Environment
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 describe the state of the Arctic ice as of April 2010.
In order to understand the current state of Arctic sea ice it is necessary to know if it is in any way 'normal' or 'abnormal'. In this first article I give some historical and scientific notes to show what has been observed historically.
Exploration and discoveryBefore the age of…
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 of "what happened to global warming?"
It is Spring. The evidence of global warming is all around for anyone who has eyes to see it. But there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Propaganda
George Orwell's book 1984 is famous for its portrayal of a system within which truth is whatever people with short attention spans…
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 conservation measures take place, the species will be driven to extinction within the next 20 years.
The team's recent field survey in southern Madagascar's spiny forest, revealed that entire regions are devoid of tortoises. Residents also reported that armed bands of poachers had taken away truckloads of tortoises to supply open meat markets in towns…
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 in breach of the FOIA.
Before I go further in my analysis of what law is, and what the relevant law means in the context of the allegations against the CRU, I have some important points to make.
Firstly, I am not a lawyer and I am no Jack of Kent, you may take this as a linguistic analysis of some legalese.
Secondly, if the alleged breach of law is…
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 , humid places dont have chance to obtain their nitrogen sources in plenty so to meet deficiency of proteins in their body they catch insects and eat them . They get enough proteins directly to keep them healthy Here is Nepenthes superba from the Justus Liebig Universitat Botanical Garden, Giessen Germany.
Are you taking your proteins…
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 solar system. Man made political boundaries apart the human behaviour globally has followed a pattern of war and peace, happiness and sorrow, plentiful to droughts, haves to have nots in a cyclic manner. According to Japanese proverb things come in pair, joy will always be followed by sadnes .
Human behaviour has remained some what…
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 blue chip company in India says reduce use of paper and save trees. News print is made of plants or plant residues. I appreciate two time use of envelopes in some Universities - The envelopes that University receives are used again to send internal post. Saving of paper and saving environmental destruction. If we are using less…
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 Report" - the IPCC concludes that its study of climate is ultimately futile since so few people are willing trust its findings.
The 10-page report is available only on national government web sites - the IPCC site will be shutting down some time in the next 24 hours.
The report acknowledges the futility of investigating climate by the inter-…
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 am putting the annelid paper here without comment because i think that science should be open to discussion otherwise it isn't science.
A scientific paper found on a hard drive sent to me ananymouslyThe HDD had crashed so i recovered what data i could. It was mostly the usual bloatware but what follows got my attention. i'm not…
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 and Technology Commitee, has just published its report on the CRU affair. The two pdfs, free to download, come to about 2.7Mb of data.31 March 2010 Eighth Report HC 387-I 387i.pdf and 387ii.pdfThe disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.I call this the mother of…