There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said.
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THERE is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said. According to BBC today, Hawking had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science, but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. [...]
Less than five months after the largest oil spill in US history, another fire has occurred on an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico
Representatives from around 40 governments meet today in Geneva to consolidate on the discussions held at Copenhagen last year, ahead of November’s Cancun UN Climate Change Conference.
When Geoffrey Lean takes agin Pachy, the world is coming to an end for the old charlatan. "No fall from grace has been so unforeseen as that of Gore's co-winner, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change," says Lean, making you wonder where he has been all this time. "Just two years after picking up the prize, the UN organisation – chiefly criticised until then for its caution...
Daily Express: Climate Change Lies are ExposedWednesday, 01 September 2010 07:58'The world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.It also said the panel had emphasised...
Let us suppose Mr Hawking does now have a full explanation from the laws of physics of how the Big Bang created the planets and stars as we now see them. Some scientists will assert that the job is done, and they now know how the universe was made without divine intervention. Religious people will [...]
Cisco to acquire smart grid metering co. Arch Rock SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cisco Systems said Thursday that it plans to acquire Arch Rock Corp., a maker of wireless network equipment for smart grids, for an undisclosed amount. Cisco said Arch Rock will help Cisco with its smart grid applications for utilities. Arch Rock's technology is designed .... Source : Cisco to acquire Arch Rock, a maker of...
We are faced with a choice: act with real urgency to move away from fossil fuels and develop the clean tools that will help us completely rebuild our economic system, or carry on squeezing out the last drops and hope for the best. It’s not actually an either or. Using coal, oil, natural gas [...]
I am now in a position to reveal that my report for GWPF on the Climategate inquiries will be released on 14th September.
Athol Fugard is right: too many playwrights are under pressure to give the audience a good night out In Monday's Guardian , political playwright Athol Fugard voiced a concern that dramatists are "failing to confront issues of injustice, writing instead for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts". Monday was also the first day of rehearsal for my play Ugly, which deals frankly with...
The House of Commons Science and Technology COmmittee has announced that it is to hear evidence from Lord Oxburgh next week: The Science and Technology Committee will hold an oral evidence session following-up to the previous committee’s report on the disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The session will be on: Wednesday 8 September 2010...
The Wall Street Journal looks at the IAC report and considers one of its key findings, namely that the IPCC has downplayed uncertainties in the science of global warming. In the process they consider McShane and Wyner's paper on the reliability (or lack of it) of proxy-based temperature reconstructions and also a new paper on the sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to drought. It looks as though...
Ed and David Miliband's Labour leadership tussle will feature in a More4 programme by makers of When Boris Met Dave David and Ed Miliband are already locked together in rivalry over who will succeed Gordon Brown as Labour leader. Now the brothers are to be thrown together on screen in a Channel 4 docudrama from the makers of the satirical romp When Boris Met Dave. The drama, with the working title...
A market segment that we have been watching closely for a long time is renewable, green, clean fuels. The US Energy Policy and Conservation Act (signed into law by President Ford in 1975), the 1990 Clean Air Act and the 1992 Energy policy Act gave rise to fight over such issues as subsidies, support for development initiatives, favourable tax treatment, loan guarantees, partnership agreements and other...
A market segment that we have been watching closely for a long time is renewable, green, clean fuels. The US Energy Policy and Conservation Act (signed into law by President Ford in 1975), the 1990 Clean Air Act and the 1992 Energy policy Act gave rise to fight over such issues as subsidies, support for development initiatives, favourable tax treatment, loan guarantees, partnership agreements and other...
Clean energy has a dirty secret. It isn’t cheap” from USA today. Wisely, they have gone on to modify their doom-laden statement by writing that renewable, green energy is widely supported to fight global warming… And that high fossil fuel prices and a cap on power plant emissions could make clean energy competitive with – or even cheaper than – conventional energy. As a result of healthy government...