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A Cloud Filling A Mountain Valley - MUST SEE! MUST SEE!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:28:31 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: This is EXCEPTIONALLY cool.

Tags: weather, topography, mountain, cloud, climate, altitiude

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 Anasazi mystery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:32:01 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising

Some 700 years ago, as part of a vast migration, a people called the Anasazi, driven by God knows what, wandered from the north to form settlements like these, stamping the land with their own unique style

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

These Anasazi newcomers

were distinctive in other ways. They liked to build with stone

Why, in the late 13th century, did thousands of Anasazi abandon Kayenta, Mesa Verde and the other magnificent settlements of the Colorado Plateau and move south into Arizona and New Mexico?

Looking beyond climate change, some archaeologists are studying the effects of warfare and the increasing complexity of Anasazi society. They are looking deeper into ancient artifacts and finding hints of an ideological struggle, clues to what was going through the Anasazi mind.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Eight Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:06:12 GMT

clipped by: Newfman

Clip Source: www.cassiopaea.com

There is no use in trying to be honest with an emotional manipulator.

An emotional manipulator is the picture of a willing helper.

Crazy making - saying one thing and later assuring you they did not say it.

Guilt. Emotional manipulators are excellent guilt mongers.

Emotional manipulators fight dirty.

If you have a headache an emotional manipulator will have a brain tumor!

Emotional manipulators somehow have the ability to impact the emotional climate of those around them.

Emotional manipulators have no sense of accountability

Tags: pschology

How to Give & Receive Constructive Criticism

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:17:27 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321

Clip Source: www.iwmf.org

Constructive Criticism:

Provides feedback that enhances job results
Leads to ongoing personal and professional development
Reduces stress and creates psychological security
Helps improve interpersonal relationships
Helps develop the ideal organizational climate

Golden Rules of Giving Criticism:

Give criticism in private.
Do not sound threatening.
Keep the criticism balanced.
Focus on the problem, not on the person's personality.
Don't overstate the problem by using words such as "always," "never" or "worst."
Give criticism soon after the event.
Pose questions that let the person do the work for you.
Stick to one subject. Don't string together criticisms at one sitting.
Don't remind people of previous instances that were resolved.
Use the "I" mode.

Golden Rules of Receiving Criticism:

Welcome feedback.
Listen to the criticism.
Maintain eye contact and open body language as you listen.
Restate the criticism to make sure you understand it.
View the criticism as an attempt to fix a problem, not a personal attack.
Focus on possible solutions to each criticism.

Tags: career, job, management

Madrid's 'Air Tree' Will “Climatically Transform” Urban Architecture

Sat, 17 May 2008 11:19:32 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

The city of Madrid soon plans to add a striking new structure -Air Tree pavilion- that will “climatically transform” its urban architecture. It also produces oxygen like a tree, hence the name. The Air Tree pavilion is to be built from recycled materials and will be 100% energy self-sufficient. Using photovoltaic cells, the Air Tree produces a substantial amount of energy, which is then sold back to the local electric companies, and, of course oxygen - hence the name Air Tree. It's a completely unique idea and one that, unlike most out-of-the-box ideas, is actually being made a reality.

The surrounding environment near the air tree will be naturally conditioned, reducing the heat island effect found in most city centers. The air trees will be implemented city wide in the coming years.

Tags: air tree, climate, design, nature, urban, architecture

8 million year old Cypress trees found

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:26:42 GMT

clipped by: BigBadWolf

Clip Source: www.dailyexhumation.com

Hungarian scientists have discovered a group of fossilised swamp cypress trees preserved from 8 million years ago which could provide clues about the climate of pre-historic times.

Instead of petrifying — turning to stone — the wood of 16 Taxodium trees got preserved in an open-cast coal mine and geologists studied samples as if they were sections cut from a piece of living wood.

“The importance of the findings is that so many trees got preserved in their original position in one place,” Alfred Dulai, a geologist said. “But the real rarity about these trees is that... their original wood got preserved and they did not turn into stone.”

The trees, which stand 4-6 meters tall and 1.5-3 meters in diameter, were found when miners started to remove a deep layer of sand at a mine in the north-eastern village of Bukkabrany to get at deposits of lignite.

The trees date back to the late Miocene geological period at a time when the Carpathian basin

was a freshwater lake surrounded by swamps.

Tags: history, science, life

No more power bills -ever

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:10:55 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

HYDROGEN HOUSE: This unassuming modular home in suburban New Jersey runs on solar power and stored hydrogen.
©DAVID BIELLO

EAST AMWELL, N.J.—Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas bill—nor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sable—in nearly two years. Instead, the 51-year-old civil engineer makes all the fuel he needs using a system he built in the capacious garage of his home, which employs photovoltaic (PV) panels to turn sunlight into electricity that is harnessed in turn to extract hydrogen from tap water.

Although the device cost $500,000 to construct, and it is unlikely it will ever pay off financially (even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices), the civil engineer says it is priceless in terms of what it does buy: freedom from ever paying another heating or electric bill, not to mention keeping a lid on pollution, because water is its only by-product.

Tags: hydrogen, power bills, solar power

Viruses can catch colds, says study that redefines life itself

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:06:46 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Prof La Scola and his colleagues were surprised to spot a smaller type of virus attached to the virus-making factory inside infected cells. The new virus - Sputnik - was unable to infect cells by itself but seemed to hijack the larger to achieve its infectious aims.

By regulating the growth and death of plankton, giant viruses - and satellite viruses such as Sputnik - could be a major influence on ocean nutrient cycles and climate.

"These viruses could be major players in global systems," Nature is told by Prof Curtis Suttle, an expert in marine viruses at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

viruses can apparently get sick.

Even better, they're made sick by another virus.

Viruses are the ultimate example of KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. Nothing but a core of genetic material in a protein shell, they may not be able to do anything but replicate (and even then only with a host cell), but they also outnumber us umpty-billion to one.

Their simplicity also makes them hard to kill

Researchers at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have now discovered a virus, named "Sputnik" for its extreme simplicity, which can hijack the viral factory of another pathogen and insert its own code into the program.

The double-victimised cell now manufactures Sputniks, and copies of the original virus which do manage to be made suffer from damage and imperfections because of this second-super-sub-cellular-sabotage.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus seems to suggest they too are alive

Tags: virology, biology, molecular biology

Do Not Read This !

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:08:56 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: At the current state of our planet, and mounting evidence to human induced climate change, these rich resources of fossil fuels are nothing short of a Faustian proposition.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

The area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil, 1,670 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas, and 44 billion barrels of technically recoverable natural gas liquids in 25 geologically defined areas thought to have potential for petroleum.

The U.S. Geological Survey assessment released July 24 is the first publicly available petroleum resource estimate of the entire area north of the Arctic Circle.

These resources account for about 22 percent of the undiscovered, technically recoverable resources in the world.

The Arctic accounts for about 13 percent of the undiscovered oil, 30 percent of the undiscovered natural gas, and 20 percent of the undiscovered natural gas liquids in the world. About 84 percent of the estimated resources are expected to occur offshore.

we're providing the same information to everyone in the world so that the global community can make those difficult decisions.

Tags: fossil fuels, environment

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

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Tags: global warming, climate change, climate

Lost land discovered below the North Sea

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:59:17 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Maybe another Atlantis candidate?

Clip Source: www.stonepages.com

Prehistoric landscape found below the North Sea waves

A lost landscape where early humans roamed more than 8,000 years ago has been discovered beneath the British North Sea. A map of the underwater world reveals criss-crossing rivers, giant lakes and gentle hills around which hunter-gatherers made their homes toward the end of the last ice age.

The region was inundated between 18,000 and 6000 BCE, when the warming climate melted the thick glaciers that pressed down from the north. As the water rose, the great plain vanished, and slowly the contours of the British Isles and the north-west European coastline were established. Now the primitive landscape is submerged and preserved, tens of metres beneath one of the busiest seas in the world.

Tags: archaeology, prehistory, undersea, lost land, england

State of the planet, in graphics

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:31:45 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

State of the planet, in graphics

Globally human populations are growing, trade is increasing, and living standards are rising for many. But, according to the UN's latest Global Environment Outlook report, long-term problems including climate change, pollution, access to clean water, and the threat of mass extinctions are being met with "a remarkable lack of urgency".

Tags: state of the planet, graphics, bbc, global

The Earth fights back

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:40:43 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

periods in our planet's history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected

an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis

there was a close correlation between how quickly sea levels went up and down during the last ice age and the level of explosive activity at volcanoes in Italy and Greece

how can rising sea levels cause volcanoes to erupt?

answer lies in the enormous mass of the water pouring into the ocean basins

seems to be sufficient to load and bend the underlying crust.

Tags: science, earth, global warming, earthquakes, volcanooes

Deja Vu

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:57:18 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com

NYT: Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea

“Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs”

You can read the entire article in PDF form at this link

There’s just one thing wrong with this article, besides that it is flat wrong. Oh I know, there will be those that insist it may come true. However, there’s one bit of context that is worth exploring.

The article, as seen above, was published February 20th, 1969

See the date stamp at the bottom of the PDF

On the flip side, here is an article from 1922 where the ice is actually melting fast:

Deja Vu all over again: climate worries of today also happened in the 20’s and 30’s