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Dataman
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Don't know how to say this but there is an (Un)Scientific America website and a book by that title... A few days ago, a lesser opti-comment on a blog came in [No, we don't do science through blogs... there's discussion, sometimes useless argument and screeching at times, but no actual science]. It was touching on enhancement of US droughts due to impairment of evapo-transportation and the very large corn covers on US farm land and a cryptic about CO2 & GM connection. Really, I followed his thought, but don't want nor will take a single biologists word on this, not a dozen. Somewhere a paper will appear [may exist already] and then the peer review and cross verification of other research will tease out the actual and solid facts. What I do know is, that evapo-transportation IS of critical importance to climate and plant-live and everything else, even sea based. On a lighter note, when the world freezes over, the polar bears will get to know their counter part: ![]() --//-- P.S. Finding studies... frequently drafts, un-reviewed by peers, are lurking in corners. Google Scholar is pretty good if you have a set of key words, names appearing with an Abstract shown at e.g. Springer. Early publications are clearly water-marked with ''For Review'' of similar, in inalterable pdf or similar. You'v surely seen them. . I agree with much you say. I posted this article only because it was so incredibly egregious to be noteworthy. Scientific American ceased to be a science publication of note circa 1960’s as revenue dropped. After all we were much too busy with sex, drugs and rock & roll then to attend Physics class and “Zap Comics” are a much easier read than Scientific American. ![]() The conglomerate “Nature” seems to be the publication of choice over here but most everything there costs $’s. In this digital age, replication costs seemed to have gone from an ‘expense offset” to a “revenue enhancement”. As difficult as it is here to get a young person to be even mildly interested in science, one would think it would be otherwise. ![]() Don't know I thought you were residing in Australia. ![]() ![]() |
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In light of recent events environmental campaigners have made Arctic drilling a key battleground. Below is an article that looks at the current battle between Cairns Energy and Greenpeace.
Arctic activism - High latitudes, high stakes |
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Two interesting pieces of energy and environment conservation:
1. A cheap way to sequester CO2 in coal power-plant smokestacks... if the waste is save, put it back on where they took the mountain tops off as an ROI... the train that carry the black stuff forth, can be loaded to transport back where it came from. Carbon scrubbing condensers made on the cheap 2. No heat-pump, just an inert material that can be set to absorb heat when it's warmer than the wanted C/F and release it when it's lower. Nifty: Heat-Regulating Material Stores Or Releases Heat Based On Temperature Picture this: You put your hand on such a wall of this material, and suddenly you're having cold fingers, or set that fan in a hot room to point at the wall, and you get cool air back. Better still, the ceiling made of it and the fan blowing cooled air down... yup want it in our kitchen, where it's presently 31C. --//-- |
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Here in our Med, jellyfish are on the rise, aggressively expanding populations... that those eating them are in lesser number we knew, but the acidification of the oceans and seas seems to especially favor their expansion. Many hits on Google,
http://www.google.it/search?q=ocean+jellyfish...cial&client=firefox-a Most recent as random pick: http://www.feelguide.com/2011/06/12/jellyfish...ans-into-acid-wastelands/ Don't want to be paddeling around in your scuba-suite when one of these is near... said to be roaming the oceans since 650 million years...big pic for a big jelly: http://www.feelguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Jellyfish.jpg --//-- |
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Britain Completes First Green Zone
Amidst the flurry of bad news being broadcast out of the UK, as London riots rage across the city, there has been some good news on the alternative energy front as well. Westmill Solar Farm, the UK’s largest solar farm, was connected to the national grid a couple of weeks ago. Power from adjoining solar and wind farms in Oxfordshire now provide energy to 4,000 homes for the next 25 years, at least.. |
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New Zealand blizzards 'heaviest in 50 years'
Wellington and Auckland blanketed by once-in-a-lifetime weather... |
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This is really something ..
----------------------------------------Shell Gannet Alpha oil spill in Northern Sea A leak in a flow line leading to the Gannet Alpha oil platform 113 miles (180 km) off Aberdeen was found last week. Shell said it was under control, and estimated 216 tonnes – 1,300 barrels – had spilled... [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 17, 2011 12:34:28 PM] |
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