We all know that mankind has affected the atmosphere by our wicked ways of polluting it with carbon dioxide. You know, that stuff that plants, bushes, trees and swampy wetlands thrive on. And the polluting stuff we breath out. All 7 billion of us, which is far too many for ‘sustainability’ what with us all [...]
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As they ask: People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of volcanos or the precariously placed monasteries in the Himalayan mountains. Here’s one that looks like it might have been hit by a meteor and residents just decided to carry on as usual… Welcome to the [...]
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Perhaps.
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H/T Chuckles who hat tips Paul Vaughan [and A C Osborn on comments], who spotted this interesting new article at NASA’s website: A tad warm out there March 8, 2013: Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind that has caught the attention of [...]
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Mrs. Chuckles is always busy in the garden, with Jors Troelie doing the heavy lifting, but it is more indicative of the fact that she is firmly on the van Meuwen catalogue and special offer mailing list http://www.vanmeuwen.com/?source=google&gclid=CJLVyZy3ibcCFXIPtAodyiEA4w
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You might recall James’s post on Syria, asking: “Is water the reason?” In sending that link, I was not referring to the ME setting but rather to a current global narrative. It is essential that water be perceived to be scarce, and shortages manufactured. Think back to last year this time, how much effort was [...]
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Lord Galleywood made the point at the Filthy Engineer’s: Only about 50 days until the nights start drawing again towards winter, oh happy days Whither spring while we’re there?
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Is water the reason? Some look at the upheaval in Syria through a religious lens. The Sunni and Shia factions, battling for supremacy in the Middle East, have locked horns in the heart of the Levant, where the Shia-affiliated Alawite sect has ruled a majority Sunni nation for decades. Some see it through a social [...]
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# One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000 # HP knew Autonomy was a duff buy, claim HP shareholders in $1bn suit # 5th grader suspended for taking Swiss army knife on camping trip And the lion will lay down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep. [Chuckles] # Ah yes – [...]
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More snaps. Yesterday’s were here.
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Click, wait, click again for the big pic:
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Department of Agriculture officials have been collecting and disposing of livestock following the extreme weather in late March which devastated farms across Northern Ireland. Some rural parts of Co Down and Co Antrim were buried under 18ft snow drifts. Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill revealed that 43,000 sheep and goat carcasses have been recovered as of [...]
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…meanwhile on Mars
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Odd mix: Whitehaven Beach, Ozland: Westin Maui Resort Spa Hawaii:
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Pardon me while I smile: And yet scientists have assembled a nearly airtight case that the majority of the matter in the universe consists dark matter, a substance which is both intrinsically invisible and fundamentally different in composition than the familiar atoms that make up stars and planets. There are two elements here:
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Been here: The farm’s owner, Cynthia Sandberg, opened class with a refrain I’d heard before: Homegrown heirloom tomatoes are infinitely superior to the supermarket variety. I wanted to believe her, but I wasn’t optimistic. And then she began passing around hundreds of jars of seeds for us to choose from — Black Zebra! Green Giant! [...]
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First from the comments below this rubbish at Reddingdotcom. Rather than me take the article apart, listing the a prioris and baseless assertions, better to let the commenters do it: 20 years ago the claim was that human generated Co2 would cause millions of climate refugees when the ice caps melted. When that didn’t happen, [...]
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JD wrote: Jesus was once asked when the kingdom of God would come. The kingdom of God, Jesus replied, is not something people will be able to see and point to. Then came these striking words: “Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke [...]
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Would you live here?
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Escaping global warming # The person who sent this called the subject “an abrasive little tart“. Yep, she’s precisely what is wrong with the “modern” woman. Happiness is the one thing she’s guaranteed not to find with that outlook. # http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/03/22/0110252/most-uk-gps-have-prescribed-placebos Techmeology writes “In a survey of UK GPs, 97% said they’d recommended placebo treatments [...]
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This one is nice: On the evening of March 23, 1.3 billion people will go without light at 8:30—and at 9:30, and at 10:30, and for the rest of the night—just like every other night of the year. With no access to electricity, darkness after sunset is a constant reality for these people. At the [...]
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Hokulea [big pic which expands at the second click] Following on from this, a nice study of a voyage to a far-off island, there is speculation also about the Vikings, courtesy haiku. Working on the assumption that anything the Royal Society puts its moniker to is going to be dubious due to their politicizing of [...]
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Gaia seems to like fossil fuels much more than many of her followers. Earlier today, Japan announced that it successfully accessed ocean deposits of a new, relatively clean-burning, and hyper-abundant energy source: fire ice. More accurately called methane hydrate, fire ice exists under Arctic permafrost and deep underwater, primarily on seabeds along continental shelves. Up [...]
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Frankly, good people, it’s too damned cold to blog. Even rugged up, the fingers won’t hit the right keys enough times in a row. I want to get around to other blogs as well but am already shivering. Plus didn’t sleep well. Hope you’re coping all right and see what tomorrow brings.
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