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Got any? Not personal. What I'm hoping to find is one good news story for 2007. Anything cool discovered medically or in technology? I've wracked my brain and googled the net, but have not come up with anything that the general public would find good news. I can think of lots of good...

Something for your consideration. The Great Global Warming Swindle Cpl Ferro

Just read an article here (in Danish) which stated that the global porn market grosses just under 100 billion US dollars per year. It is a big number. The article goes on to discuss how this is an outrage and how this amount of money could feed all starving Africans for years. Just did some...

This is from the University of Maryland, Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy. It is a rather long but extremely interesting piece. http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/winter99/controlling_global_climate.htm .

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/14/evangelical.rift/index.html?eref=rss_topstories Interesting story, but what really struck me was the following chestnut (about global warming): Irony is a wonderful thing.

Ok, the title is provocative and perhaps a bit gratuitous but it is the name of the video. 9005566792811497638 The Great Global Warming Swindle Now, I didn't intend for this to be argument by video so I don't expect anyone to debate the video. Of course please feel free to do so if you are...

Well, this is different...

My incoherent morning rant based on the Administration's latest PR offensive politicizing the war.... If the threat of Islamicfacism/Terrorism is global and growing…. Shouldn’t we have a draft? If it is a global ideological battle as great as that against Nazism and Communism, shouldn’t...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/31/global.warming.ap/index.html A Californian Republican, I guess, although that was where Reagan started off, too.

And you'd never guess whose fault it is (no, it's not BushitlerCheneyHalliburton): Maybe Captain Ahab wasn't as crazy as Melville said he was. Where's that bumper sticker I once saw? "Nuke the whales, so we can hunt them at night, too."

I am currious, does anyone know if the models predicting human caused global warming have been run backwards to see if they predict the little ice age and the medieval climatic optimum? I hear all these predictions, but never any real testing to see how the models fit with historic known...

OK... Over wine, my colleagues and I had a heated yet polite debate about global overpopulation pro/con. My two debaters were a Canadian and Australian. Their arguments (in a nutshell): - Countries such as India and China are growing too rapidly for sustainability. Countries like Canada...

i thought what was being debated is weather or not people are causing global warming, but many americans seem to believe that the debate is about the existance of global warming it seems like its gonna become a big pollitical issue, with this al gore movie, but im under the impression that bush...

ABC News is inviting people to send stories about how global warming has affected them. The Wall Street Journal reports they got this submission (apparently, he doesn't have email yet...):

OK, so I heard this program on BBC Radio 4 about Climate Change. It made the claim that most people don't really know how much global average temperatures have increased in the last 100 years. So I wanted to do an unscientific poll of my own. Please don't Google the answer, just your best guess...

Alright, I have a question about global warming. I want to know if it is fact as serious as all the environmentalist people keep saying it is. Listening to all of it makes me skeptical, it sounds like a lot of alarmist ********. However, truthfully I've never really studied it, and I'm afraid...

to the best of my memory, this just showed up as a foxnews commerical "Did you know that many evangelical organizations are concerned about global warming? We are chosen as stuards of the earth. For the earth, for the lord, stop global warming". I hesitate at the dilimma some of our forum...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/index.html I confess I don't know to what degree this is or isn't alarmist, but having lived through a similar scare in the 70s which was later to a large extent debunked (ie the concern was technically valid but grossly overblown), pardon me for...

The National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey IIRC (it's been a while, OK?), I had geography in grammar school from 4th to 10th grade, and 1 year in high school. To me, it's one of the starting points in understanding the world around us. It makes little sense to talk...

George Deutsch, a 24 year old Bush political appointee with only a degree from Texas A &M in jouralism, has been silencing NASA scientists on what the Bush adminstraton consider to be political issues (such as global warming). Yet, it appears that: he was offered a position in George W. Bush’s...

With all the hash/hash on both sides of the argument, I wanted to know what the general point of view was here on th JREF. So...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ministers-sealevel-view-lands-him-in-hot-water/2006/01/06/1136387625760.html The politicians should be listening to the scientists, I think.

I read an article over at Drudge the other day, reporting a 30% reduction in the Gulf Current stream, the oceanic current that delivers warmth to the Northeast coastline and Europe. Heavy salty water sinks when it gets cold. The saltier the water, the faster it sinks. Icey areas are melting...

LONDON -- Telecom giant Inmarsat is weeks away from launching the second in a series of two super-satellites -- designed to be among the most powerful commercial communications spacecraft in orbit -- that will beam broadband data and voice services to almost any location on the planet. The...

Apparently, a British designed satellite intended to study the melting of the polar caps has crashed. They used a Soviet ICBM to fit a shoestring budget. I doubt if it was insured. Sputnik II? Are we in the USA launching any satellites to do similar studies? I think the politics surrounding the...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/09/09/himalayan.glaciers.reut/index.html Quick question, say all the natural drinking water is gone..... Could it be filtered out to make it drinkable? Couldn't the water in new orleans be boiled and when the condesation forms from the evaporated water...

"Coast" BBC TV, 2/9/05- Sea levels are likely to rise by 26cm by some point (can't remember exactly when) in the next 50 years. This was narrated over footage of giant waves breaking over the seafront cottages of Torcross in a storm. Frankly if the 30-foot waves were 31-fooot, I'm not sure...

One of the arguments against global warming is that the atmostphere is not acting as the computer model predict. In particular, the data show that the troposphere (the middle level of the atmosphere) has not warming and has actually been cooling in the tropics. Two studies in Science show...

The Global Consciousness Project Index is a real time data analysis of the Global Consciousness Project. It collects the data each minute and runs statistics on the stream of random numbers. It displays different colors for different percentages of coherence in the random numbers. The color is...

Science Friday will cover the congressional investigation of climate science today at 2 pm EDT, details: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Jul/hour1_072205.html I emailed them the link below, it will be interesting to see how they tip toe around the issue...