http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wereallgonnadie/ en-us Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:04:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401496/posts The chemical Bisphenol A, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because of potential health effects. The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide what it considers a safe level of exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), which some studies have linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. Now Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we... Consumer Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401496/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:04:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397096/posts Gibbs: Despite research dispute, 'climate change is happening' By Tony Romm - 11/30/09 03:21 PM ET The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that global warming skeptics say prove the phenomenon is not a threat. Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week, climate science is sound, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes "climate change is happening." "I don't think that's anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore," he said during Monday's press briefing. Climate change... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397096/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:37:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244677/posts Students not worried about virus at their school May 5, 2009 MILTON — Monday was a perfect day for basketball: sunny and warm with a slight breeze. And junior Adam Johnson wasn't about to let a case of swine flu at Milton High School bring him down—especially when that case got him two unexpected days off school. "I think (the flu threat) is over exaggerated," Johnson said as he played basketball at Schilberg Park, defying the school's recommendation to avoid public places. Across the street, the parking lot at Milton High School was deserted but for a TV news crew.... GazetteExtra http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244677/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 18:16:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215353/posts The Government was urged today to make contingency plans for a freak solar flare that could 'knock out' the National Grid and create severe water and food shortages. Labour former minister Graham Stringer said Britain should be prepared for a repeat of the solar storm of 1859, which hit Earth and paralysed much of the telegraph system. In a Commons motion, Mr Stringer said such an event could now 'knock out the National Grid, which would lead to a loss of water supply, UKDaily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215353/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2206869/posts The atmosphere is cooling, the ice is expanding, the seas are not rising -- even though carbon emissions are increasing. The evidence is now crystal clear to anyone with an unwashed brain that man-made global warming theory is sheer unadulterated bunkum. So how do the warmers react to the ever more embarrassing evidence that they have hitched their reputations to the biggest anti-scientific scam in history? By ratcheting up the hysteria to fever pitch and shrieking that their predictions about the impending irreversible environmental apocalypse have grievously underestimated the catastrophe which is going to be far, far worse. At the... Spectator Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2206869/posts#comment Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173136/posts reports coming in of major damage from 1-2 inches of ice over the area..its still raining with temps below freezing in many areas. information is sketchy but major damage to infrastructure are trickling in. Damage to houses from falling trees, multiple power poles down, and widespread power outages Travel is impossible in many area because of 100's of downed trees blocking the roads. Fires are reported in some area widespread state of emergencies issued Northern AR, SE MO and western KY seems to the the hardest hit so far..but things are icing up fast now in the Louisville/Lexington areas too various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173136/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153828/posts The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped by 30,000 to a 26-year peak last week, government data on Wednesday showed, as the country's year-long recession continued to chill the labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 586,000 in the week ended Dec 20 from a revised 556,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said. It was the highest since the week ended Nov. 27, 1982, when intial claims rose 612,000. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast 560,000 new claims versus a previously reported count of 554,000 the week... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153828/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:38:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148821/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. — A recent study by the Multinational Council on Climate Research, a Washington-based think tank, found that global warming, the phenomenon that is causing average temperatures on Earth to rise, is actually nothing more than a collective figment of overactive left-wing imaginations across the country. “We were astonished by the results,” said Jacob Harcourt, managing director of the MCCR. “I had always thought the primary cause of global warming to be gases in our atmosphere that trapped the sun’s heat and caused an increase in surface temperatures. Turns out it’s nothing more than a penchant for foreign films... The Teaspoon Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148821/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143424/posts U.S. employers axed payrolls by a shocking 533,000 in November for the weakest performance in 34 years, government data on Friday showed, as the recession inflicted a mounting toll on the U.S. labor market. The Labor Department said the unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent last month in the highest reading since 1993, compared with 6.5 percent in October, after widespread losses across the country's major industry sectors. The number was far above analyst expectations. "The only time I've experienced this was the second quarter of 1980 where we had the credit crunch, so rather than an erosion, you have... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143424/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:20:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139694/posts If you're planning this holiday season (perhaps even today) to become one of the tens of millions of people in the U.S. to buy a video game system, you may want to consider how the purchase of a Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation or Microsoft Xbox will impact your carbon footprint (or, at very least, your electric bill). The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a New York-based environmental organization, in a new report says that video game systems are huge energy wasters, mostly because people (read: kids) tend to leave them on even when they're not using them. The study, conducted... Scientific American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139694/posts#comment Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:05:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2114608/posts http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d336/status.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2114608/posts#comment Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:00:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092132/posts The US stock market could suffer a devastating crash with shares losing a third of their value this week if Hank Paulson’s financial bailout plan fails, US Treasury officials have warned. ---- The financial system could face a meltdown of 1929 proportions unless US politicians succeed in their efforts for a $700bn rescue scheme, experts added. The warning came as Republicans and Democrats met in Washington for a rare weekend debating session to attempt to seal agreement on the contentious plan, aimed at preventing a long-lasting recession in the US. Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092132/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:31:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088672/posts (CNN) -- Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it's been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice. "It's definitely a bad report. We did pick up little bit from last year, but this is over 30 percent below what used to be normal," said Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. This past summer, the Arctic sea ice dwindled to its second lowest level. Arctic sea ice is usually one to three meters, or as much as 9 feet thick. It grows during autumn and winter... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088672/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080791/posts Antarctic winter ice gets bigger; Arctic shrinks 12 Sep 2008 13:56:24 GMT Source: Reuters By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts said on Friday. In the southern hemisphere winter, when emperor penguins huddle together against the biting cold, ice on the sea around Antarctica has been increasing since the late 1970s, perhaps because climate change means shifts in winds, sea currents or snowfall. At the other end of the planet, Arctic sea ice is... alertnet.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080791/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060499/posts On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinctionThere's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060499/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:04:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033490/posts Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, despite a cold winter. Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that the year began with ice covering a larger area than at the beginning of 2007. But now it is down to levels seen last June, at the beginning of a summer that broke records for sea ice loss. Scientists on the project say that much of the ice is so thin that it melts easily, and the Arctic may be ice-free in summer within five to 10 years. I think we're going to... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033490/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032388/posts PANJIM, JUNE 16 (Agencies) — Manmade chemicals have damaged the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere that shields Earth from the harmful effects of the sun’s ultraviolet rays, each summer creating a hole over the South Pole that expands to nearly the size of Antarctica. But in 1996, an international treaty banned the chemical refrigerants and propellants (known as CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons), and the hole has been shrinking. Scientists predict it may stop forming by the end of this century. But that’s not necessarily good news. A new study published in ‘Science’ says that the closing of the ozone hole... oheraldo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032388/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:56:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022422/posts Probably almost everyone is familiar with the hyperinflationary episode that engulfed Germany after the First World War. That nation’s economy was crippled by monetary problems that resulted in dreadful personal hardships, even though up to that time Germany had achieved one of the highest living standards in the world. The newly formed German government, named for the city where their constitution was drafted after the Kaiser’s abdication in 1918, kept pumping up the money supply. The process started relatively slowly, but quickly the pace of money creation accelerated. The Weimar government was paying its bills on credit – just like... Kitco http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022422/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 13:45:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008611/posts Confidence among U.S. consumers fell to a five-year low in April as they confronted the grimmest jobs market since autumn 2004, the Conference Board said. The private Conference Board's index of consumer sentiment fell to 62.3 in April, the lowest since March 2003, when the Iraq war was launched, from an upwardly revised 65.9 in March. Despite the fall, the result beat the median forecast of economists polled by Reuters, which projected a reading of 62.0. Reflecting worries about the labor market, the gauge of respondents' feelings that jobs are plentiful slid to 16.6 in April, the lowest since September... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008611/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:28:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000093/posts By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer Fri Apr 11, 7:50 AM ET WASHINGTON - Americans' confidence in the economy fell to a new low, dragged down by worries about mounting job losses, record-high home foreclosures and zooming energy prices. According to the RBC Cash Index, confidence dropped to a mark of 29.5 in April, down from 33.1 in March. The new reading was the worst since the index began in 2002. It marked the fourth month in a row where confidence has fallen to an all-time low. "Consumers are very pessimistic," said Mark Vitner, economist at Wachovia. "There are not... Yahoo news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000093/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:57:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000044/posts U.S. import prices rose by a more-than-expected 2.8 percent in March as petroleum prices jumped 9.1 percent, a Labor Department report showed Friday. U.S. export prices rose 1.5 percent during the month, also more than expected and the largest monthly gain on record, as prices for farm and food products continued to rise. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a 2 percent rise in import prices in March after a 0.2 percent gain in February. They also forecast a 0.5 percent rise in export prices after a previously reported 0.9 percent gain in February, which the Labor Department revised to... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000044/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000042/posts U.S. consumer confidence fell to its lowest in more than a quarter century in early April, diving deeper into recessionary territory on heightened worries over inflation and jobs, a survey showed Friday. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell to 63.2 in April from 69.5 in March. This was well below economists' median expectation of a reading of 69.0, according to a Reuters poll. The April result is the lowest since March 1982's level of 62.0, when the "stagflationary" period of low growth and high inflation was still fresh in the memory of... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000042/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:18:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998988/posts WASHINGTON - The world economy will slow sharply this year, according to an International Monetary Fund forecast, with the United States sliding into a recession amid housing, credit and financial slumps. The IMF, in a World Economic Outlook released Wednesday, slashed growth projections for the United States — the epicenter of the woes — and the global economy as a whole. Economic growth in the United States is expected to slow to a crawl of just 0.5 percent this year, which would mark the worst pace in 17 years, when the country last suffered through a recession, the IMF said.... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998988/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:24:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996665/posts US employers cut payrolls by a bigger-than-expected 80,000 in March, adding more evidence that a housing downturn and credit crisis have pushed the economy into a recession. It was the third monthly decline in a row and the biggest in five years, according to the Labor Department. Adding to the bleak picture, the department revised the first two months of the year's job losses to a total of 152,000 from a previous estimate of 85,000. The March unemployment rate jumped to 5.1 percent from 4.8 percent, the highest since a matching rate in September 2005. The March job report was... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996665/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996241/posts The number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits soared by 38,000 last week, posting the highest reading since September 2005 and reinforcing fears that the U.S. economy has stalled, government data on Thursday showed. Meanwhile, a separate report showed the US service sector, which makes up 80 percent of U.S. economic activity, contracted less than expected in March, but overall activity for the month still shrank. A Labor Department official said there were no special factors to explain the increase in initial claims to 407,000 in the week ended March 29, but he said seasonal adjustments to the data... CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996241/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:30:33 GMT