Comment Last week, statistician and amateur meteorologist Steve McIntyre notified NASA of an error in its climate data. The results of the hasty correction mean that as far as the US is concerned, 1998 is no longer the hottest year on record. 1934 is. Headline-grabbing statements that nine out of ten of the hottest years on record were in the last decade are no longer correct, for the US, at least (bad news for Mr Gore, certainly). And those who remain sceptical about the nature of the link between human activity and global warming were delighted, as the Goddard Institute for Space Studies had to quietly admit the mistake and publish corrected data. But what does this mean for the rest of us? What was the glitch? Where was the miscalculation? And do we need to check our data? Can we all hop into our Humvees and barrel around town, untroubled by our carbon emissions? Goddard itself says the change is not significant enough to change the overall trends associated with global warming. Is it right? Richard Allen, environmental systems scientist at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, thinks the revision is not worth getting too agitated […]
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. advertisement The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons – energetic packets of light – travelled ‘instantaneously’ between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws. Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: ‘For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of.’
Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us. Charleton Heston’s now-famous speech before the National Rifle Association at a convention back in 2000 will forever be remembered as a stirring moment for all 2nd Amendment advocates. At the end of his remarks, Heston held up his antique rifle and told the crowd in his Moses-like voice, ‘over my cold, dead hands.’ While Heston, then serving as the NRA President, made those remarks in response to calls for more gun control laws at the time, those words live on. Heston’s declaration captured a truly American value: An over-arching desire to protect our freedoms. But gun confiscation is exactly what happened during the state of emergency following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, along with forced relocation. U.S. Troops also arrived, something far easier to do now, thanks to last year’s elimination of the 1878 Posse Comitatus act, which had forbid regular U.S. Army troops from policing on American soil. […]
SYDNEY — Australian scientists have identified a massive underwater current they say is the missing link in a ‘global conveyor belt’ that connects the world’s oceans and regulates climate around the planet. Research confirms that a current sweeping past Tasmania, south of the Australian mainland, towards the South Atlantic is a previously undetected component of the ‘engine room’ of the global climate system. Ken Ridgway, a scientist with the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), said yesterday that the current – called the Tasman Outflow, and found at a depth of 2,600 to 3,300ft – may play an important role in the conveyor belt’s response to climate change. The missing deep ocean pathway, known as a ‘supergyre’, links the three ocean basins of the southern hemisphere: the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic. Research by a CSIRO team has confirmed that the waters south of Tasmania form a ‘choke point’, connecting the main ‘circulation cells’ in the three oceans. Mr Ridgway said it had long been known that a system of currents north of Australia, called the Indonesian Throughflow, drains water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean through Indonesia – a process that influences rainfall in […]
Eating lots of junk food during pregnancy or while breastfeeding may make childhood obesity more likely, a new study suggests. The pregnancy diet study was conducted in rats, not people. But the researchers argue that their findings show that mothers may pass their junk food diets on to their offspring and increase their obesity. The researchers included Stephanie Bayol, Ph.D., and professor Neil Stickland, Ph.D., of London’s Royal Veterinary College. ‘This study shows that a maternal junk food diet during pregnancy and lactation may be an important contributing factor in the development of obesity,’ they write in the British Journal of Nutrition. The researchers also put it more bluntly, stating that women shouldn’t see pregnancy and breastfeeding as ‘an opportunity to overindulge in fatty, sugary, and salty foods on the misguided assumption that they are ‘eating for two.” The researchers studied pregnant rats that only ate regular chow or ate a ‘junk food diet’ during pregnancy and/or while breastfeeding. The junk food diet included ordinary rat chow and biscuits, marshmallows, cheese, jam, doughnuts, chocolate chip muffins, buttery pancakes, potato chips, and caramel or chocolate bars bought at a British supermarket. The pregnant rats on […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
