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MSNBC reports that the lack of temperature rise in the last 12 years has convinced environmentalist James Lovelock ( The Gaia Hypothesis) that the climate alarmism wasn’t warranted. From his Wikipedia entry: Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argues that, as a result of global warming , “billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable” by the end of the 21st century. He has been quoted in The Guardian that 80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD, and this climate change will last 100,000 years. According to James Lovelock, by 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. Indeed “[t]he people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain”.
Science blog Guardian.co.uk
A man lets off fireworks during a festival in Guangzhou. Chinese alchemists created explosive mixtures in their quest for an elixir of life. Photograph: China Photos/Getty
Scientific Blogging
We are fortune here at Science20 to have come across an early work by Gaston Leroux. This manuscript was dated to 1899, suggesting it was an early, discarded draft of the work that later came to be known as "The Phantom of the Opera". Current speculation is Gaston changed the setting at the beheast of his editor. Here, then, is the unabridged transcript of that early draft.
kseniakrasileva @KamounLab Oh, I certainly do not feel under-cited, especially in this review! Yep, the PLoS One and the PNAS papers go together. 2 days ago · reply · retweet · favorite
PLoS ONE : accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science
FemaleScienceProfessor
I'm not crazy about the 'he freed women' theme, but that's not what I want to write about today. Instead, (see above note/caution), I am going to tell you my very own Vidal Sassoon story . It is not quite as gripping as my Ayn Rand beach story , but it is more timely for this week. [A suggestion if you have even more time to waste: Google "Ayn Rand beach story" to find the original post, then click on http://literature.quebecblogue.com/2009/08/31/femalescienceprofessor-ayn-rand-beach-story/ to read a different but more entertaining version of that old post.]
I was taken aback at first, wondering why he used adjectives, one of which was strange and the other implied that scientist = man unless you specify otherwise (hence the somewhat cynical name for this blog). But then I figured out why he greeted me that way. I have never talked about Diversity to a group of middle school kids before. I assume that I should talk about all types of diversity, not just gender.
Diversity Help Wanted
TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
There’s time for one more debate here, about my Earth Day column , but first an announcement: After three years of experiments, TierneyLab is shutting down. I’ll still be testing ideas in my Findings columns and in other articles for The Times, and you can keep up with them by following me on Twitter . You can also keep trying the weekly math puzzle at its new home starting next Monday at The Times Wordplay blog . I’ll miss our debates here — well, most of them, anyway — but I like to think we can have even better ones now that I’ll be concentrating on my columns and on longer articles (and there will be plenty of opportunity for you to dispute them). As much as I enjoyed doing the blog, I found myself wanting the opportunity to delve more deeply into subjects. Contrarianism tends to be time-consuming.