Scientists have long held that viruses, bacteria and strands of DNA exists in space carried on comets and meteorites.
They can drift into the Earth's stratosphere before falling to the surface of the planet posing a risk to human health, they say.
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Scientists have long held that viruses, bacteria and strands of DNA exists in space carried on comets and meteorites.
They can drift into the Earth's stratosphere before falling to the surface of the planet posing a risk to human health, they say.
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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:
- Global cooling to replace warming trend that started 4,000 years ago - Chinese scientists
- Professor Valentina Zharkova explains and confirms why a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum is upon us
- Expert says new sun-driven cooling period of Earth 'not far off'
Also check out SOTT radio's:
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
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The Yaravirus (dark smudges) infects amoebae and has all novel genes.
The Yaravirus (dark smudges) infects amoebae and has all novel genes.
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.
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
- Fungi Perfecti: Mushroom extracts are saving millions of bees from Colony Collapse Disorder
- Paul Stamets' epiphany that mushrooms could help save the world's bees
- Magic Mycellum: The healing power of mushrooms
- Solutions from the underground: How fungi can help heal humans & the planet
- Fungi expert holds the patent that could destroy Monsanto and change agriculture forever
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Ra'd-500 missiles on display.
Ra'd-500 missiles on display.
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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A farmer and cart in Cuba, where small-scale and conservation-minded agricultural practices might account for the cleanliness of the nation’s rivers.
A farmer and cart in Cuba, where small-scale and conservation-minded agricultural practices might account for the cleanliness of the nation’s rivers.
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:
- Plants found to speak roundworm's language
- Growing strips of wildflowers in farm fields reduces need for pesticides
- Grass-fed Beef — The Most Vegan Item In The Supermarket
- Behind the Headlines: Dissecting the Vegetarian Myth - Interview with Lierre Keith
- The Health & Wellness Show: 19 January 2015 -- The Vegetarian Myth
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.
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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."
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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."
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):
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:
- NOAA attempts to erase record-breaking cold across northeast US by 'adjusting' raw temperature data
- 100% of U.S. 'Warming' is due to NOAA data tampering
- Climate science fiction: NOAA avoids atmospheric satellite data which shows no global warming in last two decades
- Whistleblower: No more global warming, NOAA scientists falsified temperature data, MSM ignores
- Global warming fraud: NOAA shows record warming where NO temperature stations exist
Comment: Based on past actual pandemics such as 'the Black Death' about 600 years ago, and the 'Justinian Plague' about 600 years before that, which recorded mortality rates of up to 70% in some localities, this coronavirus is not at the level of 'global pandemic'. We will all know if or when such an event is happening...
One criticism we have of Professor Wickramasinghe's theory is that he may be reaching by trying to pin it on a specific, recent meteor event over China. That strikes us as being too linear, based on what he himself has written in the past - concerning the origins of SARS in 2003, funnily enough - about China being a catchment area for new viral material because of its proximity to the Himalayas and a zone of thin atmosphere... It seems more plausible to us that, because meteors can and do detonate anywhere, viruses or virus DNA they carry in their particles swirl all the way around the planet and then (tend to) settle to ground level through the 'Chinese opening'. That may only be a general rule, however, as some meteors probably do penetrate all the way through to the troposphere, and certainly some of their meteorites make it all the way to the ground.
However, the primary factor motivating our reporting on the increase in meteor events is not the risk they present from impacting the ground and causing immediate global catastrophe, which is thankfully rare on a civilizational timescale, but because of the far more potent danger they present of delivering new viruses against which there is no defense.
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