Earth Changes
The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. The U.S. Senate report is the latest evidence of the growing groundswell of scientific opposition rising to challenge the UN and Gore.
In the last few years there has been a growing number of documented cases in which large earthquakes set off unfelt tremors in earthquake faults hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of miles away.
Scores of horses ponies and donkeys were left to starve among rotting 
carcasses at a family-run farm in the worst case of animal cruelty vets had ever seen, a court heard.
Hooves and body parts of horses were discovered scattered around Spindle Farm at Hyde Heath in Amersham, Buckinghamshire as well as a mound made up of bones and skulls, it was claimed.
A total of 140 animals needed rescuing from the horse trading business run by the Gray family which was described as a 'horror scene' by RSPCA.
Many animals were allegedly left with little food or dry bedding and were crammed into pens that were ankle deep in their own faeces.
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Hooves and body parts of horses were discovered scattered around Spindle Farm at Hyde Heath in Amersham, Buckinghamshire as well as a mound made up of bones and skulls, it was claimed.
A total of 140 animals needed rescuing from the horse trading business run by the Gray family which was described as a 'horror scene' by RSPCA.
Many animals were allegedly left with little food or dry bedding and were crammed into pens that were ankle deep in their own faeces.
Kennedy calls John Stossel a liar. "The science of global warming is settled," says Kennedy. "On every mountain range on earth, the glaciers are shrinking."
Oh really.
Oh really.
- What about the 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition questioning the IPCC's global warming scenario?
- What about the fact that all five glaciers on California's Mt. Shasta are growing?
- What about the fact that glaciers on Mt. Logan, Canada's tallest mountain, are growing?
- What about the fact that the Nisqually glacier on Washington's Mt. Rainier is growing?
- What about the fact that Crater Glacier on Washington's Mount St. Helen's is growing?
- What about the fact that Mont Blanc Glacier the highest mountain in France and western Europe almost doubled in size in just four years?
- What about the fact that Alaskan glaciers are growing for the first time in 250 years?
- What about the fact that glaciers are growing in Norway?
- What about the fact that glaciers in the western Himalayas are growing?
- What about the fact that all 50 glaciers in New Zealand are growing?
- What about the fact that that the Antarctic Ice Sheets are growing?
The polar ice is accumulating faster than usual, and some of the experts now concede that the globe hasn't warmed since 1995. You may have noticed, in fact, that Al and his pals, having given up on the sun, no longer even warn of global warming. Now it's "climate change." The marketing men enlisted by Al and the doom criers to come up with a flexible "brand" took a cue from the country philosopher who observed, correctly, that "if you've got one foot in the fire and the other in a bucket of ice, on average you're warm." On average, "climate change" covers every possibility.
Super shrimp: The pistol shrimp is only 2cm long but can make a noise louder than Concorde's sonic boom.
Despite being less than an inch long, the creatures can emit an astonishing 218 decibels - louder than a gunshot.
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Two forms of nanoscale iron particles (rods and granules) can be seen in high-resolution pictures of ice.
Two forms of nanoscale iron particles (rods and granules) can be seen in high-resolution pictures of ice.
Rob Raiswell of the University of Leeds, UK and colleagues trained high-resolution microscopes on ice sampled from icebergs in the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic glaciers from which they are born.
They found nano-sized particles of iron, between five and 10 millionths of a millimetre across. The team believe that because of the size and structure of the particles, the iron could be assimilated by phytoplankton.
"Most of the ground-up rock carried by icebergs is thought to be inert," says Raiswell. "However, the high resolution microscopy shows there are small amounts of iron nanoparticles. They simply could not be seen except by these techniques."
The Darfur conflict in Sudan has devastated the environment in the region, stripping forests and destroying farmland, according to a report by the UN's Environment Program (UNEP).
People caught up in the five-year crisis have cut down large areas of woodland, partly to feed a booming war-fuelled construction industry.
Tree cover has become so sparse in some areas that Darfuris often have to travel more than 75 kilometres from their camps to find enough wood to sell or use for fuel, the report added.
"We're now seeing extreme stress on the environment around many of the camps and the major towns in Darfur," said UNEP's Sudan country director Clive Bates in a statement. "We need to plant millions of trees and introduce new technologies for construction and energy as quickly as humanly possible."
People caught up in the five-year crisis have cut down large areas of woodland, partly to feed a booming war-fuelled construction industry.
Tree cover has become so sparse in some areas that Darfuris often have to travel more than 75 kilometres from their camps to find enough wood to sell or use for fuel, the report added.
"We're now seeing extreme stress on the environment around many of the camps and the major towns in Darfur," said UNEP's Sudan country director Clive Bates in a statement. "We need to plant millions of trees and introduce new technologies for construction and energy as quickly as humanly possible."
© Janet Mann, Georgetown University
Bytfluke was one of the first dolphins seen sponging, in the 1980s.
Bytfluke was one of the first dolphins seen sponging, in the 1980s.
Dolphins were first seen carrying sponges cupped over their beaks in Shark Bay, Australia, in the 1980s.
Janet Mann of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and colleagues have now reviewed data collected during 20 years spent monitoring this group of dolphins and found that, while mothers show both their male and female calves how to use sponges, female calves are almost exclusively the only ones to apply this knowledge.
© Brooke Sargeant
The dolphins use basket sponges to stir up fish in sandy channels - the technique is almost exclusively used by females.
The dolphins use basket sponges to stir up fish in sandy channels - the technique is almost exclusively used by females.
"The daughters seem really keen to do it," says Mann. "They try and try, whereas the sons don't seem to think it's a big deal and hang out at the surface waiting for their mothers to come back up."
Huge waves caused by king tides have smashed into dozens of villages and towns in northern Papua New Guinea, destroying homes and flooding businesses and a hospital.
Authorities said there were no reports of casualties, but they were still trying to contact several outlying islands after the waves hit across an 800km stretch of ocean yesterday. Hundreds of people were left homeless
The waves struck PNG's north coast near the town of Wewak and islands to the northeast, such as New Ireland.
Authorities said there were no reports of casualties, but they were still trying to contact several outlying islands after the waves hit across an 800km stretch of ocean yesterday. Hundreds of people were left homeless
The waves struck PNG's north coast near the town of Wewak and islands to the northeast, such as New Ireland.
