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Predictable Propaganda! Gore, U.N. body win Nobel Peace Prize for "Climate Change"

Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said. "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.


Comment: With the political drive behind the climate change debate, this nomination was expected. Nevermind, that there is a growing body of scientists, who challenge the conclusions that Gore and the IPCC are drawing.


Comment: There is broad agreement that the climate is warming at the moment, but there is much disagreement about the conclusions that are drawn from this change and to what degree human activity is responsible.

Read Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda


Cloud Lightning

Australia: Severe storms hit the NSW North Coast

The North Coast and in particular Lismore is busy cleaning up today after a super cell storm hit the region yesterday. Heavy rain, golf size hailstones and wind gusts of more than 80 km per hour had enough force to smash the windows of cars, houses and businesses.

Bizarro Earth

Giant Atmospheric Waves Over Iowa

Pop quiz: define undular bore. If your answer included words such as dull or tiresome, i.e., boring, think again. Those giant waves-"undular bore waves"-were photographed Oct. 3rd flowing across the skies of Des Moines, Iowa.

©Iowa Environmental Mesonet Skycam
Undular bore waves over Iowa, Oct. 3, 2007

Snowman

'Mini tornado' hits Mitchell in Queensland, Australia

Authorities have blamed a "mini tornado" for ripping roofs from buildings and causing damage across a south-west Queensland town.

Comment: Queensland is currently being battered by a series of intense daily storms causing impressive damage. The "dry" dams seem to be filling up rapidly as well.

Expect much more as we bid adieu to El Nino and welcome the exciting - although "frozen" - new beginnings...


Attention

Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing

Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine once said, "Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."

We depend on water for survival. It circulates through our bodies and the land, replenishing nutrients and carrying away waste. It is passed down like stories over generations -- from ice-capped mountains to rivers to oceans.

Cloud Lightning

Earth getting wetter and stickier

Greenhouse gases are making the earth's atmosphere wetter and stickier, which may lead to more powerful hurricanes, hotter temperatures and heavier rainfall in tropical regions, British researchers reported on Wednesday.

The findings, published in the journal Nature, are some of the first to show how human-produced greenhouse gases have affected global humidity levels in recent decades and could offer clues on future climate change, the researchers said.

Comment: The increase in methane and carbon dioxide gases is largely due to melting perma-frost and heated oceans. Not man-made carbon dioxide, although they do contribute, it is only a fraction of what is being put into the environment by nature.

For more information see: Study says methane a new climate threat and The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about.


Gear

Propaganda Alert! Greenpeace urges kangaroo consumption to fight global warming

More kangaroos should be slaughtered and eaten to help save the world from global warming, environmental activists say.

The controversial call to cut down on beef and serve more of the national symbol on our dinner plates follows a report on curbing greenhouse gas emissions damaging the planet.

Comment: This global warming propaganda is becoming tiring. Although the Earth is undoubtedly warming in the past few decades, there is plenty of evidence that there are many factors involved and man plays just a small part in it; evidence that is not reported by the media. See "Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda" for a thorough debunking of the media-driven climate change swindle.


Info

Western Australia hit by 4.8 quake - again!

AN earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale has rocked parts of southern WA - and has been felt as far away as Perth.

©Geoscience Australia


Comment: Perth is not within the circle on the map, but a further 135km away.


Comment: This is normally a very stable area with few earthquakes, yet it is only 6 weeks ago that there was an earthquake of similar magnitude. See Here


Bizarro Earth

3,000 evacuated after China landslide blocks river

Beijing -- More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in southwestern China after a huge landslide dammed a river, creating a menacing lake that threatened to burst, state media reported Monday.

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New Study Shows Genetically Engineered Corn Could Pollute Aquatic Ecosystems

A study by an Indiana University environmental science professor and several colleagues suggests a widely planted variety of genetically engineered corn has the potential to harm aquatic ecosystems. The study is being published this week by the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.