Environment
- The Mother Of Inquiries: Parliamentary CRU Report
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The Mother Of Inquiries: Parliamentary CRU Report The UK's House of Commons is often called the mother of parliaments. In reality that would be Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man. However: a cross-party commitee, the House of Commons Science ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 31 2010 - 6:13pm
- IPCC Says: We Give Up
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I have been waiting for the expiry of the embargo on this story at midnight GMT. I am now free to publish what I am confident will be a major scoop for scientificblogging.com IPCC Says: We Give Up In a shocking new publication- " IPCC: The Final Repo ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 1 2010 - 11:06am
- The Role of Annelids in Global Warming
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The Role of Annelids in Global Warming I've search the web for this without success. I found a few references to it being rejected, but no published example but i found this related unreferenced news snip http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63227 I ...
Blog Post - Mo Ackermann - Apr 1 2010 - 8:06pm
- Switching off lights can reduce green house gases?
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I was admitted to one University and the oath University wanted to be filled by all the alumni and students included a sentence about switching off lights when not in use. I pondered a lot how switching off lights can reduce green house gases. One ad of a ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 1 2010 - 7:56pm
- Is earth a Global living entity
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The behaviour of inhabitants of the earth on the whole has followed a pattern of war and peace. There was an eara of tensions, then came era of freedom of thoughts, and now global warming. To me earth is global living entity with its own identity in the s ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 2 2010 - 10:36am
- Plants eat insects to meet out their protein requirements
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When men starting eating meat it might have been necessity because human body cant make proteins from amino acids directly. Plants can utilize inorganic nitrogen and organic nitrogen sources to make their proteins. However some plants growing in marshy, h ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 3 2010 - 12:49pm
- Freedom Of Information And UK Law
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Freedom Of Information And UK Law The UK's Freedom Of Information Act 2000- FOIA- has been much in the news and public debate of late, mainly in connection with allegations that the University Of East Anglia 's Climatic Research Unit has acted i ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 3 2010 - 9:28pm
- Arctic News Or Science Abuse?
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Arctic News Or Science Abuse? As I write these words, media reporters and bloggers are gleefully reporting the recovery of the Arctic ice. There has been snow in many parts of the northern temperate zone recently, and, predictably, there have been cries o ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 5 2010 - 3:35pm
- Madagascar's Radiated Tortoise Could Disappear By 2030
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Madagascar's radiated tortoise is rapidly nearing extinction due to rampant hunting for its meat and the illegal pet trade. Biologists with the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) predict that unless drastic conserva ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm
- Arctic Ice 2010 #1- The Nature Of Sea Ice
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Arctic Ice 2010 #1- The Nature Of Sea Ice Arctic Ice 2010- a short series of articles. This first part is an introduction to the behaviour of Arctic sea ice. The second part will discuss current reports about the state of the Arctic. The third part will d ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 2 2010 - 4:43pm