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  • Just a note...." According to scientists" is a very strong assertion, when in fact the article says... "According to a single assistant professor and one undergraduate student" (paraphrased) at Ohio University.

    Once Again, no major paper has picked up on this 'ground-breaking' discovery. Maybe that's because it's not. Peer review will wash this away, just as it has all the prior attempts to cast the vast majority of both scientists and the world as environmental whackos.

    Isn't it time to move forward?

  • The article to which this post refers can be found here... http://www.mixx.com/stories/31491/consensus-shattered-as-major-scientific-study-says-global-warming-is-natural

    And the full excerpt ( So you don't have to read the pdf file if you don't want to)...

    <blockquote><b>According to NASA scientists:</b>

    Through the first 11 months, 2007 is the second warmest year in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis. The unusual warmth in 2007 is noteworthy because it occurs at a time when solar irradiance is at a minimum and the equatorial Pacific Ocean has entered the cool phase of its natural El Niño -- La Niña cycle. {Caution: pdf file} [...]

    The six warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 15 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1988. [...]

    The natural variations of the Southern Oscillation and the solar cycle thus have minor but not entirely insignificant effects on year-to-year temperature change. Given that both of these natural effects were in their cool phases in 2007, it makes the unusual warmth this year all the more notable. It also suggests that, barring the unlikely event of a large volcanic eruption, a record global temperature exceeding that of 2005 can be expected within the next 2-3 years.</blockquote>

  • Don't mean to kill the messenger, but Prisonplanet.com is the biggest conspiracy site on the net.
    Taking a close look at Google shows the top sites that show this article are propagandamatrix.com, truthnews, and noworldsystem.com, all, in my opinion, conspiracy/anarchist sites that have paused from their UFO speculation only long enough to boast of this historical finding.

    Not 1 major news outlet has taken this seriously. If true and legit, it would certainly be big news... but it's not.

    Ironically, even if the report is legit and actually says what the article says it says, this is a single report out of tens of peer-reviewed studies. Laughably, all these sites have dismissed all the studies that suggest that man-made global warming (which compromise the vast bulk of all peer-reviewed studies done to date) is real and embraced this, as yet peer reviewed report, as gospel.

    It is my guess that this report will be revealed as total bunk, like so many just like it before. We might also want to do a little backgound investigation into the funding for the project. God knows all the oil industry funded studies that have provided 'evidence' that global warming is somehow a vast conspiracy to save the planet and eliminate oil consumption (God forbid).

  • Many people scoff at the suggestions of microbial life on other planets -- asking, so what? They clearly miss the breathtakingly profound implications. If microbes existed on Mars at any point in its development, what would an extrapolation of various forms of life accross the known universe bring us?

  • Certainly nothing has changed with Bush. His position is nearly always independent of reality.

  • Great idea. I think all the world's deserts should be used to produce as much energy as possible -- in accordance with the practical limitations that are logistically set before us.

  • I'm glad the grizzlies have surged, but is the answer really to hunt them back to near-extinction just so no hunters come accross them in the wild? How many would you have to kill in order to acheive that goal?

  • Totally agreed -- that the GOP would claim some sort of warped victory on this issue is breathtaking. They have done nothing, NOTHING but stifle the necessary advances in stem-cell research. The only thing they should feel is shame -- and that goes for the anti-stem-cell research Democrats as well. They should feel particularly ashamed since their national constituency (though not necessarily their local constituency) is heavily in favor of the research -- with embryos or without.

  • Here is my would-be 'blog post' if there had been sufficient tolerance for this many characters in the main post...

    MY THOUGHTS...

    I ran across an incredibly interesting interview with Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and popular science author. The interview is several years old, but there was something within it that struck me. The good doctor, who happens to be one of my favorite authors, asserted that the fabled fifth fundamental force of the universe (currently only four are recognized by the scientific community) might be “some kind of paranormal or psychic force” but proceeded to note that scientists have found “no reproducible evidence of a fifth force.”

    That said, for a devoted, reputable person of science to frame the potential force in such a way is breathtaking – in an interesting way.

    Think about it. With all the religious fundamentalists of the world battling the scientific community and commonsense in general, there has been little effort (that I have seen) to make a very important point – faith and science can coexist and still maintain their self-respect.

    True, that cannot happen if various religious texts are taken literally, but the broader assertions of faith need not be in conflict with science.

    For example, though many could debate the legitimacy of personifying a ‘creator’ (most people would surely screw-up creation) there would likely be less conflict if the broader context of ‘life after death’ – that there is more ‘out there’ than we can necessarily perceive ‘in here’ In fact, various findings of the scientific community – at least on the theoretical side of the community -- support the idea of ‘something more’.

    Look no further than the implications of ‘quantum leaps’, ‘quantum cornering’, electromagnetic fields, cosmology or the ideas of the multiverse, black holes, or the Big Bang and you will see that there is plenty of reason to believe, without much branch-walking, that all we see before us is not all there is to see.

    In fact, such an intellectual journey would likely show that most religious texts are actually lacking in imagination, dwarfed by the profundity of reality… realities?

  • Thank God for LOTR -- the one Fantasy film (with a capial 'F') that was actually done brilliantly! After seeing crap like 300 or B.O. wulf, we can decontaminate with the greatest fantasy film of all time. (You might be able to detect my bias here. Heh!)

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