Environment
- Jesse Ventura and the Global Warming Conspiracy Theory
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I was watching Jesse Ventura's show on Global Warming today. He went after those who are promoting Global Warming as a way to increase their pocket books. He had interviewed one of the business owners who are providing tax breaks for those who willing ...
Blog Post - Karen Barnes - Jan 10 2010 - 2:49pm
- Bering Strait Had Profound Impact On Ice Age Climate
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New research published in Nature Geoscience shows that water levels in the Bering Strait helped drive global climate patterns during ice age episodes dating back more than 100,000 years. The study, led by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2010 - 3:24pm
- Butterflies Feeling Effects Of Climate Change, Habitat Alteration
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The compounded effects of climate change and land development are taking a toll on California butterflies, says an analysis conducted by scientists from UC Davis and the University of Nevada, Reno. The new analysis, scheduled to be published online this we ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:00pm
- Global Cooling: A Good Story, If Only It Were True.
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Global Cooling: A Good Story, If Only It Were True. According to Daily Mail reports of 10th and 11th January 2010, we are now entering a phase of global cooling. However, there is an old saying about newspaper reports: "Never let the facts get in th ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 6:37am
- Global Cooling: How Wrong Can You Get?
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Global Cooling: How Wrong Can You Get? Despite media reports to the contrary, the Antarctic ice is still melting, as noted here: Climate change is warming the Amundsen Sea, which is at the southern margin of the Pacific Ocean. As rising sea levels push th ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 6:48am
- Global Cooling: Beyond Parochialism
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Global Cooling: Beyond Parochialism During the next 10 years, climate science and climate science reporting will, I believe, change the public perception of climate change. More people will come to understand the difference between parochial weather and ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 6:39am
- Two-Layer Beaches Hinder Exxon Valdez Biodegradation
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Low concentrations of oxygen and nutrients in the lower layers of the beaches of Alaska's Prince William Sound are slowing the aerobic biodegradation of oil remaining from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, according to a new study appearing in Nature Geosc ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:01pm
- Join The Navy: See A Nuke
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Join The Navy: See A Nuke There was a time when a navy, merchant or military, consisted of hundreds of ships, each manned by hundreds of crew. When I was a child in the 1950s, Sheerness was a thriving dockyard town. Everyone in town knew at least one s ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 6:40am
- Asia Could Sink U.S. Hopes Of Meeting Clean Air Act Standards
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According to a new study in Nature that analyzed large sets of ozone data captured since 1984, springtime ozone levels above western North America are rising primarily due to air flowing eastward from the Pacific Ocean, a trend that is largest when the ai ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2010 - 2:59pm
- Can The UK Met Office Weather The BBC Contract Storm?
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Can The UK Met Office Weather The BBC Contract Storm? The UK's Met Office could lose its contract with the BBC, according to recent media reports. To the general public there is no difference between a weather forecaster, a media weather forecast pr ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 20 2010 - 4:49pm