Archive for October 3rd, 2007
Wildlife Accidents Part Two – A Note from Ann Novek (with photograph that may cause distress)
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 14
WARNING – The photograph below may cause some distress.
Picture # 2
In Europe it’s also quite common with accidents in your garden involving garden trimmers and hedgehogs.
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Wildlife Accidents Part One – A Note from Ann Novek (with photograph that may cause distress)
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
WARNING – The photograph below may cause some distress.
Picture # 1.
If you’re a ( sports ) fisherman , please never leave your fishing gear behind you in the nature. There happens lots of accidents with left behind fishing gear.
UK Judge: Schools Must Warn of AIT Film Bias
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 9
Reported in the Daily Mail today:
Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias
Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.
The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it [...]
Black Google Would Save Energy
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 5
From Luke Walker:
Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-Hours a Year
From the lights out department – did you know that a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor uses about 74 watts to display an all white web page, but only uses 59 watts to display an all black page? Yes, there all still plenty of these still [...]
Survey: Climate Change as Much a Concern as Terrorism
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 21
Another one from Luke:
From Australia’s equivalent of the BBC (not a compliment!):
Climate change as much a concern as terrorism: survey
A major survey has found that an overwhelming majority of Australians believe global warming is at least as serious a threat to the nation as terrorism.
Sydney University’s US Studies Centre has released one of the most [...]
More Ice Ages Now or Later? A Note from Luke
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 3
Peter Harris provided us with a challenging debate here on this blog where the similarity between the current situation and the 400 kya glacial transition was discussed. I sought more information from Jan Hollan – but some background here first.
So if the present time was really analogous to 400,000 years ago (kya) transition, the advice [...]
Record SH Sea Ice Maximum and NH Sea Ice Minimum
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 5
From Marc Morano:
The Cryosphere Today
UPDATE: Monday, October 1, 2007 – Record SH sea ice maximum and NH sea ice minimum
Just when you thought this season’s cryosphere couldn’t be more strange …. The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km. The observed [...]
The Persistent Role of the Sun in Climate Forcing
Posted by Paul, October 3rd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 20
Reply to Lockwood and Fröhlich – The persistent role of the Sun in climate forcing
Svensmark, H. and Friis-Christensen, E.
Danish National Space Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
In a recent paper (ref. [1]) Mike Lockwood and Claus
Frohlich have argued that recent trends in solar climate
forcing have been in the wrong direction to account for
“the observed rapid rise in global [...]