Archive for April, 2009
Moeen Yaseen: Global Vision 2000, Exec. Director
Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
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Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age
Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
This article dates from 22nd January, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG, January 22 (RIA Novosti) – Temperatures on Earth have stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti Tuesday.
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Growing Anger at US Killings in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
Unborn Baby Shot in the Womb Definitely Not a Militant
10th April, 2009
The Khost Province killings yesterday have sparked a growing level of outrage at the behavior of US forces across Afghanistan, and have led Afghan President Hamid Karzai to demand once again that foreign forces adhere to their previous agreement to coordinate planned raids with the national government, and base them on accurate information.
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Iran poses no threat to US: Russia
Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
7th April, 2009
Iran poses no threat to the United States, Russia said Tuesday, rebuffing a key argument of President Barack Obama on whether to go ahead with a European missile shield bitterly opposed by Moscow.
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China and Russia unite to block UN action over North Korea long-range rocket launch
Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
From Daily Mail
6th April, 2009
Click on above link for full article.
China and Russia have united to block any UN action over a North Korean test launch of a long-range missile.
The move came hours after President Obama set out his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons yesterday.
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David Ray Griffin in London to talk on 9/11
Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
Professor David Ray Griffin, renowned author of a series of eye-opening books that recount his painstaking research into the attacks of September 11, 2001, begins his new European tour in London on 14th April. Stressing the fact that the time has come for a second look at the events of that fateful day the evening will be comprised of a lecture and a questions and answers session with Professor Griffin. It is the first date of a European tour taking in 7 countries over the next month. 9/11: Time for a Second Look – Prof. David Ray Griffin Tuesday 14th April 2009 City University, Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre The Tait Building, Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB 6:30 doors, starts at 7pm. Tickets are £5.50 (incl 50p booking fee) and can be obtained via: http://www.timeforasecondlook.com/london
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ARS-developed honey bees headed to the new White House garden
Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2009
The USDA is going to great lengths to create new(genetically modified?) bees capable of resisting parasites. But the Penn State University study, in which the USDA participated, has already ruled out varroa mite and other parasites as the source of the problem known as CCD. We see then that the investigation into the greatest ecological threat we’ve ever faced seems destined to go nowhere.
10th April, 2009
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined First Lady Michelle Obama and a group of 5th graders on the South Lawn of the White House today to talk about healthy eating, the availability of locally grown fruits and vegetables, and bees.
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Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector
Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2009
This study looks like a timely recognition of the apparent fact that global warming is no longer taking place and temperatures are actually cooling. However, there is a problem with merely putting global warming back a decade: if the global warming theorists didn’t predict this cooling phase, in the midst of continued increase in CO2 emissions, why on earth should we believe any of their other predictions.
Nature 453, 84-88 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06921; Received 25 June 2007; Accepted 14 March 2008; Corrected 8 May 2008
N. S. Keenlyside1, M. Latif1, J. Jungclaus2, L. Kornblueh2 & E. Roeckner2
The climate of the North Atlantic region exhibits fluctuations on decadal timescales that have large societal consequences. Prominent examples include hurricane activity in the Atlantic1, and surface-temperature and rainfall variations over North America2, Europe3 and northern Africa4. Although these multidecadal variations are potentially predictable if the current state of the ocean is known5, 6, 7, the lack of subsurface ocean observations8 that constrain this state has been a limiting factor for realizing the full skill potential of such predictions9. Here we apply a simple approach—that uses only sea surface temperature (SST) observations—to partly overcome this difficulty and perform retrospective decadal predictions with a climate model. Skill is improved significantly relative to predictions made with incomplete knowledge of the ocean state10, particularly in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific oceans. Thus these results point towards the possibility of routine decadal climate predictions. Using this method, and by considering both internal natural climate variations and projected future anthropogenic forcing, we make the following forecast: over the next decade, the current Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will weaken to its long-term mean; moreover, North Atlantic SST and European and North American surface temperatures will cool slightly, whereas tropical Pacific SST will remain almost unchanged. Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.
- Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstra
e 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Correspondence to: N. S. Keenlyside1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to N.S.K. (Email: nkeenlyside@ifm-geomar.de.).
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‘Wi-fi in schools may give children cancer’
Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2009
“However, with regard to the need for precautions, the Health Protection Agency is intending to carry out a research project to measure the effects of radio signals from wireless networks.”
As usual our politicians fail to grasp the nature of the precautionary principle. It doesn’t mean you introduce the technology and then finally get round to looking at its effects: it means you don’t introduce trhe technology until you have shown it to be safe.“On the basis of research so far, there is no hard evidence of any ill health effects from wi-fi. The signals are very low, in fact there is more wattage coming from the battery.”It is questionable how long Dr Michael Clark will be able to continue pontificating in his capacity as scientific spokeperson at the HPA. His boss, Sir William Stewart, has noted that, due to exposure, “there may be changes, for example in cognitive function… there were some indications that there may be cancer inductions… there were some molecular biology changes within the cell and these were issues that we had to bear in mind.”So there is evidence but Clark has decided its not “hard” evidence. Stewart also believes that children “are more vulnerable to radio frequency radiation emissions than adults. ” This suggests to my untutored mind that both children and adults are vulnerable.With regard to Clark’s claims that “signals are very low, in fact there is more wattage coming from the battery”, researchers “working for the BBC’s Panorama programme found the maximum signal strength one metre from a wi-fi-enabled laptop in a classroom in Norwich was three times that measured 100 metres away from a mobile phone mast nearby” So the EM signal coming from a battery is higher than that coming from a mast. Hmmmm?
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Police medic lays into demonstrators
Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2009
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The G20 wind egg
Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2009
Here is some cheering news: as suspected Brown’s much vaunted global stimulus amounts to practically nothing. William Buiter has done us the honour of putting his considerable expertise to debunking this particular piece of New Labour hype. As we have predicted for some time institutions like the IMF are now blocked from the point of view of the machinations of Brown’s New World Order brigade. It remains for Washington and London to desist from further, fruitless attempts to impose their hegemony and instead dismantle their empire, and for new global leadership to emerge based on the rising poles to the South and East, such as China, Iran and Bolivarist South America.
From:
The green shoots are weeds growing through the rubble in the ruins of the global economy
William Buiter
8th April, 2009
The global stimulus associated with the increase in IMF resources agreed at the G20 meeting earlier this month will be negligible unless and until these resources actually materialise. The statements, declarations and communiqués of the G20, including the most recent ones highlight the gaps between dreams and deeds.
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