Posts about Junk Science as of October 15, 2009

This is the second part of my blog post for the BLOG ACTION DAY 2009: Climate Change. Start reading here before continuing with this one.Does it matter?But does it matter whether climate change is cyclical or man-initiated? Is it not enough to know that our environment is in the verge of destruction and that climate change is one of its manifestations? Do we really have to wait for something scary phenomenon to happen before we take some steps in saving Earth?Consider thisEfforts in saving our environment should be initiated by the government.

There appears to be some cracks in the AGW armor.  Now, many on the right have been accurately referring to AGW as a hoax, but recently, there are some more mainstream sources chiming in.  The latest is from Paul Hudson at the BBC. This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

If you are thinking of starting an online business then hopefully this article will help you to avoid some of the pitfalls along the way as well as outline many of the basic strategies involved. The trouble is, as great as the internet is, it is absolutely swamped with people trying to sell you the latest ‘money making website’ or ‘how to’ manual or ebook and there is a real danger of being overloaded with useless information.

Apparently, it’s not just the cranky centrists, paranoid rightists and lunatic libertarians who thought the Nobel Peace Prize award to Barack Obama was incorrect: so did a majority of the committee itself : Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday.

This past week has brought some serious flooding to California. This could not come at a worse time with so many hills and mountains denuded of ground cover by the Summer fires. No ground cover means nothing to hold the soaked soil in place, and it will take even less rain than normal to start the famous mud slide season.Here in my part of the world, it’s almost as bad. Heavy rains have fallen for weeks here in the Southeast corner of North America. You should see the path from my driveway to the front door.

[Close]    FluffyLogic has announced, on the PlayStation Blog , that it’s bringing its downloadable PS3 game Savage Moon to the PSP. The science-fiction spin on the ubiquitous tower defence strategy sub-genre earned a respectable 7 when we reviewed it back in January. There’s also a new Tactical Layer, in which the player, as Supreme Commander of the human effort to kill space bugs with turrets, chooses which of the game’s Imoon’s to focus resources on, controlling the overall campaign as well as the action on the moons’ surfaces.

Silver Nanoparticles Give Polymer Solar Cells A Boost – monitorelectricity.com 10/15/2009 Silver Nanoparticles Give Polymer Solar Cells A Boost Small bits of metal may play a new role in solar power. Researchers are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun’s energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible solar cells. They have now discovered that adding tiny bits of silver to the plastic boosts the materials’ electrical current generat

The following is from Natural News and was written by: Mike Adams This information is so important that I encourage you to share the following summary I’ve put together. Email it to family, friends and coworkers. Or post it on your blog or website (with a link and proper credit to both NaturalNews and The Atlantic , please). Get this information out to the world. People need to know this , and so far the mainstream media has utterly failed to make this information known.

The fact is there are 5 diseases that are fatal to humans, the first one is heart attack, the second is cancer, then stroke, lung disease and last but moving up fast in the list is diabetes. The fatal five share two common elements, Free-radicals and inflammation. Free-radicals are molecules or atoms that are missing an electron, the free-radicals attack any healthy cells they come in contact with and steal an electron causing damage to the cell membrane.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to day three of my week of debuting some new features on So about what I said… ! Today, friends, I hand the advice-giving duties over to experts in a new, regular feature From The Experts , where leaders at the forefront of psychology and relationships will discuss everything from why geeks are so chic to the latest in dating etiquette. I figure I need all the help I can get in navigating this new world, and I hope you’ll enjoy these interviews.

If you abuse capitalism as badly as American Corporate greed did with their weapons of mass financial destruction, then it takes time to explode out the other end, the height of the Great Depression wasn’t until 4 years after the stock market plunge, we are 2 years into the great recession. What Adam Smiths invisible hand gives, it also takes… Korean recovery exaggerated: Paul Krugman Krugman also warned that the global economy may face “a lost decade” as a result of hasty exit strategies.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | New Korea reunion talks ‘agreed’ “North Korea has agreed to hold talks with South Korea this week, a day after it test-fired short-range missiles. The talks will be on how to avoid cross-border flooding, and arrangements for reunions between family members divided by the Korean War. The agreement to the talks came amid reports that the North may be preparing to launch more short-range missiles.” (tags: northkorea southkorea diplomacy ) BBC NEWS | Americas | Senate panel passes health bill “A Senate committee has approved a bill to reform US healthcare, a key step in President Barack Obama’s attempt to overhaul the system.