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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Male guppies ensure successful mating with genital claws
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Some males will go to great lengths to pursue a female and take extreme measures to hold on once they find one that interests them, even if that affection is unrequited. New research from evolutionary biologists shows that the male guppy grows claws on its genitals to make it more difficult for unreceptive females to get away during mating.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Texas Comptroller: $1 Billion dollars in unclaimed property returned
AUSTIN, TX -- Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced Wednesday that $1 billion in unclaimed property have been returned to Texans since she took office in 2007.
?When I took office in January 2007 I was committed to return as much unclaimed money as possible to owners who may have forgotten about it,? Combs said. ?We launched extensive outreach efforts and streamlined processes to help reunite more owners with their money.?
According to the press release, approximately 1.1 million claims have been approved since 2007.
Unclaimed property could be anything from a forgotten utility deposits or other refunds, insurance proceeds, payroll checks, cashier?s checks, dividends, mineral royalties, dormant bank accounts and abandoned safe deposit box contents.
The press release also states that there is no time limit for to claim the unclaimed property.
To find out if you have unclaimed property in Texas visit www.ClaimItTexas.org.
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NBA free agency rumors 2013: Golden State Warriors to sign Marreese Speights
Multiple outlets are reporting that the Warriors have agreed to terms with 6-foot-10 power forward Marreese Speights.
Many of us have believed that adding depth to the frontcourt was more important to the Golden State Warriors than adding another guard after both Jarrett Jack and Carl Landry left the team as free agents this past weekend.
The Warriors apparently agreed as they have agreed to a three year deal with forward Marreese Speights, as first reported by ESPN. A trio of tweets thus far fill in the details as they've trickled out.
Marcus Thompson has added a bit more about how the Warriors might fit him into their financial picture.
How the Warriors get him is still unclear. He could be signed outright as part of the mid-level exception. He could be signed-and-traded for guard Jarrett Jack (who agreed to a four-year, $25 million deal with Cleveland). The Cavaliers could also sign Speights and trade him to Golden State for part of the Warriors' trade exception.
What Speights might bring to the Warriors
One thing that immediately stands out about Speights is his shooting efficiency: a career true shooting percentage of just 51.5% is not exactly what you'd want to see from a power forward. However, it's not necessarily because he drifts away from the basket that he's an efficient scorer overall - to the contrary, he's quite good from the 16-foot to 3-point line range (48.4%) according to Basketball-Reference. Where he really struggles is from 3-16 foot range where he shot just 32.51% last season.
And comparing his shooting tendencies in Cleveland (where he was a more efficient scorer than either of his two years in Memphis) to what a player like Carl Landry did last season is interesting:
Landry was clearly much better around the basket, which you could argue is something the Warriors needed - the majority of his shots (59.5%) came from that range. Speights, on the other hand, shot more shots in that long two pointer range in 32 games with Cleveland than Landry did in 81 with the Warriors but he was knocking them down from the top of the key and the right wing at a very high rate. So it will be interesting to see how the Warriors make the most of his strengths, but given that he simply does not finish well it might be advantageous to set him up on the perimeter.
But something he has consistently brought during his career is a solid offensive rebounding presence, albeit in limited minutes. He was off to a career-high in offensive rebounding last season with Memphis (15.2% offensive rebounding rate) before grabbing closer to his career average (11.2% career offensive rebound rate) in Cleveland, according to Basketball-Reference. If he could get something closer to what he was doing in Memphis but also manage to keep his scoring efficiency up he could both add some size and be a productive player in the Warriors' frontcourt rotation.
We'll have more on the signing tomorrow morning. But for now, how do you grade this signing?
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Japan?s SoftBank says expects to complete Sprint deal on July 10
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp said on Monday that it expects to complete its $21.6 billion acquisition of U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp on Wednesday, July 10.
SoftBank and Sprint received final regulatory approval for their deal from the Federal Communications Commission last week.
The Japanese company said it expects the deal to close on Wednesday, U.S. Eastern Standard Time.
(Reporting by Mari Saito; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Video: Tragedy on the Runway
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 tablets now available, Play Store, Hulu, Boingo credit included
Liliputing writes, All three sizes of Samsung?s Galaxy Tab 3?tablets are now available for purchase in the US, with prices starting at $199 for a 7 inch model, $299 for the 8.9 inch version, and $399 for the Galaxy Tab 3 (10.1). While those prices are decent, they?re nothing particularly spectacular. But there are a few perks to buying a Samsung tablet ? when you buy a Galaxy Tab 3 in the US you get credit to spend in the Google Play Store, and access to two pretty handy subscriptions. Galaxy Tab 3 customers get $10 to spend on apps, music, movies, or other content from the Google Play Store. It?s not?
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Inhibiting macrophage MerTK signaling creates an innate immune response against cancer
[unable to retrieve full-text content]New evidence shows that MerTK macrophage action in the microenvironment that surrounds cancer cells blunts the immune response, allowing the tumor cell to grow and metastasize.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
NBA free agency: Cavaliers reportedly have interest in Andrew Bynum
The Cavs have interest in oft-injured center, and they would reportedly be willing to offer a lucrative one-year deal.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have interest in free-agent center Andrew Bynum, and they could potentially offer a lucrative one-year deal, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.
Bynum didn't play a single game for the Philadelphia 76ers last season due to recurring knee problems. Bynum doesn't plan on working out for any prospective free-agent suitors, and teams are proceeding with caution with the big man due to the health issues.
More: Cavs blog Fear The Sword on Bynum reportThe Cavs currently have Anderson Varejao and Tyler Zeller in place at center, but Varejao is on the last year of his deal and coming off a health scare while Zeller is still developing. Cleveland has a lot of cap space to offer Bynum a rather hefty contract, although it would preferably be a one-year deal to help protect cap space for the summer of 2014.
The Dallas Mavericks have also shown interest in Bynum, and Stein reports that if the Mavs or any other team offers the center a multi-year deal, the Cavs would likely be out of the running. The Atlanta Hawks have also expressed interest in Bynum.
There's certainly the potential for high reward by taking a chance on Bynum, as when healthy, he's one of the best big men in the NBA. The 25-year-old averaged 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011-12. There could also be language in a new contract that minimizes risk if Bynum's knees fail him again.
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Egypt's emerging leaders after Morsi's overthrow
CAIRO (AP) ? A look at some of the top figures emerging in Egypt after the military removed President Mohammed Morsi:
?Interim President Adly Mansour, 67, a judge:
Mansour emerged from near-obscurity when he became head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, two days before Egypt's military chief announced that Morsi had been deposed and was to be replaced by the chief justice.
Mansour's career in the judiciary took a prominent turn in 1984, when he became a judge on the state council and then its vice president. In 1992, he was appointed vice president to the Supreme Constitutional Court. He became chief justice following his predecessor's retirement on June 30.
He was sworn in as Egypt's president on Thursday.
?Army chief and Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, 58, also the defense minister:
El-Sissi stepped onto the center stage of Egyptian politics when the military on Monday gave Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to resolve his differences with the opposition after millions took to the streets on June 30 to demand the Islamist leader leave power. On Wednesday, el-Sissi announced Morsi's removal.
A graduate of the Egyptian military academy and the U.S. Army War College, el-Sissi was appointed commander in chief of the Egyptian armed forces in August 2012, replacing Field Marshall Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, who was ordered into retirement by Morsi.
?Ziad Bahaa-Eldin of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party:
Bahaa-Eldin has been widely tipped as the consensus candidate to become prime minister for the transitional government. Comparatively young for an Egyptian politician at 48, he is a widely respected Western-educated lawyer with a degree from the London School of Economics who set up the government's financial regulatory body overseeing capital markets after heading the business-friendly investment agency.
While he did work in the government of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, he was never seen as a real member of the regime. He quickly sided with the 2011 uprising and joined one of the new political parties formed after Mubarak's ouster, a left-of-center party that believes in a market economy that takes into account the needs of the workers. He won a seat in the first parliament after Mubarak's fall, representing the southern governorate of Assuit.
On Thursday he called for building a new system based on inclusiveness and respect for law and "does not use the weapons of our rivals in treating them."
?Mohammed ElBaradei, former director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency:
Originally pegged to be prime minister, the 71-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate was opposed by conservatives and may now become vice president in the interim government.
With a long career on the international scene, ElBaradei served as an Egyptian diplomat to the United Nations and later as an aide to Egypt's foreign minister. He was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nearly 12 years. He and the IAEA shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
After popular protests toppled Mubarak in February 2011, ElBaradei emerged as a democracy advocate and later as an opposition leader in the National Salvation Front. After a series of widely criticized moves by Morsi, ElBaradei said members of the dominant Muslim Brotherhood lived "in a delusion" for thinking they could manage the country on their own.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-emerging-leaders-morsis-overthrow-204652802.html
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Solar plane heads for New York in final leg of U.S. journey
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An airplane entirely powered by the sun embarked on the final leg of a journey across the United States on Saturday, taking off from Washington, D.C., for a roughly 21-hour flight to New York City.
The Solar Impulse, its four propellers driven by energy collected from 12,000 solar cells in its wings that simultaneously recharge batteries for night use, departed Dulles International Airport outside Washington at 4:46 a.m. EDT, organizers said.
Flight plans call for it to head north over Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, pass over the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and land at John F. Kennedy Airport around 2 a.m. EDT on Sunday.
If the spindly experimental aircraft completes the journey as planned, it will be the first solar-powered plane capable of operating day and night to fly across the United States.
The Solar Impulse, with the wingspan of a jumbo jet and the weight of a small car, completed the first leg of the journey from San Francisco to Phoenix in early May and flew later that month from Phoenix to Dallas. From there it flew to St. Louis, stopped briefly in Cincinnati, then flew on to Washington, where is has remained since June 16.
Intended to boost support for clean energy technologies, the project began in 2003 with a 10-year budget of $112 million (90 million euros). It has involved engineers from Swiss escalator maker Schindler and research aid from Belgian chemicals group Solvay.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch; Editing by Eric Beech)
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30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria
POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) ? Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims.
Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest.
"That's it, I'm taking my other boys out of school," he told The Associated Press as he wept over the two corpses. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.
"It's not safe," he said. "The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers."
Survivors at the Potiskum General Hospital and its mortuary said gunmen attacked Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m. Saturday. The gunmen are believed to be from the Boko Haram sect whose name means "Western education is sacrilege."
They killed 29 students and an English teacher Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest according to another teacher, Ibrahim Abdu.
"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me," said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.
He put his arm up in defense, and suffered a gunshot that blew off all four fingers on his right hand, the one he uses to write with.
He said the gunmen came armed with jerry cans of fuel that they used to torch the school's administrative block and one of the hostels.
"They burned the children alive," he said, the horror showing in his wide eyes.
He and teachers at the morgue said dozens of children from the 1,200-student school escaped into the bush but have not been seen since.
Some bodies are so charred they could not be identified, so many parents do not know if their children survived or died.
Islamic militants from Boko Haram and breakaway groups have killed more than 1,600 civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010, according to an Associated Press count.
Scores of schools have been burned down in the past year in northeast Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency May 14, and deployed thousands of troops to halt the insurgency, acknowledging that militants had taken control of some towns and villages.
The military has claimed success in regaining control of the area ? the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe . However, the area covers some 155,000 square kilometers (60,000 square miles) or one-sixth of the sprawling country.
Soldiers say they have killed and arrested hundreds of fighters.
But the crackdown, including attacks with fighter jets and helicopter gunships on militant camps, appears to have driven the extremists into rocky mountains with caves, from which they emerge to attack schools and markets.
The militants have increasingly targeted civilians, including health workers on vaccination campaigns, teachers and government workers.
Farmers have been driven from their land by the extremists and by military roadblocks, raising the specter of a food shortage to add to the woes of a people already hampered by the military's shutdown of cell phone service and ban on using satellite telephones.
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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Weekend Roundup: Galaxy S4 sells 20 millions, Apple get sued over iDevices & Yahoo buys Qwiki
Yahoo acquires Qwiki
I?ve been following Qwiki for a while, ever since it won TechCrunch?s prestigious Disrupt award in 2010. The following year, it got a big funding pot from none other than the co-founders of Facebook and Youtube. I remember fondly playing with it while it was still available as a web-based service. The startup pivoted earlier this year becoming a mobile-only video app. Its core feature is converting pictures into video automatically complete with transitions and background music, similar to Animoto. In a nutshell, dare we say, it is a glorified version of the animated GIF, although its founder and CEO wants it to be a (visual) storytelling app. Too bad, it now has Vine (from Twitter) and Instagram?s latest video service, to compete with. Qwiki?s acquisition comes after Yahoo?s purchase of Tumblr in May but I fail to see how Marissa Mayer?s team will manage to integrate it into a coherent business plan. Unless, Yahoo is acting as a proxy for Microsoft and Qwiki will ultimately become a rival to the omnipotent Youtube.
Boston University looking for funding
Taking on some of the biggest companies in the world is no small feat and yet this is what the Boston University wants to do. This private research university has more than 4,000 faculty members, nearly 30,000 students and research expenditures reaching up to $553 million. After Amazon, Samsung and Google, Apple and its popular iDevices have been in the limelight after the university claimed Apple infringed on a patent filed by one of its professor 26 years ago. It wants sales of the iPhone, the iPad and the MacBook Air to stop until a licensing scheme is set up with the university taking a cut of each past sale. This is a classic case of patent-trolling, when an entity decides to pounce on a company to siphon using one or more patents, via a legal route.
EE and Mastercard will launch mobile wallet
The number of smartphones now coming with NFC capabilities is on the rise and mobile phone networks are starting to tap (pun intended) into that market. EE, the only 4G mobile network in the country, and global card processor Mastercard have announced that they will launch a mobile wallet contactless payment service. You can use the phone even when the battery has died (handy for paying a cab after a long night out) but you will need to pay into a prepaid account (up to ?20) first.
That?s probably the best option given that you won?t need a PIN to pay for that Greggs? croissant or your daily cappuccino fix. It will be interesting to see how the service behaves in real life especially as people now tend to carry more than one NFC-enabled products (e.g. oyster, bank card) and more phones integrated wireless charging.
Samsung sells 20 million Galaxy S4 smartphones
My back-of-an-handkerchief calculation shows that over the last 30 days, Samsung sold more than 330,000 units of its latest flagship, the Galaxy S4, with the Korean manufacturer claiming that it has flogged more than 20 million of them since it launched back in March. That has been helped partly by the fact that the average price of the S4 in the UK at least has been steadily falling. You can get the handset on a two-year contract for as little as ?29 per month with unlimited data while the phone itself costs as little as ?445, a far cry from the jaw-dropping ?600 it commanded when it went on sale.
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Go camping in an inflatable geodesic dome
Geodesic domes have been used for everything from playground climbing equipment to homes, and now you can camp in one. ?The Cave from Heimplanet doesn’t use poles, but instead uses inflatable tubes from which you suspend the tent. ?It’s big enough to sleep 2-3 people, and it has storage pockets built in to help hold [...]
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Hoarded Calif. dogs await rescue groups
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? More than 130 dogs saved from a hoarder in California two weeks ago need to be saved again ? but only rescue groups can save them now.
The dogs were seized from Rainbow's End Animal Sanctuary in Apple Valley on June 18, where they had been living in one large pack for years without proper food, medical care or human interaction, San Bernardino County Animal Care and Control officials said.
Some dogs had to be euthanized for health reasons. The rest can only be released to rescue groups because of the costly and extensive medical care and behavior work they need. For the same reason, most rescue groups may only be able to take one or two dogs, said Doug Smith, the supervising animal control officer at the Devore Animal Shelter, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Any nonprofit rescue group in the country with the proper credentials can save a dog, Smith said. The rescue groups will have to provide transportation for the dogs too.
The dogs are all at Devore now, but only because other shelters and pet lovers pitched in two weeks ago and adopted every available dog at the shelter to make room.
Devore had to hold the hoarded dogs as evidence until Friday.
All of the hoarded dogs are mixed breed, with a lot of shepherd and collie in them, Smith said.
Smith says the dogs range in age from newborn (born Wednesday) to 11 years old. There are males and females.
Soon they will have to free up kennel space for new dogs and if they don't find sponsors for the 130 dogs, they will have to be euthanized, Smith said.
A criminal complaint has been submitted to the district attorney for review, said Brian Cronin, chief of animal care and control. Because it is an open animal cruelty case, some details about the dogs and their living conditions are not available.
"It is extremely concerning when a self-proclaimed animal sanctuary fails to fulfill its commitment to the homeless animals it has accepted," Cronin said in a statement.
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Prince Harry?s Shirtless Bod Used To Advertise A Gay Club In London
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on July 6, 2013The gays in London really know how to celebrate Pride this year and they have THE BEST taste when it comes to posterboys for the happy celebration. Prince Harry has been chosen by a gay club called Manbar to be their unofficial mascot for Pride this year as his shirtless bod has been used to promote their establishment. Inspired by the shirtless photos of Harry that came out when he was serving the British military in Afghanistan a few years ago, artist Mike Bliss worked up the fun graphic that went on display this week. Click below to see the poster artwork of Harry and TELL ME that it wouldn?t inspired you to check out the drink specials inside.
The Queen should shield her eyes! Posters featuring a shirtless (and buff) Prince Harry have been proudly on display at a London gay bar dubbed Manbar. The controversial (and clearly Photoshopped) posters have the young royal promoting drink specials and even pride weekend activities. Manbar has boasted that they were voted the ?best new venue in London,? and apparently Prince Harry is the poster boy for the happening hot spot. The poster mockups were created by an artist named Mike Bliss, and were inspired by Harry?s shirtless rugby game in Afghanistan back in 2008. No word yet on whether Prince William?s brother has seen the ads.
As a public figure, I?m sure Harry and the rest of the royal family are well-used to having their likeness used in various creative ways ? this just happens to be the latest creative way that Harry and his royal hotness have been used. I would hope that Harry wouldn?t object to having his shirtlessness used to celebrate gay pride cuz I don?t think many other people would object either :D
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A Minute With: Vikramaditya Motwane on O. Henry in Bollywood
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Vikramaditya Motwane first caught the attention of Bollywood in 2010 when his debut film - a small-budget tale of teenage angst - made it to competition at the Cannes Film Festival in the category for emerging directors.
Three years after the success of that movie, "Udaan", or "Flight", Motwane is back with a big-ticket period romance inspired by "The Last Leaf", a short story by U.S. writer O. Henry in which a leaf painted on a wall saves the life of an ill young woman.
"Lootera", or "Thief", opened in Indian cinemas on Friday, going head-to-head with "Policegiri", the last completed film by jailed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.
Motwane spoke to Reuters about "Lootera" and the difficulties of adapting a four-page short story first published in 1907 into a full-fledged Bollywood movie.
Q: What is "Lootera" about?
A: It is a love story, it's part thriller, mystery. At its core, it is a love story - it is about falling in love, about betrayal, redemption and a lot of things. It is also about friendship and life, and just a little bit more.
Q: Did you set out to make a love story?
A: Kind of. It is inspired from "The Last Leaf" which is a very strange love story, if it is a love story at all ... So me and Bhavani (Iyer), who is my co-writer, took it up as a challenge and said let us see what we can do with this adaptation. Also, we were struggling writers with nothing to do, so we said let's just do this. We bounced ideas off each other and built it up and then realized that this was serious. We could actually make a film out of this.
Q: What about "The Last Leaf" made you want to adapt it?
A: Many things. The fact that it is tragic but leaves you with a smile on your face. The sense of doing something selfless for somebody who doesn't even know about it - that was really interesting. It was the human element that was magic.
Q: How do you adapt a short story to an Indian setting?
A: The easy thing is that it is a four-page short story so you are not encumbered with details. Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove. Here, we had to add to it and work on a complete backstory. I tried to do a modern-day adaptation but it didn't work. You are talking of two people who come together and are then forced apart and in today's day and age with cellphones and Facebook, how far apart can you actually be?
Q: Was it easier to make your second film after the success of "Udaan"?
A: I had written this script before "Udaan" was made and part of the angst of getting that first film made and finding that it wasn't getting done, worked itself into this. This was a big-budget film, which is difficult to make as a first film. And that wasn't a good time; it is much easier today. It was a question of throwing both balls in the air and seeing which one would be caught - either "Udaan" or "Lootera".
It has become easier in the sense that doors opened quicker - getting access to the stars and the money has been easier. But it hasn't been an easy film to make. It is much bigger in terms of scale and production. But that was the intention. We set out to make a big film because I don't want to be stuck with being slotted as making films that are small. Because I have ideas that I know are going to take a lot of money to make. Not a lot of money, but some money. You have to give the industry confidence that you can handle that kind of money and budget.
Q: Do you think of your audience while making a film?
A: Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience. You have to be honest about what kind of films you want to make. If it is in your blood to make those kind of films, go ahead and make them. If it is not ? and I have seen a lot of filmmakers do that, they make films that they don't believe in, and it doesn't work.
(Editing by Tony Tharakan and Elaine Lies)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/minute-vikramaditya-motwane-o-henry-bollywood-051315830.html
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Friday, July 5, 2013
China-Pakistan friendship 'sweeter than honey', says Nawaz Sharif
Earlier this year China took control of Pakistan's Gwadar port, giving it access to the Arabian Sea and Strait of Hormuz, a gateway for a third of the world's traded oil.
A series of agreements were signed by ministers of the two countries as Li and Sharif held talks.
Among these was a "long term plan" over the economic corridor, and agreements on technology, polio prevention and solar housing.
An agreement was also signed for cooperation between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
The two countries also agreed a $44 million project to erect a fibre optic cable from the China-Pakistan border to Rawalpindi, which aims to give Pakistan more connectivity to international networks.
China-Pakistan trade last year reached $12 billion and is targeted to rise to $15 billion in the next two to three years.
On Thursday Sharif held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, amid concerns in his country over weak growth, inflation and power cuts of up to 20 hours a day.
Xi, who referred to Sharif as an old friend and a good brother, said strengthening strategic cooperation with Islamabad was a priority for China's diplomacy, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television reported.
Sharif said his country welcomed Chinese investment and would work to create a friendly environment for it.
The threat of terrorism is also expected to figure during Sharif's discussions.
Edited for Telegraph.co.uk by Barney Henderson
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Cambridge Audio's Minx Go Couples Crazy Battery Life With Great, Portable Sound
A little while ago, I reviewed the Cambridge Minx Air 200 and found it a solid new performer in the UK-based company's new lineup of wireless speakers. Today, I'm looking at the Cambridge Audio Minx Go, a portable Bluetooth speaker with 18 hours of advertised battery life and a $149 price tag. It's bigger than cheaper competitors like the Jawbone Jambox, but it's got plenty more juice, too, and Cambridge's high-quality pedigree.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zQIlhqw0ajI/
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What do you think of the iOS 7 Photo filters? [Poll]
So, iOS 7 has filters in its Camera app, but what do you think of them? Filters are quite literally everywhere today, with what started at Instagram now spreading far and wide across our favorite mobile apps and services. Twitter has them, so does Google+, not to mention the countless different iOS camera apps that implement filters in some way, shape or form. Maybe someone should sell glasses with interchangeable filter lenses, so we really do see everything through a filter? With such coverage, it was perhaps inevitable that Apple would eventually add their own take on it to their iOS camera app, but do they look any good?
Rene has already previewed the iOS 7 camera, as well as pitting the on-board filters against some of those from popular competing products. If you haven't given those posts a read yet, definitely do so while you're making up your mind. It's important to remember too, that since iOS 7 is still in beta, anything could theoretically happen between now and final launch. But, they're here, and for the most part we can get a feel for how they're looking. So, what do you think? A good job, absolutely awful, or somewhere in-between? Drop a vote in the poll up top, and head down into the comments and let us know your thoughts!
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Vudu for Android now available on (some) phones, not just tablets
Vudu's player for Android launched last year with tablet support, and now a new update lets it work on a limited selection of phones. Newer Samsung handsets, the Nexus 4, HTC One and several other devices round out the list, as the app works for either streaming or downloading movies. It worked without issue on our Nexus 4, however since its UI hasn't changed from the tablet version some of the buttons were smaller than we'd like. Also, we couldn't get the video to play in any res beyond SD so it wasn't the sharpest, but there was a high enough bitrate to make movie-watching enjoyable on the small screen. As usual, the app is free, if you have an account with the VOD / Ultraviolet service hit the Play Store link below to see if works on your hardware of choice.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Mobile
Source: Google Play, Vudu Blog
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup | Watts Up With That?
The Week That Was: 2013-06-29 (June 29, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project
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Quote of the Week: : ?The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.? Richard Lindzen [H/t Tom Sheehan]
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Number of the Week: 3.7%
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THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
The Climate Speech: President Obama gave a long awaited speech announcing his climate plan. In an emotional appeal, he invoked the spirit of Apollo missions, apparently unaware that some of the veterans of the Apollo team formed The Right Climate Stuff research team (TRCS) that directly challenges the claims of the official Washington science that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing dangerous global warming.
The research team found that 1) the science that predicts the extent of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is not settled; 2) there is no convincing physical evidence of Catastrophic AGW; 3) computer models need to be validated before being used in critical decision-making, 4) we have time to study global climate changes and improve our prediction accuracy, 5) the US government is over-reacting to AGW, and 6) a wider range of solution options should be studied for global warming or cooling threats from any credible cause.
The president announced sweeping new powers for the EPA, including regulating existing coal fired power plants, without bothering to ask Congress for the requisite legislation. In so doing he is claiming authoritarian powers to fight climate change which has been ongoing for hundreds of millions of years.
The president used the term carbon pollution some 20 times, demonstrating how the unfortunate Supreme Court decision that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act has infected official thinking in Washington. Many do not realize they are carbon based life forms and that in the act of breathing they increase the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) of the air they use by 100 times, inhaling 4 parts per 10,000 and exhaling 400 parts per 10,000. In his speech the president lumped carbon with mercury, sulfur, and arsenic, known toxins.
The speech contained numerous scientific and factual challenges. But this is official Washington science, where un-validated computer models are used to create fear of the future, including global warming, climate change, and extreme weather events, as if they had never happened before. The official science is grossly misleading and, contrary to the models, atmospheric warming stopped a decade ago, and surface warming stopped over 15 years ago. The official science is creating fear in the public that natural variability in climate is unusual and that variability can be controlled by government.
The president presented the issue as if he was on high moral ground, equating skeptics to members of the Flat Earth Society and insisted that urgent action is needed to protect future generations. If there is any moral issue to the speech, it is misleading the public about science and public health to assert authorities control over significant components of the economy. Unfortunately, if his plan is implemented, the major burdens will become evident long after he has left office. Please see Article #2, links under President Obama?s Climate Speech and http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/SummaryPrelimReport.html. The articles cover a wide range of opinion, and they are in no particular order. Generally, the newspapers that identify themselves a liberal supported the president?s authoritarian expansion of power and did not insist on legislative action.
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Carbon, Cost or Benefit? Last week?s TWTW discussed how the concept of Social Cost of Carbon, which has never been approved by Congress, therefore is an authoritarian assertion, is being manipulated by Washington bureaucrats. An article in the Wall Street Journal, discusses this further. TWTW will start a subheading titled the Social Benefits of Carbon. Please Article #3 and Social Benefits of Carbon.
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Another Yucca Mountain? Secretary of Energy Moniz asserted that the Administration is not waging a war on coal and that the Climate Plan has $8 Billion for carbon capture and storage. Those who believe this will become effective and affordable would do well to review the history of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, which this Administration stopped, costing the nuclear energy tens of billions on a failed government promise. In 2009, the EPA issued a rule limiting the radiation doses from Yucca Mountain for up to 1,000,000 years!
Further, the requirement under the climate plan that the EPA will issue CO2 limits for new plants and existing plants achieves the goal of stopping construction of new coal-fired power plants to replace less efficient older plants. No one would start a plant under the cloud of new regulations to be issued later. Please see link under Energy Issues ? US.
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Flat Earth Society: President Obama?s equating those skeptical of the Washington science that CO2 emissions cause dangerous global warming brought out a few amusing responses with the Flat Earth Society. It turns out that the president of the society believes official climate science. Lubo? Motl has fun with this by suggesting a merger of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Flat Earth Society. Please see link under Questioning the Orthodoxy.
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NIPCC in China: There are further press releases covering the Chinese Academy of Sciences announcing the translation of the two major reports by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and the event surrounding the announcement. The purpose translation was to promote discussion and it was not an endorsement of the report. Please see Article # 1 and links under NIPCC in China.
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Model Issues: Last week?s TWTW contained a discussion on the meaning of the mean of an ensemble of models. Judith Curry presented a discussion, limited to weather models that are constantly tested and updated. For the technically inclined please see link under Model Issues.
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A Political Shift: Judith Curry suggests that the response of the Republicans to the President?s climate plan may indicate a shift in policy from questioning the science to focusing on the costs of the plan. Curry endorses this approach.
This approach may be easier to explain to the general public. But the quality of the science still needs to be addressed. As discussed in last week?s TWTW, the FY 2012 U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is $2.6 Billion. This does not include the monies being spent by the 13 agencies that make up the program. The 2009 USGCRP (different name) report was misleading. The draft 2013 report was shoddy, at best. If the purpose is to learn about climate change, rather than creating illusionary models, the entire program must be turned around to first understand the natural causes of climate change ? and then understand the human influence. This turn around can only by accomplished sharp questioning of all the agencies involved. Please see link under The Political Games Continue.
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Fracking Fears: A new study by Robert Jackson, Professor of Environmental Science at Duke, confirmed that some water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania in Marcellus shale basin showed high concentrations of methane, ethane and propane. But according to Jackson, the likely cause was faulty well construction, improper sealing; not hydraulic fracturing. Please see link under Oil Spills, Gas Leaks & Consequences
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Gas Rich Britain? The UK Geological Survey released a study of northern England that indicates that the Bowland shale basin may contain the largest amount of shale gas in the world, up to 1300 trillion cubic feet. Of course much more exploration is necessary to determine how much is economically recoverable. The discovery will cause great consternation among the no fossil fuels politicians. Please see links under Oil and Natural Gas ? the Future or the Past?
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Climate Science Lesson Plans: The International Climate Science Coalition has announced lesson plans for teaching climate science in middle and high schools. SEPP has not reviewed the plans, but is familiar with the science advisor, Bob Carter, who is an editor of the NIPCC reports, and, no doubt, the program is scientifically sound. Please see link under Questioning the Orthodoxy.
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Sustainable Wind Power? Probably unintentionally, an article in the Guardian newspaper stated: ?Wind turbine operators and manufacturers have been holding off on tens of billions of pounds of investment in the UK, over fears that subsidies would be cut to unsustainable levels.? SEPP has long maintained that without subsidies wind and solar power are unsustainable on a commercial scale. Please see link under Subsidies and Mandates Forever.
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Amplifications and Corrections: Harold Doiron of The Right Climate Stuff Team corrected TWTW description of his word on the Apollo program. It should have read: ?He developed the lunar lander touchdown dynamics simulation for toppling stability and energy absorption used to guide design of the landing gear, develop landing techniques, and help select safe landing sites.?
Reader Jens Kieffer-Olsen challenges David Archibald?s hypothesis that temperatures from central England indicate we are two years away from a 1740 event which was one of extreme cold following a period of warmth. Kieffer-Olsen asserts that the cause of the event was the 1739 eruption of Mt. Hekla in Iceland which killed about 20% of the population. An internet search, including one by Anthony Watts failed to uncover such an eruption. Kieffer-Olsen provided an account written in 1914, but it is in Swedish. The google translations is poor but it does state the eruption killed 9,238 people and significant livestock. http://runeberg.org/univers/0476.html
In two years we can test Archibald?s hypothesis.
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Number of the Week: 3.7%. That is the percentage in US carbon dioxide emissions from 2011 to 2012, according to the Energy Information Administration. Except for 2010, emissions have dropped every year since 2007. Lower natural gas prices have resulted in less carbon-intensive natural gas electricity generation replacing higher carbon intensive coal generation. The mild winter contributed as well. SEPP adds that the sustained economic stagnation (growth rate less than 2%) contributes as well.
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10691
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ARTICLES:
For the numbered articles below please see this week?s TWTW at: http://www.sepp.org. The articles are at the end of the pdf.
1 Climate change by the numbers.
By S. Fred Singer, Chairman of SEPP, Founder of NIPCC, Submitted to Shanghai Daily, June 23, 2013
http://www.sepp.org/science-editorials.cfm#A83
2. The Carbonated President
Obama unveils a war on fossil fuels he never disclosed as a candidate.
Editorial, WSJ, Jun 26, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323683504578567533647032380.html?mod=ITP_opinion_2
3. The ?Social Cost of Carbon? Gambit
Editorial, WSJ, Jun 27, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323566804578551672709633396.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
4. A Property Rights Victory
Government can?t use permitting to extort from landowners.
Editorial, WSJ, Jun 27, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323683504578567670559475816.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop
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NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Science: Is the Sun Rising?
Flooding catastrophes at the Bavarian Lake Ammer occur predominantly during phases of weak solar activity
By Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian L?ning, Trans. P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jun 24, 2013
http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/24/data-show-amazing-relationship-between-south-german-flooding-frequency-and-solar-activity/
Climategate Continued
CRU Abandons Yamal Superstick
By Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, Jun 28, 2013
http://climateaudit.org/2013/06/28/cru-abandons-yamal-superstick/#more-18040
[SEPP Comment: Changing an abrupt warming into no warming, as previously suggest by McIntyre. Some commentators accuse McIntyre of plagiarism for showing these changes ? another low.]
Shiyatov and the Polar Urals
By Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, Jul 27, 2013
http://climateaudit.org/2013/06/27/shiyatov-and-the-polar-urals/#more-18010
[SEPP Comment: A long post on CRU ignoring a significant set of properly collected tree ring data that was described in the journals.]
Suppressing Scientific Inquiry
JCU caves in to badgering and groupthink ? blackballs ?politically incorrect? Bob Carter
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Jun 26, 2013
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/jcu-caves-in-to-badgering-and-groupthink-blackballs-politically-incorrect-bob-carter/
[SEPP Comment: Bob Carter is an editor of the NIPCC Reports.]
Challenging the Orthodoxy
Roy Spencer and Murry Salby,
By Vincent Gray, NZ Climate Truth Newsletter No 313, Jun 22, 2013
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/roy-spencer-and-murry-salby.html
[SEPP Comment: On the importance of satellite measurements temperatures. Also, on the need to document findings so they can be carefully studied, in this instance the relationship between temperatures and CO2 as asserted by Salby.]
Government Weather and Climate Science is a Proven Disaster.
By Tim Ball, A Different Perspective, Jun 26, 2013
http://drtimball.com/2013/government-weather-and-climate-science-is-a-proven-disaster/
It is time to close the [UK] weather office as they, like all government weather offices, have proved are political, unaccountable and scientifically wrong.
Paper finds ~50% of warming over past 30 years was due to natural ocean oscillations
By Staff Writer, Hockey Schtick, Jun 18, 2013
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/06/paper-finds-50-of-warming-over-past-30.html
Link to paper: An Observational Analysis of Oceanic and Atmospheric Structure of Global-Scale Multidecadal Variability
By Peng Liu, Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Sep 18, 2013
http://www.tims.ntu.edu.tw/Talks_detail.php?talkID=2301
[SEPP Comment: Solar influence should not be summed with ocean influence, they may be interrelated.]
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Defending the Orthodoxy
Goodbye, Miami
By century?s end, rising sea levels will turn the nation?s urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin
By Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stones, Jun 20, 2013 [H/t William Readdy]
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620
[SEPP Comment: A tedious account of what may happen. During the last interglacial, about 125,000 years ago, south Florida was covered by the ocean. One can see this by investigating limestone quarries 2 to 3 meters above sea level. No one suggests that human CO2 emissions was the cause.]
Buffering the Sun
David Keith and the question of climate engineering
By Erin O?Donnell, Harvard Magazine, July / August, 2013 [H/t Jan Breslow]
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/07/buffering-the-sun?utm_source=University&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EdHighlights_Jun13
President Obama?s Climate Speech
?We Need to Act?: Transcript of Obama?s Climate Change Speech
By Tom Randall, Bloomberg, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-25/-we-need-to-act-transcript-of-obama-s-climate-change-speech.html
President Obama?s Plan to Fight Climate Change
By Staff Writers, The White House, Jun 25, 2013 [H/t Jeffrey Miller]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062513p1&utm_campaign=climatechange
Obama?s Boutique Energy Plan Hurts the Poor
By Roy Spencer, His Blog, Jun 26, 2013
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/obamas-boutique-energy-plan-hurts-the-poor/
And our tropical tropospheric temperatures (where almost 50% of Earth?s sunlight is absorbed) have a 34-year temperature trend which is not statistically different from zero, in stark contrast to 73 state-of-the-art climate models.
Obama Puts Legacy at Stake With Clean-Air Act
By Justin Gillis, NYT, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/science/earth/clean-air-act-reinterpreted-would-focus-on-flexibility-and-state-level-efforts.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130626&_r=0
The President?s Climate Action Plan ? the good, the bad, and the ugly (with full documents)
By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 25, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/25/the-presidents-climate-action-plan-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
Obama pledges carbon limits at power plants, says Keystone can?t raise greenhouse gases
By Brian Hughes, Washington Examiner, Jun 25, 2013
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-pledges-carbon-limits-at-power-plants-says-keystone-cant-raise-greenhouse-gases/article/2532374
On the international front, Obama vowed to block U.S. funding for new coal power plants overseas unless they used so-called carbon capture technology.
[SEPP Comment: Achieves what environmentalists want, it blocks the construction of new coal fired power plants using advanced pollution control technology due to the uncertainty of EPA rule making.]
Obama should confront climate change fantasies
By Bj?rn Lomborg, USA Today, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/25/obama-climate-change-georgetown-column/2455723/
On climate change, Obama bypasses Congress with ambitious plan
By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-climate-strategy-represents-piecemeal-approach/2013/06/25/7bd9f20a-dd0a-11e2-bd83-e99e43c336ed_story.html?hpid=z2
Blowing Smoke: Obama Climate Speech Riddled With Lies
A dangerous, arrogant, fact-free tirade.
By Tim Ball and Tom Harris, PJ Media, Jun 26, 2013
http://pjmedia.com/blog/blowing-smoke-obama-climate-speech-riddled-with-lies/?singlepage=true
Obama?s Climate Plan Has No New Ideas, But Would Make Economy Worse
By Kathleen Harnett White, IBD, Jun 26, 2013
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/062613-661528-obama-climate-plan-would-only-make-the-economy-worse-off.htm?p=full
Activists, lawmakers search for meaning in Obama?s Keystone comments
By Zack Colman, The Hill, Jun 27, 2013
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/308023-outside-groups-lawmakers-search-for-meaning-in-obamas-keystone-comments
Obama Is Merely Leveling The Energy Playing Field With Europe ? Declares An End To Cheap American Energy
By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jun 26, 2013
http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/26/obama-leveling-the-energy-playing-field-with-europe-declares-an-end-to-cheap-american-energy/
Obama?s Climate Change Speech Ignores Science & EU Experience
By William Jasper, New American, Jun 25, 2013
http://thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/15814-obama-s-climate-change-speech-at-georgetown-ignores-science-eu-experience
Obama turns climate change into corporate bonanza
By Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner, Jun 25, 2013
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2532397?slideout=1
President Obama?s climate initiative: The bad news and good news
By Steve Goreham, Washington Times, Jun 26, 2013
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/climatism-watching-climate-science/2013/jun/26/president-obamas-climate-initiative-good-bad-news-/
The Top 5 Lies Of Obama?s Climate Change Speech
Editorial, IBD, Jun 26, 2013
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062613-661588-presidents-carbon-dioxide-speech-full-of-lies.htm?p=full
CEI Analysts See Effort To Avoid Congress Because Ideas Are Unpopular
By Staff Writer, ICECAP, Jun 25, 2013
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate/cei_analysts_see_effort_to_avoid_congress_because_ideas_are_unpopular1/
[SEPP Comment: Worse than trying to impress journalists by his basketball skills and shooting 2 out of 22 on camera?]
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Cost of a Climate Policy: The Economic Impact of Obama?s Climate Action Plan
By Kreutzer, et al., Heritage Foundation, Jun 27, 2013
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/06/climate-policy-economic-impact-and-cost-of-obama-s-climate-action-plan
German Media Reaction To Obama?s Plan: ?Hollow Words?Bruising And Potentially Costly Political Battle?
By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jun 28, 2013
http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/28/german-media-reaction-to-obamas-plan-hollow-words-bruising-and-potentially-costly-political-battle/
Obama draws a bead on existing coal plants
Editorial, Charleston Daily Mail, West Virginia, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/Editorials/201306240132
Obama?s Climate Change Plans Include A War On Coal
Editorial, IBD, Jun 25, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062513-661367-obama-goes-to-war-on-coal-and-constitutional-limits.htm
New carbon pollution rules could still be years away
By Jennifer Dlouhy, Fuel Fix, Jun 24, 2013
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/06/24/new-carbon-pollution-rules-could-still-be-years-away/
Beware! Media Will Support Obama?s Climate Lies
By Alan Caruba, Warning Signs, Jun 25, 2013
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/06/beware-media-will-support-obamas.html
It?s almost as if the White House can?t figure out how to use Google
By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 27, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/27/its-almost-as-if-the-white-house-cant-figure-out-how-to-use-google/
The White House releases a laughable state by state climate impact report
By Anthony Watts, WUWT. Jun 26, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/26/the-whitehouse-releases-a-laughable-state-by-state-climate-impact-report/
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Three strikes and you?re out
By Gordon Fulks, ICECAP, Jun 22, 2013
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/icing-the-hype/three_strikes_and_your_out1/
Does population matter?
By Martin Livermore, Scientific Alliance, Jun 28, 2013
http://scientific-alliance.org/scientific-alliance-newsletter/does-population-matter
Global Warming: There?s Nothing To Fight Against
Editorial, IBD, Jun 24, 2013
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062413-661193-no-global-warming-to-fight-against.htm
The IPCC and the Flat Earth Society may merge now
By Lubo? Motl, The Reference Frame, Jun 27, 2013
http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-ipcc-and-flat-earth-society-may.html#more
[SEPP Comment: Establishing a parallel on these two organizations.]
How Many Things You Do Today Will Kill You Or The Planet?
By Larry Bell, Forbes, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/06/25/how-many-things-you-do-today-will-kill-you-or-the-planet/
Important Advance in Climate Science Teaching
By Geoff Brown, NCTCS, Jun 25, 2013
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/important-advance-in-climate-science.html
NIPCC in China
Chinese Translation of Climate Change Reconsidered Unveiled in China
By Sansukong, China Daily, Jun 27, 2013
http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-872686-1-1.html
Chinese Translation of Climate Change Reconsidered
By Joseph Bast, Craig Idso, S. Fred Singer, Robert Carter, The Heartland Institute, Jun 11, 2013
http://heartland.org/policy-documents/climate-change-reconsidered-translation-chinese-academy-sciences
Problems in the Orthodoxy
Busting the myths about climate migration
By Alex Randall, The Carbon Brief, Jun 24, 2013
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/06/coin-mythbuster-on-climate-migration
Climate Change: Russia Is Steamed About U.N.?s Kyoto Carbon Credit Cop-Out
By Larry Bell, Forbes, Jun 23, 2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/06/23/climate-change-russia-is-steamed-about-u-ns-kyoto-carbon-credit-cop-out/
Economy First: EU Climate Policy Falling Apart
By Joshua Chaffin and Peter Spiegel, Financial Times, via GWPF, Jun 28, 2013
http://www.thegwpf.org/economy-first-eu-climate-policy-falling/
MET Office Washout Claims Get a Cool Reception
By Gabrielle Monaghan, The Times, via GWPF, Jun 27, 2013
http://www.thegwpf.org/met-office-washout-claims-cool-reception/
Seeking a Common Ground
Cosmic Errors
By Cliff Mass, His Blog, Jun 24. 2013
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2013/06/cosmic-errors.html
[SEPP Comment: Has NOAA abandoned one of its principal missions ? forecasting weather?]
Expanding the Orthodoxy
IEA report outlines energy measures to slow impacts of climate change
Transcript by Staff Writers. EETV. Jun 26, 2013
http://www.eenews.net/tv/videos/1705/transcript
How shale gas killed climate urgency
By John Kemp, Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/how-shale-gas-killed-climate-urgency-20130625-2otj6.html
[SEPP Comment: Commentary on the IEA report that is alarmist.]
World Bank Commits Billions to Fight Global Warming
By Staff Writers, Judicial Watch, Jun 20, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/06/billions-to-fight-global-warming-or-millions-will-be-trapped-in-poverty/
IMF: ?Climate change will create jobs?
By Ben Geman, The Hill, Jun 27, 2013
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/308155-imf-official-climate-change-will-create-jobs
[SEPP Comment: Then why fight it?]
Military Report: America Has ?Misguided? Fixation With Domestic Drilling
The report, released quietly this month, says climate change is a bigger national security threat than the country?s dependence on foreign oil.
By John Cushman, Inside Climate News, Jun 24, 2013
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130624/military-report-america-has-misguided-fixation-domestic-drilling
[SEPP Comment: The Navy trying to justify an expensive, unneeded biofuels program. It should stick to what it does well.]
Lowering Standards
Australia?s Big Science Vision ? an eco-green form of sustainable mediocrity
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Jun 26, 2013
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/this-is-your-science-brain-on-100-government-funds-sociology-and-small-minded-enviro-research/
Questioning European Green
Europe?s Environmental Disaster
By Donn Dears, Power for USA, Jun 25, 2013
http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/europes-environmental-disaster/
Europe is on the verge of becoming an anachronism in the modern world.
No UK households have completed green deal process, figures show
Not a single home in the country has been modified to fully meet the energy efficiency plan as take up remains ?worryingly slow?
By Adam Vaughan and Fiona Harvey, Guardian, UK, Jun 27, 2013 [H/t GWPF]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/27/green-deal-energy-efficiency
[SEPP Comment: Although easy for politicians to promote, making existing homes energy efficient can be a lengthy and expensive undertaking.]
Chinese Spring ?Climate Bomb? on Greens
By Walter Russell Meade, Via Meadia, Jun 23, 2013
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/06/23/chinese-spring-climate-bomb-on-greens/
[SEPP Comment: For those recognizing it, the game has been ongoing for years. The EU bureaucrats ignored it...]
Green rules will leave Europe importing even dirtier fuel from elsewhere, Essar Energy warns
Draconian green regulations risk putting European refineries out of business, leaving the continent importing more fuels from dirtier plants elsewhere in the world, Essar Energy has warned.
By Emily Gosden, Telegraph, UK, Jun 24, 2013 [H/t Malcolm Ross]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10139800/Green-rules-will-leave-Europe-importing-even-dirtier-fuel-from-elsewhere-Essar-Energy-warns.html
The ?Great Renewables Scam? unravels
In many parts of northern Europe, wind and solar projects may be highly visible facts on the ground. But the headline economic fact behind renewable energy is, and always has been, its sheer and blatant ?unsustainability?
By Peter Glover, The Commentator, Jun 21, 2013
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3827/the_great_renewables_scam_unravels
Questioning Green Elsewhere
How Green Protectionism Harms Sustainable Forestry, the Environment and the World?s Poor
By Marcelo Ostria, NCPA, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23314&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD
New Carbon Regulations, at Greater Cost to America
By Jeffrey Folks, American Thinker, Jun 26, 2013
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/new_carbon_regulations_at_greater_cost_to_america.html
[SEPP Comment: Gina McCarthy has not been confirmed as EPA Director].]
Green Jobs
Spanish downturn a disaster for green energy
By Staff Writers, Madrid (AFP), June 23, 2013
http://www.winddaily.com/reports/Spanish_downturn_a_disaster_for_green_energy_999.html
[SEPP Comment: The subsidies were not sustainable.]
Social Benefits and Cost of Carbon
?The Greening of Planet Earth? (the 1992 video, updated in 1998, needs another update)
By Robert Bradley, Master Resource, Jun 25, 2013
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/the-greening-of-planet-earth-the-1992-video-that-obama-does-not-want-you-to-see-or-discuss/#more-26353
Communicating Better to the Public ? Exaggerate, or be Vague?
2 feet of sea level rise at Annapolis, or, maybe not?
By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 27, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/27/2-feet-of-sea-level-rise-at-annapolis-or-maybe-not/
?It provides the State with sea level rise projections based on best scientific understanding to ensure that infrastructure is sited and designed in a manner that will avoid or minimize future loss or damage.?
[SEPP Comment: An increase ranging from 11 inches to 25 inches in 37 years is the best they can do? Unlikely the lower bound will be realized in a century.]
Surprise species at risk from climate change
By Staff Writers, Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX), Jun 25, 2013
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Surprise_species_at_risk_from_climate_change_999.html
Link to paper: Identifying the World?s Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals
By Butchart, et al., PLOS One, Jun 12, 2013
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065427
[SEPP Comment: The biggest threat is land use change, not climate.]
Communicating Better to the Public ? Make things up.
Australia?s Angry Hot Summer was hot angry hype? satellites show it was average
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Jun 29, 2013
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/australias-angry-hot-summer-was-hot-angry-hype-satellites-show-it-was-average/#more-29180
?Quantifying the consensus on global warming in the literature?: a comment
By Christopher Monckton, WUWT, Jun 24, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/24/quantifying-the-consensus-on-global-warming-in-the-literature-a-comment/
[SEPP Comment: Ad detailed exposure of the absurdity of surveys that conclude 97% of climate scientists ?.]
Cities, farms reroute animals seeking cooler climes
By Sandra Hines for UW News
Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 24, 2013
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Cities_farms_reroute_animals_seeking_cooler_climes_999.html
[SEPP Comment: Unaware that US population has shifted south into warmer climates.]
Models v. Observations
Policy Implications of Climate Models on the Verge of Failure
By Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute, Washington DC, WUWT, Jun 27, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/27/policy-implications-of-climate-models-on-the-verge-of-failure/
Measurement Issues
New paper finds that aging weather stations record much higher daytime temperatures, 1.63?C higher than new stations
The Hockey Schtick, Jun 26, 2013 [H/t GWPF]
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/new-paper-finds-that-aging-weather.html
Link to paper: Comparative analysis of the influence of solar radiation screen ageing on temperature measurements by means of weather stations
By Lopardo, et al., International Journal of Climatology, Jun 26, 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.3765/abstract
Model Issues
How should we interpret an ensemble of models? Part I: Weather models
By Judith Curry, Climate Etc., Jun 24, 2013
http://judithcurry.com/2013/06/24/how-should-we-interpret-an-ensemble-of-models-part-i-weather-models/#more-11993
Changing Weather
Alberta faces ?10-year recovery? after flood: Redford
By Staff Writers, Ottawa (AFP), June 24, 2013
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Alberta_faces_10-year_recovery_after_flood_Redford_999.html
Model-Data Comparison: Alaska Land Surface Air Temperature Anomalies
By Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Jun 27, 2013 [H/t Paul Redfern]
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/27/model-data-comparison-alaska-land-surface-air-temperature-anomaliess/#more-88846
Pacific Ocean Hurricane?s and Global Warming
By Staff, SPPI & CO2 Science, Jun 19, 2013
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/pacific_hurricanes.pdf
The Great Tornado Doldrums: No Relationship Between Climate Change and Tornadoes
By Sebastian L?ning and Fritz Vahrenholt, Trans. P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jun 22, 2013
http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/22/climate-experts-vahrenholt-and-luning-call-recent-tornado-activity-the-great-tornado-doldrums/
Changing Climate
Evidence of Medieval Warm Period in Russia
By Staff, SPPI & CO2Science, Jun 26, 2013
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/evidence_of_medieval_warm_period_in_russia.html
Changing Cryosphere ? Land / Sea Ice
The coming Arctic boom
By Judith Curry, Climate Etc., Jun 22, 2013
http://judithcurry.com/2013/06/22/the-coming-arctic-boom/#more-11996
[SEPP Comment: Not so certain, the ice has melted before.]
Agriculture Issues & Fear of Famine
Current global food production trajectory won?t meet 2050 needs
By Staff Writers, Minneapolis MN (SPX), Jun 24, 2013
http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Current_global_food_production_trajectory_wont_meet_2050_needs_999.html
[SEPP Comment: A model trajectory is not necessarily indicative of what may occur.]
Review of Recent Scientific Articles by NIPCC
For a full list of articles see www.NIPCCreport.org
Modeling Climate Feedbacks Based on Short-Term Climate Variations
Reference: Koumoutsaris, S. 2013. What can we learn about climate feedbacks from short-term climate variations? Tellus A 65: 10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.18887
http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/25jun2013a1.html
Koumoutsaris concludes that his several analyses indicate that ?important aspects of the ENSO variability are still poorly understood and/or simulated.? And in the case of cloud feedback, he says that it is difficult to come to ?any firm conclusion? ? even on the sign of the feedback. And when these phenomena are so poorly simulated- even to the point where the direction of change of one of them remains unknown ? it should be clear to all that the climate-modeling enterprise still has a long, long way to go before it can be considered good enough to serve as a basis for energy policy decisions that are already dictating various aspects of human behavior.
How Southern Ocean Echinoderm Larvae Respond to Elevated CO
Reference: Yu, P.C., Sewell, M.A., Matson, P.G., Rivest, E.B., Kapsenberg, L. and Hofmann, G.E. 2013. Growth attenuation with developmental schedule progression in embryos and early larvae of Sterechinus neumayeri raised under elevated CO2. PLOS ONE 8: e52448.
http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/25jun2013a2.html
After all was said and done, Yu et al. concluded, in the final sentence of their paper?s abstract, that ?effects of elevated CO2 representative of near future climate scenarios are proportionally minor on these early development stages.?
Recent Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in CMIP5 Models
Reference: Turner, J., Bracegirdle, T.J., Phillips, T., Marshall, G.J. and Hosking, J.S. 2013. An initial assessment of Antarctic sea ice extent in the CMIP5 models. Journal of Climate 26: 1473-1484.
http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/25jun2013a3.html
In summing up their findings, Turner et al. conclude that ?many of the SIE biases in the CMIP3 runs remain in CMIP5.? More particularly, for example, they state that ?as with CMIP3, the models do not simulate the recent increase in Antarctic SIE observed in the satellite data.?
Seven Millennia of Hurricane Activity along the Coast of Belize
Reference: McCloskey, T.A. and Liu, K.-b. 2012. A 7000 year record of paleohurricane activity from a coastal wetland in Belize. The Holocene 23: 278-291.
http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/26jun2013a2.html
In light of these diverse findings, McCloskey and Liu conclude that (1) ?both the climatic conditions favoring tropical cyclones and the frequency of landfall for major hurricanes have exhibited multi-centennial variability over the late Holocene,? and that (2) ?the timing of hyperactive periods varies regionally across the North Atlantic.? Hence, their work would appear to suggest that there are no hard-and-fast rules about how climate change may impact the development of future storms in these regions.
The Political Games Continue
Have U.S. Republicans shifted strategy on climate change?
By Judith Curry, Climate Etc., Jun 27, 2013
http://judithcurry.com/2013/06/27/have-u-s-republicans-shifted-strategy-on-climate-change/#more-12053
Subsidies and Mandates Forever
Expanding RFS to Natural Gas: Typically Terrible DC Idea
By Nan Swift, Government Bytes, Jun 27, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]
http://www.ntu.org/governmentbytes/expanding-rfs-to-natural-gas.html
Investment in renewables may get hit despite rise in wind farm subsidies
Government?s announcement of 10% rise in subsidy fails to dispel fears of energy companies over uncertainties in policy
By Fiona Harvey, Guardian, UK, Jun 27, 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/27/windfarms-renewable-energy-subsidies?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=2c9cd77620-DAILY_BRIEFING&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-2c9cd77620-303421281
EPA and other Regulators on the March
Carbon Foolishness
By Donn Dears, Power for USA, Jun 28, 2013
http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/carbon-foolishness/
[SEPP Comment: The wild dreams of Washington?s energy control zealots.]
The Injustice of ?Environmental Justice?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Master Resource, Jun 27, 2013
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/injustice-environmental-justice/#more-26312
[SEPP Comment: Another EPA concept for asserting control of the economy.]
Energy Issues ? Non-US
Spooked by shale
The shale-gas revolution unnerves Russian state capitalism
By Schumpeter, The Economist, Jun 28, 2013 [H/t GWPF]
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21580131-shale-gas-revolution-unnerves-russian-state-capitalism-spooked-shale
Energy Issues ? US
Morning Bell: Things That Will Cost More Under Obama?s Climate Change Plan
By Amy Payne, The Foundry, Jun 26, 2013
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/06/26/morning-bell-things-that-will-cost-more-under-obamas-climate-change-plan/?roi=echo3-16080435733-13384451-a8650ae1fe0cd24d9e2c03edbd3ace7a&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Obama?s energy chief rebuts ?war on coal? claim
By Ben Geman, The Hill, Jun 28, 2013
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/308409-obamas-energy-chief-rebuts-war-on-coal-claim
Washington?s Control of Energy
Obama Donor Set To Profit From Keystone Demise
Editorial, IBD, Jun 27, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062713-661681-obama-donor-benefits-from-keystone-demise.htm?p=full
Oil and Natural Gas ? the Future or the Past?
Britain Holds Biggest Shale Basin in the World
By Staff Writer, GWPF, Jun 27, 2013
http://www.thegwpf.org/britain-holds-biggest-shale-basin-world/
Link to study: New shale gas resource figure for central Britain
By Staff, British Geological Survey, No date
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/shalegas/#ad-image-0
[SEPP Comment: Much of the geology is not fully understood and needs further study. There may be larger basins elsewhere in the world.]
Huge UK shale gas reserves ? ?let?s get fracking?
By Benny Peiser, Public Service Europe, Jun 28, 2013 [H/t GWPF]
http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/3654/huge-uk-shale-reserves-lets-get-fracking
Peak Nonsense
By Michael Lynch, Master Resource, AJun 26, 2013
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/peak-nonsense/#more-26293
Why such hysteria over fracking?
Studies have shown repeatedly that fracking is fundamentally safe. It creates jobs and cuts dependence on foreign oil. So why is there still such backlash?
By Rock Zierman, LA Times, Jun 21, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-zierman-california-fracking-moratorium-20130621,0,1007838.story
Return of King Coal?
In Obama?s War On American Coal, China?s The Victor
Editorial, IBD, Jun 28, 2013
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062813-661859-china-boosts-coal-use-as-obama-declares-war.htm?p=full
The Coal Train Chugs Along
Global coal use rises with the global demand for electricity
By Robert Bryce, National Review, Jun 24, 2013
http://nationalreview.com/article/351669/coal-train-chugs-along-robert-bryce
Oil Spills, Gas Leaks & Consequences
Stray gases found in water wells near shale gas sites
By Staff Writers, Durham NC (SPX), Jun 25, 2013
http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Stray_gases_found_in_water_wells_near_shale_gas_sites_999.html
[SEPP Comment: The issue is faulty well construction, not hydraulic fracturing.]
Alternative, Green (?Clean?) Solar and Wind
To cut pollution, install green power in the coal belt
Pricing to air pollution suggests solar is more profitable in Ohio than Arizona.
By Kate Prengaman, ARS Technica, Jun 25, 2013
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/06/to-cut-pollution-install-green-power-in-the-coal-belt-researchers-say/
Link to paper: Regional variations in the health, environmental, and climate benefits of wind and solar generation
By Siler-Evans, et al., PNAS, May 15, 2013
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/19/1221978110.abstract
[SEPP Director Tom Sheahen points out the ignorance in this article including: "Basically, if you install a solar array in the sunny Southern California desert, that power mostly replaces electricity made with relatively clean natural gas. In contrast, if you installed the same solar panels in considerably less sunny Ohio, you?d be primarily replacing capacity at a coal-burning power plant, reducing far more air pollutants than in California."
A) the capital cost of a solar panel is the same in either place, and Ohio is "considerably less sunny", so you'd get less energy out, and hence it takes longer to get your money back.
B) when electricity enters the grid, the distance to where it gets used is a minor factor. I know that seems counter-intuitive, but the majority of the losses in transmission and distribution are due to transformers, not due to the I^2R loss associated with wire length.
C) the image of electricity moving from one point to another like water in a pipe is straight out of junior-high science class, and doesn't explain AC power transmission. There is an entire industry/enterprise/business called "wheeling" about moving power around the grid at different times. Quickly summarizing, the grid loses 8% of the energy (and 10% of the power), regardless of where power enters or is taken off.?]
Europe?s Renewables Hype Implodes As German Solar Goes Belly Up
By Peter Glover, Energy Tribune, Jun 24, 2013
http://www.energytribune.com/77909/europes-renewables-hype-implodes-as-german-solar-goes-belly-up#sthash.elwEevO7.dpbs
As one German commentator wryly observed, ?the sun does send an invoice after all?.
Renewable energy use gaining worldwide: IEA
By Staff Writers, New York (AFP), June 25, 2013
http://www.winddaily.com/reports/Renewable_energy_use_gaining_worldwide_IEA_999.html
Alternative, Green (?Clean?) Energy ? Other
Climate change raises stakes on US ethanol policy
By Staff Writers, Houston TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2013
http://www.biofueldaily.com/reports/Climate_change_raises_stakes_on_US_ethanol_policy_999.html
Link to paper: Climate Change Would Increase the Water Intensity of Irrigated Corn Ethanol
By Dominguez-Faus, et al., ACS Environmental Science & Technology, May 23, 2013
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es400435n
They also used estimates of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and other elements from a number of models, including the government?s well-tested Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model.
Alternative, Green (?Clean?) Vehicles
The Bloom Is Off Bloom Energy
By Alex Fitzsimmons, IER, Jun 18, 2013 [H/t WUWT]
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2013/06/18/the-bloom-is-off-bloom-energy/
Carbon Schemes
USGS: U.S. Has Massive Carbon Storage Capacity in Geologic Basins
By Sonal Patel, Power Mag, Jun 27, 2013
http://www.powermag.com/POWERnews/5754.html?hq_e=el&hq_m=2700515&hq_l=4&hq_v=5e660500d0
Other Scientific News
The contribution of particulate matter to forest decline
By Staff Writers, Bonn, Germany (SPX), Jun 24, 2013
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_contribution_of_particulate_matter_to_forest_decline_999.html
Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space
By Staff Writers, Pasadena CA (JPL), Jun 26, 2013
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ten_Thousandth_Near_Earth_Object_Unearthed_in_Space_999.html
The Reasons Behind Retractions
An analysis of 244 retraction notices shows how journals handle mistakes and fraudulent behavior.
By Kate Yandell, The Scientist, Jun 26, 2013 [H/t Catherine French]
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36184/title/The-Reasons-Behind-Retractions/
Other News that May Be of Interest
Peer Evil ? the rotten business model of modern science
By Abzats, WUWT, Jun 25, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/25/peer-evil-the-rotten-business-model-of-modern-science/
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BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE:
Rare Bird Slaughtered by Wind Turbine
By Donna Laframboise, NFC, Jun 29, 2013
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/06/29/rare-bird-slaughtered-by-wind-turbine/
[SEPP Comment: Newly discovered in the UK after 22 years of absence ? but the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds supports wind power because it claims wind power will save birds. This type of swift is prevalent in central Asia.]
Study finds climate change to shrink bison, profit
By Staff Writers, Manhattan, KS (SPX), Jun 24, 2013
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_finds_climate_change_to_shrink_bison_profit_999.html
Proud moment for warmists: President of real Flat Earth Society believes in the global warming hoax
By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 26, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/26/proud-moment-for-warmists-president-of-real-flat-earth-society-believes-in-the-global-warming-hoax/
Avaaz! Save the world from a slushy death, just ?2
By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 24, 2013
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/24/avaaz-save-the-world-from-a-slushy-death-just-2/
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