http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/junkscience/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:47:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2418213/posts Frankfurt, Germany, December 6 -- A rather bizarre study carried out by German researchers suggests that staring at women's breasts is good for men's health and increases their life expectancy. According to Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist and author of the study, gawking at women’s breasts is a healthy practice, almost at par with an intense exercise regime, that prolongs the lifespan of a man by five years. She added, "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female, is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out." A five-year research on 500 men Researchers at three hospitals... The Med Guru http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2418213/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:47:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416322/posts Second of two parts. The pending federal effort to lessen carbon emissions, especially from coal-fired power plants – called the “cap-and-trade program” – has one single goal: To improve air quality and slow down global warming – if, that is, global warming actually exists. As environmentalists favor cap-and-trade as an incentive to decrease harmful emissions, while the bill moves from the House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate, opponents say it will cause nothing but an economic disaster, especially for Pennsylvania’s coal industries. And there are two extreme views on global warming. From the National Geographic: “Glaciers are melting. “Sea... The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416322/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:36:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts Climate Change: A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming — perhaps for the next 50 years. Much of the nation got a white Christmas this year, some in unprecedented quantities. A record-breaking storm deposited 12 to 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Many places set records for the most snow in a single December day as more than 50% of the U.S. was covered by the white stuff. Scientists (and here we use the word... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414049/posts You've heard it before, how the pharmaceutical industry has a giant "revolving door" through which corporations and government agencies frequently exchange key employees. That reality was driven home in a huge way today when news broke that Dr. Julie Gerberding, who headed the CDC from 2002 through 2009, landed a top job with Merck, one of the largest drug companies in the world. Her job there? She's the new president of the vaccine division. How convenient. That means the former head of the CDC was very likely cultivating a relationship with Merck all these years, and now comes the big... natural news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414049/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:14:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413741/posts During the 70 years that the communists controlled the Soviet Union, they had a peculiar way of teaching history to the people. They would teach things as historical fact that never happened. If you were one of those who took umbrage with their revisionist history lessons, you would soon find yourself living in a tiny apartment in a part of the country where they laugh at anyone who claims the world is getting warmer. In a communist country this is the only way to convince the masses that they are actually better off than anyone in the history of... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413741/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:19:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402480/posts California: While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worries about rising seas, his state sinks below the waves. Don't mess with Texas, they say. But California and the nation could follow its lead. Last Wednesday, Gov. Schwarzenegger released a new report based on research compiled by the California Energy Commission claiming that by 2100 San Francisco Bay would be more bay than San Francisco, with Fisherman's Wharf and Treasure Island under the rising waters of climate change. His show-and-tell, which included a new Google Earth application the commission spent $150,000 to help develop, goes a long way toward explaining the once-Golden State's slide... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402480/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411659/posts South Florida is America's most vulnerable community to climate change. While Miami-Dade County, a pioneer and national leader, has made strides in addressing climate-change mitigation and adaptation, we now are moving toward a more resilient and sustainable future. Miami-Dade County is developing a community-sustainability plan called GreenPrint to achieve aggressive energy- and greenhouse-gas reduction goals. This community plan, which does not know city or county boundaries, is being developed to reaffirm and synchronize our government and community goals, initiatives and measures. It will leverage existing sustainability goals and initiatives and develop new ones where needed. In September, I convened the... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411659/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts Global Warming: Russian analysts accuse Britain's Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday's Washington Post that "stolen" e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit still don't alter the evidence for climate change. Mann, a creator of the discredited hockey-stick graph used in reports from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show man-made warming, attacks climate skeptics, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying they "confuse the public." Chutzpah has been... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:32:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410536/posts I cannot condone some things that colleagues of mine wrote or requested in the e-mails recently stolen from a climate research unit at a British university. But the messages do not undermine the scientific case that human-caused climate change is real. The hacked e-mails have been mined for words and phrases that can be distorted to misrepresent what the scientists were discussing. In a Dec. 9 op-ed, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin argued that "The e-mails reveal that leading climate 'experts' . . . manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures." Yet the e-mail she cites was written... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410536/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:46:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410494/posts MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. – Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to cut greenhouse gases. These foragers of the sanctuary's frigid waters, flipping in and out of sight of California's coastal kayakers, may not seem like obvious beneficiaries of a climate treaty crafted in the Danish capital. But reducing carbon emissions worldwide also would help mend a lesser-known environmental problem: ocean acidification. "We're having a change in water chemistry, so 20... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410494/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410192/posts While I appreciate the efforts of the President, Al Gore, and all of Hollywood to save Earth from its “fever,” I do have one question: What SHOULD the Earth’s temperature be? Political Lore Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410192/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:59:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410144/posts "...First and foremost -- contrary to what you’ve likely read elsewhere in the blogosphere or heard from the few policymakers and pundits actually addressing the issue, it was not the temperature decline the planet has been experiencing since 1998 that Jones and friends conspired to hide. Certainly, the simple fact that the e-mail was sent in November of 1999 should allay any such confusion. In fact, the decline Jones so urgently sought to hide was not one of measured temperatures at all, but rather figures infinitely more important to climate alarmists -- those determined by proxy reconstructions. As this scandal... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410144/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:05:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410051/posts Leadership: Alaska's ex-governor asks a question we'd like answered: Why is California's current governor pushing the same policies in Copenhagen that helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? The movie series that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name involved cyborgs traveling through time to alternately try to destroy or save one John Connor, who would grow up to be the leader of the resistance against a race of machines that ruled the planet. Prominent in the series was his tough cookie of a mom, Sarah Connor. Another Sarah has taken the lead in another resistance against another group... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410051/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409952/posts Millions of high school and college biology textbooks teach that research scientist Stanley Miller, in the 1950’s, showed how life could have arisen by chance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Miller, in his famous experiment in 1953, showed that individual amino acids (the building blocks of life) could come into existence by chance. But, it’s not enough just to have amino acids. The various amino acids that make-up life must link together in a precise sequence, just like the letters in a sentence, to form functioning protein molecules. If they’re not in the right sequence the protein molecules... OrthodoxNet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409952/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409598/posts If you've seen an Internet ad for capacitor-type power factor correction devices, you might be led to believe that using one can save you money on your residential electricity bill. However, a team including specialists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently explained* why the devices actually provide no savings by discussing the underlying physics. The devices—sometimes referred to as Amp Reduction Units or KVARs**—are touted as good investments because they reduce the amount of current drawn from power lines while simultaneously providing the necessary amount of current to appliances inside the house. Though engineers elsewhere... National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409598/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:57:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408212/posts ...As Alan I. Leshner, who heads the American Association for the Advancement of Science, wrote in The Washington Post recently: "It is wrong to suggest that apparently stolen e-mails ... somehow refute a century of evidence based on thousands of studies. ... Doubters insist that the Earth is not warming. This is in stark contrast to the consensus of 18 of the world's most respected scientific organizations, who strongly stated in an Oct. 21 letter to the U.S. Senate that human-induced climate change is real. Still, the doubters try to leverage any remaining points of scientific uncertainty about the details... The Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408212/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407557/posts Global Warming: The Alaskan governor who knew polar bears weren't endangered says the planet isn't either and challenges the oracle of climate change. Al Gore says despite the CRU e-mails, the situation is of the utmost gravity. In a Dec. 9 Washington Post op-ed, Sarah Palin noted that the Climate-gate e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia "reveal that leading climate 'experts' deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures and tried to silence their critics from publishing in peer-reviewed journals." This did not sit well with Gore. "The entire North... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407557/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:23:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407333/posts Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game, an Inuit leader said on Friday. The Inuit, the indigenous people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia, have traditionally hunted for Arctic species from seal to polar bear, whale to caribou. The Inuit Circumpolar Council's (ICC) Violet Ford says she sees climate changes "on a daily basis". Ms Ford, who was born and raised in the Inuit community of Makkovik, says more funds are needed for adaptation and response to climate change in the Arctic. "That should also... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407333/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:58:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407174/posts ClimateGate Research Unit Disables Its Website By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-12-14 10:03 The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate [0] scandal has taken down most of the information previously available at its website. Prior to November's release of controversial e-mail messages and documents from Britain's University of East Anglea, there was a separate website for the institution's CRU that allowed readers to review articles and studies created by and for the Unit. Now, no matter what link one tries to access via a Google search, it directs you to a page that reads: "Due to the present... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407174/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:47:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405859/posts From the YouTube Post: Journalist Phelim McAleer asks Prof. Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an Inconvenient Question about 'Climategate' emails. NotEvilJustWrong http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405859/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404157/posts Junk Science: The Environmental Protection Agency's sneak attack on the U.S. economy and our freedoms, curiously timed for the opening day of the Copenhagen climate charade, won't go unchallenged. Nor should it. (snip) EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, in a conversation with Sen. James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has in effect admitted the finding was based on the junk science and data manipulation practiced at Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). "She told me that EPA accepted those findings without any serious independent analysis to see whether they were true," Inhofe said. Dr.... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404157/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:26:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403917/posts Not even the Green Peace nuts believe that any more. Green Peace leader Gerd Leipold recently admitted that his organization’s claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” But, today Al Gore attacker denier Sarah Palin for not believing his global warming junk science. MSNBC reported: In an interview that will air on MSNBC at 1:00 pm ET today, Al Gore rebutted Sarah Palin’s Washington Post op-ed and Facebook postings that question the science on climate change given the “Climate-gate” controversy. In response, Gore said that “the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403917/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403300/posts (Ekstra Bladet) Astute Bloggers is reporting: 25 yr old American on international wanted-list, a 35 yr old Morrocan born Danish citizen, and a 27 yr. old stateless palestinian were arrested this morning by police in Copenhagen. Two women were arrested after searches were conducted at 2 separate addresses. A sucdcessful attack upon COP15 would be a wet dream come true for al Qaeda. Stay tuned… The Jawa Report has more. The AFP is now reporting on the arrests: An American, a Dane of Moroccan origin and a stateless Palestinian were detained after they were stopped in a car a few... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403300/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402954/posts Wow! The man-made global warming claim is a hoax! Who saw this coming except anyone investing five minutes examining the scientific evidence from both sides. Or anyone remembering this is the same crowd of alarmists who warned of a new ice age in 1970s. Let’s see, they wouldn’t buy the Brooklyn Bridge but they’re willing to mortgage the farm for the Golden Gate. When you challenge someone’s religion be prepared for a spirited reaction. Those who realized Man-made Global Warming was a hoax have long recognized this is a faith-based movement. They also realized the agenda of the hipper-than-thou high... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402954/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:29:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402579/posts One of his most shocking discoveries was why the IPCC has been able to show sea levels rising by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC's favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a "corrective factor" of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they "needed to show a trend". telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402579/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:30:32 GMT