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Solar system processes control Earth's carbon cycle, geologists show Earth has entered an era of cooling

Trinity College Dublin
Phys.org
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:00 UTC

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The world is waking up to the fact that human-driven carbon emissions are responsible for warming our climate, driving unprecedented changes to ecosystems, and placing us on course for the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history.

Comment: This opening comment reflects just how science is at the mercy of the global warming agenda, because it is not only irrelevant to the article but is also refuted by the actual findings.

However, new research publishing this week in leading international journal PNAS, sheds fresh light on the complicated interplay of factors affecting global climate and the carbon cycle — and on what transpired millions of years ago to spark two of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history.

Using chemical data from ancient mudstone deposits in Wales, an international team involving scientists from Trinity College Dublin discovered that periodic changes in the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun were partly responsible for changes in the carbon-cycle and global climate during and in between the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction (around 201 million years ago, when around 80% of the species on Earth disappeared forever) and the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (around 183 million years ago).

Comment: As you'll see in the links below even mainstream science is no longer able to deny that the global warming agenda is unsupported by both past and present data:

And there's more to the story: Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle

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Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 08:35 UTC

© J. Abrahão and B. La Scola/IHU-Marseille/Microscopy Center UFMG-Belo Horizonte
The Yaravirus (dark smudges) infects amoebae and has all novel genes.

Viruses are some of the most mysterious organisms on Earth. They're among the world's tiniest lifeforms, and because none can survive and reproduce without a host, some scientists have questioned whether they should even be considered living things. Now, scientists have discovered one that has no recognizable genes, making it among the strangest of all known viruses. But how many viruses do we really know? Another group has just discovered thousands of new viruses hiding out in the tissues of dozens of animals.

The finds speak to "how much we still need to understand" about viruses, says one of the researchers, Jônatas Abrahão, a virologist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte.

Comment: And yet, Big Pharma is plowing ahead with mass vaccination programs to counter the viruses they 'still do not understand'. What could possibly go wrong??

Abrahão made his discovery while hunting down giant viruses. These microbes — some the size of bacteria — were first discovered in amoebae in 2003. In a local artificial lake, he and his colleagues found not only new giant viruses, but also a virus that — because of its small size — was unlike most that infect in amoebae. They named it Yaravirus. (Yara is the "mother of waters" according to Indigenous Tupi-Guarani mythology.)

Yaravirus's size wasn't the only thing weird about it. When the team sequenced its genome, none of its genes matched any scientists had come across before, the group reports on the bioRxiv preprint server.

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Fungi that absorbs radiation has been growing all over Chernobyl plant

John Vibes
The Mind Unleashed
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:04 UTC

Certain types of fungi are attracted to radiation, and can actually neutralize radiation in certain environments.

For a long time, scientists have known that certain types of fungi are attracted to radiation, and can actually help to break down and neutralize radiation in certain environments.

The radioactive site of the abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has acted as a real-life laboratory in many ways over the years, giving researchers a look into the physical impact that radiation has on plant and animal life.

In 1991, while a team of researchers was searching the Chernobyl area remotely with robots, they noticed black-spotted fungi growing on the walls of one of the nuclear reactors. They also observed that the fungi appeared to be breaking down radioactive graphite from the core itself. The fungi also seemed to be growing towards the source of the radiation, as if it was attracted to it.

Comment: See also: Mycologist Paul Stamets discovers all natural pest-fighting fungi

Iran unveils new ballistic missile, satellite launch fails to reach orbit

RT
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:53 UTC

Tehran has rolled out a new advanced ballistic missile featuring a composite-built engine. The new missile to be two times lighter than earlier models, but has greater operational range.

The new projectile was unveiled by the chief of the elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, on Sunday. Video released by the Iranian state media shows two new missiles on display during the event, as well as footage of a test launch.

The missile, dubbed Ra'd-500, is said to be packed with engines, made largely of composite materials. It has significantly lightened the build and the new munition is two times lighter than an earlier model — Fateh-110 missile. The engine, containing carbon fibers, is said to be able to withstand pressures as high as 100 Bar and a temperature of up to 3,000 degrees Celsius.

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Cuba's rivers run clean after decades of sustainable farming

Nature
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:00 UTC

© Karen Brodie/Getty
A farmer and cart in Cuba, where small-scale and conservation-minded agricultural practices might account for the cleanliness of the nation’s rivers.

The island's waterways have lower levels of fertilizer-linked pollution than the Mississippi River in the United States.

Despite centuries of colonization and agriculture, Cuba's rivers are in good health.

Sugarcane and cattle farming on the island date back to the late fifteenth century. To measure water quality in Cuba's rivers today, Paul Bierman at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Rita Hernández at the Cienfuegos Center for Environmental Studies in Cuba and their colleagues sampled water in 25 river basins in central Cuba. This is the first time in more than 60 years that scientists from Cuba and the United States have joined forces to study the island's hydrology.

More than 80% of the samples had levels of Escherichia coli bacteria that exceeded international standards for recreational use. The bacteria are indicators of faecal contamination, and probably came from the cattle that graze on many riverbanks.

Comment: The key to productive and low impact food production seems to lie in linking small scale, traditional practices with our burgeoning scientific knowledge of how nature operates:

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New handheld device "prints" skin directly onto wounds

Aaron Kesel
The Mind Unleashed
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:17 UTC

Scientists have created a handheld printer that patches up damaged skin.

Every day science is making medical discoveries that can change our lives. And now scientists have created a handheld skin printer that patches up damaged skin due to injuries such as extreme burns.

Spanish scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) created a large bioprinter that prints human skin in 2017.

Then In 2018, Canadian scientists advanced the research and revealed a handheld device that "prints" sheets of artificial skin directly onto the wounds of burn victims.

First contact? Signals coming from space like clockwork, scientists don't know why

Sputnik
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 11:42 UTC

Astronomers from around the world have long been fascinated by the mysterious radio signals bombarding our planet from deep in outer space, with some onlookers linking them to a possible extraterrestrial intelligence.

A new study by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) in British Columbia has discovered that a mystery radio source in a galaxy some 500 million lightyears from our solar system is sending out fast radio bursts like clockwork in 16.35 day cycles, including 1-2 bursts per hour over a four day period and then 12 days of silence before starting up again.

The discovery is important, because out of the 150+ fast radio bursts recorded by Earth-based observatories over the last decade and a half, only ten of them have repeated, and none as steadily as the source discussed in the study. Furthermore, only a handful of them have been tracked back to the galaxy they came from.

The mystery signal, known as FRB 180916.J0158+65 was first discovered in 2017, but has continued repeating steadily, albeit at a rate some 600 times fainter than the first bright flare. In their study, scientists analysed 28 bursts which took place between September 2018 and October 2019, confirming the pattern, and excitedly concluding "that this is the first detected periodicity of any kind in an FRB source."

Russian scientist: 'Of course we are not alone', we use the wrong tools to hunt for aliens

RT
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:21 UTC

A Russian scientist believes that the only way we can finally discover extraterrestrial life is for experts and researchers from different branches to work together.

Alexander Panov, a leading researcher at Moscow State University's Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, has spent many years working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Radio Astronomy.

In a recent interview, he laments the lack of interaction between researchers involved in both the searches for biological and for intelligent life out in the universe, and called for greater cooperation and pooling of resources between these two distinct fields, which have essentially the same goal: find aliens.

"Of course we are not alone," Panov boldly states. "The question is not whether they exist, but where they exist."

According to 'direct atmospheric measurements,' CO2 levels were above 400 PPM in the 1940s...

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:36 UTC

Outspoken Ph.D. Physical Scientist Ned Nikolov has recently raised an important question: can we trust NOAA's Mauna Loa CO2 readings (aka the Keeling Curve)?

The pre-industrial CO2 level of ~280 ppm — the starting point of many an alarmist chart — comes from ice cores which do not preserve the high-frequency elevated CO2 values that existed in the atmosphere at the time, explains Nikolov. However, when using chemical methods to obtain direct atmospheric measurements, it is revealed that CO2 levels have, in the past, always closely followed global temperature anomalies (with a few years lag). Using this method, it has been revealed that CO2 levels climbed above 400 ppm in the 1940s (a period succeeding the very hot "Dust Bowl" 30s):

Compare this to the NOAA's atmospheric CO2 chart (below) — with its suspiciously clean, simple, and linear trajectory for 60-odd years — and it could well be the case that Nikolov is onto something; that the Mauna Loa observations are flawed, contrived, or even "heavily doctored."

Comment: The Zeller-Nikolov climate discovery: Carbon dioxide has no measurable effect on planetary temperature

A very small selection of articles related to NOAA climate data tampering we have collected include:

A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain

Russ Juskalian
MIT Technology Review
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 07:39 UTC

© Russ Juskalian
These are the electrical signals from Bernardeta Gómez's brain. Each box represents one of the electrodes, and the squiggly lines within each box show the signals from her neurons firing.

"Allí," says Bernardeta Gómez in her native Spanish, pointing to a large black line running across a white sheet of cardboard propped at arm's length in front of her. "There."

It isn't exactly an impressive feat for a 57-year-old woman — except that Gómez is blind. And she's been that way for over a decade. When she was 42, toxic optic neuropathy destroyed the bundles of nerves that connect Gómez's eyes to her brain, rendering her totally without sight. She's unable even to detect light.

But after 16 years of darkness, Gómez was given a six-month window during which she could see a very low-resolution semblance of the world represented by glowing white-yellow dots and shapes. This was possible thanks to a modified pair of glasses, blacked out and fitted with a tiny camera. The contraption is hooked up to a computer that processes a live video feed, turning it into electronic signals. A cable suspended from the ceiling links the system to a port embedded in the back of Gómez's skull that is wired to a 100-electrode implant in the visual cortex in the rear of her brain.

© Russ Juskalian
Bernardeta Gómez wearing the glasses with the cameras. Unfortunately, she no longer has the brain implant, which is still a temporary device.

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Science & Technology

Solar system processes control Earth's carbon cycle, geologists show Earth has entered an era of cooling

Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes

Fungi that absorbs radiation has been growing all over Chernobyl plant

Iran unveils new ballistic missile, satellite launch fails to reach orbit

Cuba's rivers run clean after decades of sustainable farming

New handheld device "prints" skin directly onto wounds

First contact? Signals coming from space like clockwork, scientists don't know why

Russian scientist: 'Of course we are not alone', we use the wrong tools to hunt for aliens

According to 'direct atmospheric measurements,' CO2 levels were above 400 PPM in the 1940s...

A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain

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