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Aron Gingis admits he’s stubborn. "Look at my big bull head," he says, laughing. But the tale he tells of underhand tricks, power plays and public hectoring to protect scientific reputations and funding within CSIRO is no laughing matter. Gingis, a environmental engineer working in water resources, climate and atmosphere, alleges that leading Melbourne-based scientists Continue Reading →
Raindrops come in all sizes, says The Australian (3/7/06. p.10). Big, plump drops from thunderstorms may have diameters from 5mm to 8mm, but more typical raindrops range in diameter from about 1mm to 2mm.
Drops unite: Big or small, raindrops form from melting snow flakes or hail stones and when smaller drops called cloud drops collide and unite to form one mass.
Claim smoke reduces rainfall: In 1999 Hebrew University cloud physicist Daniel Rosenfeld published the first satellite data, based on optical, infrared and radar observations, showing that smoke reduces rainfall because it increases the number of tiny particles in a cloud.
Small pollution particles have similar effect: In 2000, using similar satellite data, he revealed that the small particles from urban and industrial pollution in Turkey, Canada and eastern Australia also reduce rainfall.
Cloud seeding could help "kick start" rain: The implications are that cloud seeding may help restore rainfall from polluted clouds or those that just need a "kick start".
The Australian, 3/7/2006, p. 10
Source: Erisk Net
Reduced land clearing by farmers is the only reason Australia is able to meet its greenhouse gas emissions targets, according to the CEO of the Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting, Dr Michael Robinson, reported Agriculture Today (29 June 2006, p.11).
The commitment: The Federal Government has committed Australia to keeping average annual greenhouse gas emissions between 2008 and 2012 to no more than 108 per cent of 1990 levels.
The performance: By 2004, Australia’s net emissions of greenhouse gases had increased by just 2.3 per cent over 1990 levels.
Thank the cockies: Dr Robinson said this meant the Government’s voluntary target was likely to be met, due almost solely to reduced land clearing, particularly in Queensland and NSW.
Erisk Net, 3/7/2006
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
So, Israel plays the same game they have always played. They shell the beach at Gaza, killing innocent people, pretend it didn’t happen, then when the Palestinians (so we are told; nobody really knows who carried out this kidnapping) capture an occupying soldier, Israel acts like THIS is the provocation and starts killing everyone and destroying what is left of Gaza.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9424240/detail.html
BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado announced Monday that it will dismiss controversial professor Ward Churchill.
"Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder," CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano said Monday afternoon.
Churchill has 10 days to appeal, which entails making a request to have the university president or chancellor forward the recommendation to the faculty senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure. A special panel will then conduct hearings on the matter and make a recommendation to the president on whether grounds for dismissal are supported.
Another committee found Churchill guilty of research misconduct and another panel recommended that he be fired because of "repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
I don’t pretend to be an expert on the Israel/Palestine conflict, but I do know biased reporting when I see it, and the reporting here in the U.S. on that ongoing bloodletting in Palestine is certainly biased in the extreme.
Just look at the latest story, about the capture of an Israeli soldier. Palestinian fighters, allegedly linked to Hamas, in a daring raid, attacked a group of Israeli soldiers near the border of Gaza, killing two and capturing one.
This incident came after a period when the Israeli military has been shelling and rocketing Gaza, quite likely killing a whole family of beachgoers (though the Israeli military claims rather improbably that this was the result of a Hamas mine, not of a shell), and a number of other civilians.