Clipmarks | invictus's 'global warming' clips

How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic (FAQ)

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:49:11 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: More common questions and myths answered at the source, thoroughly cross-referenced and conveniently categorized and sub-categorized by type of argument:

Stages of Denial

Scientific Topics

Types of Argument

Levels of Sophistication

A nice reference that's updated with fresh comments. Many "skeptics" often are unaware (by choice or by circumstance) that their common questions have already been addressed by scientists long ago.

Clip Source: gristmill.grist.org

Stages of Denial

There's nothing happening

Inadequate evidence

Contradictory evidence

No consensus

We don't know why it's happening

Models don't work

Prediction is impossible

We can't be sure

Tags: climate, global, global warming, climate change, environment, skeptic, skeptics, climatology, atmosphere, earth, science, debate, argument, faq, questions, answers, c02, glaciers, temperature, myths

The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:04:56 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Not making a decision is a decision.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: global warming, logic

Great Minds Drink Alike

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:06:37 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Great Minds Drink Alike: Cafes Tapping Nation's Fascination with Science & Research

Major media from the Chicago Tribune to ABC News to Wired magazine and The New York Times have all reported on a new trend sweeping the U.S., Canada, and Europe: the rise of science cafes. Founded in London, the global network of Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context.

"A lot of people come to see real live scientists — some of whom are extremely famous and prominent — and see how their brains work,"

The quarterly Cafes have tackled diverse issues such as biomechanics, the biology of gender, the big bang theory and global warming, but the basic formula stays the same

To find a Café Scientifique event near you visit their global cafe locations map.

Tags: mind, physics, education, life, science, cafe

Positive proof of global warming

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:52:58 GMT

clipped by: Rwinter

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

Tags: positive proof of global warming, global warming, humor, joke, funny

Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:18:01 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

A new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining” or “noctilucent."

The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why.

"It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means," said atmospheric scientists James Russell III of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. "These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed."

This image shows one of the first ground sightings of noctilucent clouds in the 2007 season over Budapest, Hungary on June 15, 2007. Credit: Veres Viktor/NASA

The "Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere” (AIM) satellite first imaged the noctilucent clouds May 25. People on the ground began seeing them June 6 over Northern Europe.

Tags: science, nasa, atmosphere, global warming, clouds, arctic, earth, environment

10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:57:23 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency

Printed on July 3, 2008

warrantless wiretapping;

Valerie Plame; Scooter Libby's sentence commuted;

Bush believes Rafael Palmeiro is innocent;

soldiers face neglect at Walter Reed;

signing statements;

the Kyoto treaty ripped up;

; loyalty oaths;

the fake turkey;

a staged teleconference with troops

staged FEMA press conference,

extraordinary rendition,

support for junk science;

endorsement of neo-creationist "intelligent design";

inaction against global warming;

record oil prices;

record budget deficits;

record trade deficits;

two recessions;

no-bid contracts;

bin Laden still at large;

the Federal Marriage Amendment;

stem cell research vetoed;

waterboarding ban vetoed

"Last throes";

"Old Europe";

"It's hard work";

"Bring it on";

"Yo, Blair!";

"I'm the decider"

"I'm the commander guy"

"I'm a war president";

"This is the guy who tried to kill my dad"

"Let the Eagle Soar"

John Bolton

Kenny Boy

"So?"

Blair talks Bush out of bombing al-Jazeera

John Roberts

Sam Alit

Tags: bush, president

Bacteria of the Living Dead

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:23:47 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

Halloween Science: Bacteria of the Living Dead

Chop up their DNA and the buggers still keep comin' back to life.

A team of scientists melted five samples of ice from Antarctica in hopes of reviving the oldest known frozen bacteria—millions of years older than any previously brought to life. And, in fact, the bacteria, ranging in age from 100,000 to a stunning 8 million years old, came groaning back in the culture flask. The younger the bacteria, the more quickly the resurrection occurred. It took the younger bacteria just seven days to reproduce; the oldest samples took up to 10 times as long.

The finding could have a profound effect on microbial life (see “The Last Hidden Place on Earth,” page 44). As Antarctic ice melts, the bacteria frozen inside may revive and be taken up by microbes in the ocean, says Paul Falkowski, a Rutgers University biologist who directed the bacteria project.

Tags: bacteria, biology, evolution, global warming

how were the pyramids made? mystery solved...

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:04:03 GMT

clipped by: surfryder

Clip Source: www.philly.com

Are the pyramids concrete?

A Drexel University scientist who hails from Egypt announced provocative new findings yesterday about one of the enduring mysteries of his native land: How did the ancients lug the enormous carved blocks, weighing more than two tons apiece, to build the upper portions of the great pyramids?

The answer, says Michel Barsoum: Some of the blocks were not carved at all, but were made atop the pyramids by pouring a concrete-like "geopolymer" that could be brought up in buckets.

The substance devised by the Egyptians had another surprising attribute, Barsoum said: It was more friendly to the environment than modern-day lime cement, releasing less of the greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

"There's a fabulous irony in that the 5,000-year-old technology is a green technology for today," he said.

Barsoum, a materials engineering professor from Cairo, said he and his associates would not be surprised at resistance to their work, to be published today in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

"We have a tough time because we are materials scientists" and not traditional scholars of Egypt, said one of his coauthors, Adrish Ganguly, who now works in the private sector.

Scholars say the Egyptians used ramps to push the limestone blocks into place. But the great pyramid at Giza is more than 150 yards high, which would in theory require a ramp extending at least 750 yards into the desert - an unlikely scenario.

Some have theorized the use of spiral ramps, but Barsoum said he doubts they could have been built with the necessary precision to hoist the blocks into the proper place.

He says he believes that the lower blocks were indeed carved from limestone, as most scholars say, but he argues that the upper sections were made of the concrete-like substance, citing several lines of evidence.

Tags: discovery, pyramids, egypt, technology, research

Re-Oxygenating the Oceans

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:08:06 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.positivenews.org.uk

A Californian firm has found a way of re-oxygenating the world’s oceans, which it firmly believes will help combat global warming. Using the latest technology, leading eco-restoration firm, Planktos, is planning to replenish the sea’s floating plankton forests, which absorb half the Earth’s carbon dioxide and generate half the Earth’s oxygen.

Simply restoring the marine plankton that has been lost since 1980 could sink and sequester billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. It can also regenerate billions of tons of lost ocean nourishment for collapsing fisheries, birds and whales.

Tags: global warming, oceans, co2

Stephen Hawking Writing a SciFi Trilogy

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:07:52 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator
clipper's remarks: I will buy this set for sure - I love hard scifi

Clip Source: afp.google.com

Science should be 'as exciting as science fiction' says Hawking

CAMBRIDGE, England (AFP) — British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire on Monday to make "real science as exciting as science fiction" as he publicised a new book for children about the cosmos.

"George's Secret Key to the Universe", the first book in a planned trilogy, explains the workings of the solar system, asteroids, black holes -- one of Hawking's favourite topics -- and other celestial bodies with the help of a set of young heroes.

It will be released in French on Thursday, and in English a week later, and is set to be sold in 29 countries. The second book in the trilogy will be published next year.

"Our aim is to make real science as exciting as science fiction," Hawking said.

Asked about the choice facing the heroes in his book -- saving the world from global warming or finding another planet that is habitable for humans -- he said that, like George, he would opt to focus on both.

Tags: science, scifi, stephen hawking, cambridge, trilogy, literature

Right Wing Americans are Getting What They Deserve

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:13:23 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Here's the last bit

All I can say is that this is what you get for believing even for a moment what the US corporate media wants you to believe. The rest of us Bush haters are Bush haters for one reason and one reason only; we pay attention! So to my new former Bush supporting friends who seem to be suddenly surrounding me and telling me that I have been right all along: you can tell me I was right but after that shut the hell up because it is too late for forgiveness. From now on, just shut up and listen. Think about it!

Yeah!! I just had to clip this. I just had to!
I'm just gonna have to take the s*** and excuses and apologetics the Bush supporters and neo-con clippers are gonna try to give me on this, but I don't care. It's most definitely worth it. This clip is for all my fellow "Bush-haters" Enjoy! I did!

Clip Source: tvnewslies.org

Right Wing Americans are Getting What They Deserve

If there has ever been a case where people have lost the right to complain it is now. The blind faith and catatonic loyalty given to George W. Bush by what has to be the most uninformed political base in human history serves as justification for those of us in the “we told you so” crowd to tell them to shut up and take it like a man. As the average American drowns in the wake of the Bush tsunami I don’t want to hear so much as a peep from the millions who ridiculed the “intellectuals” who tried to warn them about this intellectually inert puppet and his fascist handlers.

As American soldiers and innocent Iraqis die by the hundreds each day, as the true costs of the Bush tax cuts and Medicare overhaul come destroy one family after another, as each child dies from asthma due to relaxed environmental laws, when an accident at a germ warfare facility wipes out a city, when our coastal cities end up under water because we ignored and exacerbated global warming, as new cancers and horrors arise because our food supply has been genetically modified without our permission and when we have to go to war with other nations because the global food chain broke and our seas no longer provide oxygen to breath and there is not enough food and air to support life on earth because our god damn president does not believe in science, every Fox News watching, Limbaugh listening, Hannitized, flag wearing, gay hating right wing Constitution bashing false patriot Bush supporter better shut up and take it because they made it happen! Bush supporters have nobody to blame but themselves and guess what, the rest of us should blame them too.

Tags: bush, politics, media, huba

Concrete that literally eats pollution.

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:44:08 GMT

clipped by: TheCatWhisperer
clipper's remarks: If it works, then this could be a big breakthrough indeed.

However, it's not like cities are going to start re-paving roads that don't need it, or demoing & rebuilding building, (or even just repainting them with this solution)... The cost would be prohibitive. So that 50% savings (just off of 15% of concrete surfaces) is a LONG way away.

Plus, this definitely doesn't curb the need for changing the way we pollute...

Clip Source: www.businessweek.com

Venice hardly counts among the most-polluted places in the world. There are no cars traveling its narrow streets, and all traffic is either by foot or by boat. So despite the crowded walkways and canals, the air in Venice is far cleaner than that of, say, Milan, Italy's economic capital, which recent figures indicate has some of the worst air quality in Europe.

Even so, visitors to the Italian Pavilion of the architecture exhibition in the Venice Biennale, which will remain open until Nov. 19, will get a breath of fresh air. That's because parts of the concrete walls and grounds have been built with cement containing an active agent that, in presence of light, breaks air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, benzene, and others through a natural chemical process called photocatalysis.

The results so far are astonishing: A street in the town of Segrate, near Milan, with an average traffic of 1,000 cars per hour, has been repaved with the compound, "and we have measured a reduction in nitric oxides of around 60%," says Italcementi's spokesperson Alberto Ghisalberti. In a test over an 8,000 square meter (or approximately 2 acres) industrial area paved with active blocks near Bergamo, Italcementi's hometown, the reduction was measured at 45%.

In large cities such as Milan, with persistent pollution problems caused by car emissions, smoke from heating systems, and industrial activities, both the company and outside experts estimate that covering 15% of all visible urban surfaces (painting the walls, repaving the roads) with products containing TX Active could abate pollution by up to 50%, depending on the specific atmospheric conditions.

Of course, this approach isn't meant to replace efforts to curb pollution, but it can significantly magnify their effects. Here's how it works: The active principle—basically a blend of titanium dioxide that acts as photocatalyzer—can be incorporated in cement, mortar, paints, and plaster.

Tags: pollution, clean air, global warming, environment, technology

5 Scientific Laws and the Scientists Behind Them

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:29:11 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: From Cliff Pickover's Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ..

1. Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy

Plutarch wrote that Archimedes was so obsessed with math that his servants had to force him to bathe, and that while they scrubbed him, he continued to draw geometrical figures on his body!

2. Hooke’s Law of Elasticity

Hooke was interested in the science of respiration, so he had himself placed in a sealed vessel from which air was gradually pumped out.

he damaged his ears and experienced deafness in the process

3. Bernoulli's Law of Fluid Dynamics (Bernoulli's Principle)

Johann was unable to bear the “shame" of being comparable to his son and threw Daniel out of his house for winning the prize that he felt should've been his alone!

4. Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Dalton never married, saying "My head is too full of triangles, chymical process, and electrical experiments, etc.,

5. Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction

Global warming? Blame Fourier - he came up with the idea

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Global Warming Myth Exposed - Devastated

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:13:03 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: I realize the understanding of science in America and Europe especially is ridiculously poor. However, this presenter does a fine job of presenting the facts regarding the claims of the global warming alarmists.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: global warming, climate change, climate

Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:41:51 GMT

clipped by: Newfman

Clip Source: environment.newscientist.com

An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers.

If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming. This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because the process has been going on for billions of years and the bugs are unlikely to cause human disease.

Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues extracted DNA and bacteria from ice found between 3 and 5 metres beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica. The ice gets older as it flows down the valleys and the researchers took five samples that were between 100,000 and 8 million years old.

The cultures grown from organisms found in the 100,000-year-old ice doubled in size every 7 days on average.

Tags: science