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  1. i was recently given the dvd "What the bleep do we know" and the dvd "Down the rabithole"

     

    it was intended to be some nice food fore the brain.

     

    unfortunatly it turns out it is cult propaganda from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtha"

     

    too bad really. i was hoping fore peer reviewd science knowledge.

  2. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/us.turkey.armenians/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

     

    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top Bush administration officials are shifting into damage-control mode after a House committee narrowly approved a resolution that labels the killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as "genocide."

     

    The Betrayed: (Armenian Genocide documentary)

     

    http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-7833166317264817428&q=armenie+genocide&total=1399&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

     

    For decades the Armenian people have campaigned to have the killings of hundreds of thousands of their forefathers in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 recognised as genocide.

     

    But there has been an equally determined campaign by Turkey to deny genocide with threats of reprisals against any country which uses the word to describe the slaughter.

     

    Now as the United States steps up its efforts to win Ankara's support in any conflict with Iraq Correspondent reveals new Turkish pressures.

     

    Threats to withdraw military bases have forced the American Congress to abandon legislation which would have used the all important term, "genocide".

     

    The programme also discloses how President George W Bush and his predecessor Bill Clinton both broke promises to the Armenian community that they would recognise genocide.

     

    Talking to Armenian survivors, Turkish officials and key political figures in the United States Correspondent investigates a story of terrible slaughter, political intrigue and a people betrayed."

     

    the world is watching.

  3. the BBC did not list them all. So here they are:

     

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2632660.ece

    Error one

     

    Al Gore: A sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland “in the near future”.

     

    The judge’s finding: “This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore’s ”wake-up call“. It was common ground that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - “but only after, and over, millennia.”

     

    Error two

     

    Gore: Low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls are already “being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming.”

     

    Judge: There was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.

     

    Error three

     

    Gore: The documentary described global warming potentially “shutting down the Ocean Conveyor” - the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe.

     

    Judge: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it was “very unlikely” it would be shut down, though it might slow down.

     

    Error four

     

    Gore: He asserted - by ridiculing the opposite view - that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed “an exact fit”.

     

    Judge: Although there was general scientific agreement that there was a connection, “the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts”.

     

    Error five

     

    Gore: The disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was expressly attributable to global warming.

     

    Judge: This “specifically impressed” David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, but the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.

     

    Error six

     

    Gore: The drying up of Lake Chad was used in the film as a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming, said the judge.

     

    Judge: “It is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution. It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.”

     

    Error seven

     

    Gore: Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans to global warming.

     

    Judge: There is “insufficient evidence to show that”.

     

    Error eight

     

    Gore: Referred to a new scientific study showing that, for the first time, polar bears were being found that had actually drowned “swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice”.

     

    Judge: “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm." That was not to say there might not in future be drowning-related deaths of bears if the trend of regression of pack ice continued - “but it plainly does not support Mr Gore’s description”.

     

    Error nine

     

    Gore: Coral reefs all over the world were bleaching because of global warming and other factors.

     

    Judge: The IPCC had reported that, if temperatures were to rise by 1-3 degrees centigrade, there would be increased coral bleaching and mortality, unless the coral could adapt. But separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution was difficult.

  4. You would give them an honorable death and elevate them to the status of heroic defenders of our nationalistic beliefs, then?

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku

    Seppuku as capital punishment

     

    While the voluntary seppuku described above is the best known form, in practice the most common form of seppuku was obligatory seppuku, used as a form of capital punishment for disgraced samurai, especially for those who committed a serious offense such as unprovoked murder, robbery, corruption, or treason. The samurai were generally told of their offense in full and given a set time to commit seppuku, usually before sunset on a given day. If the sentenced was uncooperative, it was not unheard of for them to be restrained, or for the actual execution to be carried out by decapitation while retaining only the trappings of seppuku; even the short sword laid out in front of the victim could be replaced with a fan. Unlike voluntary seppuku, seppuku carried out as capital punishment did not necessarily absolve the victim's family of the crime. Depending on the severity of the crime, half or all of the deceased's property could be confiscated, and the family stripped of rank.

  5. Ok...why don't you believe in this documentary though ?

     

    Aerosols reflect solar radiation, compounds absorb, if you rapidly reduce aerosols, then more radiation will enter the atmosphere with greater absorption, and cause a rapid temperature rise, hence tackle both problems. Note, we havn't created a steady state.

     

    EDIT: That documentary is rather old, and I'm just recollecting from memory, but the principle above still holds.

     

    nobody can predict the weather. and even physics can't predict what will happen.

     

    http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-5949034802461518010

    shows how is fails.

  6. the latest hollywood style "documentary"

     

    http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4488155708142678419&q=Dimming+the+Sun&total=15&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

     

    a BBC "documentary" about how pollution changes clouds to reflect 10% more light and how it counters global warming. so cleaning the air may cause more global warming. the advice given was: clean both the air and greenhouse gasses.

     

    personally i don't belive in thes documentary.

     

    a nice Q&A link

    http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=105

  7. Source:

    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/flu_in_space_000121.html

     

    Germs from Outer Space! Researchers Say Flu Bugs Rain Down from Beyond.

     

    Who knows ;)

     

    personally i don't think it is from space but it could be the stratosphere. Where can be virusus up there i think.

     

    But probably most virusus are home grown. (from this planet.)

     

    solarradiation might change the virus. I think there was something in the news a long time ago about the comit hale bob and it's dust from the comittale and the flu.

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