Cosmic rays blamed for global warmingMan-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book, to be published this week, they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
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'Doomsday' vault design unveiled The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change.
Construction begins in March, and the... (more)
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'Putrid' orange snow falls in SiberiaWhen Frank Zappa penned the hit single "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" back in 1974, his words were meant as a warning to Eskimos to avoid the spots "where the huskies go." Yesterday Russian authorities were forced to repeat the American singer song-writer's advice for altogether different reasons after putrid smelling yellow, green and orange snow fell across a substantial swathe of Siberia.
The bizarre phenomenon caused consternation across the affected regions of Omsk and Tomsk, wh... (more)
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Russia probes smelly orange snowRussia has flown a team of chemical experts to a Siberian region to find out why smelly, coloured snow has been falling over several towns.
Oily yellow and orange snowflakes fell over an area of more than 1,500sq km (570sq miles) in the Omsk region on Wednesday, Russian officials said. Chemical tests were under way to determine the cause, they said.
Residents have been advised not to use the snow for household tasks or let animals graze on i... (more)
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First Blog Requiring True User Identity Formally Opens in ChinaThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has recently adopted a new system for Internet users requiring individuals to use their true identity when registering on-line. The new system was designed to allow increased CCP surveillance of Internet use in China.
A Chinese blog named "United Blog Community" was formally initiated on January 29 in Beijing. According to the CCP's official media outlet, Xinhua News Agency, "United Blog Community" does not ... (more)
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Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human ActivityTwo powerful new books say today’s global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March.
Singer and Avery no... (more)
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US urges scientists to block out sunTHE US wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.
It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be "important insurance" against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a UN report on climate change, the first part of which is due out on Friday).
The US has also attempted to steer the UN report... (more) FLASHBACK: Chemtrail Sunscreen Taught In US Schools |
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Falling Ice From The SkyHere is an interesting one for insurance claim adjustors. A block of ice literally fell from the sky and crushed a car in Hillsborough County.
A neighbor was outside at the time and saw the chunk come crashing down on the Mustang.
The neighbor saved most of the ice and put it in his freezer.
No reports yet on where this mysterious ice might have come from but many in that neighborhood say they are keeping an eye on the sky.
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Attack of the Giant Ice Balls!In January 2000, Spain came under attack from an unknown assailant. Giant chunks of ice dropped from cloudless skies and crushed car hoods, punched through rooftops and windshields, and slammed into the shoulder of an elderly woman. In a 10-day period, 15 basketball-sized ice balls weighing up to 8 pounds pelted southern Spain.
At first, Spanish authorities deemed the mysterious mass the work of passing aircraft—likely frozen excrement from the lavatory or perhaps condensed ... (more) "Another meteorological team found that the lower stratosphere was unusually moist during the 10 days the ice balls fell. They speculated that the nuclei of the ice ball could have been lingering jet contrails that then descended through a nearly saturated atmosphere."
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'Inconvenient Truth' Producer Pens Kids' Global Warming Text(CNSNews.com) - Move over, Chicken Little. A children's book planned for release in September is an attempt to "fill the minds of children with 'sky-is-falling' global warming hysteria," a Republican senator warns.
The producer of former Vice President Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" is hard at work on a new project: writing a book to help school kids "understand why global warming happens."
Scholastic, Inc. - one of the world's largest publishers of children... (more)
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Italy's high court rules that file downloading not a crime if not for profit MILAN, Italy -- Italy's top criminal court has ruled that downloading music, movies and software over the Internet isn't a crime if profit wasn't the motivation, though analysts questioned Monday whether the ruling would have much effect on copyright laws.
The court's decision, issued earlier this month but reported over the weekend by the Italian media, overturns earlier convictions against two former Turin Polytechnic Institute students who set up in 1994 a peer-to-peer, file-s... (more)
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US condemns China 'space weapon'The United States, Australia and Canada have criticised China over a weapons test it is said to have carried out in space last week.
The Americans say the Chinese sent up a ballistic missile to destroy an ageing weather satellite.
They say the test went against the spirit of co-operation both countries aspire to in the area of civil space.
Reports say Britain, South Korea and Japan were expected to express their concerns to China soon.
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Lethal secrets of 1918 flu virusScientists who recreated "Spanish flu" - the 1918 virus which killed up to 50m people - have witnessed its remarkable killing power first hand.
The lungs of infected monkeys were destroyed in just days as their immune systems went into overdrive after a Canadian laboratory rebuilt the virus.
The reason for the lethal nature of the 1918 flu was never fully understood.
But the experts behind this test say they have found a huma... (more)
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Northrop Grumman Tooling Up First Ray Gun Production LineNorthrop Grumman Corporation today opened a specialized facility exclusively for system integration and production of high-energy laser systems for military uses - the first of its kind by private industry in the United States. Located at the Space Technology sector's Space Park campus, the Directed Energy Production Facility is specifically designed for the production of high-energy, solid-state lasers and their integration onto military vehicles.
"Powerful military lasers, with ... (more)
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A crowded wombA twin leans over and kisses the cheek of her sister in a heart-warming picture that would not be out of place in any family home.
Yet these siblings are a not even born and the astonishing images have been captured on a new 'four-dimensional' ultrasound scan of the womb.
The scans are a highly developed form of traditional ultrasound where very high frequency sound waves are used to produce images of what is inside the body.
As with older forms of u... (more)
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Robot wars The Demo III is the US Army Research Lab’s newest experimental unmanned vehicle. (Photograph: KL Vantran)
In November 2004, during the second battle of Fallujah, an American uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) -- a robot plane -- located a mortar battery that had been hampering the United States operation to retake the town. The mortar's position was logged by the UAV's operator, who was sitting at his desk in Nellis air-force base near Las Vegas, thousands of kilometres aw... (more)
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Cremation costs to rise as tooth fillings poison the livingCremation costs are set to rise by up to £100 - because the teeth of the dead are poisoning the living.
Bereaved families are to be hit with a charge to fund new filters that stop toxic fumes from vaporised mercury fillings polluting the atmosphere.
The levy could see the price of having a loved one cremated rise by up to a third.
But environmentalists say it is vital to cut the spiralling mercury emissions from dental fillings that contaminate ... (more)
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U.S. moving to refurbish its nuclear arsenalThe Bush administration is expected to announce this week a major step forward in the building of the country's first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue is untested and risky.
The new weapon would not add to but replace the nation's existing arsenal of aging warheads with a new generation meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental det... (more)
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Gates says day of the home-help robot is nearAn office worker checks her home-gadget webpage from her work computer. The tasks she set for her home robots in the morning have all been completed: washing and ironing, vacuuming the lounge and mowing the lawn.
She orders dinner from the kitchen chefbot - sushi today, using a recipe from a Japanese website - then checks her elderly mother's house. The companionbot has given mum her medicine and helped her out of bed and into a chair.
This is the vision of the futu... (more)
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