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At first glance this seems like a strange question. Isn’t science precisely the quantification of observations into a theory or model and then using that to make predictions? Yes. And are those predictions in different cases then tested against observations again and again to either validate those models or generate ideas for potential improvements? Yes, again. So the fact that climate modelling was recently singled out as being somehow non-scientific seems absurd.
RealClimate: Is Climate Modelling Science?
Over the years I've had press passes to photograph military and civilian aircraft around the world, including historic and modern warbirds, and even NASA equipment like the space shuttle. This takes me to public airshows and also into military airbases and places most people never see, like the control towers at Edwards Air Force Base in the USA and the once top-secret Zhukovsky Airfield in Russia. I've also visited many aircraft museums around the world.
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1) See Fakery , p.3 and p.12. In ~2009, Heartland+SEPP+CSCDGC got ~$8M. The other 9 on p.3 got ~$39M.The additional 36 501(c)(3) on p.12 added another $283M. Now, only some of that is for climate disinformation, but some of it is for tobacco advocacy and other science disinformation, such as on environmental issues.
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Plimer the plagiarist : Deltoid
Eli Rabett has been investigating Ian Plimer's claim that climate scientists were cooking the books on the CO2 record. Plimer wrote: The raw data from Mauna Loa is 'edited' by an operator who deletes what is considered poor data. Some 82% of the raw data is "edited" leaving just 18% of the raw data measurements for statistical analysis [2902,2903]. With such savage editing of raw data, whatever trend one wants can be shown.
By gluing radio chips to the backs of 800 honeybees, researchers proved that Neonicotinoid pesticides interfere with their behavior. Greg Laden reports that bees exposed to the common aphid-killer "forage abnormally, have 'olfactory memory' problems, are easily disoriented and become poor learners." Fewer of them ever return to the colony. Laden observes, "One thing that strikes me as especially interesting here is that many bees don't make it back over a fairly long period of time even under normal conditions, and that some bees stay out overnight!" Another likely contributor to Colony Collapse Disorder is a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs inside a living bee. Dr.
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According to a new study by sex researchers at the Indiana University, women having orgasms during exercise is a real phenomenon. As far as the researchers know, this is the first study that deals directly with exercise-induced orgasms (EIO), known colloquially as "coregasms" because they tend to occur during core-strengthening workouts, like sit-ups and crunches.
Didn't say in today's ep, but when I was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl for Halloween, I had an iPod full of music that'll change your life /Tracy
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Mungo Man
Back to Lake Mungo index Lake Mungo is a dry lake in south-western New South Wales, Australia. Many important archaeological findings have been made at the lake, most significantly the discovery of the remains of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains found in Australia, and Mungo Lady, the oldest human remains in the world to be ritually cremated. Painting of life at Lake Mungo by Giovanni Caselli. Note the fish traps, the wide variety of food hunted and collected, and the gunyahs or dwellings. Panorama of "The Walls of China", the eroded lunette on the eastern side of Lake Mungo, carved into fantastic shapes by the occasional rain which falls.