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Posted in Global Warming, Weather on May 31st, 2007
For years, we’ve had to endure the “fact” that every drought in the last decade was the result of global warming. Here’s some examples:
Global warming contributes to Australia’s worst drought
Study: Warming worsened drought
Global warming could dry Caribbean, Central America
Drought and Wildland Fire
On and on the list goes. Now, today, we get this:
Revised Global Warming Forecast: [...]
Posted in The Internet on May 31st, 2007
And here’s part of the story:
A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.
Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised “zombie” computers to send out millions upon [...]
Posted in Earth, Global Warming on May 28th, 2007
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For about 20 years, this stretch of Buck Creek has been totally submered by Lake Cumberland. However, due to a few leaks in the dam, [...]
Posted in Travel on May 25th, 2007
Remember all those space movies where someone is floating around in space and their suit gets ripped and they suddenly die an agonizing death? Well, check this out:
NASA is incorporating changes to its spacewalk procedures after a small cut to the glove of an astronaut was discovered after an International Space Station (ISS) assembly mission [...]
Posted in Animal Kingdom, Oddities, Silly science on May 25th, 2007
A while back I did a piece on Bigfoot. It was sort of done tongue in cheek, sort of serious. To me, that’s where Bigfoot exists. Nothing to be taken serious, but fun to think about anyway. However, some guys in Canada are wanting to take all the fun out of it by proving Bigfoot [...]
Posted in Animal Kingdom, Anthroplogy, Silly science on May 25th, 2007
I read this amazing discovery today:
Newly discovered fossilized claw marks paint a picture of a carnivorous dinosaur pedaling its hind legs as it swam against a strong current and struggled to maintain a straight path.The fossils, part of a 125 million-year-old trackway, are the most compelling evidence to date that some non-avian theropod dinosaurs could [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Polls, Weather on May 24th, 2007
CNN is reporting this:
Hurricanes over the past 5,000 years appear to have been controlled more by El Nino and an African monsoon than warm sea surface temperatures, such as those caused by global warming, researchers said Wednesday.
The study, published in the journal Nature, adds to the debate on whether seas warmed by greenhouse gas emissions [...]
Posted in Global Warming on May 24th, 2007
Got this from Volokh by way of AP:
The department’s Energy Information Administration said Wednesday that preliminary data shows a 1.3 percent decline in the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide released in 2006 from energy-related sources, the first decline in 11 years and the biggest decline since 1990. . . .
Whether the decline of 78 million [...]
Nah, not moving the blog again. We’re moving. As in the family is moving. We’ve somewhat sortof finished the house we’ve been working on for over a year and are moving over the next few days. So, I’m gonna go even lighter on the blogging for a few days at least.
This [...]
Posted in Health on May 17th, 2007
A fellow named Skip Virgin is assuring me, and the world in general, that there is a benefit to having herpes:
Nearly all humans become infected with multiple herpes virus family members during childhood. These germs not only include the herpes simplex viruses, which lead to cold sores and possibly genital herpes, but also the diseases [...]