The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 6, The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences: Modern Biological and Earth Sciences v. 6
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Biased BBC report some very interesting news from The Examiner: "The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP server. These files appear to contain highly sensitive information that, if genuine,...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday. The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: "Women with access to reproductive health services ... have lower fertility rates that contribute...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the desperate attempt to link every evil under the sun as caused by "climate change" ( the phrase "global warming" has suddenly become, ahem, unhelpful ), we've seen a lot of stupidity, but this instance -from the UN , natch - may take the cake : The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous...
Kinshasa On The Potomac (Free subscription) | yesterday
At least, according to the UN. I couldn't make this up if I tried (source: GMA News ); Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country. “Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, he waved a hose with a handmade nozzle confected from a plastic soda bottle. The lopsided struggle is part of a battle against one...
Confederate Yankee (Free subscription) | yesterday
The climate always changes. It is in a state of constant flux, and thought to be primarily driven by the warming and cooling cycles of our sun (which has a climate of its own), a fact that disreputable scientists competing...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday
What do Uganda, Burundi, Sudan and Djibouti have in common? They are on the list of 49 countries that would receive billions of dollars every year from Canadian families as part of a new global-warming agreement proposed by the United Nations. The UN also wants to impose new taxes on industry that would increase energy costs and kill jobs. Stephen Harper should demonstrate global leadership by rejecting...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Der Spiegel: Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents. At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December,...
PALAEOBLOG (Free subscription) | yesterday
October 30, 1820 - November 20, 1899 Dawson was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology. Dawson was born and raised in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the many sandstone and coal formations provided fertile ground for his first scientific explorations, which culminated in the publication of Acadian Geology. He made many important...
The Mr Science Show (Free subscription) | yesterday
Astrobiology is a fascinating and complex field of science. It is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, and is a relatively new field of science incorporating astronomy, biology, geology, palaeontology, physics, mathematics and other disciplines. It is even more fascinating given that we have never actually discovered life anywhere else in the universe!...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
I read that: "This is big. Al Gore is now saying carbon dioxide isn’t actually to blame for most of the warming we saw until 2001: Gore explored new studies - published only last week - that show methane and black carbon or soot had a far greater impact on global warming than previously thought. Carbon dioxide – while the focus of the politics of climate change – produces around...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
ManBearPig ! A funny thing happened on the road to global warming. Mother Nature is simply not cooperating. Germany's Der Spiegel noted this "problem" for global warming alarmists yesterday: Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taipei - A majority of Taiwan residents have more trust in US President Barack Obama than in their own president or Chinese President Hu Jintao, an opinion poll showed on Friday. The telephone survey of 1,004 adults by the Global View monthly magazin...
An American Lion (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you live in a common sense world, free of the crazed ideology of others and mindful that science is right about as often as it is wrong, then you can sort of see why the debate over global climate change has turned into a rather disagreeable subject to write about or even think about. Why should I avoid it? And, for that matter, why not make it the centerpiece of my blog? Or leave it aside? I don’t...
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just the other day, Senator James Inhofe said “Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’ And the hit parade just keeps on coming! Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have [...]
The 3 latest articles published by users on Earth Sciences :
neilsamsung | 16/09/2009
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s wide path of destruction, the real estate marke t will be affected perhaps in ways not fully understood or expected. If recent hurricane recovery history holds true there will be several good things to come out of all destruction. Let’s hope so as those who live in the Delta region have suffered immensely. In September 1989, a strong category 4 hurricane by the name...
mario.one | 21/07/2009
There are two theories - Chaos and predefiniteness. One says that the life on the Earth has arisen as a result turns of casual events, and all in our life case business. Other theory asserts, that all is in advance predetermined also our actions will change of nothing … The protagonist of a picture, the ardent adherent of the theory of Chaos, comes to bewilderment when finds in a set of the numbers...
bsalmons | 22/04/2009
Since the inception of Earth Day, the holiday has become an international effort to improve environmental sustainability from air quality and global warming to wildlife protection and recycling efforts. In 1992, the United Nations recognized the growing need to maintain environmental health with an Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. While Earth Day has changed a great deal from its original demonstration-based
Videos