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Butterflies fight losing battle with climate change

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:40:37 GMT

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Butterflies are declining because they have become trapped in small pockets of countryside, unable to escape the effects of climate change,

the break-up of suitable butterfly habitats by urban spread and agriculture is driving the "staggering" declines.

Britain has seen some of the greatest losses of butterfly diversity in Europe.

This is because the heavy fragmentation of their habitats means they have too far to fly before reaching another suitable area of countryside.

Speaking before the conference, Dr Wilson warned that butterflies could be an early indicator of the fate in store for other insects, animals and plants as the climate warms. British temperatures have risen by between 1C and 1.5C since the 1970s.

Tags: environment, insects, i-climate change, i-extinction, i-risks, i-increase

Operative Word Here is "Could"

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:03:04 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: What a way to go. Pollution at an all time high from the US and now this.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Asian pollution could spur U.S. warming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Asian pollution from Asian power plants, cooking and heating could create summer hot spots in the central United States and southern Europe by mid-century, U.S. climate scientists reported on Thursday.

Unlike the long-lived greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the particle and gas pollution cited in this report only stays in the air for a few days or weeks but its warming effect on the climate half a world away could last for decades, the scientists said.

"We found that these short-lived pollutants have a greater influence on the Earth's climate throughout the 21st century than previously thought," said Hiram "Chip" Levy of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"By 2050, two of the three climate models we use found that changes in short-lived pollutants will contribute 20 percent of the predicted global warming."

By 2100, that figure goes up to 25 percent, Levy said in a telephone briefing.

L'Espagne championne d'Europe

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:13:59 GMT

clipped by: lagola
clipper's remarks: Enregistrement

Clip Source: www.rfi.fr

écouter 1 min 31 sec

ring sizes

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:26:32 GMT

clipped by: evlsquirrkll

Clip Source: cgi.ebay.co.uk

UK Size	US Size	Europe Size	Length of Strip ( mm )
J	5	9.3	49
L	6	11.9	52
N	7	14.5	54
P	8	16.7	57
R	9	19.3	60
T	10	21.5	62
V	11	24.0	65
W	12	26.5	67

People once conquered by Rome at greater risk of HIV

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:15:32 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Or so it is claimed in recent study

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Researchers found that people who live in lands conquered by the Roman army have less protection against HIV than those in countries they never reached

They say a gene which helps make people less susceptible to HIV occurs in greater frequency in areas of Europe that the Roman Empire did not stretch to.

The gene lacks certain DNA elements, which means HIV cannot bind to it as easily and is less able to infect cells.

People with the mutation have some resistance to HIV infection and also take longer to develop AIDS, reports New Scientist.

A study of almost 19,000 DNA samples from across Europe showed the gene variant seemed to dwindle in regions conquered by the Romans.

It is not clear why this is so since the spread of HIV - which began in the early 1980s - is too recent to have influenced the distribution of the variant.

study leader Dr Eric Faure

believes the Romans introduced a disease to which people carrying the gene variant were particularly susceptible.

Tags: odd, roman empire, hiv

solar

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:53:19 GMT

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Clip Source: steelguru.com

According to a study called ‘Solar Generation 2008’ issued by Greenpeace and European Photovoltaic Industry Association, solar photovoltaic panels could supply electricity to more than 4 billion people worldwide by 2030 and could meet all of Europe's energy requirements, while occupying less than 1% of European lands.

Lipstick Fascism

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:31:20 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: "This is the path that America is on with Palin and McCain. The election of 2008 is a choice between the United States Constitution and Lipstick Fascism."

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The
Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

We have seen the next Mussolini and she's wearing a skirt.

Sarah Palin is the face of a post-democracy America, post-constitutional and post-freedom America. She is the home town "little Austrian" vice presidential candidate to a cancer-riddled old man who, chances are high, won't see the end of his first term in office if he becomes president due to illness and old age. The woman who said that we don't need to read people their rights may well be the next president.

mock and belittle your opponents, nibble at the edges of the rule of law, promote violence,

grasp at a weird religion of "destiny" (their version of American exceptionalism) with an "us" against "them" mentality, blame others,

intellectual classes and the media, pit the working people against the perceived elite (Jews in Europe and today's university-educated Democratic Party leaders in America), take power based on grievance and fear and then set aside the constitution altogether based on claimed threats by outsiders.

Tags: palin, mccain, republicans, fascism

The Jive Aces new single on iTunes NOW!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:36:16 GMT

clipped by: jiveaces
clipper's remarks: Check out the new single.

Clip Source: www.jiveaces.com

The Jive Aces present the brand new single...

The Jive Aces have just released a brand new single called "Stories from the Golden Age" a rip-roaring original tune. The "B" side is a pirate inspired swinging chantey called "Under the Black Ensign".

The songs are part of a forthcoming album entitled "Amazing Adventures" inspired by the pulp fiction of the 1930's and 40's. An evocative world of nefarious villains, exotic intrigues, courageous heroes and heroines — a world that today's cinema has only just begun to tap for tales of adventure and swashbucklers.

The singles are only available in the USA and Canada iTunes stores from Monday 1st September but will be released in the UK, Europe at a later date.

The tracks are only $0.99 each so get downloading now!

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You can also download the flyer by clicking HERE

Tags: jive, swing, aces, pulp, fiction, stories, golden, pirate, black, ensign

Germany leads 'clean coal' pilot

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:26:27 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Big questions still hang over CCS technology overall

This mini power plant is a pilot project for carbon capture and storage (CCS) - the first coal-fired plant in the world ready to capture and store its own CO2 emissions.

A cloud of pure oxygen will be breathed into the boiler. The flame will be lit. Then a cloud of powdered lignite will be injected.

The outcome will be heat, water vapour, impurities, nine tonnes of CO2 an hour, and a landmark in clean technology.

Because the CO2 will then be separated, squashed to one 500th of its original volume and squeezed into a cylinder ready to be transported to a gas field and forced 1,000m below the surface into porous rock

the problem is that the exact cost of large-scale CCS is unknown.

The latest estimates suggest CCS power will cost roughly the same as wind power - maybe 50% more than it does at the moment.

The real test of CCS, though, is not in Europe.

Moscow’s Plan is to Redraw the Map of Europe: Mikheil Saakashvili

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:55:56 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Since Russia’s invasion, its forces have been “cleansing” Georgian villages in both regions – including outside the conflict zone – using arson, rape and execution. Human rights groups have documented these actions.

It hopes the west will forget ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia drove out more than three-quarters of the local population – ethnic Georgians, Greeks, Jews and others – leaving the minority Abkhaz in control.

Last week Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president, put us on alert: “Russia does not really know where it begins and where it ends.” He noted that the Moscow regime is “a lot more sophisticated” than the Soviets under Leonid Brezhnev. He should know – he was on the front line the last time Russia invaded a European country.

Backing Georgia with Europe’s political and financial institutions is a powerful response.
The most potent western response to Russia is to stay united and firm by providing immediate material and political support.

Clip Source: www.ft.com

Any doubts about why Russia invaded Georgia have now been erased. By illegally recognising the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, made clear that Moscow’s goal is to redraw the map of Europe using force.

This war was never about South Ossetia or Georgia. Moscow is using its invasion, prepared over years, to rebuild its empire, seize greater control of Europe’s energy supplies and punish those who believed democracy could flourish on its borders. Europe has reason to worry.

Our first duty is to highlight Russia’s Orwellian tactics. Moscow says it invaded Georgia to protect its citizens in South Ossetia. Over the past five years it cynically laid the groundwork for this pretence, by illegally distributing passports in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, “manufacturing” Russian citizens to protect. The cynicism of Russia’s concern for ethnic minorities can be expressed in one word: Chechnya

This cynicism has become hypocritical and criminal

Tags: georgia, south ossetia and abkhazia, medvedev, georgian "cleansing", arson, rape and execution, human rights groups, vaclav havel, czech president

Mammoths moved 'out of America'

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:53:32 GMT

clipped by: tabsey

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists have discovered that the last Siberian woolly mammoths may have originated in North America.

Their research in the journal Current Biology represents the largest study of ancient woolly mammoth DNA.

The iconic Ice Age woolly mammoth - Mammuthus primigenius - roamed through mainland Eurasia and North America until about 10,000 years ago.

Previous studies had hinted that the last mammoths left in Siberia were not natives - but immigrants from North America.

However, more evidence was required to strengthen the case for this "out of America" theory.

A team of researchers led by Professor Hendrik Poinar from McMaster University in Canada collected 160 mammoth samples from across Holarctica - a region encompassing present day North America, Europe and Asia.

Well-preserved DNA material - between 4,000 and 40,000 years old - was obtained from "almost every part of the animal - even from preserved hide, skin and hair", Professor Poinar told BBC News.

Tags: illegal, immigrants, booted, out, 10000, yrs, ago

organic chem

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:36:37 GMT

clipped by: amandajoyce1
clipper's remarks: if not available at library buy

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The Topless Battle Rages On..

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:12:51 GMT

clipped by: paleblue
clipper's remarks: So whats wrong with this country.. its fine for some overweight dude with B cups to walk around but not a woman? The reason you have men going nuts over the site of breasts is because we (the USA) market market them for profit. By making it illegal just makes matters worse.. If it were legal like in Europe men would stop starring at breasts the way they do because they would be used to seeing them.. Now mind you if that were to happen it would also burn lots of women that use them for power in many situations too.. But I think all in all it would be a positive thing. And yes, I nude sunbathe so I see them all the time and no its not a sexual thing -- as I said you just get used to them like anything else!

Clip Source: www.gotopless.org

NATIONAL GOTOPLESS PROTEST DAY

Free speech and Islam

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:09:15 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Eurotrashing Free Speech

In Europe, free speech may end with neither a bang nor a whimper — but with a lawyerly assist.

It was three years ago this month that the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published twelve editorial cartoons satirizing Islamist terrorism. Some Muslim organizations objected. Protests were organized. Danish embassies in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran were set ablaze. Dozens of people were killed. The cartoonists and their editors received death threats from such characters as Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza.

Bitar enthused: “The idea of European lawyers joining us in the campaign and supporting our efforts is tremendous. We are defending Islam in a civilized way and are trying to hold those responsible for the caricatures accountable according to the law.”

The Atlas of Early Printing

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:08:27 GMT

clipped by: RayWatkins

Clip Source: atlas.lib.uiowa.edu

The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of printing in Mainz, Germany around the middle of the fifteenth century is a topic of great importance to the history of European civilization. This website uses Flash to depict the spread of European printing in a manner that allows a user to control dates and other variables.