Nature

We tried to weaponize the weather

April 27, 2013

Source: Salon The years between the first hydrogen bomb tests and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963 saw more than just increased anxiety about the effects of nuclear testing on weather. They also saw increased interest in large-scale, purposeful environmental modification. Most climate modification enthusiasts spoke of increasing global temperatures, in the hopes that [...]

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Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma

February 23, 2012

ONE Saturday morning in 2010, Jody Smith, a resident of Carolina Beach in North Carolina, was disturbed by an extraordinary booming sound. She wasn’t alone: as she rushed out into the street, she bumped into neighbours also startled by the noise. The clear blue sky ruled out thunder. Smith went back inside and posted a [...]

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Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering

February 6, 2012

Public funding = global climate change tax = tax the middle class and poor. Everyone has a conflict of interest when Fat Cats are influencing research with large injections of cash.   A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments [...]

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Globalist Carnegie Institution for Science study finds sunshade geoengineering could improve crop yields

January 27, 2012

In the face of potentially catastrophic effects on global food production, some have proposed drastic solutions to counteract climate change such as reflecting sunlight away from the Earth. A new study from the Carnegie Institution for Science examining the effects of sunshade geoengineering has concluded that such an approach would be more likely to improve [...]

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South Africa weather forecasters threatened with jail if predictions wrong

January 12, 2012

If you are a credible scientist and do not agree with climate change/ global warming, will they go to jail? -Douglas   Independent forecasters have been told they could be imprisoned for up to ten years – or fined up to £800,000 – if they issue incorrect severe weather warnings without official permission. The threat [...]

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Ohio suspends well operations after series of small quakes

January 1, 2012

Ohio has suspended operations at five deep-well hazardous fluid disposal sites after a series of 11 earthquakes in Youngstown last year including one on Saturday with a magnitude of 4.0, officials said on Sunday. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said it was halting operations at five Mahoning County wells owned by Northstar Disposal Services [...]

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Hurricanes and typhoons may trigger major earthquakes

December 30, 2011

Hurricanes and typhoons could contribute to other natural disasters that occur long after the rain and winds subside. A new study led by University of Miami (UM) scientist Shimon Wdowinski finds a link between earthquakes and tropical storms, and shows that they may have actually initiated some major temblors, including the recent 2010 quakes in [...]

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A New Intelligence Org on Climate Change is Needed, DSB Says

November 15, 2011

The U.S. intelligence community needs an organization that can assess the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in an open and collaborative manner, according to a new report from the Defense Science Board (DSB). The Director of National Intelligence should establish a new intelligence group “to concentrate on the effects of climate [...]

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Billionaires get ‘tax break’ for private jets

October 11, 2011

Almost 200 corporate jet owners, from oil company ExxonMobil to Starbucks and Iceland Foods, will be awarded free permits to compensate them for the new expense of Europe’s carbon trading scheme for aircraft. The emissions trading scheme means airlines will have to surrender a permit for every tonne of carbon dioxide they emit, which is [...]

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Big names behind US push for geoengineering: climate remediation???

October 6, 2011

UK scientists last week “postponed” one of the world’s first attempts to physically manipulate the upper atmosphere to cool the planet…. Just days after the British got cold feet, the Washington-based thinktank the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) published a major report calling for the United States and other likeminded countries to move towards large-scale climate [...]

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Finland Aurora Borealis

October 5, 2011

Every so often you should take a few minutes to step back away from all the chaos in the world. I enjoyed the video, so I hope you do as well. –Douglas Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

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War of words over global warming as Nobel laureate resigns in protest

September 25, 2011

 Douglas: The Human activities drastically changing the environment are perpetrated by corporations and governments: genetically modified organisms, Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill, Hydraulic fracturing, pharmaceutics,  and war. The earths climate changes are scientific fact and there is plenty of evidence. The Eco-facist  want to dictate environmental policy through persons who [...]

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Widespread power blackout hits much of Chile

September 24, 2011

 Douglas: The oscillating problems associated with blackouts are always the same: down power lines, computer error, one man replacing electrical equipment , etc… 56% of Chile’s population lost power then hours later  90% was restored, but looting was reported.  Remember, this could happen in your hometown. Be very prepared for any natural or man made [...]

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At CIA, Climate Change is a Secret

September 22, 2011

When the Central Intelligence Agency established a Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009, it drew fierce opposition from congressional Republicans who disputed the need for an intelligence initiative on this topic.  But now there is a different, and possibly better, reason to doubt the value of the Center:  It has adopted an [...]

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Tsunami attacking in Minami-Sanriku

September 19, 2011

  >>Source: Youtube  Douglas: This definitely gives you a perspective of how powerful mother nature can be. If you watch closely, you can observe automobiles driving on the streets of Minami-Sanriku before the tsunami hits. Tsunami siren warning ?

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Geo-engineering the Planet:The Experiments Commence

September 9, 2011

Next month a team of UK researchers will hoist one end of a 1-kilometre-long hose aloft using a balloon, then attempt to pump water up it and spray it into the atmosphere (>>: see diagram). The water will not affect the climate. Rather, the experiment is a proof of principle to show that we can [...]

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Idaho fire prompts evacuation of nuclear facility

August 26, 2011

The growth and intensity of the blaze, the nation’s largest active wildfire, prompted the Idaho National Laboratory to order a key facility on the 890-square-mile site evacuated of all nonessential personnel, lab officials said. The Materials and Fuels Complex, about 38 miles from Idaho Falls, consists of facilities for handling, processing and examining spent nuclear [...]

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Scientists find underground river beneath Amazon

August 25, 2011

Brazilian scientists have discovered an underground river some 4,000 meters (13,000) feet deep, which flows from west to east like the country’s famous waterway. A statement this week from Brazil’s National Observatory named the underground river Hamza and said it represents one of two different draining systems for the large rainforest region. A team of [...]

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2 nuclear reactors taken offline after Va. quake

August 23, 2011

Federal officials say two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Va., were automatically taken off line by safety systems around the time of the earthquake. The Dominion-operated power plant is being run off three emergency diesel generators, which are supplying power for critical safety equipment. The NRC and Dominion are [...]

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Marijuana DNA Sequenced by Startup

August 18, 2011

Kevin McKernan was leading Life Technologies Corp. (LIFE)’s Ion Torrent DNA-sequencing research when a new business opportunity caught his eye: marijuana. A year later, McKernan, 38, has quit his job, formed a startup run from his house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and announced today that the company had sequenced the entire genome of the cannabis plant. [...]

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Black Death study lets rats off the hook

August 17, 2011

Rats weren’t the carriers of the plague after all. A study by an archaeologist looking at the ravages of the Black Death in London, in late 1348 and 1349, has exonerated the most famous animal villains in history. “The evidence just isn’t there to support it,” said Barney Sloane, author of The Black Death in [...]

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NZ quake exposes possible Israeli spy ring

July 19, 2011

One of the victims of the February earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand may have been an Israeli spy, according to a report in The Southland Times. The man, Ofer Benyamin Mizrahi, 24, was carrying five passports with him at the time of his death, according to the Times. The newspaper’s reports centered around a possible [...]

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THE GREAT DROUGHT OF 2011 Is America’s Worst Since The Dust Bowl

July 12, 2011

Fourteen states are suffering from a drought so early and severe that it’s already causing comparisons with the dust bowl years of the 1930′s. According to a story in The New York Times, farmers are running wells dry, crops aren’t growing and livestock can’t be fed. “It’s horrible so far,” said Mike Newberry, a Georgia [...]

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Second world war bombers changed the weather

July 8, 2011

Allied bombing raids during the second world war inadvertently experimented on the weather by producing huge contrails over south-east England. A study of one 1944 raid offers a rare opportunity to check our models of how contrails change temperatures. After listening to a radio programme in which an elderly woman recalled seeing a wartime sky [...]

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Climate change will increase threat of war

July 6, 2011

Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK’s national [...]

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Artificial meat could slice emissions, say scientists

June 20, 2011

Meat grown artificially in labs will be a greener alternative for consumers who can’t bear to go vegetarian but want to cut the environmental impact of their food, according to new research. The study found that growing meat in the lab rather than slaughtering animals will generate only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gas [...]

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Climate change panel in hot water again over ‘biased’ energy report

June 15, 2011

The world’s foremost authority on climate change used a Greenpeace campaigner to help write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about renewable energy, The Independent has learnt. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the UN in 1988 to advise governments on the science behind global warming, [...]

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Humans Spew More Carbon Dioxide than All of Earth’s Volcanoes

June 14, 2011

Explosive volcanic eruptions might be attention grabbing, but a new review of research finds that their environmental impact pales in comparison to human activities. According to the research, humans put out the same amount of carbon dioxide in three to five days that all of the volcanoes on Earth put out in one year. “Anthropogenic [...]

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China land deal causes unease in Argentina

June 1, 2011

Last year it was confirmed that the company had signed an agreement, with the government of Patagonia’s Río Negro province, which provides the framework for it to acquire up to 320,000 hectares (790,000 acres) of privately owned farmland, along with irrigation rights and a concession on the San Antonio port. Details of the deal, alleged [...]

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