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PATH: BS | Science | Environment

US Solution To Global Warming: Block The Sun Posted by Pile (8740 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
The US government wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming. It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be "important insurance" against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a major UN report on climate change, the first part of which will be published on Friday.
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Iowa Farmers Make Out Like Bandits Due To Katrina Disaster Posted by Pile (8646 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, the aftershocks rippled all the way to Iowa. Grain shipments down the Mississippi River were shut down and the price of corn plunged. While people were drowning in New Orleans, the government had systems in place to make sure farmers up north wouldn't feel the pain themselves, to the tune of billions of dollars of taxpayer money. What resulted was a virtually unprecedented flood of government cash to Iowa's farmers, triggered by the drop in prices. Iowa growers and landowners collected $2.24 billion in subsidies last year
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U.S. Committed To Battling Global Warming, Except When It's Not Posted by ueberbill (8040 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
The head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. climate conference in Nairobi (motto: "Good GOD it's hot") says that the U.S. is committed to battling "the serious global challenge of climate change." This after Secretary General Kofi Annan told the conference that those who would deny global warming (coughAmericacoughhack) and delay acting are "out of step" and "out of time," and that there's a frightening lack of international leadership on the issue. The U.S., one of two industrialized nations not to sign the Kyoto protocols and with an outgoing Congress that believes global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people", is committed to battling global warming, for sure, as long as it doesn't affect the economy.
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United States: Eighth Best Country To Live In Posted by Pile (9963 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment] [Society]
Woo Hoo! We're #8! The United States was ranked in eighth place, after Canada and Japan, in the report that rates not only per-capita income but also educational levels, health care, and life expectancy in measuring a nation's well-being. Topping the list were Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland, and Sweden, but Africa's quality of life has plummeted because of AIDS, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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More Than Half Of New Orleans' People Are Gone Posted by Pile (9730 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment] [Travel]
A recent population survey from the Louisiana Recovery Authority has reported that of the pre-Katrina population of 454,000 people in New Orleans, only about 187,000 remain today. More than a year later, 59% of the population has not returned since the hurricane and the large-scale flooding caused by the failure of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' faulty flood protection system.
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Africam - A Live Webcam From Africa Posted by Pile (26443 views) [E-Mail link]	[The "Buzz"] [Environment]
This is one of the neatest webcams ever. Imagine a live camera on a watering hold streaming live video from Africa.
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White House Caught Censoring Weather Experts Posted by Pile (8208 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
In February, there were several press reports about the Bush administration exercising message control on the subject of climate change. The New Republic cited numerous instances in which top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and scientists at the National Hurricane Center sought to downplay links between more-intense hurricanes and global warming. NOAA scientist Thomas Knutson told the Wall Street Journal he'd been barred from speaking to CNBC because his research suggested just such a link. At the time, Bush administration officials denied that they did any micromanaging of media requests for interviews. But a large batch of e-mails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the White House was, in fact, controlling access to scientists and vetting reporters. Check 'em out.
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Army Leader Who Admitted New Orleans Errors Quits Posted by Pile (8914 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who in June admitted that design flaws in the levees his agency built to protect New Orleans caused most of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina, has asked to retire, the Army said on Thursday. In an after-hours announcement, the Army issued a statement saying Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, commander and chief engineer of the corps, had requested his retirement from the military "based on family and personal reasons," Reuters reports. The announcement came a bit more than two months after the corps issued a 6,100-page report admitting to its blunders in the design of storm walls and earthen levees that were supposed to protect the New Orleans area.
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China's Pollution Reaches U.S. West Coast Posted by Pile (11338 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
On a mountaintop overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Steven Cliff collects evidence of an industrial revolution taking place thousands of miles away. The tiny, airborne particles Cliff gathers at an air monitoring station just north of San Francisco drifted over the ocean from coal-fired power plants, smelters, dust storms and diesel trucks in China and other Asian countries.
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Old Ladies Knit Sweaters for Penguins Posted by wizeGurl (14502 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment] [Diamond Studded Toenail Clippers]
I know, I know...it sounds really goofy. Little old ladies knitting sweaters for tiny penguins; this is like the crazy woman who dresses up a squirrel, right? It sure sounds that way, but no. For once, this is actually a heart-warming (or at least penguin-warming) tale. Instead of knitting hideous sweaters for grandchildren who wouldn't be caught dead in them or afghans for unappreciative relatives, a group of volunteers from all over the globe are putting their knitting needles to work to save oil-contaminated penguins from near-certain death.
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German Village Flooded by Pig Poop Posted by wizeGurl (9691 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
And you thought Katrina's floodwaters were a toxic gumbo.... The Bavarian village of Elsa was flooded by pig manure when a tank containing 240,000 liters of the liquid fertilizer burst.
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Evangelical Christians Fight To Stop Global Warming? Posted by Pile (7071 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
In an unusual twist from the standard, "Everything is a theory" perversion of science by most Christians, a new group of 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."
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Administration Accused Of Trying To Silence NASA Scientist Posted by Pile (7472 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
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More Evidence Of Man's Influence In Global Climate Posted by Pile (8023 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
Scientists working with Antarctic ice have found that the level of greenhouse gases is at the highest level in over half a million years. Carbon dioxide is 27% higher now than any other time over the last 650 000 years. Methane, an even stronger greenhouse gas is 130% higher. The period of time studied covers eight full glacial cycles including a time when the earth's position relative to the sun is the same as it is today. Other scientists have found that the annual rate at which the sea has risen since the industrial revolution is twice that of over the last 5000 years. It is predicted that by 2100 the sea level will be 40cm higher. These results provide strong evidence that human activity since the industrial revolution, rather than just natural processes, has strongly altered the world's climate. As one of the scientists involved in the research put it: 'The levels of primary greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are up dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, at a speed and magnitude that the Earth has not seen in hundreds of thousands of years.'"
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Forest Service Fires Official Who Complained About Pesticide Use Posted by Pile (7363 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
A U.S. Forest Service official who voiced concerns about alleged pesticide misuse in forests across the Southwest has been fired. Doug Parker, who worked as the pesticide coordinator and assistant director of forestry health for the agency's Southwestern region, told The Associated Press that he was removed from his duties last week because his supervisor said he failed to follow instructions. Parker, who has not spoken publicly about his case, worked for the agency for nearly four decades and said he was proud to wear the Forest Service uniform. "The whole reason behind this is I reported some significant pesticide misuse problems to the regional forester and they don't want to have controls over this process"
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What Really Went Wrong With Katrina? Hurricane FEMA Posted by Pile (10103 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
While everyone points fingers at state, local and federal authorities regarding how things went wrong in the Hurricane disaster planning, including claims by both FEMA and Bush that "nobody anticipated a disaster like this", truth is starting to seep out that this is complete BS. As the ex-FEMA director points fingers at the Louisiana Governor & other locals, insiders who were involved in the government's hurricane plan show who was really at fault.
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Katrina Hits BSAlert Posted by Pile (10879 views) [E-Mail link]	[BSAlert exclusive] [Environment]
In case anyone was wondering why the site was down or hasn't been updated in a little while, this is because our servers were located in New Orleans and the hurricane affected us all. As I write this, I'm still in the middle of this, operating on generator power in a very dark, scary city. More later, but I think the site is back online and solid now.
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Shell Boots Renewable Fuel Exhibit Out of Canada Day Celebration Posted by Pile (11476 views) [E-Mail link]	[Industry] [Environment]
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, a not-for-profit group that promotes clean energy, and its mascot "Corn Cob Bob" were kicked out of the Canada Day Celebration by Shell Oil and their goons, after the producers were told by the mega-oil company that they didn't want their presence at the event.
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Destroying the Earth Isn't As Easy As You Think.. Or Is It? Posted by Pile (9803 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment] [So-They-Say]
If you were an evil scientific genius, what would be the best way to destroy the earth? Time travel? A microscopic black hole? Matter-antimatter reaction?
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Exxon funds "think tank" promoting value of global warming Posted by Pile (9967 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
A London-based "think tank" funded by Exxon is once again clouding the global warming issue, with their scientists claiming the notion is a myth, and furthermore, if it were true, they claim global warming would be a good thing.
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