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Surface-based Temperature Records
THE warmaholics are fond of using the phrase “official records going back to 1850″, but the simple facts are that prior to the 1970s, surface-based temperatures from a few indiscriminate, mostly backyard locations in Europe and the US are fatally corrupted and not in any sense a real record. Read more here. (0)
Crazy Claims from Climate Scientist
This is absured, but true: Australia’s use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama. Read more here. (4)
Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away. Read more here. (0)
People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out. Read more here. (0)
Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil. Read more here. (2)
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Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, December 10th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Forestry
Ghana, which is running short of forests to chop down, is about to turn to the dead trees underneath its Lake Volta as a new source of exotic timber… Read more here.